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Professor of English Literature Director of the Honors Program Office Phone: (914) 674-7565 Office Fax: (914) 674-7433 E-mail: NBenson@mercy.edu |
Education:
Dr. Benson is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. She is a graduate
of Goucher College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received
Special Honors in English. Her graduate studies began at Johns Hopkins
University in the history of ideas and continued at Sarah Lawrence
College from which she earned an M.A. Her Ph.D. in English is from
the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her dissertation,
"The Poet as Homo Ludens" addresses poetic theory and genre
theory with special attention to three poets of the Renaissance and
Romantic periods.
Schedule:
Spring 2007: ENGL225DFA Classical Literature
Fall 2007: ENGL335DFA Major English Romantics
Courses Frequently Taught:
Among Mercy College courses she teaches are ENGL225 Classical Literature; ENGL230 The Bible as Literature; ENGL325 The Seventeenth Century;
and EN335 The Major Romantics.
Professional Associations:
She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English,
The Modern Language Association, the Association of Literary Scholars
and Critics, and The National Collegiate Honors Council.
Current Special Interest:
Recently her research interests have centered on feminist/womanist
Biblical criticism, particularly in Old Testament studies.
Selected Publications:
Her publications include: "The Pursuit Motif in Three Novels
of the Romantic Period", Academic Quarterly, Winter 1977;
"Hero and Narrator in Byron's Don Juan:" A Piagetian Approach,"
Centennial Review, 27, No. 4; "Play Theory and an Elizabethan
Sonnet Sequence," Kendall Blanchard, ed., The Many Faces of
Play, Champaign: Human Kinetics Press, 1984; and "When This
World Is Enough: The Vision of Edward Lewis Wallant," Cross
Currents, XXXIV, No. 3.
Other Citations:
Master of Pedagogy, Mercy College, 1993
Distinguished Alumni Award, City University of New York Graduate
Center Alumni Association, 2001.
Office Hours:
#20 Maher Hall, 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.
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