Contact
Robert P. Winston
Professor of English (1979)
Dickinson College
East College #401
717-245-1363

winston@dickinson.edu

http://www.dickinson.edu/~winston/

Education
1973-79: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation: "From Farmer James to Natty Bumppo: The Frontier as Historical Material for the Early American Romance" (Sargent Bush, Jr., Director)
1972-73: M.A. with Distinction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1968-72: A.B. cum laude with English Honors, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
1970-71: Exeter University, Exeter, England

He specializes in American literature before 1914, especially the development of the early American novel.  His current research focuses on the relationships between popular literature and national cultures.

Books
The Public Eye: Ideology and the Police Procedural (London: Macmillan, 1992; New York: St. Martin’s, 1992). Co-author: Nancy C. Mellerski.

Recent Articles
" The Shadows of History: The 'Condition of England' in Nice Work," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 44.1 (2002), 3-22. Co-author: Timothy Marshall
" Discipline and Inter discipline: Approaches to Study Abroad," Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 7 (2001), 61-93.
" Travelers and Tourists: Rules of Engagement in William McIlvanney's Detective Fiction," Studies in Scottish Literature, 32 (2001), 117-131.
" Erasing the City: Criminality, Sexuality, and Maternity in S. T. Haymon's Ben Jurnet Series," Clues: A Journal of Detection, 22.1 (2001), 85-99.
“ Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö,” Mystery Writers, ed. Robin W. Winks and Maureen
Corrigan (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, 1998: 853-68. Co-author: Nancy C. Mellerski.
“ An Interview with J. S. Borthwick, Part II,” Clues: A Journal of Detection, 17.1 (1996): 43-59.
“ An Interview with J. S. Borthwick, Part I,” Clues: A Journal of Detection, 16.2 (1995): 75-94.
“J. S. Borthwick,” Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary, ed. Kathleen Gregory Klein (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994): 32-35.
“Gillian Slovo,” Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary, ed. Kathleen Gregory Klein (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994): 318-19.