Office: 119 Jewett Hall, Augusta Campus
Phone: (207) 621-3473
Email: botshon@maine.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 12:00-4:00pm
About
Education
B.A., Brandeis University (1988)
M.A., Columbia University (1990)
M.Phil., Columbia University (1993)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1997)
Lisa Botshon is the Coordinator of the Humanities Department and a Professor of English. She holds a B.A. in the History of Western Thought from Brandeis University and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
Dr. Botshon teaches a range of courses in American literature, postcolonial literature, critical theory and women's studies.
Her research interests include women writers; issues of gender, race and ethnicity; and American popular culture. Her scholarship has primarily focused on modernist topics, including early 20th century women authors such as Anzia Yezierska and Winnifred Eaton, as well as early back-to-the-land narratives. She has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals, including Feminist Teacher, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her book, co-edited with Meredith Goldsmith, Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, was published by Northeastern UP.
