Michael Schrimper

Michael Schrimper is a Lecturer in the Department of English, in partnership with the Division of Continuing Education. He teaches literature and writing courses that explore a wide range of topics, including rural American voices, faith and spirituality, and Indigenous expression.

 

Dr. Schrimper is both a scholar and a creative writer, publishing across academic and literary venues. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his dissertation, “Exceeding Enclosure: Indigenous Modernisms and U.S. National Parks,” examined how Indigenous peoples use national parks both spatially and imaginatively to maintain a continuum of place-based community and innovate tribal expression. His advisor was Laura Winkiel. His research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and numerous departmental grants, and has appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, Modern Language Studies, among others.

 

Dr. Schrimper also holds an MFA in fiction from Emerson College. His creative work often focuses on family, silence, and emotional inheritance across rural American landscapes. His short stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Joyland, Willow Springs, minnesota review, and other journals, with a Pushcart Prize nomination.

 

He is currently completing a novel and a collection of short stories, while adapting his dissertation into a scholarly monograph.

 

 

 

Courses Taught at CU:

 

ENGL 1270    Introduction to American Literature by Women. Rural Women’s Voices. (Online, asynchronous.)

ENGL 1001    Writing, Reading, Culture. Faith, Spirituality, and the Nature of Being. (Online, asynchronous.)

ENGL 2717    American Indian Literature. Questions of Authenticity in Native American Literatures.

ENGL 3830    Topics in Advanced Writing and Research: Writing Intensive, What is America in American Ethnic Literatures?

ENGL 1800    American Ethnic Literatures: Perspectives of America. Works by Korean American, Cambodian American, Native American, and Indian American Novelists and Short Story Writers.

ENGL 1420    Poetry: From Wordsworth to Tommy Pico, Land and/in Verse.

ENGL 1800    American Ethnic Literatures: Two Worlds in Native American Literatures.

ENGL 1800    American Ethnic Literatures: Land and Community in Native American Literatures.

ENGL 3060    Modern and Contemporary Literature: Plague and Pestilence, 1899-Present.

ENGL 1230    Environmental Literature: Race and the Environment.