Crystal Alberts

Selected Courses:

• Engl 599 Special Topic: Literature Pedagogy
• Engl 521 Studies in American Literature: The US 1970s
• Engl 521 Studies in American Literature: Satire after 9/11
• Engl 521 Studies in American Literature: American Postmodernism
• Engl 428 Digital Humanities
• Engl 415 Special Topics in Literature: War and 21st Century US Literatures
• Engl 415 Special Topics in Literature: The American 1950s & 60s
• Engl 415 Special Topics in Literature: Law and Literature
• Engl 407 Studies in 20th Century Literature: Hypertexts and New Media
• Engl 369 Literature and Culture: Science / Fiction
• Engl 367 Indigenous Literatures (cross listed as Indian Studies 379)
• Engl 320 Studies in American Fiction: Literature after 9/11
• Engl 304 American Literature Survey II
• Engl 271 Reading and Writing about Texts
• Engl 227 Introduction to Literature and Culture: American '60s
• Engl 225 Introduction to Film: American Counterculture and Cult Classics

• 20th and 21st Century US Literature
• Digital Humanities, New Media, and Technology
• Multiethnic Literatures
• Indigenous Literatures
• Pedagogy
• American Culture
• Postmodernism
• Literature about 9/11
• Science and Literature
• Archival Studies
• Don DeLillo
• William Gaddis
• Diane Glancy
• Law and Literature

Selected Print Publications:

• Book
  • William Gaddis, "The Last of Something:" Critical Essays. Co-editor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
• Journal Issues
  • “Special Issue on the Works of Don DeLillo,” Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 4(2). Invited Guest Editor (May 2016).
    https://orbit.openlibhums.org/issue/20/info/
• Book Chapters/Journal Articles/Reviews (Peer Reviewed)
  • "Making the Leap: the Poetry of César Vallejo and Ralph Salisbury." Transmotion, 6(1), 69-96, doi: https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.825
  • “‘Freud is finished, Einstein’s next’: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, Chaos Theory, and Quantum Physics.” Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon 4(2): 7, pp. 1–28, doi:10.16995/orbit.196
  • "Review Essay: Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education and Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Diane Glancy)." Transmotion.  1.2 (2015). https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/190
  • “Piecing together the Puzzle: the Manuscripts of James Merrill’s ‘Lost in Translation,’” North Dakota Quarterly. 79.1 Winter 2012 (published Spring 2014): 79-89.
  • “I’m Only Just Starting to Look”: Media, Art, and Literature after 9/11,” Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise. Ed. Kristine A. Miller. New York: Palgrave, 2014.
  • “William Gaddis’s Immortality: Celebration, Cartoon, or Corruption?,” Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon. 2.1 (2013): [np]. doi: 10.7766/orbit.v2.1.66/
  • In the Talking Leaves: Diane Glancy's Reclamation of Voice and Archives," The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy. Ed. James Mackay. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2010.
  • "Valuable Dregs: William Gaddis, the Life of an Artist," Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System. Eds. Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2007.
  • "Three Early Stories by William Gaddis," The Missouri Review. 27.2 (2004): 92-95.

Selected Digital Collections:

• "UND Writers Conference Digital Collection." Project Director. University of North Dakota Chester Fritz Library. Grand Forks, North Dakota. Available at http://digital.undwritersconference.org (under development)
• "Nuremberg Trial Transcripts: Nazi Occupation of Norway." Editor. University of North Dakota Chester Fritz Library. Grand Forks, North Dakota. Available at https://commons.und.edu/nuremburg-transcripts/
• "The Revised Dred Scott Case Collection." Washington University Digital Libraries. St. Louis, Missouri. Available at http://digital.wustl.edu/d/dre/index.html

Select Grants:

National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities (SHARP Act) 2021-2022

National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities (CARES Act) 2020-2021

National Endowment for the Arts, Grants for Arts                                              2022-2023

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works                                                     2020-2021

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works                                                     2017-2018

National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works                                                     2016-2017

National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works                                                    2014-2015

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence                          2011-2012

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence                          2010-2011

• Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2008 
  (English and American Literature)
• M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2001 
  (English and American Literature)
• B.A.,  Mount Holyoke College, 1999 
  (English/Religion)