Joe Palmer
Professor, Department of English and Director of Graduate Studies
| Education: | Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1969 |
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| Office: | HEAV 313 |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43729 |
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| Specializations: | The Victorian Novel, Film Studies, 20th-Century British Fiction, New Historicism, Sports and Literature, Vietnam War Literature, Modern Irish Literature, and Postmodernism |
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Dr. Palmer, who has been teaching in the department since 1969, is the author of numerous books, both academic and creative. His scholarly books include
The Fiction of John Fowles (1975),
The Films of the Seventies: A Social History (1987),
The Films of the Eighties: A Social History (1994), and
Dickens and New Historicism (1998). He is also the author of four popular literary works:
The Detective and Mr. Dickens (1990),
The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens (1992),
The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens (1997), and
The Dons and Mr. Dickens (2001). Dr. Palmer has published more than 20 journal articles on the novel genre, Victorian and Modern Literature, and Film Studies in scholarly journals such as
PMLA,
Studies in the Novel,
Mosaic,
Modern Fiction Studies,
Dickens Studies Annual, and
Contemporary Literature. Specialties include the Victorian novel, twentieth-century literature. and film studies. Interests include New Historicism, sports and literature, feminist theory, and postmodernism. Dr. Palmer offers graduate courses on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century British topics. He has recently (2005) become director of the department's film studies program.
