Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Florida Atlantic University
B.A., University of South Florida

Professor Atwill's area of specialization is contemporary American prose. He published a book on literary responses to the American Space Program. His current research interests are literary responses to life along the coast in American literature and narratives of  scientific exploration in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.

ENG 224: American Literature since 1870

ENG 350: American Romanticism

ENG 352: American Modernism

ENG 372: Contemporary Literature

ENG 390: Studies in Literature: Literature of the Sea

• Fire and Power:  The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative. Athens and London: U Georgia P, 1994.

• “John Gardner.” American Writers, Supplement V. New York: Scribners’, 2000.

• "Through Plexiglas Darkly: Loss of Agency in Joan Didion's Salvador."  Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy  29 (1993): 1-7.

• "Fire and Power:  A Narrative of the Space Age." North Carolina Humanities, 1.1 (1992): 21-42.

• with John Clifford, et. al.  "A Review Interview of Stanley Aronowitz's and Henry Giroux's Postmodern Education:  Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism." Praxis 12.1-2 (1991): 116-29.