Amy Watkin

• Major Authors: Jane Austen (Spring 2010)
• IWC 100
• Global Literature and Human Experience (Spring 2010)
• Human Values in British and American Literature (Fall 2010)
• American English Language and Culture (Fall 2010)

Some interests of mine that might surprise you...
--Holocaust literature and film
--origins of the novel (both English and American)
--colonial writing in India (by both Indians and English)
--service learning (incorporated with travel and/or with literature-novel as social critique, etc.)
--epistolary writing (from letters to TV and blogging)
--chick lit and anti-chick lit
--African writers; writings about Africa
--sequels/adaptations/"alternate histories"
--historical fiction
--impact of literature (How books really do influence the affairs of the world)
--memoir/autobiography/manifesto

2010 "Service Learning's Impact on Web Design." Faculty mentor for student presentation: Posters at the Capitol; St. Paul, Minnesota.

2008 "Seeds for Success: Nurturing Students Admitted on Provisional Status." National Academic Advisors Region Six Conference; Ames, Iowa

2007 "Rewriting Rasselas: Mary Wollstonecraft and Ellis Cornelia Knight Intertextualize the Choice of Life." Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature; Moorhead, Minnesota

2006 "A Democratic Marriage?: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's and James Fenimore Cooper's Overlapping Worlds of Books." Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Twenty-first Century: A Bi-Centenary Celebration; Waco, Texas

• 2009. Oscar Wilde. How to Write about Literature series. Chelsea House.
• 2008. Charles Dickens. How to Write about Literature series. Chelsea House.
• 2007. Volume Editor, Classic Critical Views on Jane Austen. Chelsea House.