Dr. Abigail Cheever

Associate Professor of English
313 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8297
Fax: (804) 289-8313

Teaching:
Film Studies
American Literature since World War II

Research:
Post World War II American novels and films
Contemporary American literature and culture
Hollywood Film

Selected Publications:

Dr. Cheever has published articles and delivered papers on contemporary American literature and film studies.  She is currently writing a book on the concept of authenticity and identity in American novels and films from 1945 to the present.

Cheever, A. "The Limitations of Authenticity." in The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures. Ed. Jeff Karem. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Cheever, A. (2000) Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood. Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 46, no. 3, 346-368.