Linda Lewis, Ph. D. Professor of English Margaret H. Mountcastle Distinguished Professor of Humanities English/Communication/Theatre Dept. Chair lewisl@bethanylb.edu Ext. 8127 English

In 1987 I completed my Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska and accepted an offer to teach British literature and composition at Bethany College. For me, one of the joys of teaching at Bethany is collaboration - for example, team teaching a class with a colleague and especially collaborating with students on their research. My regular assignment, however, is teaching classes in English literature, writing, and linguistics, as well as supervising students who are majoring in English education.
I am a generalist with special interest in English writers of the nineteenth century. My major publications (published by the University of Missouri Press) are: The Promethean Politics of Milton, Blake, and Shelley (1992), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spiritual Progress: Face to Face with God (1998), and Germaine de Stael, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist (2003). This most recent book is about the influence of French novelists Germaine de Stael and George Sand on four women writers of Victorian England: Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Mary Augusta Ward.