Charles Russell
Director of the Rutgers Graduate Program in American Studies
420 Conklin Hall
(973) 353-1886
crr@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://americanstudies.newark.rutgers.edu/

Charles Russell serves as Director of the Rutgers Graduate Program in American Studies and as Associate Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. An Associate Professor of English, he is author of Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary Avant-Garde from Rimbaud through Postmodernism (Oxford University Press), and is editor of Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art (University Press of Mississippi), among other books. Most recently, he co-edited with Professor Carol Crown of the University of Memphis, Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art (University Press of Mississippi).

His current research focuses on contemporary American literature and art, especially the work of Robert Stone and the theoretical formulations of “mainstream” and “outsider” art. He teaches courses in American literature, the foundations of literary study, and contemporary literature and art.

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