He began teaching at
Wesleyan University in 1961, where he was the associate provost from 1966 to 1969.[1] He was a full professor of English from 1966 and was named the Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language at some point.[3][2] Ohmann held a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964–65.[2][4]
Ohmann was a Marxist.[5] At Wesleyan, he taught a course called "Economics of Fiction".[6] In the late 1970s he designed and oversaw a Wesleyan course called "Towards a Socialist America."[7]
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