David Fenimore
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Continuing Lecturer IV
BA (U Pennsylvania), MA (U Nevada, Reno)
Specialization
Teaching in the Core Humanities Program and undergraduate advisement in English. Research, writing and teaching interests include nineteeth-century California history; twentieth-century western fiction, film, and drama; folk music, blues lyrics, balladry and storytelling; international police procedurals.
Select Publications:
"'The Wind Blew Them Away': Folksinging the West, 1880-1930." 2011. In:
Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Nicholas Witschi, ed. Blackwell Publishing.
"Woody Guthrie: worker's rights and left-wing lyrics." 2009. In:
Rights and reformers. Maryland Humanities Council.
"It just doesn't pay to eat anything but government-inspected beef": The saga of Alferd [sick] E. Packer. 2008. Western Literature Association.
" 'A bad boy grown up': The wild life behind Zane Grey's westerns." 2006. In:
Exploring the American literary west: International perspectives. University of the Basque Country Press.
"Edward Abbey's
The Monkey Wrench Gang." 2004. In:
Literature and the environment: Exploring social issues through literature. New York: Greenwood Press.
"Singing cowboys on the moon: The exogeographic west." 1998. In:
Western technological landscapes. Nevada Humanities Committee.
"California dreaming: The imaginary empire of John A. Sutter." 1998. In:
History alive! California Council for the Humanities.
"Three challenges to democracy." In:
Democracy challenged: A Chautauqua reader. 1997. New Hampshire Humanities Council.
A bad boy grown up: The life and times of Zane Grey. 1993. Truckee Actors Guild.
Bicycling across America: A journal on the open road. 1989. Crystal Bay, NV: Pinedrop Press.
Other research activities:
Nationally active in the Chautauqua movement, with current scholarly first-person portrayals of Zane Grey, John A. Sutter, Horace Greeley, Woody Guthrie, and Donner party survivor Lewis Keseberg.
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