Cheryl Coleman, PhD

Experience

• 2018-present,  Associate Dean, Lynchburg College of Arts & Sciences, School of Humanities, University of Lynchburg.
• 2014-present, Associate Professor, University of Lynchburg
• 2008-2014, Assistant Professor, University of Lynchburg
• 2005-2008, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College
• 2002-2004, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College
• 2001, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Lynchburg
• 2001, Adjunct Associate Professor, Central Virginia Community College
• 1988-1992, Assistant Professor, Liberty University
• 1984-1987, Instructor of English, Liberty University

Education

• PhD, English – University of Mississippi, Oxford
• MEd, English Education – University of Lynchburg
• BS, History and English – Liberty University

Publications

• “Unapologetic Goodness in Patrick Gale’s A Perfectly Good Man.” Literature and Belief. Forthcoming.
• “The Wounded Healer in Haven Kimmel’s The Solace of Leaving Early and The Used World.” Literature and Belief 33.2 (2013): 1-27.
• “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).

Awards

• Phi Kappa Phi
• Victorian Comprehensive Exam Passed with Distinction

Teaching Areas

• 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 Interests

• Portrayals of faith in fiction, multicultural novelists, women novelists, contemporary novels