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Lawrence Stanley

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 330
Phone: (401) 863-3623

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0110 - S01: Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay -- CRN 11906
 ENGL 1180L - S01: Travel Writing: In the Domain of the Other -- CRN 11927
 ENGL 2950 - S01: Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory -- CRN 11965

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Degrees
D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1992
M.A. University of Maine, Orono, 1976
B.A. Covenant College, 1970

Research Interests
The English Romantics, travel writing, twentieth-century American fiction;   rhetorical and narrative theory particularly in relation to reading and writing creative nonfiction

Professional Accomplishments
Prior to teaching at Brown, Stanley taught in University College at the University of Maine, Orono. He was Director of Brown's Expository Writing Program from 1999 to 2004. He has published papers on composition, rhetorical theory, and Hemingway. He is currently working on the relations among reading, writing, narrative structure, and rhetorical strategy and has been presenting his research and writing at The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and Rhetoric Society of America conferences.