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Kevin Oderman
Professor Ph.D. 1980, University of California at Santa Barbara Office: 140 Colson Hall Tel: 293-9728 Fax: 293-5380 Email: kevin.oderman@gmail.com |
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Kevin Oderman is one of the few professors in the Department of English who wears a hat. It’s fair to surmise he has a number of hats at home. It’s rumored he even owns ball caps (worn exclusively bill forward). That it’s an array of hats rather than one single hat might be significant. He’s prey to enthusiasms. As an undergraduate, he thought English majors lived exclusively in coffeehouses. He did not yet like coffee; he studied other things. For his M.A., he focused on Medieval and Renaissance literature. For the Ph.D., Romantics, Modern European Novel, and Ezra Pound. For a while he wrote criticism on modern American poetry, then postmodern. Then he started writing literary nonfiction. Then a novel. Then some more literary nonfiction. He’s trying to finish a book on travel, but he’s still buying hats.
Specializations:
Creative Writing
American Poetry
American Literature