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Thomas Gustafson

Expert in American political discourse, politics of language, and literature of the American West
  • Associate professor of English
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-3747

Expertise

  • American literature from the Revolution through the Civil War
  • American political discourse
  • politics of language
  • colonial and 19th century American literature
  • literature of the American West

Additional Information

  • Author of Representative Words: Politics, Literature and the American Language, 1776-1865 (1993)