Timothy W. Marr, Associate Professor

 Contact Information

University of North Carolina
Department of American Studies, CB #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
(919) 962-4062
marr@email.unc.edu

Education

Ph. D., American Studies, Yale University, 1998
A.M., Education, Stanford University, 1985
B.A., American Studies, Williams College, 1984

Awards and Fellowships

• 1999-2000 Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
• 1999-2000 Faculty Fellow, Pew Program in Religion and American History, Yale University
• 1996 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
• 1994 Dissertation Fellowship, Pew Program in Religion and American History
• 1989 NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers on Moby-Dick, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Fields of Expertise and Seminars Taught

Herman Melville: Life and Works; Moby-Dick in Criticism and Culture; Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Captivity and Cultural Definition in Early American Expression; The Civil War and Cultural Memory; African American Literature and History; Religion and "Race" in Nineteenth Century America; Gender and Domestic Space in American Fiction; Women's Writing and the Politics of Marriage; The Bildungsroman(e) in the United States; Postcolonial Theories of Alterity