Faculty

Scott Manning Stevens

Assistant Professor of English & Adjunct Professor of American Studies
Office: 433 Clemens Hall
Phone number: 716-645-2575 x1030
E-mail address: smsteven@buffalo.edu
Personal webpage:  http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~smsteven/

 

Interests:

early modern travel narratives, trans-Atlantic studies, 17th century British literature, contemporary Native American literatures

Courses taught:

Milton; Early 17th-century British Literature; Literature of the Encounter: from Columbus to Rowlandson; Contested Representations: Poetics & Aesthetics of the Early Stuart Court (1603-1649); and Contemporary Native American Poetry & Poetics.

Work in progress:

Book: Indian Collectibles: Encounters, Appropriations, and Resistance in Native North America. A study of cultural contacts, dispossession and resistance from the early modern period to the early Republic.

Chapter: “Oddities:  New Worlds and the Rise of Ethnology,” Shakespeare and the Sciences, ed. Carla Mazzio

Selected publications:

  • “’Unaccommodated Man’: Essaying the New World in Early Modern Europe.” Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in thddle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. James Helfers. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2005.
  • “New World Contacts and the Trope of the ‘Naked Savage’.” Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Harvey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
  • "Mother Tongues and Native Voices: Linguistic Fantasies in the Age of the Encounter." Telling the Stories: Studies in Native American Literature. Ed. E. Hoffman-Nelson and M. Nelson. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2001.
  • "John Wilkins (1614 - 1672)." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Edward Malone. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Laymen, Inc., 2001.
  • "Sacred Heart and Secular Brain." The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Carla Mazzio and David Hillman. New York: Routledge, 1997. (8,750 words) Invited.
  • "William Apess's Historical Self." Northwest Review XXXV-3 (1997): 67-84. (5,100 words) Invited and refereed.