Colleen Lannon
Senior Lecturer
Appointments
Lecturer
Area of Expertise
writing,
business writing,
literature and economics,
victorian literature and culture
Biography
My background is in Victorian and modernist British literature; I use the works of those periods to engage students in the ongoing conversation of academic scholarship. My teaching is informed by my 20 years’ experience as a professional business writer and editor. I focus on helping students gain a level of rhetorical flexibility that will serve them well in the social and professional environments they will encounter after graduation.
Education
B.A. Harvard University
Ph.D. Boston College
Publications
“Whose Fault? The Speculator’s Guilt in Little Dorrit.” Victorian Literature and Culture (forthcoming).
“Landscaping.” Review of Hardy’s Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel. By Ralph Pite (Palgrave, 2002). Essays in Criticism 55.1 (15 January 2005): 88-95.
Speaking Engagements
“Whose Fault? The Spectator's Guilt in Little Dorrit,” Harvard Humanities Center Seminar, Cambridge, MA, Dec. 6, 2007.
“Joyce’s Colonial ‘Hades:’ Memory, Geography, and Writing the Nation,” M/MLA Convention, Milwaukee, WI Nov. 10-13, 2005.
"Gambling and Speculation in Mid-Victorian England: Middlemarch and the Search for Value," RMMLA Conference, Missoula, MT October 9-11, 2003.
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