English

Title : Associate Dean & Professor of English
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest : American Literature and Culture.
Degrees: B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Yale University.

Contact Info
Email: bslote@allegheny.edu
Office Phone extension: #3391

Office Info
Office Location: Bentley #201

Office Hours : FALL 2012 – TBA

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
FS 102*W6: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
English 305*00: Forms/Nonfict: Personal Essay

Spring 2011
FS 102*W2: Academic Discourse II Download Syllabus

Fall 2010
English 200*04: Reading Literature

Spring 2010
FS 102: Academic Discourse II | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2009 (no classes)

Fall 2008
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2008
ENGL 550: Junior Seminar | » Download Syllabus
FS 102: Persuasive Communication | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 610: Senior Project Seminar | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2007
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 203: Studies in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 301: Forms of Fiction | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2007
ENGL 203: Studies in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 470: Topics in 20th Century American Literature | » Download Syllabus
FS 102: Persuasive Communication | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2006 (on sabbatical)

Spring 2006 (on sabbatical)

Fall 2005
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 470: Topics in 20th Century American Literature
FS 107: Persuasive Communication

Publications

Essays

• Slote, Ben. “Jewett at the Fair: Seeing Citizens in `The Flight of Betsey Lane.’” Studies in American Fiction, 36, 1 (Spring 2008).*
• Slote, Ben. “Review, Henry Wonham, Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction” (NY:Twayne, 1998) in African American Review, 36, 1 (Spring 2008).*
• Slote, Ben. “Wilbur’s ‘Mayflies’ and the Call of Artifice,” with “Commentary,” Allegheny College Writing Center website: View Essay 1999*
• Slote, Ben. “Listening to `The Goophered Grapevine’ and Hearing Raisins Sing,” in Henry Wonham, Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction, (NY: Twayne, 1998) *
• Slote, Ben. “Revising Freely: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Disembodiment,” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 11, 1 (Spring, 1996) *
• Slote, Ben. “Narrative Jujitsu: Twain’s `Studied Fictions’ and Their Plot Against Audience,” Prospects, Vol. 20 (1995) *

Conference Papers

• “Passing for Authentic: the Midwesternizing of Laura Bush in An American Wife.” Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference. St. Louis. (November 2009)
• “Our Old Kentucky Home: Chensutt, Morrison, and the Passing of Plantation Romance.” Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference. Cleveland. (November 2007)
• “Floating in the Backwater: American Academic Novels and the Problem of the Local,” Narrative: An International Conference, Louisville. (April 2005)
• “Matriotic Vision and the Anti-Imperial in Jewett’s ‘The Flight of Betsey Lane,’”Narrative: An International Conference, East Lansing. (April 2002)
• “Upgrading the Server: Reanimating the Liberal Arts through Computer-Mediated Pedagogy,” poster co-presentation, A.A.C&U conference, New Orleans. (2000)
• “Dickinson and Doctors,” Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College. (Spring 1998)
• “Race as Hypochondria: Howells’s An Imperative Duty and the Cure of Realism,”Narrative: An International Conference, Gainsville, FL. (April 1997)
• “The Road to Wellville through Emily Dickinson,” American Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh. (November 1995)
• “Narrative Freedom as Biographical Bondage? The Conditions of Douglass’ Authority,” Narrative: An International Conference, Vancouver, B.C. (April 1994)
• “Listening to `The Goophered Grapevine’ and Hearing Raisins Sing,” Narrative: An International Conference, Albany. (April 1993) “Capitolism, Consumerism and the Novel” (moderator) Narra¬tive Confer¬e¬nce, Nash¬ville. (April 1992)
• “Audiences in Mark Twain,” Humanities Lecture Series, Alleghe¬ny College. (November 1991)