Mark W. Van Wienen

Professor

19th- and 20th-century American Literature

Office: RH 322
Phone: 753-6624
Email: vanwienen@niu.edu

Ph.D. University of Illinois; 1992

M.A. University of Illinois; 1988

B.A. Calvin College; 1986

Socialism and American Literature

Twentieth-Century American Poetry

War Literature, especially of World War I

The Railroad in Literature and Culture

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Carl Sandburg

Class, Race, Gender and Sexuality in U. S. Literature and Culture

American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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“Ralph Chaplin,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 345, American Radical and Reform Writers, Series 2, ed. Hester L. Furey, 2009. 63-78.
“How the Socialism of W. E. B. Du Bois Still Matters: Black Socialism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece – and Beyond.” With Julie K. Kraft. African American Review 41 (Spring 2007): 67-85.
“Gilman’s Socialism as Background to Her Works.” In Approaches to Teaching “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Herland, ed. Denise Knight and Cynthia J. Davis. New York: MLA, 2003.
"A Rose by Any Other Name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) and the Case for American Reform Socialism." American Quarterly 55.4 (Dec. 2003): 603-34.
Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War, ed. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.