Martin Griffin

Martin Griffin's work is focused upon the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his current project involves the role of memory and commemoration in American literature and culture of the post-Civil War era.  In his forthcoming book he explores the ways in which the memory of war becomes a field for the emotional and ideological struggles of the later nineteenth century.

Dr. Griffin is also particularly interested in the longer-term interactions of the literary and dramatic arts with political ideas and events, both historically, in respect of the American political experience, and also in terms of contemporary concepts of international cultural diplomacy.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Ashes of the Mind:  War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900.  Forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press (estimated date 2008).

Representative articles

• "The Moonlit Road."  A Literary Brief.  The Ambrose Bierce Journal 2.1 (Fall 2006). <www.ambrosebierce.org/journal.html>
• "The New South"; "World War I."  American History through Literature, 1870-1920.  Charles Scribner's Sons (2005), 770-3; 1218-24
• "The Road from Memorial Hall:  Future Imperfect in The Bostonians."  Prospects:  An Annual of American Cultural Studies 29 (2004), 251-88.
  

Contact Information

Martin Griffin
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-7166
E-mail: wmg@utk.edu

Research

American literature