Hans Ostrom Professor, African American Studies and English
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis, 1982 B.A. and M.A. in English, University of California, Davis, 1975, 1979
Contact: ostrom@pugetsound.edu African American Studies: 253-879-3372. Hans Ostrom teaches courses in African American literature, poetry-writing, fiction-writing, Anglo-American poetry, detective fiction, and first-year writing. He co-edited the Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature and wrote A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. His published novels are Three To Get Ready and Honoring Juanita. His books of poetry include The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006. Hans is an award-winning teacher. Here is a link to his complete curriculum vitae: Curriculum Vitae
University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA 98416 USA
Youtube Channel: http: //www.youtube.com/user/langstonify
ostrom@pugetsound.edu Main Web Log: http://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/
Link to African American Studies Program Phone: 253-879-3372
Link to Syllabi from Courses that I teach and to course-resource pages.
Online book in progress: http://redtalesbook.blogspot.com/
The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2006): Amazon
Honoring Juanita: Amazon.com (including Kindle)
Link To A Brief Autobiography
Some Links to Useful Resources
Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naa3oK4zWxQ
BOOKS:
Information about Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively, a book co-written with Wendy Bishop and Kate Haake.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, edited with J. David Macey
The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2006): Barnes and Noble
Information about A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia.
Online and In Progress: http://redtalesbook.blogspot.com/
LINKS TO COURSE-RESOURCE PAGES:
English 126: Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning
English 342: Genre: Fiction (Detective Fiction)
Connections 375: Harlem Renaissance
English 465: Iraq War Discussion Grou
Selected Course-Syllabi: (Links To Course-Resource Pages Appear Above)
Connections 375: Harlem Renaissance (Spring 2010)
English 402: Advanced Creative Writing--Short Fiction (Spring 2010)
FURTHER BACK: ARCHIVE OF SYLLABI:
Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance--Fall 2009
English 203: Introductory Creative Writing (Poetry)-- Fall 2009
English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)--Fall 2009
Spring 2009: English 402: Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction)
Spring 2009: English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry)
Fall 2008: English 126: Arguing Through Literature--Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning
Fall 2008: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance
Fall 2008: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)
Spring 2008: English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry)
Spring 2008: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance
Spring 2008: Iraq War Discussion Group (Bristow, Cohn, Dillman, Kupinse, Ostrom)
Fall 2007: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance
Fall 2007: English 340: Genre-Poetry (History of Anglo-American Lyric Poetry)
Fall 2007: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)
Spring 2007: English 342: Genre Fiction (Detective Fiction)
Fall 2006: English 126: Genre-Studies in Literature: Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning
Fall 2006: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)
Spring 2006: English 340: Genre: Poetry--Contemporary American Poetry
Spring 2006: English 402--Advanced Creative Writing: Short Fiction
English 101: First-Year Writing Seminar
English 124: First Year Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric (Rhetoric of Word and Image) English 202: Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction
English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry English 210: Introduction to English Studies (Fall 2005)
English 340: Genre--Poetry English 342: Genre: Fiction (Detective Fiction)--Spring 2005 [Version ]
English 342 : Detective Fiction [Version #1] English 360: Langston Hughes and James Baldwin
English 375: The Harlem Renaissance: Earlier Version
English 375: The HR: Spring 2004 Version: English 402: Fiction Writing (Spring 2005)
English 402 : Fiction Writing English 402: Fiction Writing, Version #2
English 402: Fiction Writing, Version #3 (Spring 2004) English 403: Poetry Writing
English 403: Poetry Writing (Fall 2005) English 405: Writing and Gender
English 426: African-American Literature English 449: 20th Century American Literature
English 481: Asian-American Literature English 492: Historical Perspectives on Writing and Rhetoric
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(See also links to course-resource pages above.)
African-American Literature and Culture: Library of Congress
Asian-American Studies Library and Research Guide
Austen, Jane: See Jane Austen.
Camus: "Albert Camus: Political Moralist"
Civil-Rights Movement: Time Line
Ecology/"Deep Ecology" [with a good bibliography]
Students from English 405 Recommend Movies That Concern Gender IssuesGeorge Simenon and His Detective, Maigret
Harlem Renaissance: Some Poetry
Indian Tribal Pre-Contact Territories (California): Map
James P. Johnson: Stride Piano, "Charleston," Blues
Mystery Novels, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction: Lists and Sources
Oxford English Dictionary: Word of the Day
Penelope Fitzgerald (novelist and biographer)
Poets Visit Schools to Read
Works by Langston Hughes, Lawrence, KansasQuotations Concerning Rhetoric, Writing, and Argument
Romantic Circles: Website Concerning the Study of Romantic
Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler
An article by Richard Rodriquez)Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
St. Leo Parish, Tacoma, Washington
World Population Growth (1-2050 A.D)
Writing on the Edge (A Journal Published at U.C. Davis)
I attended Roseville High School in Roseville, California, graduating in 1971.
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Hans Ostrom
Contact: ostrom@ups.edu
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