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Nebraska Authors

Joseph J. Wydeven

Born 1940-08-31 Appleton, WI (USA)

Died 2013-03-27

Former Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bellevue University in Nebraska. Wright Morris was the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Purdue University in 1979.

Places Lived

Fond du Lac, WI
Omaha, NE
Papillion, NE
Chicago, IL
Indiana

Author Of

  • Nonfiction
  • Visual Work

Keywords

Wright Morris; Literary Criticism; Photography; Midwestern Culture

Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Ph.D., 1979, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Occupation

Professor Emeritus at Bellevue University
Dean of Arts & Sciences, Bellevue University

Places Worked

Bellevue University, Bellevue, NE

Honors

John H. Ames Reading Series, Featured Reader, 21 November 2010
Mari Sandoz Award
MidAmerica Award

Associations

Humanities Nebraska Speaker

Bibliography

Wright Morris Revisited. 1998.

Articles represented in:
Midwest Quarterly
Western American Literature
Midamerica
Great Plains Quarterly

Wydeven's November 2010 presentation at the Ames Reading Series can be viewed here:

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