Cheryl Coleman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Department Chair of English
Internship Coordinator
Lynchburg College
Carnegie 403
434.544.8898
coleman.cd@lynchburg.edu
Experience/Background
2008-present Assistant Professor, Lynchburg College
2005-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College
2002-2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar college
2001 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lynchburg College
2001 Adjunct Associate Professor, Central Virginia Community College
1988-1992 Assistant Professor, Liberty University
1984-1987 Instructor of English, Liberty University
Degrees
Ph.D. in English
University of Mississippi, Oxford
M.Ed. in English Education
Lynchburg College
B.S. in History and English
Liberty University
Honors
Phi Kappa Phi
Victorian Comprehensive Exam Passed with Distinction
Courses Taught
American Multi-Ethnic Literature
Multicultural Literature (graduate)
Figures in Literature (graduate)
Basic Composition
Composition I and II
Thought and Expression (Topics: Multiple Viewpoints in Fiction, Social Issues in Nonfiction and Novels, Magical Realism, African American Novelists, Multicultural Novelists, Diversity in Female Voices)
American Literature Survey
World Literature Survey
American Novel
Modern British Novel
Victorian Novel
Art of the Essay
Religion in Literature (graduate)
Southern Literature
Women's Literature
Independent Study on Willa Cather
Professional/Research Interests
Portrayals of faith in fiction, multicultural novelists, women novelists, contemporary novels
Publications
"No Memory Is Really Faithful': Memory And Myth In Katherine Anne Porter's 'Old Mortality."' Mississippi Quarterly 62.1-2 (2009): 235-246.
"A Minister's Loss of Faith in Elizabeth Strout's Abide With Me." Literature and Belief 28.1 (2008): 1-19.
"Metaphorical Redemption in Anne Tyler's The Clock Winder and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant." Christianity and Literature 49.4 (Summer 2000).
