Amy Watkin

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
Phone: 218-299-3712
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Degrees and Education:

  • 2006 Ph.D., English Literature with History Minor, University of North Dakota
  • 2002 M.A., Language and Literature with History Minor, North Dakota State University
  • 2000 B.A., English, North Dakota State University

Courses Taught:

  • INQ SEM Beyond Genocide: Learning to Help and Hope
  • IWC 100
  • ENG 150 Literature, Self, and Society
  • ENG 160 Global Literature and Human Experience
  • ENG 220 Human Values in British and American Literature
  • ELL 112 American English Language and Culture
  • Major Authors: Jane Austen (Spring 2010)
  • Literature Capstone: Literary Afterlives (Spring 2012)

Research / Teaching Interests:

Some interests of mine that might surprise you...

  • genocide
  • origins of the novel (both English and American)
  • gender in writing and literature
  • 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 and writings about Africa
  • sequels/adaptations/"alternate histories" and literary afterlives
  • historical fiction
  • impact of literature (how books really do influence the affairs of the world)
  • memoir/autobiography/manifesto
  • Victorian literature

Scholarly Activities:

2013 "Connecting Intercultural Communities at Concordia College."  Minnesota writing and English conference; Bloomington, Minnesota

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

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

Recent Publications

  • 2011. Mary Shelley. How to Write about Literature series. Chelsea House.
  • 2011. Harper Lee. How to Write about Literature series. Chelsea House.
  • 2010. "Fiction and the Unveling of Identity in Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney." Lifewriting Annual.
  • 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.