Department of English

Stefan Wheelock

Assistant Professor of English

412-624-6539
wheelock@pitt.edu
Fax: 412-624-6539

CL 609-B

Stefan Wheelock received his PhD from Brown University, where his work dealtwith the relationship between the emergence of discourses of civil liberty, reason, and freedom as they are represented in 18th-century writing and ideology and the emergence of black writing on slavery during the era.

His area of specialization is Anglophone long-18th-century literature and culture, and his research interests are interdisciplinary in scope, emphasizing the political and philosophical implications of black writing within the poltical-critical tradition of Locke, Addison, Steele, and Hume.

Wheelock also has interests in Marxist critical theory, hermeneutics, Existential Phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. His first publication, "The Slave Narrative and the State: The Question of Political Criticism and Autobiography in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" will appear in the forthcoming anthology The Silent Language of Their Pens: Slave Narratives as Readerly/Writerly Texts.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

  • Introduction to Critical Reading
  • Black Literature
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