Douglas Dowland

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Name:
Douglas Dowland
Title:
Professor of English; Department Chair of English, Philosophy and Religion
Email:
d-dowland@onu.edu
Phone:
419-772-2422
Office:
Dukes Memorial 102
Address:
525 South Main Street, Ada, OH, 45810
Research Interests
Post-1900 American Literature; Critical Theory; Medical Humanities
Employee degree:

BA, Michigan State University

MA, University of Iowa

PHD, University of Iowa

Biography

Recent Scholarship:

"The Transitivity of Shame in Richard Selzer's 'Imelda.' Literature and Medicine 43.1 (Spring 2025): 134-152.

"Anti-Hostility Pedagogies: Humility, Reciprocity, Empathy." Profession (January 2025).

We, Us, and Them: Affect and Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump (University of Virginia Press, 2024)

Weak Nationalisms: Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

"Anxiety Can Bring Us Together." Pedagogy 19.3 (September 2019): 543-550.

 

Classes Taught:

ENGL 3271: Literature and Medicine

ENGL 2301: Literature and Mental Illness

ENGL 2101: Text and Theory

MEDH 2011: Perspectives in Medical Humanities

HONR 2041: Honors Great Works (Banned Books)

HONR 1221: Honors Writing Seminar

 

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