English Faculty 

William Brevda, Ph.D.

Professor

Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 301F
(989) 774-2663
william.brevda@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1980
M.A., State University of New York, New Paltz, 1972
B.A., New School for Social Research, 1970

Teaching Expertise

Twentieth-Century American Literature
Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
American Literature Survey, all periods
Introductory Literature Courses
Composition

Research Interests

Twentieth-Century American Literature
Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth-Century American Literature

Select Publications

"Neon Lights Around Everything: West's 'West,' Hitler's 'Empire,' Postmodernism's 'Reality'," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, LXXXV: 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2002) 381-422

"The Rainbow Sign of Nelson Algren,"  Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 44: 4 (Winter 2002) 392-413.

"Broadway by Night by Hollywood: Fitzgerald Revisited," Connecticut Review, XXII: 1 (Spring 2000)  29-42.

"The Double Nihilation of the Neon:  Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 41:1 (Spring 1999)  70-102. 

"The Private Eye, the Femme Fatale, and the Sign:  Epistemology of the Hardboiled Narrative," North Dakota Quarterly, 65:2 (1998)  26-50.

"How Do I Get To Broadway? Reading Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer Sign," Texas Studies in Literature and Literature, 38:1 (Winter 1996)  79-114. 

Harry Kemp:  The Last Bohemian,
Lewisburg:  Bucknell University Press, 1986

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