English Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
Phone: 920.424.7283, Fax: 920.424.1043, Email: Nuernber@uwosh.edu



Education:

  • Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, English Language and Literature, 1990
  • Doctorat de 3eme cycle, Université de Bourgogne [Dijon], Etudes Anglophones, 1985
  • M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, English Language and Literature, 1978
  • B.A., Miami University, American Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs, 1968



Professional Experience:

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, College of Letters and Science, English Department

Professor, July 2005-present

Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow, June 2004-present

Associate Professor, July 1996-2005 

Assistant Professor, September 1990-1996



Funding Received:

  • Sabbatical, 2001, Jack London Scholar-in-Residence at Sonoma State University, CA.
  • Wisconsin Humanities Council Mini Grant: Community Theatrical Performance of “Out in the Darkness: The Great Oshkosh Woodworkers’ Strike of 1898.” Project Director. 1998.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Summer Seminar: “Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture.” 1992.
  • Faculty Development Research Grant, U of Wisconsin Oshkosh: “Jack London Criticism.” 1991.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Summer Institute: “The Emergence of the Modern: American Culture from 1893-1913.” 1991.



Publications:

  • “’Give us Howling and Naked Savagery': Jack London and The Call of the Wild.” English Journal. 85 (Sept. 1996): 98-100.
  • The Critical Response to Jack London, Ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1995.
  • “In Memory of Russ Kingman.” Jack London Journal. 1 (1994): 309-317.
  • “The Call of Kind: A Dialogue.” co-author. The Wolf-'93. (1993): 10-21.
  • The Letters of Russ Kingman. Ed. David Rejl for the Jack London Research Center (Glen Ellen, CA), 1999.
  • “The Rhetoric of Race” in The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eds. Mason Lowance, Richard DeProspo, and Ellen Westbrook. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1994. 255-270.
  • "Stowe, the Abolition Movement, and Prevailing Theories of Race in Nineteenth-Century America." Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eds. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco. New York: MLA, 2000: 37-45.
  • Book reviews for Choice and scholarly journals.



Membership Information:

  • Popular Culture Association (former Vice President and Area Chair of Jack London’s Life and Works)
  • Jack London Society (President, 2002-2004)
  • Jack London Foundation (Advisory Board)
  • American Literature Association
  • Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Popular Culture

Revised: June 2005