Michael Schrimper is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Native American, American, and American ethnic literatures of the 20th century. He has taught and is equipped to teach Native American, African American, Asian American, American, and LatinX authors, as well as composition courses. He has years of experience leading workshops of both academic critical and creative writing. Schrimper holds a B.A. in English from Indiana University Bloomington and an M.F.A. in fiction from Emerson College, Boston, where he later served on the Writing, Literature & Publishing faculty and was a reader for Ploughshares. His scholarly articles appear or are forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory; Journal of Modern Literature; Modern Language Studies; and elsewhere. His creative writing appears in Chicago Quarterly Review, minnesota review, Willow Springs, The Worcester Review, and others. Schrimper is a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
- “Thoreau’s Antislavery Poetry.” Modern Language Studies (MLS), vol. 51, nos. 1 & 2, winter 2022, pp. 34-57.
- “Queer Narrative Ecology in Margaret Fuller’s ‘The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain’ and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens.’” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 77, no. 3, fall 2021, pp. 101-20.
Courses Taught at CU:
- ENGL 3830 Topics in Advanced Writing and Research: Writing Intensive, What is America in American Ethnic Literatures (Spring 2023)
- ENGL 1800 American Ethnic Literatures: Perspectives of America. Works by Korean American, Cambodian American, Native American, and Indian American Novelists and Short Story Writers. (Spring 2023)
- ENGL 1420 From Wordsworth to Tommy Pico: Land and/in Verse (2 Sections, Fall 2022)
- ENGL 1800: Two Worlds in Native American Literatures (2 sections, Spring 2022)
- ENGL 1800: Land and Community in Native American Literatures (2 sections, Fall 2021)
- ENGL 3060: Literature of Plague and Pestilence, 1899-Present (1 section, Spring 2021)
- ENGL 1230: Literature of Race and the Environment (1 section, Fall 2020)