Jeff Osborne

"Every class is a mini-revolution in potential. The best moments in a semester are those when we hear the questions a text poses to us in the provocative way that texts speak, the moments when we — all involved — confront our own limitations and must seek out ways to overcome them. My goal in the courses I teach is to create a classroom environment in which the questions literature asks us can be heard in such a way that we can effectively respond to them."

Education

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky
• M.A., Radford University
• B.A., Radford University

Highlighted Publications

• "Constituting American Masculinity." American Studies Journal 49.1-2 (Fall 2008).
• "Benjamin Franklin and the Rhetoric of Virtuous Self-Fashioning." Literature & History 17.2 (2008). 
• "American Antipathy and the Cruelties of Citizenship in Letters from an American Farmer." Early American Literature 42.3 (2007).

Courses Taught

• American Literature
• ENG 105 Critical Reading, Writing, and Inquiry
• Humanities
• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Literature and Philosophy

Areas of Specialization

• Early American Literature
• Humanities

Awards and Distinctions

• Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2009