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| Mark Rasmussen is associate professor of English at Centre College, where he has taught since 1989.
His teaching responsibilities at the college encompass courses in medieval and Renaissance literature (including Chaucer and Shakespeare), literary criticism and theory, and the history of the English language as well as freshman humanities. He says that his greatest challenges, and greatest pleasures, as a teacher have been encouraging students to connect with the literature of earlier periods, and helping them to become better writers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Rasmussen has published essays on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and the poetics of complaint, and he has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance Literature and Its Formal Engagements published in 2002 by Palgrave Press. Rasmussen has been a faculty leader, having served the College as Director of Writing, chair of the English program and the John C. Young Scholars committee, and having chaired the Committee on Curriculum and Academic Standards during a two-year process of curriculum reform. In May 2001 he was named a Centre Scholar, and he spent the 2001-2002 school year in Strasbourg,, France, directing the Centre-in-Europe program there. In addition to his B.A. from Harvard, Rasmussen holds an M.A. from Harvard and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The John Hopkins University, and he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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