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19th Century American literature & popular culture specialist named assistant professor of English at Saint Michael's College
Dr. Maura D'Amore, will be teaching two classes of American literature survey and one on the American renaissance
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Dr. Maura D'Amore, a specialist in American literature up to 1900 and in American Studies, was named assistant professor of English at Saint Michael's College, starting with the fall 2009 semester.
Dr. D'Amore's dissertation, titled "Country Life Within City Reach": Masculine Domesticity in Suburban America, 1819-1871, focuses on how literature helped shape the communities that came into being in the 19th century.
Dr. D'Amore received her Ph.D. from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2009; her M.A., also from UNC, in 2003, and her bachelor's degree in literatures and cultures in English, Classics, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 2001, where she was named to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards supporting her graduate work and recognizing her for outstanding teaching at UNC.
Saint Michael's College was a good fit for her because, she said, "I wanted to be at a liberal arts college where teaching matters, and where people are interested in ideas. And the faculty really sold me-they are very committed to their students." She added that she was very attracted to the Edmundite focus on social justice at Saint Michael's. In the fall she will be teaching two classes of American literature survey and one on the American renaissance, in which she expects to change the texts from those usually chosen for an American renaissance course.
About her research focus Dr. D'Amore said, "Women's studies has changed our sense of the home; now I am studying how men functioned in the home in the 19th Century," looking especially at the negotiations that took place between men and women regarding the home space. "I'm also interested in how literature helped shape the communities that came into being in the 19th Century, how popular literature changed the way readers thought about home space," she said.
She has an essay forthcoming in New England Quarterly titled, "Thoreau's Unreal Estate: Playing House at Walden Pond." She has four other essays on the subject of masculine domesticity scheduled to appear in important journals, including "'A Man's Sense of Domesticity'; Donald Grant Mitchell's Suburban Vision," forthcoming in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and 'Suburban Men at the Table: Culinary Aesthetics in the Mid-Century Country Book," forthcoming in an edition of essays on Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in 19th Century American Literature.
Dr. D'Amore and her husband Jonathan D'Amore, also an academic in English literature, reside in Burlington with their two beloved basset-lab-mix dogs, Scotter Jones and Plum Tucker.
Saint Michael's College is a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college that provides an education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools they need to lead a successful, purposeful life that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges, ranking as 9th among institutions in Quality of Life and 2nd in Town-Gown Relations. It is one of only 270 institutions nationwide, and one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and its professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last nine years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Dr. Maura D'Amore, a specialist in American literature up to 1900 and in American Studies, was named assistant professor of English at Saint Michael's College, starting with the fall 2009 semester. Dr. D'Amore's dissertation, titled "Country Life Within City Reach": Masculine Domesticity in Suburban America, 1819-1871, focuses on how literature helped shape the communities that came into being in the 19th century.
Dr. D'Amore received her Ph.D. from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2009; her M.A., also from UNC, in 2003, and her bachelor's degree in literatures and cultures in English, Classics, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 2001, where she was named to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards supporting her graduate work and recognizing her for outstanding teaching at UNC.
Saint Michael's College was a good fit for her because, she said, "I wanted to be at a liberal arts college where teaching matters, and where people are interested in ideas. And the faculty really sold me-they are very committed to their students." She added that she was very attracted to the Edmundite focus on social justice at Saint Michael's. In the fall she will be teaching two classes of American literature survey and one on the American renaissance, in which she expects to change the texts from those usually chosen for an American renaissance course.
About her research focus Dr. D'Amore said, "Women's studies has changed our sense of the home; now I am studying how men functioned in the home in the 19th Century," looking especially at the negotiations that took place between men and women regarding the home space. "I'm also interested in how literature helped shape the communities that came into being in the 19th Century, how popular literature changed the way readers thought about home space," she said.
She has an essay forthcoming in New England Quarterly titled, "Thoreau's Unreal Estate: Playing House at Walden Pond." She has four other essays on the subject of masculine domesticity scheduled to appear in important journals, including "'A Man's Sense of Domesticity'; Donald Grant Mitchell's Suburban Vision," forthcoming in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and 'Suburban Men at the Table: Culinary Aesthetics in the Mid-Century Country Book," forthcoming in an edition of essays on Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in 19th Century American Literature.
Dr. D'Amore and her husband Jonathan D'Amore, also an academic in English literature, reside in Burlington with their two beloved basset-lab-mix dogs, Scotter Jones and Plum Tucker.
Saint Michael's College is a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college that provides an education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools they need to lead a successful, purposeful life that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 371 Colleges, ranking as 9th among institutions in Quality of Life and 2nd in Town-Gown Relations. It is one of only 270 institutions nationwide, and one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and its professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last nine years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns.
