Kenneth Roemer

Who is Kenneth Roemer?

Kenneth Morrison Roemer, a Piper Professor of 2011, Distinguished Scholar Professor, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of four books on utopian literature, including The Obsolete Necessity, which was nominated for a Pulitzer by the Editor of the NY Times /Arno Press Utopian Collection, and three books on American Indian literatures, including the co-edited Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. His collection of personal essays about Japan, Michibata de Dietta Nippon, was a finalist for the Koizumi Yakumo Cultural Prize. He oversaw the development of the digital archive of tables of contents of American literature anthologies Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formations of American Literary Canons.