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Rosemary Haskell

Professor of English

Department: English

Office and address: Alamance Building, Office 320E 2338 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-5611

Brief Biography

Rosemary Haskell was born and raised in England and gained her BA in English at the University of Durham, England.

After coming to the USA, she gained her MA in English at Clark University, Worcester, MA and her PhD in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

News & Notes

Courses Taught

British Literature Surveys

English 110: Writing:  Argument and Inquiry

Author Courses: The Brontes; Jane Austen;  George Orwell

Historical Studies: The Enlightenment

Topics in Literature: War and Writing

Classical Literature

World Literature, including a special focus on African Literature

The Global Experience

Research

From 2018-2020, I worked with a Lumen student, Mary Emmerling, as she researched and wrote about the poetry of late Victorian author Christina Rossetti.  I would welcome the opportunity to advise and mentor students interested in research into Victorian poetry, and into the works of late 18th, and 19th, century novelists, such as Jane Austen, or Charlotte, Emily or Anne Bronte.

Current Projects

My current projects are studies of the novels of the Senegalese-born francophone novelist, Fatou Diome. Diome, born in 1968, has lived in France since the early 1990s. She writes principally about the  migrant experience, in such novels as Le Ventre de l'Atlantique, translated by Ros Schwartz and Lulu Norman as  The Belly of  the Atlantic; Impossible de Grandir (Impossible to Grow Up) and Inassouvies, Nos Vies (Our Unfufilled Lives). She recently entered the fray of French politics with her 2017  nonfiction polemic, Marianne Porte Plainte! Des Passerelles, Pas Des Barrieres (Marianne Complains!  Gangways, not Barriers!.)

Diome's most recent novel (2019), Les Veilleurs de Sangomar, is the most recent focus of my work (Summer 2020): the novel moves in a new direction for Diome, away from the exploration of the migrant condition but continuing her interest in analyzing and entering the lives of women in her homeland of Senegal.

Publications

American Culture and the Media: Reading, Writing, Thinking.  With Anne Cassebaum. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Text, Mind and World: An Introduction to Literary Criticism, With Richard Lee and Paul Crenshaw. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2007.

Understanding the Global  Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen.  Ed.,  with Thomas Arcaro.  Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. 2010.