Eric Link

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Professor

Phone

(901) 678-1332

eclink@memphis.edu

Fax

(901) 678-2226

Office

Scates Hall 106

Office Hours

Call for Hours

Education

Ph.D., 1995, Purdue University

Academic Summary

Eric Carl Link is a Professor of American Literature with specializations in both Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Science Fiction. His research has focused on nineteenth-century aesthetic theory, American literary naturalism, speculative fiction, and the intersections of philosophy, science, and literature. He is the founder and editor of the scholarly journal ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter, and is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, teaching in Ukraine in 2008 and in Switzerland in 2011.

Select Publications

Link, Eric Carl. The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Naturalism. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
Link, Eric Carl. Understanding Philip K. Dick. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
Link, Eric Carl. The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Link, Eric Carl. Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy. Co-authored with G. R. Thompson. Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
Link, Eric Carl. Crosscurrents:Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum. Co-authored with Steven Frye. Pearson/Longman Press. Forthcoming, 2012.
Link, Eric Carl, ed. Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage, 4th edition. Co-edited with Donald Pizer. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Link, Eric Carl, ed. Mark Twain. Taming the Bicycle: Essays, Stories, and Sketches. New York: Barnes & Noble Press, 2009.
Link, Eric Carl, ed. Critical Insights: The Red Badge of Courage. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2010.
Link, Eric Carl, ed. Critical Insights: Herman Melville. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012.