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Gustavus Stadler

Gustavus Stadler
Gustavus Stadler is a professor of English at Haverford College. A well-established scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century US culture and popular music, he is the author of Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the U.S., 1840-1890. His writing has appeared in the Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, the North Carolina Independent Weekly, Social Text, Sounding Out!, avidly.com, and numerous other outlets. He lives in Haverford, Pennsylvania.


How Woody Guthrie’s Mother Shaped His Music of the Downtrodden

Gustavus Stadler on Nora Belle Guthrie's Battle
with Huntington's Disease
November 16, 2020  By Gustavus Stadler
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