Robert T. Self

Robert T. Self is a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Northern Illinois University. He was a long-time director of First-Year Composition and Director of Graduate Studies. In more than forty years of teaching (1969 to 2009), he taught composition, American literature, and film, and helped to establish film and literature as both a graduate and undergraduate field of study. His published literary and cinematic research focused extensively on issues of film adaptation and on the films of noted Hollywood director Robert Altman. He is published in Cinema Journal, Wide Angle, Literature/Film
Quarter(y, Film Criticism, Journal of Popular J:zlm, New England Quarterly, and Journal of Film and Video, as well as in the Great Directors archive at Senses of Cinema and the Oxford University Press
Bibliographies Online. He is the author of a book on American literary history, Barrett Wendell (Twain, 1975), and of two books on Altman – a study of his major films: Robert Altman’s Subliminal Reality (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and a study of one of his most important films: Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Re.framing the American West (University Press of Kansas, 2007).