Last Name: Diller First Name: Christopher Photo:.jpg "Christopher Diller (2)")
Vita (PDF):
Title: Associate Professor; Director of Writing Center At Berry Since: 1999 (format - 2009)
Faculty
Department:
English Rhetoric and Writing
Building / Room #: Evans 237
Box Number: 350
Phone Number: (706) 238-5877
Fax Number: 706-368-6951
E-mail: cdiller@berry.edu Personal Web Address:
Educational Experience (bulleted):
- 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
Teaching Interest (bulleted):
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- The Teaching and Tutoring of Writing
- American Literary Romanticism of the 19th and 20th Centuries
- The History of Hip
Research Interest (bulleted):
- 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
Field Experience (bulleted):
Selected Publications (bulleted):
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)
Professional Associations / Officerships / Memberships (bulleted):
Short Biography if Available:
Christopher Diller began his Berry career as Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing in 1999 and then became an Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing in 2005. He also took on the title of the Writing Center Director in 2005 as well.
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