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Charles W Scruggs

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  • (520) 621-3527
  • MODERN LANGUAGE, Rm. 445
  • TUCSON, AZ 85721-0067
  • scruggs@arizona.edu
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Awards

  • Distinguished University Professor
    • University of Arizona, Spring 2014

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Courses

2020-21 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Spring 2021)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    ENGL 498H (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    ENGL 498H (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
    ENGL 373B (Spring 2019)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Spring 2019)
  • Topics In Am Literature
    ENGL 486 (Spring 2019)
  • Brit+Am Lit:Beowulf-1600
    ENGL 373A (Fall 2018)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Fall 2018)
  • Independent Study
    ENGL 599 (Fall 2018)
  • Topics In Am Literature
    ENGL 486 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
    ENGL 373B (Spring 2018)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Spring 2018)
  • Topics In Am Literature
    ENGL 486 (Spring 2018)
  • Brit+Am Lit:Beowulf-1600
    ENGL 373A (Fall 2017)
  • Dissertation
    ENGL 920 (Fall 2017)
  • Stds In 20th Cent Am Lit
    ENGL 566 (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
    ENGL 373B (Spring 2017)
  • Topics In Am Literature
    ENGL 486 (Spring 2017)
  • African American Lit
    AFAS 478 (Fall 2016)
  • African American Lit
    ENGL 478 (Fall 2016)
  • Independent Study
    ENGL 599 (Fall 2016)
  • Studies in Genres
    ENGL 310 (Fall 2016)

2015-16 Courses

  • Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
    ENGL 496A (Spring 2016)
  • Stds In 20th Cent Am Lit
    ENGL 566 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

  • Scruggs, C. W. (2018). The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s.. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins. doi:e-book
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2017). e book: Jean Toomer and The Terrors of American History.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2016). Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Chapters

  • Scruggs, C. W. (2014). American Film Noir. In Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic(pp 123-137). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2014). The Subversive Shade of Black in Film Noir. In Film Noir(pp 164-181). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2014). “‘Forged in Injustice’”: The Gothic Motif in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright.. In Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary.(pp 129-139.). New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
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    Eds. Alice Craven and William Dow

Journals/Publications

  • Scruggs, C. W. (2018). "Cultural Melancholy et al". American Literature, 90(4), 870-872.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2017). A Drama of the Southwest: The Critical Edition of a Forgotten Play by Jean Toomer. Ed.Carolyn J. Dekker. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016).. American Literary History, XI, 1-3.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2016). "REcovery From The Great War: Pastoral Space in J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country and Ernest Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River. Papers in Language and Literature, 52(3), 212-229.
  • Scruggs, C. W. (2016). The Unknown Van Vechten and His Impact on His Times. Resources For American Literary Study, 38(3), 267-274.

Presentations

  • Scruggs, C. W. (2014, June). "Othello Was a Nigger": The Fugitive Slave Motif in Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. Hemingway in Venice, 2014. Venice, Italy: Hemingway Society.

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