Jeff Berglund
Associate Professor, U.S. literature
Office:(Bldg 23) Room 319
(928) 523-9237
Jeffrey.Berglund@nau.edu
Jeff Berglund has been at NAU since 1999 after teaching at Michigan State University, Emory & Henry College, and Capital University. At the Flagstaff base of the San Francisco Peaks he found what he has always been looking for. He holds degrees in English from Creighton University and Washington University, St. Louis and received his Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University with a specialization in U.S. literature. His book, Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality will be available January 2006 from the University of Wisconsin Press. He is currently co-editing a collection of critical essays on Sherman Alexie, forthcoming from University of Utah Press. He has published other articles in Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Quarterly, Camera Obscura, and Studies in American Fiction. His work on representations of race and sexuality is interdisciplinary and adopts a cultural studies-oriented approach, examining the effects of "high," "low," textual and extra-textual artifacts. He has presented papers at the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association, the American Studies Association, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), and the Popular Culture Association. Berglund teaches a range of classes including contemporary literature, U.S. literature, introduction to literature, southwest literature, American Indian literature, and multi-ethnic literature. He is an affiliate faculty and member of the steering committee for the Ethnic Studies Program, the vice-chair of the University Liberal Studies Committee, and a member of the Commission on Ethnic Diversity.