English

Hone your writing skills while deepening your appreciation of literature. Through discussion and close personal attention, you’ll develop analytical, critical reasoning, and communication skills highly sought after by employers in many fields. These skills will also provide you with an excellent foundation for graduate study.

Degree Offered: B.A.
Offered on the Augusta and Bangor campuses


Professor of English

Lisa Botshon

Office:

 120 Jewett Hall

Phone:

 621-3473

Fax:

 621-3544

Office hours:

 By Appointment

E-mail:

 botshon@maine.edu

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.