Department Welcomes New Faculty
Tenure/Tenure-Track
Dr. Lynn Wardley joins the department this fall as assistant professor. Lynn has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and she has taught English and American Literature and American Studies at Yale, Harvard and Berkeley. She has also been an affiliated scholar at the Center for Research on Women at Stanford and the Beatrice Bain Research Group at Berkeley. She is completing a book on the influences of the life sciences on nineteenth-century American Literature, The Garden in the Machine, and is also at work on a book on nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and women writers entitled Masterful Capacity: Nietzsche’s New Women. Professor Wardley’s essay on “Courtship, Marriage, Family” is included in Henry James in Context (Cambridge University Press), due out in 2010. At this year’s MLA, she will give a paper for the Division on Anthropological Approaches to Literature on the "biology of divorce." Professor Wardley will teach courses in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, American studies, American women writers, and feminist theory.
New Lecturers
Emily Kurland (CMS)
Returning Lecturers
Pamela Hughes (CMS)
New Graduate Teaching Associates
Keith Anderson, Jason Carrick, Eleni Economides, Sarah Fama, Bernabe Mendoza, Renee Nelson, Caroline Prieto, Charles Rech, Tanna Rozar, Jamie Stock (all in Composition).
