| Name: | Dr. Judith Saunders |
| Title: | Professor of English |
| Office Location: | Fontaine 317 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2178 |
| Email: | Judith.Saunders@Marist.edu |
| Degrees Held: | A.B. University of California, Berkeley M.A. University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. University of California, San Diego |
| Interests: | Professor Saunders teaches courses in American literature, in contemporary English-language poetry, and in creative writing. Pursuing interdisciplinary interests, she has participated in collaborative teaching ventures across the curriculum, linking courses in writing and literature with those taught by colleagues in science, art, mathematics, and sociology. |
| Awards & Honors: | Kilgariff Award for Faculty Leadership and Distinguished Service: Marist College, 1999 Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Scholarship: Marist College, 1996 and 2006 Thomas R. Casey Award for Hudson River Valley Studies: 2006 Panhandler Poetry Chapbook Competition: Winner, 1992 |
| Publications: | BOOKS Edited volumes: Women's Voices (Marymount College, 1995): an interdisciplinary collection of essays (coedited with Edmundson and Silber) Monographs: Reading Edith Wharton through a Darwinian Lens: Evolutionary Biological Issues in her Fiction (McFarland, 2009) The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson: Borderlines (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003) ARTICLES Professor Saunders has published numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literary figures, including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Virginia Woolf, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Moss, Abbie Hustan Evans, May Swenson, and others. NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS She also has written feature articles, creative nonfiction, reviews, humor, and poetry for more general audiences. Her work has appeared in a variety of little magazines and literary journals, e.g., The North American Review, The Lyric, Poet Lore, The Chiron Review, California Quarterly, Folio, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Journel of Irreproducible Results. Her chapbook collection of poems, Check-out Counter Suite, was a winner in the 1992 Panhandler competition, sponsored by the University of West Florida. |
| Research Interests: | American Renaissance Late 19th and early 20th-century American Writers Contemporary British and American Poetry Darwinian Literary Studies Women Writers |
| Affiliations: | Modern Language Association of America Northeast Modern Language Association Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Thoreau Society Edith Wharton Society Society for Study of American Women Writers Human Behavior and Evolution Society American Names Society Phi Beta Kappa American Association of University Professors |
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