Faculty

Robert Daly

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
Office: Clemens 511
Phone number: 716 645-2575, ext. 1052
E-mail address: rdaly@buffalo.edu

 

Interests:

American literature, cultural theory, literature and ethics

Courses taught:

  • The 20th Century American Novel, Definitions of America, Hawthorne, American Classics and American Culture, The Puritan Tradition

Work in Progress:

  • “Mohicans, Virtue Ethics, and Literary Darwinism”

Selected publications:

  • God's Altar: The World and the Flesh in Puritan Poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
  • “From World to Word and Back Again: Coopers Now and Next.” Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper. New York: AMS Press, 2006.
  • Entry on The Scarlet Letter. The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.
  • Entry on John Gardner. The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2005.
  • Entry on Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2004.
  • “Mischief, Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Lucinda Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003.
  • Entry on The Scarlet Letter. Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

Curriculum Vitae  (pdf)