Skip to main content
University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota
    • Admitted Students
    • Current Students
    • Families of Current Students
    • Faculty & Staff
    • Alumni
    • Email
    • Blackboard
    • Campus Connection
    • Employee Self-Service (HRMS)
    • Starfish
    • Degree Map
    • Zoom
  • Directory
  • Academics
  • Admissions
  • Student Life
  • Research
  • Athletics
  • Majors & Programs
  • About
University of North Dakota
  • Academics
  • Admissions
  • Student Life
  • Research
  • Athletics
  • Majors & Programs
  • About
  • Request Info
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Request Info
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Home
  • Directory
  • Crystal Alberts
Portrait of Crystal Alberts

Crystal Alberts

  • Professor/Director, UND Writers Conference, English
    • 20th and 21st Century American Literatures, Digital Humanities

Contact Info

  • Email: crystal.alberts@UND.edu
  • Office: 701.777.2393
  • Dept: 701.777.3321

Office Address

Gamble Hall Room 220D
293 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209

Websites

  • Visit Website

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)
Edit Profile
We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience.

By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies, Privacy Information.

Ready to Enroll?

  • Request Information
  • Schedule a Visit
  • Apply Now
  • UND.info@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3000
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Contact UND
  • Campus Map
  • Events Calendar
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Explore Programs
  • Employment
  • Make a Gift
University of North Dakota

© 2023 University of North Dakota - Grand Forks, ND - Member of ND University System

  • Accessibility & Website Feedback
  • Terms of Use & Privacy
  • Notice of Nondiscrimination
  • Student Disclosure Information
  • Title IX
©