Philip Chassler
As a graduate student in the UMass Boston English Department, I received a Masters Degree in 1993. I enjoyed my experience here so much that I went on to earn a Ph.D. in English and American Literature (from Brandeis University in 2002). I have written about the mid-twentieth-century American novelist Nelson Algren. I have studied American writers of the early part of the last century including Henry Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, and Jack London. My current interests include Richard Wright’s later novels.

In 1997 I returned to UMass as a teacher. Since then, I have taught a variety of courses at all levels—including graduate---most recently AMST 212G The Eighties, AMST 110G US Society and Culture Since 1945, AMST 206 The Sixties, AMST 360 Work, Society, and Culture in the Modern US. My courses range into politics and culture with emphasis on social and economic issues. As a Lecturer, my strongest and first commitment is to students, their skills, their interests, and their goals.

Selected Publications:

Review of Troubling the Waters:  Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. Forthcoming, African American Review.

"Reading Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban before Reading Black Skin, White Masks," Human Architecture, Summer 2007.

Office: Wheatley, 5th floor, Room 112
Email: philip.chassler@umb.edu
Phone 617-287-6772