Victor H. Strandberg | Scholars@Duke

Victor H. Strandberg
Professor of English

Victor Strandberg has published The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky, 1977), Religious Psychology in American Literature: The Relevance of William James (Studia Humanitatis, 1981), and A Faulkner Overview: Six Perspectives (Kennikat Press, 1981), together with numerous essays on American literature. His most recent book is Greek Mind/Jewish Soul: The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). Every sabbatical year he has spent a semester abroad teaching American Literature, as a Fullbright professor at the Universities of Uppsala, Louvain, and Mannheim, and in spring 2001 in the Czech Republic. He has also taught at Kobe College in Japan and in Marrakech, Morocco.

Office Hours

Fall 2022 Semester:

Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 pm (315B Allen) and Zoom every evening 9:00-11:00 pm

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1983

Contact Information

315 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
vhs@duke.edu (919) 684-2741
Online course: T.S. Eliot
Publications available online (via DukeSpace)

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Brown University 1962
- M.A., Brown University 1959
- B.A., Clark University 1957
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1969 - 1983
- Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1966 - 1969
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Traditional Fulbright Scholarship. Council for International Exchange of Scholars. 2000
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
- Teaching
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Strandberg, Victor. Crackpots on Parade: The Nether Side of Genius & Transgressive Deconstructions. 2010.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick. U of Wisconsin P, 1994.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Religious psychology in American literature: a study of the relevance of William James. Studia Humanitatis, 1981.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. A Faulkner Overview: Six Perspectives. The Kennikat P, 1981.
  - Strandberg, V. H. The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren. The UP of Kentucky, 1977.
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- Academic Articles
  - Strandberg, Victor. “Robert Penn Warren and Democracy.” Literary Matters, no. 14.1, 2021.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Adventures in Selfhood: Robert Penn Warren's Portraits of the Artist.” Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, 2018, pp. 208–18.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 342–342.
  - Strandberg, V. “The Religious/erotic poetry of Reynolds Price.” Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 35, no. 1, Jan. 2002.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Cormac McCarthy. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
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  - Strandberg, V. “Surplus theory in the cultures market.” Academic Questions, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2000, pp. 34–38. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s12129-999-1039-x.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Brothers to Dragons: Poem/ Play/ Film. The University of Southern Mississippi, 1995.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Quintessence of Faulkner: A Rose for Emily.” 1993 Paxton Lectureship Runner up in the Torch, 1993, pp. 8–11.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren on Blackberry Winter.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, London: St. James Press, 1993.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Robert Penn Warren and the Search for Design. Gettysburg College, 1992.
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  - Strandberg, V. H., and C. .. I. B. Buwa. An Interview with William Styron. The University of the South, 1991.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Warren’s Best/Worst Book.” Special Memorial Section on Warren in the South Carolina Review, 1990.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Sex, Violence, and Philosophy in 'You Must Remember This'. The John Hopkins University Press, 1989.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Review of Lawrence H. Schwartz’s Creating Faulkner’s Reputation: The Politics of Modern Criticism. U of Tennessee, Knoxville (288 pp), 1988.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Review of Faulkner and Race. Edited by Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie, U of Mississippi P, Jackson (311 pp), 1987.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Image and Persona in Warren's "Early" Poetry. Mississippi State University, 1984.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. The Art of Cynthia Ozick. University of Texas Press, 1983.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Passion and Delusion in a Book of Common Prayer. The John Hopkins University Press, 1981.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of James H. Justus’ The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren.” American Literature, LSU Press, 1981, 1981.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Warren’s Poetic Vision: A Reading of Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978.” The Southern Review, vol. 16, 1980, pp. 18–45.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Faulkner’s God: A Jamesian Perspective.” Faulkner Studies, vol. I, 1980, pp. 122–35.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. John Updike and the Changing of the Gods. University of Manitoba Press, 1978.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Festering Lilies: On Surveying the Secret Life of William Shakespeare. 1975.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Hart Crane and William James: The Psychology of Mysticism. McNeese State University, 1975.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Between Truth and Fact: Faulkner’s Symbols of Identity.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 21, 1975, pp. 445–57.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Whitman and Eliot: Two Studies in the Religious Imagination. THE FACULTY OF LA SALLE COLLEGE, 1973.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Poetry of the Sixties.” Special Robert Penn Warren Number of Four Quarters, vol. 21, May 1972, pp. 27–45.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review-analysis of On the Edge of the Knife, poems by Charles Edward Eaton.” The Above Ground Review, vol. II, 1971, pp. 49–53.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Poe's Hollow Men. THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY, Mar. 1969.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Robert Penn Warren: A Bibliography.” American Literature, vol. 41, Mar. 1969, pp. 142–43.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Eliot's Insomniacs. Duke University Press, 1969.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Updike’s Midpoints.” The Above Ground Review, 1969, pp. 48–52.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Incarnations of Robert Penn Warren.” Shenandoah, vol. 20, 1969, pp. 64–69.
  - Strandberg, V. H. THE ARTIST'S BLACK VEIL. THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS and THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY, Dec. 1968.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “A Hell for Our Time.” The Christian Century, Sept. 1968, pp. 1104–05.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Isabel Archer's Identity Crisis: The Two Portraits of a Lady. THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY, June 1968.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. Warren's Osmosis. Wayne State University Press, 1968.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. The Comedy of Othello. McNeese State University, 1968.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of L.S. Dembo’s Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 1968, pp. 570–71.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Dante's Inferno: The Simoniacs. Heldref Publications, Oct. 1966.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. A Palm for Pamela: Three Studies in the Game of Love. The University of Utah, 1966.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Hamlet’s Costly Code.” The South Atlantic Quarterly, 1966, pp. 95–103.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Faulkner’s Inversion.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 73, 1965, pp. 181–90.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1922-1979.” The South Atlantic Review, 1965.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Crisis of Belief in Modern Literature.” The English Journal, Oct. 1964, pp. 475–84.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Theme and Metaphor in Brother to Dragons. THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Sept. 1964.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Eliot’s Whispers of Immortality.” The Explicator, May 1959.
