Dr. Nurmi
joined the Humanities faculty at Elmira College in
2012. He holds a doctorate in English
and American Literature from the University of Arizona, with particular
focus on
the geographic imagination in nineteenth-century American writing.
Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to the
study of narrative, he teaches courses in early and modern American literatures
with
attention to their historical and ethical dimensions. He also offers courses on law and literature, Emerson and Melville, and the American Renaissance in a
transatlantic context, emphasizing the relationships between cartography, writing, and nationalism.
Dr. Nurmi is currently working on his
first book,
The Inverted Compass: Geography and the
Ethics of Authorship in Nineteenth-Century America. He is also affiliated faculty with the Center
for Mark Twain Studies.
Email me if you have questions or interesting ideas: tnurmi@elmira.edu.Listen to some Melville: http://www.mobydickbigread.com/. * Elmira College Humanities and Social Sciences Blog: http://echumanitiessocsci.blogspot.com/* Progressive Geographies: http://progressivegeographies.com/* Ecology Without Nature: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.co.uk/ |
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