 | John ConronProfessor Emeritus of English Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Visual and Performing Arts: Art History and Criticism Department of English Clark University Worcester, MA 01610-1477 |
| A.B., Brown University, 1961 M.A., University of Michigan, 1966 Ph.D., 1970 Current Research and TeachingJohn Conron specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to American literature and culture, approaches that require intensive work in fields outside his graduate training, including American painting, landscape architecture, and architecture. His anthology The American Landscape, published in 1974, was a path-breaking book. Professor Conron has published essays in prestigious American Studies journals such as American Quarterly and The Journal of American Culture. His account of the picturesque was described as follows American Picturesque "is an important contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century American culture." Professor Conron is currently working on a new book, Earth Music. Read his precis here.
2000: American Picturesque. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press
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