College of Humanities People
John Hellmann, Professor
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
Office Information
402E Galvin Hall, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, OH, 45804
Email: hellmann.1@osu.edu
Phone: 419-995-8242
Office Hours:
MW 12:30-1:30, W 4:30-5:30 during Winter 2010
402E Galvin Hall, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima, OH, 45804
Email: hellmann.1@osu.edu
Phone: 419-995-8242
Office Hours:
MW 12:30-1:30, W 4:30-5:30 during Winter 2010
General Background:
Professor, (Ph.D. Kent State University): Author of three books on post-World War II American literature, film, and culture: FABLES OF FACT: THE NEW JOURNALISM AS NEW FICTION (Illinois, 1981), AMERICAN MYTH AND THE LEGACY OF VIETNAM (Columbia, 1986), and THE KENNEDY OBSESSION: THE AMERICAN MYTH OF JFK (Columbia, 1997). His essays have appeared in such journals as AMERICAN QUARTERLY, GENRE, CRITIQUE, and AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY. Hellmann has been the recipient of a year-long grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and has been awarded Senior Fulbright Lectureships to teach in 1985 at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and during 1992-93 at the University of Bonn (Germany). He has also taught as an invited lecturer at the University of Wales, Swansea. Most recently, Hellmann is the author of commissioned essays in the CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE (Cambridge, 2006), EDINBURGH COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURES IN ENGLISH (Edinburgh, 2006), and THE UNITED STATES AND THE LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR 1975-2005 (Palgrave, 2007). He is writing a book on Hitchcock's most important American films.
Film Studies
Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
