College of Charleston

Department of English

Faculty

Marie Fitzwilliam, Senior Instructor

Areas of interest   Contact Information
- Composition Pedagogy
- Linked courses (learning communities)
- Popular culture (contemporary film)
- Victorian literature
  Office: 74 George Street #300
(843) 953-7737
fitzwilliamm {at} cofc.edu

Profile

Although I specialized in Victorian literature with a dissertation and publications on Elizabeth Gaskell's short fiction, I now teach composition classes exclusively. My new interests lie in composition pedagogy and the academic benefits of linked courses to incoming freshmen. A related interest is popular culture with an emphasis on contemporary film, an enthusiasm that I share during classroom discussion and employ to illuminate universal themes.

Personal website: www.cofc.edu/~fitzwilm

Recent Publications, Papers, and Projects

"Does Hamlet Belong in Freshman Composition?: The Debatable Role of Canonical Literature in Composition." The CEA Forum 35.2 (Summer/Fall 2006), forthcoming in January 2007.

Running the Writer's Group as interim director and introducing three CofC graduate assistants to the pleasures and pressures of teaching.

"A Study in Contrast: Challenging and Reinforcing Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Resident Evil: Apocalypse." Presented at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 12-16 April, 2006

 

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