Home › Academics › College of Liberal Arts › Faculty › Philip Chassler

Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s

Degrees

PhD Brandeis University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Review of Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. African American Review 42 (2008).
• "Reading Mannoni’s Prospero and Caliban before Reading Black Skin, White Masks," Human Architecture, Summer 2007.

Additional Information

Research and Teaching Interests:

As a graduate student in the UMass Boston English Department, Professor Chassler received a Masters Degree in 1993. He enjoyed his experience here so much that he went on to earn a Ph.D. in English and American Literature (from Brandeis University in 2002). He has written about the mid-twentieth-century American novelist Nelson Algren, and he has studied American writers of the early part of the last century including Henry Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, and Jack London. 

In 1997 he returned to UMass as a teacher. Since then, he has taught a variety of courses at all levels.  His courses range into politics and culture with emphasis on social and economic issues. As a Lecturer, his strongest and first commitment is to students, their skills, their interests, and their goals.

As a member of its Executive Council he is active in the Faculty Staff Union.

Courses Taught:

AMST 100 American Identities
AMST 110G  US Society and Culture since 1945
AMST 206  The Sixties
AMST 212G The Eighties
AMST 211 US Society and Culture 1860-1940
AMST 360 Work, Society, and Culture in the Modern US

 

...