Office: Scobey Hall 302
Phone: (605) 688-4062
Paul.Baggett@sdstate.edu

 

Major Areas: 19^th and 20^th Century American literature and culture, American Studies, and cultural theory.

Paul Baggett received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami (2007), his M.A. from California State University, Long Beach (1993), and his B. A. from the University of California, Irvine (1989). He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and cultural theory, with particular interests in aesthetic theory, commodity culture and political fiction. He has published articles on Frederick Douglass and Jamaican writer Mary Seacole, and is currently working on a book project dealing with a collection of writers who tested the political viability of the literary marketplace during a period extending from the Reconstruction era to the Harlem Renaissance. Dr. Baggett’s teaching reflects his broader interests in United States’ cultural history. At SDSU, he has offered courses in the American Renaissance, American Literature of the West, American literature surveys from the colonial period to the present, and Introduction to Literature. In addition, he has taught beginning and advanced composition courses, focusing on global modernization, borders and frontiers, and race and sexuality in popular culture. Dr. Baggett is an active member of various academic associations, including the Modern Language Association, the American Studies Association, and the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.