Bluford Adams

Director of General Education Literature
Associate Professor
Biography

Office Hours

TBD for Fall 2025 

Get to know Bluford

My research focuses on racial, ethnic, and regional identities, and way those identities got expressed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture.

I am particularly interested in the relationship between regional identities like Yankee and Southerner and “racial” identities like Anglo-Saxon, Negro, Celt, and Teuton. My current research project focuses on the Southern Immigration Movement, 1880-1914. 

I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture: ENGL 2438 American Novels before 1900, ENGL:3444 Literatures of the American Peoples, and ENGL:2420 American Literary Classics.  

Research areas

  • 19th-Century U.S. Literature
  • Immigration
  • Regionalism

Bluford Adams CV

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458 English-Philosophy Building (EPB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States