Meet Jane Tompkins

For the next two modules, your will be working closely with Jane Tompkins's fascinating "Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History," which is posted at the bottom of this page. Below I have included a brief bio and some other resources should you want to learn more about her and/or the assigned essay.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Brief Bio

Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. She has helped develop the idea of cultural work in literary studies. She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Books

Reader Response Criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned. New York: Perseus Books, 1996.

Additional Online Resources by and about Tompkins

Assigned Essay for Upcoming Charting Assignment

Jane Tompkins Indians-1.pdf