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Maryanne Ward

Professor of English, Emerita

Education

BA: Marymount Manhattan College

MA: English and Russian, University of Virginia

PhD: English, The Ohio State University.

BIOGRAPHY

Maryanne Ward joined Centre College in 1991 and retired in 2006. She came to Centre from Kenyon College where she served as Chair of the Humanities program and Academic Dean. 

COURSES TAUGHT

Ward regularly taught Romantic and Victorian literature, Humanities, and the British Literature survey. She served as chair of both the Humanities and the English programs. 

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Ward has had articles published in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, the Victorian Periodicals Review, the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin, HIKA, and Perspectives on Contemporary Literature. Her most recent articles are on the structure of nineteenth-century fiction, Mary Shelley, and Charlotte Bronte. Her research interests include the Gothic and the use of setting in the nineteenth-century novel.

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