Faculty

Neil Schmitz

Professor
Office: Clemens 439
Phone number: 645-2575 x1045
E-mail address: nschmitz@buffalo.edu

Personal web page:  http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~nschmitz/

 

Interests:

Civil War studies, 19th and 20th century American Literature

Courses taught:

  • Mark Twain
  • American Humor and Comedy: Traditions, Theories
  • Civil War Studies (special topics)
  • William Faulkner
  • 20th Century American Fiction
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Family History
  • Native American Studies

Work in progress:

  • Mark Twain, Traitor; Civil War Studies in the 21st Century
  • Redescribing Confederate Discourse, Jefferson Davis and W. E. B. Du Bois

Selected publications:

  • Of Huck and Alice, Humorous Writing in American Literature
  • White Robe's Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)