Associate Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 111
Phone: (610) 660-1892
Email: norberg@sju.edu
Education
B.A., Boston College, 1990
M.A., Rice University, 1994
Ph.D., Rice University, 1998
Professional Experience
Coeditor, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2004-present.
General Associate Editor, Melville’s Marginalia Online: http://www.boisestate.edu/melville/
Courses Taught
ENG 1091 Major American Writers
ENG 2011 Backgrounds for English Studies
ENG 2031 Introduction to Literary Theory
ENG 2411 American Romantic and Transcendental Literature
ENG 2431 Nineteenth Century American Novel
Publications
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, January, 2006).
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, (New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, 2004); reissued in hardback, (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005).
“Finding an Audience for Clarel in Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 6.1 (March 2004).
"On Teaching Bartleby," Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (October, 2000).
General Fields of Professional Interest
American literature prior to the Civil War with an emphasis on the writings of Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
New England Transcendentalism and its origins in British and German romanticism
The transatlantic literary marketplace
Political theories of democracy