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Allison Harl

Professor of English
Chair of Graduate and Online Studies

Education:

Ph.D., University of Arkansas

M.A., Georgia State University

B.A., Radford University

Publications

“Leopold’s Land Ethic in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Critical Insights, Salem Press, September 2023.

“A Historical Review: Reading and Writing Connections.” Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition, Series Ed. Charles Bazerman. Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse, 2014.

“Studying the ‘Reading Transition’ from High School to College: What Are Our Students Reading and Why?” With David Jolliffe. College English. Vol. 70.6 (July 2008), 599-617. 

_ _ _ . Reprinted in Ellen C. Carillo, A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading. University of Connecticut, WAC Clearinghouse, 2017. 

_ _ _ . Reprinted in Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, 4th ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. 

_ _ _ . Reprinted in Ward, Dean and Elizabeth Vander Lei. Real Texts: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines, 2nd ed. Longman, 2011. 

“The Monstrosity of the Gaze: Critical Problems with a Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. 25.97/98 (Spring/Summer 2007), 61-69.

“Passive, Pursued and Powerful: Construction of the Male Self in Renaissance Autobiography.” Discoveries in Renaissance Culture. 22.2. November 2005. 

Research Interests

Literature and the Environment
Digital Rhetoric and Composition
Literacy Studies
Literature and Film of the American Frontier

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Contact Info

Name:
Allison Harl
Title:
Professor of English and Chair of Graduate and Online Studies
Ferrum College
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