- Book Sections
  - Strandberg, Victor. “Cynthia Ozick and the Christian Reader.” Roots of Passion: Essays on Cynthia Ozick, Slote Lumina Press, 2016, pp. 37–61.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Fiction of Reynolds Price.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of 20th Century AmericanFiction, 2008.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, edited by Joseph L. Flora and Amber Vogel, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Goyen-McCullers Freak Show.” A Goyen Companion, edited by I. Malin, 2003.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Cynthia Ozick.” Contemporary Novelists, edited by Daniel Kirkpatrick, London: St. James Press, 2003.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “RPW and Herman Melville.” Book Assembled for Melville Society and RPW Circle Joint Symposium Papers, 2003.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Nabokov and the ’Prism of Art’.” Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, edited by S. G. kelman and I. E. Malin, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Rodopi, 2000, pp. 246–246.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Dimming the Enlightenment: Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon.” Pynchon and Mason & Dixon, edited by B. Horvath and I. Malin, U of Delaware P, 2000, pp. 100–11.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren and the New Paradigm: A Case Study of the Birds.” The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, edited by D. Madden, Louisiana State UP, 2000, pp. 155–74.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “William Faulkner and A Rose for Emily (two entries).” Reference-Guide to Short Fiction, London: St. James Press, 1993.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, London: St. James Press, 1993.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Shawl.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, London: St. James Press, 1993.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction, London: St. James Press, 1993.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “RPW and TSE: In the Steps of the (Post)Modern Master.” “To Love So Well the World”: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Penn Warren, edited by D. L. Weeks, New York: Peter Lang, 1992, pp. 29–44.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Sentimentality and Social Pluralism in American Literature.” A Book on Sentimentality, edited by Winfried Herget of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Tubingen , West Germany: Guther Narr Verlag Press, 1990.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Return of the Repressed: The Sentimentality of T.S. Eliot.” Knjizevna Smotra, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1990, pp. 17–23.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Reynolds Price entry.” Collier’s Encyclopedia, MacMillan Educational Company, 1990.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren: Broadening Views, 1968-1987.” Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1990.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The obituary overview of Warren’s life and career.” DLB Yearbook: 1989, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1990.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Frost-Melville Connection.” American Literature in Belgium, Brussels, 1987, pp. 171–81.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 48: American Poets: 1880-1945, edited by Peter Quartermain Second Series, Detroit: Bruccoli Clark, 1986, pp. 425–44.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Poet of Youth: Robert Penn Warren at Eighty.” Time’s Glory: Original Essays on Robert Penn Warren, edited by James A. Grimshaw, U of Central Arkansas P, 1986, pp. 91–106.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Brother to Dragons and the Craft of Revision.” Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons: A Discussion, edited by J. James A Grimshaw, LSU Press, 1983, pp. 200–10.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Taproots of a Poem: The Long Foreground of ’Old Nigger on One-Mule Cart’.” Robert Penn Warren: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by R. Gray, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980, pp. 143–54.
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  - Strandberg, V. H. “Robert Penn Warren.” Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, edited by W. B. Fleishmann, vol. III, revised and enlarged Second Edition, Leonard S. Klein, General Editor (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1984), 1971.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “The Robert Penn Warren entry.” A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature, LSU Press, 1969, pp. 316–20.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “God and the Critics of Melville.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 1964, pp. 322–33.
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- Other Articles
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Reviews of Joseph Blotner’s Robert Penn Warren: A Biography; Reynolds Price’s Collected Poems; Alfred Kazin’s God and the American Writer; James West’s William Styron: A Biography; Benita Eisler’s Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame.” Raleigh News & Observer, 1997.
- Book Reviews
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Mark Twain and The Spiritual Crisis of His Age.” Christianity and Literature, edited by Paul J. Contino and Maire Mullins, vol. 57, 2008, pp. 318–22.
  - Strandberg, V. “"T. S. Eliot Passes In Review: T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews,.".” The Sewanee Review, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker, vol. Summer 2005, Volume CXIII, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. lxxvi–lxxix.
  - Strandberg, V. Review of Jay Parini, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner. HarperCollins, Nov. 2004, pp. 496–496.
  - Strandberg, V. “T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews.” American Critical Archives, edited by Jewel Spears Brooker, vol. 10, University of Cambridge Press, 2004, pp. 600–600.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Review of John Kenny Crane’s The Yoknapatawpha County Chronicle of Gavin Stevens. Associated University Presses, Cranbury, NJ (308p), 1988.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Sarah Orne Jewett’s A White Heron by Louis A. Renza, Jr.” The South Atlantic Review, 1985.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Faulkner: Essays by Warren Beck; Hemingway/Faulkner: Inventors, Masters by Linda Wagner; The Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1974; The Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1975.” American Literature, 1977.
  - Strandberg, V. H. Review of Jessie Thomas Lokrantz’s The Underside of the Weave: A Study of Nabokov’s Style. American Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1976.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Robert Solotaroff’s Down Mailer’s Way.” American Literature, Jan. 1975, pp. 600–01.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of Walter Sutton’s American Free Verse: The Modern Revolution in Poetry.” American Literature, vol. 46, Nov. 1974, pp. 404–05.
  - Strandberg, V. H. “Review of three books on Faulkner.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 35, pp. 283–86.
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- Officer Education Committee. January 2, 2011 2011

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Education, Training, & Certifications

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Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Teaching

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

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Other Articles

Book Reviews

Recent Courses

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Service to the Profession