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Carolyn
Hall
Program: English Ph.D.
Area of Study: Nineteenth Century American and British
Literature, Imperialism
E-Mail: Carolyn-Hall@uiowa.edu
After earning a B.A. in German from Bucknell University (PA), I returned to my home state of Michigan to become certified to teach high school English. I then enjoyed several years of teaching, but when I started to laugh at the same things that my sophomores did, I decided it was time to move on to the next level. To that end I came to the PhD program here at Iowa (and for the record, I see fewer corn fields here than I did back home). To date I've written and presented papers on work by Constance Fenimore Woolson, an American writer from the 1870s-80s, and on Derek Walcott's Omeros, but recent research has pushed me toward parallels between American nineteenth- century racial and economic politics and Victorian imperialism, hence my professed trans-Atlantic interests. I look forward to teaching literature again in the fall of 2004.