Ryan Wepler

Lecturer in English

Ph.D Brandeis University, 2010
M.A. Brandeis University, 2004
B.A. Colby College, 2002

Interests

20^th and 21^st century American literature, humor and humorous literature, literary realism, theory of art, humor writing

Selected Publications

- “Nabokov’s Nomadic Humor: Lolita,” College Literature 38.4 (Fall 2011) 76-97.

- “Vonnegut’s Comic Realism in Slaughterhouse-Five,” HJEAS 17.1 (Spring 2011) 97-126.

Courses

Literature Seminars, Humor Writing, Writing Seminars, Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Styles of Academic and Professional Prose