About Sean

ABOUT SEAN SCANLAN:

 

I joined the City Tech English Department in 2010. Prior to arriving in Brooklyn, I lived in Iowa City, Iowa and taught English at the University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College. I enjoy fixing things, painting, cycling, running, and Nordic skiing. Since moving to New York, I have become a student of the city, an amateur urban anthropologist. I live with my family in Park Slope, and I pretend that Prospect Park is my backyard.

ACADEMIC INTERESTS:

My teaching and research interests include: American and world literature, New York City history and literature, new theories of narration, globalization, and homesickness, how to write music/book/architecture reviews, and the effect that technology has on reading and writing.

COURSES TAUGHT:

ENG 1101 (Composition 1), ENG 1121 (Composition 2), and  ENG 2000 (Perspectives in Literature: Globalization and Literature) ENG 2000 Course Website: http://globolit2000.wordpress.com/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Scanlan, Sean. “Going No Place? Foreground Nostalgia and Psychological Spaces in Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” Style 44.1-2 (2010): 207-29.

http://www.engl.niu.edu/ojs/index.php/style/article/view/113

Scanlan, Sean. “Introduction: Nostalgia.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (2004): 3-9.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs/nostalgia/nostint.htm

JOURNAL: I am the editor a new academic journal called–NANO: New American Notes Online (An interdisciplinary academic journal)

http://www.nanocrit.com/