Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's and Gender Studies
jmhoward@umich.edu
Office Information:
Office: 3058 Tisch Hall
Mail: American Culture, 3703 Haven Hall, 505 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
phone: 734.763.5957
hours: On leave Winter 2018
Women's and Gender Studies
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1979
About
June Howard is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's and Gender Studies. Her monographs are Form and History in American Literary Naturalism (1985) and Publishing the Family (2001), and she has published articles on various authors and issues in cultural theory in addition to editing and contributing to a book of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs (1994). Professor Howard has received a Faculty Recognition Award, an Amoco Good Teaching Award, and a Distinguished Faculty Award, as well as holding a Fulbright Professorship in Denmark in 2013 and serving as Chair of the Department of American Culture from 2014 through 2017. Her book titled The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Placetime is scheduled for publication in Fall 2018 by Oxford University Press.
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of English Language & Literature
- Faculty: Department of American Culture
- Faculty Affiliate: Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Field(s) of Study
- Late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. literature and culture, cultural and social theory (esp. genre criticism, materialist and feminist theory), American studies, women's studies.
