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English Department Faculty
Bryan Giemza
Assistant Professor of English
Educational Background:
B.A., English, University of Notre Dame
J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Recent courses:
ENGL 185 Seminar in Exposition and Argument on the American South
ENGL 233 Introduction to the Short Story
ENGL 331 The Romantic Movement in American Writing
Research Areas:
- American and Southern Literature
- Irish American Literature
- African American and Native American Literature
- Religious ideology and literature
Recent publications and presentations:
Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan. With Don Beagle. University of Tennessee Press, 2008.
The New Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. With Joseph Flora and Amber Vogel, eds.) LSU Press, 2006.
“The Strange Case of Sequoyah Redivivus: Achievement, Personage, and Perplexity.” Mississippi Quarterly 60:1 (2007).
Conference Chair, Lost Colonies: Ireland and the American South, Watson-Brown Foundation and the Institute for Southern Studies, Thomson, Georgia, September 2008.
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