Background & Contact Information -- Don Dingledine

Background: Don Dingledine is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. With the goal of encouraging students to contemplate the work literary texts perform in their historical moments, he has created a course on Literature and History and has taught literature seminars on such subjects as American slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Great Depression. Editor of Rebecca Harding Davis’s Civil War novel Waiting for the Verdict, his essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Women’s Studies, Legacy, Journal of Southern History, and Studies in American Fiction. He has also contributed essays to Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period (U of Notre Dame P, 2007), Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game (U of Nebraska P, forthcoming).

Contact Information: dingled@uwosh.edu. ; 920/424-7270.