Michael Drexler is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of English at Bucknell University. He teaches American Literature from Colonization through the Long Nineteenth Century. Many of his courses explore resistance to the Atlantic slave-trade, slavery in the US, and the centrality of race in American literature. He approaches literary analysis from a Marxist and Psychoanalytic perspective.
He is currently working on North American fugitive slave narratives and their legacy in American fiction. In October 2019, Michael presented lecture at the University of Potsdam entitled “Looking Forward/Looking Backward: African American Worldmaking at an HBCU in West Virginia,” which developed out of his interest in Harpers Ferry how the figure of John Brown continues to inspire and haunt US culture. He is also writing a novel about an architect who built a mansion on the site of Brown’s execution.
Michael Drexler is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of English at Bucknell University. He teaches American Literature from Colonization through the Long Nineteenth Century. Many of his courses explore resistance to the Atlantic slave-trade, slavery in the US, and the centrality of race in American literature. He approaches literary analysis from a Marxist and Psychoanalytic perspective.
He is currently working on North American fugitive slave narratives and their legacy in American fiction. In October 2019, Michael presented lecture at the University of Potsdam entitled “Looking Forward/Looking Backward: African American Worldmaking at an HBCU in West Virginia,” which developed out of his interest in Harpers Ferry how the figure of John Brown continues to inspire and haunt US culture. He is also writing a novel about an architect who built a mansion on the site of Brown’s execution.