| Ball, David (Assistant Professor of English) B.A., Stanford University, 1998; M.A., Princeton University, 2003; Ph.D., 2007. His research and teaching are in 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture, minority and oppositional responses to the American experience, and American modernism. Office: East College 308 Telephone: 717.245.1116 Hours: TBA and by appt. Web Page: http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/engl/faculty/ball.html Email: balld@dickinson.edu |
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| Chilson, Sha'an (Visiting Assistant
Professor of English and Director of Writing) M.F.A., University of Arkansas. She writes poetry and non-fiction, and has taught classes in poetry, nonfiction, and drama. Office: East College 203B Telephone: 717.245.1028 Hours: TBA and by appt. Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~chilson Email: chilson@dickinson.edu |
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| Dolan, Darrach (Adjunct Instructor
in English) Darrach Dolan is a fiction writer who received his BA from Trinity College, Dublin and his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Darrach is interested in contemporary fiction, post-colonial writing, and the writer as reluctant outsider. Office: East College 409 Telephone: 717.245-1268 Hours: by appt. Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~doland Email: doland@dickinson.edu |
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Gill, Judy (Director of the
Norman M. Eberly Writing Center and Instructor in English) |
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| Gleed, Paul (Assistant Professor of English) Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. His recent teaching and scholarship focus on 16th- and 17th-century British literature, media and cultural studies, literary theory, and composition. Office: East College 407 Telephone: 717.245.1101 Hours: TBA and by appt. Email: gleedp@dickinson.edu |
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Johnson, Lynn (Assistant Professor of
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| Johnston, Carol Ann (Martha Porter Sellers Chair of Rhetoric and the English Language and
Associate Professor of English) Ph.D., Harvard University. Her teaching interests include literature of the English Renaissance, lyric poetry, and Southern Women Writers. Her current research investigates the relationship between words and images in 17th-century English poetry. Hours: On sabbatical 2008-09 Email: johnston@dickinson.edu |
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| Kranz, David L. (Professor of English and Film Studies) Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. His recent scholarship focuses on film studies and film adaptation, especially Shakespeare on film, and on Shakespeare's dramas. Other interests include the Renaissance sonnet, contemporary literary theory, and composition pedagogy. Telephone: 717.245.1219 Hours: On sabbatical 2008-09 Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~kranz/ Email: kranz@dickinson.edu |
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Mandal, Somdatta (Visiting Scholar in English) A visiting Fulbright scholar, she teaches courses at the Bachelor and Masters levels at Visva-Bharati University in India. Her interests include nineteenth- and twentieth- century English literature, English and American fiction, colonial/postcolonial literature, English composition, and guides doctoral research in English. At Calcutta University and Rabindra Bharati University, she teaches the contemporary world novel, British fiction, and American literature. Office: |
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| Moffat, Wendy (Associate Professor
of English) Ph.D., Yale University. She teaches modern British and Irish fiction, 19th-century British literature, and literary and narrative theory. She is writing a gay cultural biography of the British novelist E.M. Forster. Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 1994-95. Office: East College 408 Telephone: 717.245.1499 Hours: TBA and by appt. Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~moffat Email: moffat@dickinson.edu |
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| Ness, Robert (Associate Professor
of English and Coordinator of the Dickinson Program in Yaounde, Cameroon) Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches restoration and 18th century English literature, linguistics, and African and Commonwealth literatures. His research interests focus upon literature, politics, music, and other arts during the first half of the 18th century in England. Office: East College 311 Telephone: 717.245.1064 Hours: TBA and by appt. Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~ness Email: ness@dickinson.edu |
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| Nichols, Ashton (The John J.
Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Chair and Professor of
English Language and Literature) Ph.D., University of Virginia. His fields include 19th-century British literature and postcolonial literature, with special emphasis on Romantic and Victorian poetry. He also teaches courses on nature writing. His current research focuses on Romantic natural history, 1750-1850. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1992-93. Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 1993-94. Office: East College 305 Telephone: 717.245.1359 Hours: TBA and by appt. Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa Email: nicholsa@dickinson.edu |
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| O'Brien, Sharon (James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures and Professor of English & American Studies) Ph.D., Harvard University. Sharon O'Brien teaches interdisciplinary courses in the American Studies and English Departments, looking at the multiplicity of American cultures through the lenses of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. The author of a biography of Willa Cather, she is now teaching and writing memoir and personal essay. Teaching and research interests include the politics of memory; illness and narrative; and lifewriting. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1985-86. Hours: Contact American Studies department Web Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~obrien Email: obrien@dickinson.edu |
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Perabo, Susan - CHAIR (Associate Professor
of English, Writer-in-Residence) Telephone: 717.245.1847 Hours: TBA and by appt. |
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| Reed, Thomas (Professor of English
Literature) Ph.D., University of Virginia. His field is medieval literature, with special emphasis on Chaucer and Marie de France, a 12th-century Anglo-Norman author. He is currently focussing his research on Marie de France's concern with the limits of human communication. He is also increasingly interested in the relationship between various versions of the Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde legends in both literature and film. Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 1997-98. Office: East College 306 Telephone: 717.245.1216 Hours: TBA and by appt. Home Page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~reedt Email: reedt@dickinson.edu |
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