MSSC English Department Faculty

Department of English & Philosophy

Dr. Arthur M. Saltzman

E-mail: saltzman@mssu.edu

"Sleep faster, we need the pillows!"

Professor of English, hired 1981

PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Interest: Contemporary American Fiction, Creative Writing

Book Publications: Objects and Empathy (Mid-List, 2001); This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction (So. Carolina, 2000); Understanding Nicholson Baker (So. Carolina, 1999); The Novel in the Balance (So, Carolina, 1993); Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction (Pennsylvania, 1990); Understanding Raymond Carver (So. Carolina, 1988); The Fiction of William Gass: The Consolation of Language (So. Illinois, 1986).

Creative essays in Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Iowa Review, Cream City Review, Florida Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literal Latte, Santa Clara Review, Evansville Review, others.

Critical essays in Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Critique, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Midwest Quarterly, Boston Book Review,

Critical Essays on Don DeLillo, Into the Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel, Pynchon & Mason & Dixon, others.

Hobbies: sports, movies, police line-ups.

Bats right, throws right, leans left.

"These are my principles. If you do not like them, I have others." --Groucho Marx

Links to a Selection of Dr. Saltzman's published work
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"On Not Being Nice: Sentimentality and the Creative Writing Class." Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (Spring 2003): 323-35.
"A Wilderness of Size: Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler." Contemporary Literature 42.3 (Fall 2001): 589-616.

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