New York University

Steven Hutkins received his Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. His current teaching and research interests focus on place studies and travel literature. His courses include "A Sense of Place" (a study of small towns, suburbs, cities, and natural environments); "Literary Geography" (representations of pastoral, the region, and the city in literature); "Travel Narratives" (a course on nonfiction travel writing); and "Travel Fictions" (a first-year seminar on novels and short stories about journeys). He has also taught courses on Greek and Renaissance literature, postmodern fiction, utopian literature, and prose style. In 1998, he received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.