Jerome Tharaud
Degrees
University of Chicago, Ph.D.University of Chicago, B.A.
Expertise
Early American and 19th-Century U.S. literature and culture; American religious history; print culture and media; art history and visual culture; geography and literature; cultural and environmental history of the American landscape; the American West.Profile
Professor Tharaud teaches courses on American literature and culture from the colonial period through the contemporary period. His current book project, "Apocalyptic Geographies," explores how 19th-century Americans used the landscape to help understand spiritual life, from the state of their souls to the fate of the globe. He is beginning work on a second research project, tentatively titled "Cowboy Ecologies: Scarcity and Culture in the American West," that examines the modern American West in order to think about how human cultures adapt to scarcity.Courses Taught
| AMST/ENG | 47a | Frontier Visions: The West in American Literature and Culture |
| ENG | 1a | Introduction to Literary Studies |
| ENG | 6a | The American Renaissance |
| ENG | 28a | Environmental Literature in an Age of Extinction |
| ENG | 40b | The Birth of the Short Story: Gods, Ghosts, Lunatics |
| ENG | 110b | The Great American Picture Book |
| ENG | 146a | Reading the American Revolution |
| ENG | 154b | Spirit Worlds: Religion and Early American Literature |
| ENG | 247a | American Literary Geographies |
| ENG | 250a | Religion and Literature |
Scholarship
Tharaud, Jerome. "Housebreaking." Montana Quarterly Fall 2015: 60-65.
Tharaud, Jerome. "Evangelical Space: 'The Oxbow,' Religious Print, and the Moral Landscape in America." American Art 28. 3 (2014): 52-75.
Tharaud, Jerome. "'So far heathen': Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and Walden's Cosmic Modernity." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 59. 4 (2013): 618-61.
Tharaud, Jerome. "The Evangelical Press, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Human Medium." Arizona Quarterly 69. 2 (2013): 25-54.
Tharaud, Jerome. "Emerson's Geographical Imagination: Private Journeys of Grief and Healing through the American Landscape." (2003): Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bicentenary Appraisals. Ed. Tharaud, Barry. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006.
Tharaud, Jerome. "Emerson's Geographical Imagination: Private Journeys of Grief and Healing through the American Landscape." Nineteenth-Century Prose 30. 1/2 (2003): 102-35.