Christopher P. Wilson
Christopher
Wilson is Professor of English at
Boston College, where he teaches American literature, cultural studies,
and the history of literary journalism. He is the author of three books
on American literature and culture: The Labor of Words: Literary
Professionalism in the Progressive Era (1985); White
Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American
Literature: 1885-1925 (1992); and Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in 20th
Century America (2000). His next book, Learning to Live with Crime:
American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn, will be
forthcoming in 2010. His current
research is concerned with crime, social memory, and political
authority; transatlantic adaptations of the work of Alexandre Dumas;
and the teaching of literary nonfiction. In past years, Prof.
Wilson has served on the editorial boards of American Literature and American Quarterly. He lives in Newtonville with his
wife, Greer Hardwicke, and their daughter.
.
To correspond with him via
email, please use: wilsonc@bc.edu
For the home page of Boston College's American Studies
program, please click
here.
Professional
Mailing Address:
- c/o English
Department
- Boston College
- Chestnut Hill, MA USA 02467
- Prof. Wilson's office is Carney
435 on the B.C. campus; his office
phone (with voice mail) is: 617-552-3719.
Links
to Course
Syllabi:
Past Fulbright and USIA Program Links:
Link
to the BC Fulbright American Studies Institute Home Page, Summer 2001
Link to the BC
Fulbright American Studies Institute Home Page, Summer 2000
Link to the 1999 BC
USIA Summer Institute Home Page
