James M. Lang, Associate Professor of English
JAMES M. LANG
Associate Professor of English (2000)
Department of English
Phone: 508-767-7055
Email: lang@assumption.edu
B.A., University of Notre Dame; English/Philosophy; 1991
M.A., St. Louis University; English, 1993
Ph.D., Northwestern University; English, 1997
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Dialogues with History in Post-War British Fiction”
Sample of Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Writing Workshop: Argument and Persuasion, Contemporary British Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
Sample of Publications
Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn’s Disease. Capital Books, 2004.
“The Tenure-Track Diaries.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1999-Present.
“Ian McEwan.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. David Malcolm and Cheryl Malcolm, eds. Forthcoming, 2004.
“Public Memory, Private History: Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day.” Clio 29.2 (Winter 2000): 143-165.
Faculty Development Grant Recipient, 2007
A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
Sample of Presentations
Standing Out by Gaining Administrative Experience.MLA, New Orleans, Dec. 27, 2001.
Violence and the End of History in 1984. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 26, 1999.
