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Mark A. Kipperman

Professor Emeritus

19th-century British Literature, Poetry, the Victorians and the Romantics, Shakespeare

Office: RH 327
Phone: 753-6629
Email: makipper@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; 1981

B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton; 1973


Professional Interests


Shelley, Coleridge, Keats and Byron

19th-century Utopianism and Radicalism

Victorian Prose


Selected Publications >

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Selected Publications

  • “White Settler / Big City: Mimicry in the Metropolis in Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.” Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature (December 2008): 129-136.
  • “Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Committed Art.” In Romantic Circles: Praxis, online e-journal. May 2001. http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/interventionist
  • “Coleridge, Shelley, Davy, and Science’s Millenium,” Criticism (Summer 1998): 409-36.
  • “Shelley and the Ideology of the Nation: The Authority of the Poet” in Betty Bennett and Stuart Curran, eds. Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 49-59.
  • Beyond Enchantment: The Structure of Idealism and the Meaning of Romantic Quest. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2011ENGL 413.0001 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH 305
Fall 2011ENGL 660.0001 (details)
T / 3:00-5:40 / RH 209
Spring 2012ENGL 315.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH301
Spring 2012ENGL 414.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH307
Spring 2012ENGL 414.2 (details)
MW / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH202
Fall 2012ENGL 413.H1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH305