Barton St. Armand, Emeritus

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Barton Levi St. Armand's research interests include the relationship between American painting and literature, American artists at home and abroad, British and American environmental literature, and the "Green tradition" in American thought. He is currently working on a book project titled "Haunts of Nature: Essays on American Literature and the Ecological Spirit from Bradstreet to Borroughs".

Biography

Barton Levi St. Armand (Ph.D. Brown University, 1968) received three degrees in American civilization at Brown and now teaches interdisciplinary courses in the department on such subjects as the relationship between American painting and literature, on American artists at home and abroad, and on British and American environmental literature and the "Green tradition" in American thought. He has also taught in Japan and in France. He is the author of Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society (Cambridge, 1984) and is currently working on a book project titled Haunts of Nature: Essays on American Literature and the Ecological Spirit from Bradstreet to Borroughs. He has written monographs on the American Gothicist H.P. Lovecraft, as well as numerous articles on such other classic authors as Jewett, Frost, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Poe.

Professor St. Armand also writes poems and is the author of four poetry collections including the recently published American Haiku (Providence: Ziggurat Press, 2000). He has also appeared and served as commentator in the PBS film, "On Frozen Pond: The Tom Eccleston Story," (2003, directed by Kathi Wheater). He is the recipient of several research grants, fellowships and honors, including the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities (2002).

Interests

Professor St. Armand has written monographs on the American Gothicist H.P. Lovecraft, as well as numerous articles on such other classic authors as Jewett, Frost, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, and Poe. His research examines the relationship between American painting and literature, American artists at home and abroad, British and American environmental literature, and the "Green tradition" in American thought.

Awards

2002
Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities

2000
Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of the Polish American Studies Association – "The Local Color of the Stars and Stripes," Warsaw, Poland; sponsored by the U. S. Department of State

1995
Minton Grant: "American Books and American Readers: Folk, Popular and Elite Print Culture in America, from 1640-1900"

1993
Chaired session on "American Literature and the Occult," American Studies Convention, Boston, MA

1992
Keynote speaker, 13th Sapporo "Cool" Seminar in American Studies, Sapporo, Japan; topic: – "Conservatism in America"

1984
Fulbright Fellowship, Japan; Certificate of Appreciation, English and American Literature Faculty, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; July, 1984.

1980
Invited Scholar, Emily Dickinson Sesquicentennial Celebration Program, October, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1980
With Lois Monteiro. Rhode Island Committee on the Humanities grant for "Images of Hope: American Culture and Medical Care in the Great Depression"

1978
Incentive Grant, Dean's Office, Brown University

1973
Bronson Fellowship, Department of English, Brown University

1971
Summer stipend, Brown University

1969
Summer stipend, Brown University

1965
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

1965-68
National Defense Education Act Fellowship

1964
Francis Wayland Honors Scholarship, Brown University

1961-65
Corporation Scholarship, Brown University

1961-65
Rhode Island State Scholarship

Affiliations

American Studies Association

Emily Dickinson International Society

Hawthorne Society (life member)

Rhode Island Historical Society

Fulbright Alumni Association

American-French Genealogical Society (life member)

Poe Studies Association

Emily Dickinson Society of Japan

John Russell Bartlett Society

Teaching

Since 1968, Professor St. Armand has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate seminars as well as survey courses at Brown. Among the graduate seminars he has taught are, "American Literature and the Environment," "The Canonical and the Uncanonical in American Literature," "Nature and Nature Writing in America," "Later Melville: From Pierre to Billy Budd," "Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: American Symbolic Romance and the American Occult (Toulouse)," "The Image of the American Artist in American Literature," " Eccentricity in American Literature," and "Transcendentalism and Its Discontents." Undergraduate seminars include "The Bildungsroman in American Literature," "The Image of the Child in American Literature and Culture," "The Platonic, the Esoteric, and the Occult in English and American Literature," "American Philosophy and American Literature ," and "Thoreau and the New Nature Writers." He has also served as director and reader for numerous doctoral dissertations.

Funded Research

Selected research grants and fellowships include:

1984
Fulbright Fellowship, Japan; Certificate of Appreciation, English and American Literature Faculty, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; July, 1984

1980
With Lois Monteiro. Rhode Island Committee on the Humanities grant: "Images of Hope: American Culture and Medical Care in the Great Depression"

1978
Incentive Grant, Dean's Office, Brown University

1973
Bronson Fellowship, Department of English, Brown University

1965-68
National Defense Education Act Fellowship

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