English Placement & Proficiency Exam

 

Charles Johanningsmeier, PhD

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Professor

Office: ASH 189H
Phone: 402.554.3319
jmeier@unomaha.edu

PhD Indiana University Bloomington
MA Indiana University Bloomington
BA Haverford College

 

Research & Publications

Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900 Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900.

Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Unmasking Willa Cather's 'Mortal Ememy.'" Accepted for Publication in Cather Studies (2001).

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Welcome Guests or Representatives of the 'Mal-Odorous Class'? Periodicals and Their Readers in American Public Libraries, 1876-1914." Libraries and Culture 39 (2004): 260-292..

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "The Devil, Capitalism, and Frank Norris: Defining the 'Reading Field' for Sunday Newspaper Fiction, 1870-1910." American Periodicals 14.1 (Spring 2004): 91-112.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Unmasking Willa Cather's 'Mortal Enemy.'" Cather Studies 5 (2003): 237-272.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Subverting Readers' Assumptions and Expectations: Jewett's 'Tame Indians.'" American Literacy Realism 34 (2002): 233-250.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): Two Shrewd Businesswomen in Search of New Markets." The New England Quarterly 70 (March 1997): 57-82.

Teaching Areas

19th- and Early 20th-century American Literature
Multicultural Literature