Phone: (814) 871-7532
Room: Palumbo 3231
Email: rutland001@gannon.edu

Assistant Professor of English
Director of Freshman Composition

B.A. Emory University
M.A. Georgia State University
Ph.D. University of Tennessee

Spring 2009

Critical Analysis and Composition
Pursuits of English
Contemporary Problems in Literary Criticism

Publications:
"The Romantic in the Attic: William Blake's Place in Kenneth Burke's Intellectual Circle." Kenneth Burke and His Circles. Eds. Robert Wess and Jack Selzer. Parlor Press, 2008.

"The Law of Sex and Death: Religious Language and Practice in Edith Wharton's Summer." Upcoming--Christianity and Literature

Committees:
CHESS Academic Affairs Committee
CHESS A.A.C. Liaison to Liberal Studies Committee