Department of American Studies

Bluford Adams

Associate Professor of English & American Studies
PhD University of Virginia (1993, English)
308 English-Philosophy Building
(319) 335-0461
bluford-adams@uiowa.edu

Research Interests

Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, with special interests in popular culture, fiction, and ethnicity.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

8:057 The American Novel I

8:084 Topics in Culture & Identity
- Newcomers and Natives on Immigration

8:105 Literature & Culture of the 19th Century America

8:112 Literatures of the American Peoples
- Irish American Literature

8:135 Topics in American Literature I
- Immigration and American Literature

8:250 Readings in American Literature

45:110 Gilded Age in America
-Gilded Age Scandal

45:145 Immigration and American Culture

45:170 American Regional Identities