Christopher Diller Associate Professor; Director of Writing Center Department: English Rhetoric and Writing Phone: (706) 238-5877 Fax: 706-368-6951 Campus Box:350 Location:Evans 237 E-mail: cdiller@berry.edu

• B.A. in English (with honors), Miami University (Ohio)
• M.A. in Languages and Literature, Northwestern University
• Ph.D. in English/American Studies, University of Utah

• Writing Across the Curriculum
• The Teaching and Tutoring of Writing
• American Literary Romanticism of the 19th and 20th Centuries
• The History of Hip

• Uncle Tom's Cabin and its Cultural Afterlife
• Teaching Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation
• African Americans in the Merchant Marines during WWII
• Typing and Stereotyping in American Literature

Books:

• From Analysis to Argument in Academic Writing.  Co-author (with Dr. Lara Whelan).  Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. Contract issued.
• Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Editor and Introduction.  Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2009

Articles:

• "A Twentieth-Century Abolitionist: John Beecher's Plainspoken Poetry and Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement." African American Review. (8000 words; forthcoming)
• Invited Overview Essays on "John Beecher" (1000 words) and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 July 2011 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12999, accessed 19 August 2011.]
• "So Cruel: Taking Hawthorne's 'Sunday at Home' Seriously." The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 36.2 (Fall 2010): 1-27. (7800 words)
• "The Prefaces to Uncle Tom's Cabin." The New England Quarterly 77.4 (December 2004): 619-645. (9600 words)