Research and Teaching Interests

Multi-ethnic and multi-racial American literature; nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American women's writing; modernist writing; American Indian literatures; literature of the American West; American literature from the seventeenth century to the present; colonial and postcolonial theory; feminist theory; literary historicism and history of the book/print culture; composition pedagogy.

Selected Publications

"Peyote in the Kitchen: Gendered Identities and Imperial Domesticity in Edna Ferber's Cimarron." Western American Literature 47.1 (Spring 2012): 67-89.

On Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Pink Dog." Modern American Poetry, 2007. Electronic journal and multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Oxford University Press, 2000. Edited by Cary Nelson.

On Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Work." Modern American Poetry, 2007. Electronic journal and multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Oxford University Press, 2000. Edited by Cary Nelson.

Courses Taught

• College Composition
• Business and Technical Writing
• Introduction to American Literature: American Obsessions
• Ethnicity in American Literature: Writing and Becoming a Hyphenated-American
• Studies in Early 20th Century Literature: American Modernism

Office: LA 234
Office Phone: 282-2782
zinkaman@isu.edu