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Lynne Waldeland

Professor Emeritus

20th-century American Literature, Film Studies, the Short Story

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Educational Background


Ph.D. Purdue University; 1970

M.A. Purdue University; 1966

B.A. St. Olaf College, 1963


Professional Interests


20th-century American Literature

Literature and Film

Women’s Studies


Selected Publications >

Selected Publications

  • “John Cheever.” American National Biography. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., New York: Oxford UP, 1999, pp. 770-773.
  • “Women in the Fiction of John Cheever.” The Critical Response to John Cheever. Francis J. Bosha, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 247-58.
  • “Isolation and Integration: John Cheever’s ‘The Country Husband.’” Forum, 23 (Winter 1986), 5-11.
  • “John Cheever’s Bullet Park: A Key to His Thought and Art.” Critical Essays on John Cheever . R. G. Collins, ed. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, pp. 261-272.
  • Plains Song: Women’s Voices in the Fiction of Wright Morris.” Critique, 24 (Fall 1982), 7-19.
  • John Cheever. Twayne American Author Series (G. K. Hall & Co.), 1979.
  • “The Deep Sleep: The View of the Fifties in the Novels of Wright Morris.” Silhouettes on the Shade: Images from the 50’s Re-examined. Muncie, IN: Ball State University Press, 1973, 25-43.