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Campus Phone: 
4832
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department
On-Campus Address: 
Mears 113
Department Chair?: 
Yes
Education / Degrees: 
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1998
Courses Taught: 
American Literature
Primary Academic Interest: 
Emerson, William James and Du Bois

Steve Andrews teaches mostly 18th and 19th century American Literature.  His primary research interests are literary pragmatism, the poetics of landscape, and the cultural history of baseball.  He has published work on W.E.B. Du Bois, William James, and synaesthesia; on Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and issues of copyright; on adoption and the captivity narrative; and on the early culture of baseball.