| Dr.
James Tanner
Dr. James Tanner (BA, Texas Wesleyan College,
1961; MA, PhD, Texas Tech University, 1963, 1965), professor,
teaches courses in early American and nineteenth-century
American literature.
Dr. Tanner's scholarly interests include
Walt Whitman, nineteenth-century American literature, New
England transcendentalism, American periodicals, and Katherine
Anne Porter.
Dr. Tanner's recent publications include
The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne
Porter (Texas Writers Series, No. 3., U of North
Texas P, 1991) and articles such as "Walt Whitman's
Presence in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His
Fake Book" (Melus 1995), "Benjamin Cummings Truman"
(American National Biography
1999), and "Charles Darwin," "Evolution,"
and "Jean Baptiste Lamarck" (Walt
Whitman:
An Encyclopedia 1998).
Dr. Tanner is Editor of American
Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography
and Chair of the Department of English.
Office: Auditorium Building, Room 112F
Phone: 940.565.2050
Email: jamest@unt.edu
Visit:
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