| | Title: | Assistant Professor, Chair | | Department: | English, Fine Arts, & Humanities | | Phone 1: | (352) 588-8424 | | Email: | burgsbee.hobbs@saintleo.edu | | Mail Code: | MC 2067 | | Website: | http://www.english-blog.com | | Office Location: | Saint Edward Hall, Room #335 | | Office Hours: | Posted on Office Door and Course Syllabi |
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Dr. Hobbs joined the faculty of SLU’s 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 318: English Pre-Internship
ENG 340: STL--Imagining the Holocaust in Literature and Film
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, Irish Studies, Polish Studies, and Holocaust Studies
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.