Branka Arsić

Associate Professor

Ph. D., University of Belgrade

American 19th Century Literature and Philosophy, Early American Literature, Religious History of the Americas

Humanities 320
442-4068
ba@albany.edu

Professor Arsic specializes in 19th Century American literature and culture, and Early American literature.

She is author of On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2010) and a book on Melville entitled Passive Constitutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (Stanford UP, 2007). She has co-edited (with Cary Wolfe) a collection of essays on Emerson, entitled The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2010). She is currently working on a book on Henry David Thoreau called Grief, exploring Thoreau’s theory of perpetual mourning without melancholy, and a volume on the feminine spirituality of the early Americas called Of Stones and Loving, which will discuss how a variety of thought experiences – from contemplation to possession – affects the identity of persons. It will include essays on Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mary Rowlandson, Kateri Tekakwitha (Lily of the Mohawks), the Salem Witchcraft Cases, Sarah Pierpont Edwards, Phillis Wheatley, Maria Stewart and Margaret Fuller.

She has published articles on, among others, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and on topics such as passivity, abandonment, the impersonal, pain and suffering, and the ethics of leaving.

She teaches undergraduate courses on a range of topics in American literature, as well as more specialized graduate offerings

 

 

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