Dr. Ian Finseth

Ian Finseth received his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2001, his M.A. (in American Studies) from the University of Virginia in 1995, and his B.A. from UC-Berkeley in 1991.

He specializes in nineteenth-century American and African American literature, with particular research interests in race, ecocriticism, the literature of slavery and the Civil War, and the dynamics of religious, aesthetic, and scientific thought.

Dr. Finseth is the author of Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery (University of Georgia Press, 2008), the editor of The American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings (Routledge, 2006), and the editor of The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts (Dover, 2007). His articles have appeared in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, American Literary Realism, and Mississippi Quarterly.

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Phone: 940.565.2170
Email: finseth@unt.edu