Contact Information

Office: 3043 JFSB

Phone: 422-9078

Email: csederholm@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Hum 261: American Humanities through 1865
Hum 262: American Humanities since about 1877
Hum 350: Interpreting the Arts (Aesthetics, Theory)
Hum 420: American Gothic (Literature, Film, Art, Music)
Hum 420: Emerson (Really a course on Transcendentalism with Emerson as the center).

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography: I am originally from Long Beach, California, but have lived in Utah since 1996. I have been teaching at BYU since about 2001 and have been very happy here. I especially enjoy interacting with my students. I am an avid reader and am always looking for new interests in literature, music and art.

I've been married since 1997 and have one son. My family lives in Pleasant Grove, Utah. We have three cats that are learning to hunt as a pack.

Degrees: Ph. D. University of Utah--American Studies (Dissertation examined folk religious practices and how they influenced writers like Hawthorne, Irving, Lydia Child, and others.
B. A. UCLA--English (Wrote an Honors Thesis on Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Interests: American Gothic and Horror in literature and film
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists
American Religious History

Hobbies:
Guitar and Banjo
Heavy Metal Music
Reading Detective Novels
Watching Movies