Christine Holbo
Associate Professor,
English
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Ross-Blakley Hall 253 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Christine Holbo studies American literature from the age of sentiment to the modernist era. Her work explores how the social valences of literature intersect with the constraints of genre, approaching the transformation of the novel in terms of competing forms of social knowledge and artistic expression. Her first book, Legal Realisms: the American Novel under Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2019) considers the way the challenges of social knowledge and social sympathy defined American literary realism as a self-conscious literary movement in post-Reconstruction America.
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University
Publications
- Christine Holbo. ‘Industrial & Picturesque Narrative’: Helen Hunt Jackson’s California Travel Writing for The Century. American Literary Realism (2010).
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 444 | Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture |
| ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
| ENG 222 | Survey of English Literature |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
| ENG 444 | Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
| ENG 636 | Advanced Studies American Lit |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 222 | Survey of English Literature |
| ENG 206 | Intro to Literary Studies |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
| ENG 308 | Form and History/Culture |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 636 | Advanced Studies American Lit |
| ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 536 | Study Amer Lit before 1900 |
| ENG 452 | Studies in the Novel |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 241 | Literatures of the US to 1860 |
| ENG 345 | Selected Authors or Issues |
Presentations
- Christine Holbo. Issues and Methods in American Periodicals Research: ProQuest-RSAP Award Panel for Scholarship on American Periodicals. American Literature Association, San Francisco (May 2010).
- Christine Holbo. Moral Suspension and Aesthetic Perspectivalism in ‘Venice in Venice’. American Literature Association (May 2010).
- Christine Holbo. "What Did Hamlin Garland Mean by ‘Modernism’?". Modern Language Association (Dec 2009).
- Christine Holbo. "Helen Hunt Jackson and the Dilemmas of Public Sentiment.". Society for the Study of American Women Writers (Oct 2009).
- Christine Holbo. "Hamlin Garland’s ‘Modernism.’". American Literature Association (May 2009).
- Christine Holbo. "On the Trail of Junípero Serra: Helen Hunt Jackson’s California Travel Writing.". Arizona State-University of Arizona Faculty Exchange Talk, University of Arizona, Tucson (Mar 2009).
Service
- African American Literature Search Committee, Member (2010 - 2011)
- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Member (2010 - 2010)
- American Literature Sub-Committee, Member (2009 - 2010)
- Literature Committee, Member (2009 - 2010)
- MA Lit Admissions Committee, Member (2009 - 2010)
- American Literature Sub-Committee, Member (2008 - 2009)
- Literature Committee, member (2008 - 2009)
- Phoenix Country Day School, Guest Speaker (2009 - 2009)