Robert Niemi

Robert Niemi was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in April, 1955. He is a 1973 graduate of Fitchburg High School and a 1977 graduate (B.A., English) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Niemi earned a MSLS from Columbia University in New York City in 1978, an MA in English from UMass/Amherst in 1988 and a Ph.D. in English from UMass/Amherst in 1991. Since 1990 Niemi has been teaching American literature, film, critical theory, and American studies topics at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT. He is the author of numerous essays and three books: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WELDON KEES (with Daniel Gillane, Parish House 1997); RUSSELL BANKS (Simon & Schuster/Macmillan, 1997); HISTORY IN THE MEDIA: FILM & TELEVISION (ABC-Clio, 2006).