Cheryl Coleman, PhD

Associate Dean, Lynchburg College of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Associate Professor of English

434.544.8898

Carnegie 313

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

“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).

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

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