Remarks of Jesse Raber on Hamlin Garland’s Place in American Literature
at the April 16, 2024 Induction of Hamlin Garland into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame at the Chicago History Museum
About Jesse Raber – Jesse Raber is Head Instructor in the Poetry in America program at the Harvard Extension School. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard, and has taught literature and writing classes at University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the co-creator of the Chicago Writing Gallery at the American Writers Museum, and the author of Progressivism’s Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the Struggle for the American School, 1890-1920. His current research project is a literary history of Chicago.
