Ms. Marla L. Weitzman, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor of English |
Department Chair |
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Zehmer 132 |
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(276) 376-4558 |
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(276) 328-0173 |
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mlw6v@uvawise.edu |
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Education: |
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B.A., English
1985
Brandeis University |
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M.A., English
1988
University of Virginia |
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Ph.D., English
1992
University of Virginia |
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Courses
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Composition
How to Read Literature
African-American Literature
Women in Literature
Survey of English Literature II
Early British Novel
19th Century British Literature
Senior Seminar |
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Professional
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Professor Weitzman has presented papers at a number of conferences, including the annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, the Virginia Woolf conference, the Thomas Hardy conference, and a regional meeting of the Modern Language Association. |
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Research
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Professor Weitzman is interested in the 19th Century novel as well as in African-American literature. Research subjects include: works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf. Her primary methodology is feminist literary criticism. |
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Recent
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An essay entitled "Gender, Genre and the Art of Writing in George Eliot's _Middlemarch_" is currently under review with the _George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies_ journal. |
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