Professor Nelson is an Americanist with a special interest in fiction. Although his course offerings cover the full range of American literature, his classes are most often concerned with the literary history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. He publishes short prose fiction and has other research interests in critical legal studies.

Courses recently taught:

• English Composition I: The Art of Prose
• American Literature to 1900
• Short Prose Fiction
• American Fiction: 19th Century
• American Fiction: 20th Century
• Studies in American Literature
• Seminars in modernism, in individual authors, and in legal fictions

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