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Peter Powers
Interim Dean of  School of the Humanities

Professor of English

photo of Professor Powers   Contact Info:
P.O. Box: 3017
E-mail: ppowers@messiah.edu
Phone: (717) 766-2511, ext. 7376
Office: Boyer 208
Fax: 717) 796-4790
Personal Web Site:
http://home.messiah.edu/~ppowers/


Education:
Ph.D., English Duke University, December 1991

M.A., English, Duke University, 1987

M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Montana, 1985
B.A., magna cum laude, English, Wheaton College, 1982

Courses Regularly Taught:
Literary Criticism
Fiction Workshop
African American Literature
American Slavery and Freedom
Ethnic Literatures of the United States

Recent Publications:
Recalling Religions: Resistance, Memory and Cultural Revision in Ethnic Women's Literature. University of Tennessee Press. August 2001.

"The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession and Community in James Baldwin." Forthcoming in American Literature.

"My Culture, Their Culture: Literature, Cultural Property, and Student Identity in the Multicultural Classroom." Forthcoming in MELUS.

Personal Statement:

Professor Powers enjoys finding the connections between his many areas of interest: American literature, ethnic studies, creative writing, and cultural theory. Besides teaching, publishing, and chairing the department, he chairs the racial justice committee on campus.

Department Highlight:

Superior students who care about one another.

Favorite English Activity:

Taking students and faculty to dinner with visiting writers.

Fun Fact:

Messiah's only operatic tenor.

  Jean Corey Paul Nisly
  Crystal L. Downing Peter Powers
  Matthew Roth
  Larry Lake Samuel Smith
  Heidi Lee Helen Walker
     
 

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