Michael Skau, PhD

Professor

Office: ASH I, Phone: 402.554.3314
mskau@mail.unomaha.edu

PhD University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Research & Publications

"A Clown in the Grave": Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso Awarded inclusion on Choice Outstanding Title List Southern Illinois UP, 1999

Skau, Michael. "Constantly Risking Absurdity":
The Writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Troy,
NY: Whitston, 1989.

Skau, Michael. "Beat Generation." Dictionary
of Literary Themes and Motifs. Ed. Jean-Charles
Seigneuret. New York: Greenwood, 1988. 162-69.

Skau, Michael. "The Central Verbal System:
The Prose of William S. Burroughs." Style 15.4
(Fall 1981): 401-14.

Skau, Michael. Me and God Poems. Omaha:
Brady Press, 1990.

Teaching Areas

20th-century American
English Literature
20th-century English Literature
Beat Generation Writers