Catherine Calloway, Ph.D., Professor, English

Contact Information:
Phone:  870.972.2241
Office:  Wilson Hall 320
Email:  ccather@astate.edu

 

 

 

Education:
B.A. English, High Point University
M.A. English, Arkansas State University
Ph.D. English, Univ. of South Florida

Specialties:
Contemporary Literature
Vietnam War Literature
American Literature

Courses Regularly Taught:
Contemporary Prose
Modern American Literature
American Romanticism
Seminar: Topics in American Literature
Seminar: Topics in World Literature
Seminar: Special Topics
Literature of the Western World I & II
American Literature Since 1865
The Vietnam War in Literature

Research:
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship, An Annual. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press. Vols. 1992-2005.

"History Has a Way of Dissolving: A Conversation With Tim O'Brien." Tampa Review 20 (2000): 24-35.

" 'He's Not My Son Anymore!: The Returning Veteran in Robert Bausch's On the Way Home." War, Literature, and the Arts 10 (Fall/Winter 1998): 179-202.

" 'To Live in the Past is to Walk in Darkness': Reconciliation in the Return Journey." The United States and Vietnam from War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1996. 123-24.

" 'How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36 (1995): 249-57.

"American Literature of the Vietnam War: Classroom Strategies and Critical Sources." The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. Marc Jason Gilbert. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. 139- 59.

Numerous entries in War and Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of American Literature; and Encyclopedia of American War Literature

Current Project:
Vietnam War Literature and Film

Honors/Awards:
Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Arkansas State University, 1991.

NEH Summer Institute on Teaching the Vietnam War. Indochina Institute, George Mason University. July- August 1990.