B. Lee Hobbs Ph.D.

Dr. Hobbs has been teaching, in various capacities, since 1993. He joined the faculty of SLU¹s School of Arts & Sciences in 2008. His interdisciplinary background is reflected in the fact that he has a Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism, an M.L.A. in Liberal Arts, and a B.A. in Fine Art. His dissertation was entitled "Expatriate Spaces, Ex-Soviet Places: Narratives of Americans Abroad in Turn-of-the-Millennium, Post-Communist Europe." He recently published an encyclopedic entry for Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s African American National Biography on "Lionel Romney," an African-American who was imprisoned at the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II.

ENG 121 Academic Writing I
ENG 122 Academic Writing II
ENG 225 Survey of World Literature I
ENG 226 Survey of World Literature II (Honors)
ENG 300 ST: 20th Century Irish Drama
ENG 318 English Pre-Internship
ENG 340 TSLS: Imagining the Holocaust in Literature and Film
ENG 340 TSLS: Tattoos in Literature
ENG 399 Junior Oral Examination
ENG 400 ST: Studies in Science Fiction
ENG 428 Internship
ENG 435 Literary Criticism

B.A., University of South Alabama
M.L.A., Spring Hill College
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Comparative 20th Century Transatlantic Literatures, Comparative Science Fiction, Irish Studies, Polish Studies (in Translation), and Holocaust Studies

[UFF] United Faculty of Florida
[NEA] National Education Association
[MLA] Modern Language Association

Overseas travel, international cuisine, fusion/vintage jazz, independent/foreign-produced cinema, genealogical research, continuing education, and a dog named Luna.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III.