Samuel Otter

Samuel Otter

Professor and Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Chair in English

232 Wheeler
By appointment in Spring 2023
sotter@berkeley.edu

English Department Classes
spring, 2022

100/7

The Seminar on Criticism: In the Wake of Moby-Dick

130B/1

American Literature: 1800-1865

130B/101 -- discussion section

Bowie, Matthew

130B/102 -- discussion section

Bowie, Matthew

fall, 2021

90/4

Practices of Literary Study: Poe and More

spring, 2021

130A/1

American Literature: Before 1800

130A/101 -- discussion section

No instructor assigned yet.

130A/102 -- discussion section

No instructor assigned yet.

190/8

Research Seminar: The Other Melville

fall, 2020

130B/1

American Literature: 1800-1865

246J/1

Graduate Pro-seminar: The Literature of Civil War and Reconstruction

spring, 2020

27/1

Introduction to the Study of Fiction

fall, 2019

130B/1

American Literature: 1800-1865

190/3

Research Seminar: American Transcendentalism

spring, 2019

190/9

Research Seminar: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

203/5

Graduate Readings: Nineteenth-Century U. S. Historical Poetics

fall, 2017

130A/1

American Literature: Before 1800

fall, 2016

190/3

Research Seminar: Moby-Dick, and More

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

spring, 2016

H195B/1

Honors Course

fall, 2015

130B/1

American Literature: 1800-1865

H195A/1

Honors Course

spring, 2015

H195B/1

Honors Course

246I/1

Graduate Proseminar: American Literature to 1855

fall, 2014

130A/1

American Literature: Before 1800

H195A/1

Honors Course

spring, 2012

190/12

Research Seminar: Henry James

spring, 2011

250/4

Research Seminar: Melville's Forms

Fall, 2008

150/11

Senior Seminar: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Spring, 2007

130B/1

Junior Coursework: American Literature: 1800-1865

250/3

Research Seminar: Melville and Aesthetics