William G. Little 

Ph.D. (Indiana University)
Associate Professor
205f Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4681
E-mail: wglittle@depauw.edu

William Little Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English. He received his B.A. from Williams College in 1985 and his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1998. His areas of focus include twentieth-century American literature, film studies, contemporary popular culture, religion and literature, and psychoanalysis and literature. At DePauw since 1998, he has offered a variety of courses, including a first-year seminar titled “Virtues of the Virtual,” “Rigged to Blow: The American Gangster in Film and Literature,” and an Honor Scholar seminar titled “Breathtaking: Inspiring, Captivating, Incredible (and Incredibly True!) American Tales of Reinvention and Impersonation.” He is the author of The Waste Fix: Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to The Sopranos (Routledge 2002). He is currently writing a book titled Our Violent Make-Up, an analysis of the modern American compulsion to participate in, and capitalize on, dramas of self-reinvention.

Fall 2007:

• On leave

Spring 2008:

• On leave