Associate Professor of English
Kerry Ahearn is an Associate Professor specializing in American literature, including travel literature and the short story. He has published on Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Philip Roth, Wallace Stegner, Larry McMurtry, Rick Bass, Amy Hempel, A.J. Liebling, Elliot Paul, Ivan Doig, Henry Thoreau, Donald Barthelme, John McPhee, and others. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Times Literary Supplement, Western Humanities Review, and other journals and essay collections. He was Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Ghana and Univerzitet Kiril i Metodij in Macedonia. He is at work on a collection of essays on American literary Paris, and on a monograph on rowing in literary and cultural contexts.
Office
Moreland 230
Phone
541-737-1639
Email
kahearn@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Ohio University 1974
M.A. Ohio University 1968
B.A. Stanford 1967
Areas of specialization
Short story, Contemporary Fiction, American Literature
Selected publications
"Rural and Urban: Places in Oregon Literature," Oregon
Humanities (December 1994): 34-39.
"'Et In Arcadia Excrementum': Pastoral, Kitsch, and Philip Roth's
The Great American Novel," Aethlon (Fall 1994): 1-14.