Thomas Otten
totten@bu.edu

Visiting Associate Professor. B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA

Teaching and Research Interests: American literature; literature and material culture; literature and the visual arts

Selected Publications: A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (2006); "Emily Dickinson's Brain (On Lyric and the History of Anatomy)," Prospects (2005); "Jorie Graham's _______s," PMLA (2003); "Slashing Henry James (On Painting and Political Economy, Circa 1900)," Yale Journal of Criticism (2000); "The Spoils of Poynton and the Properties of Touch," American Literature (1999); "Pauline Hopkins and the Hidden Self of Race," ELH (1992)

Work in Progress: A series of essays on social theory and visual imagery; a book on American material culture.

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Morse Fellowship, Yale University (1997-98)

Other Professional Activities: Class of 1916 Lecturer, Cornell University (2003); Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (2000-2002)