Stephen Schryer
BA (McMaster), MA (Western), PhD (California, Irvine)
Stephen Schryer's areas of interest include 20th/21st century American literature, African-American literature, and literary theory. He is the author of Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2011), co-winner of the Canadian Association for American Studies' Robert K. Martin Book Prize. It explores one of the central fantasies of post-World War II literary and intellectual culture: the idea that professional knowledge workers (the "new class") would displace traditional classes such as the proletariat and bourgeoisie as America's ruling elite. He has also published articles in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Arizona Quarterly. His new project, tentatively titled "Cultures of Poverty: American Literature and the Politics of Welfare" focuses on literary representations of poverty in the post-New Deal welfare state. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Stephen Schryer supervises theses in all areas of American literature, especially American fiction from the 1930s to the present.
You can access Stephen Schryer's CV (PDF format).
Contact Information:
Office: Carleton Hall 318
Phone: (506) 458-7402
