MCLA Blog

I’m pulling a spotlight out of the vault to go along with this week’s English podcast from Terrie Pratt, who interviews Professor Denhart.

Meet Dr. Rosanne Fleszar Denhard, from the English Department

Through my work I can communicate the joy and solace found in the narrative of the past. I believe that–across time and space and all that divides people–there are human expressions that transcend these divisions, or at least make them comprehensible, in ways that illuminate something of the human experience. We can’t access the past without understanding history and culture, so the study of context is vital. Ultimately, it’s all about human stories: complex, interwoven, changing, repeating . . . a continuum.

Areas of Teaching, Scholarship, & Special Projects: Medieval and Early Modern/Renaissance British literature and interdisciplinary arts and culture; literary theory; literature in performance, life-writing.

Courses 2006-2008: William Shakespeare; Advanced Shakespeare; British Literary Survey; Critical Reading; The Age of Milton; Medieval & Renaissance English Drama; The Age of Chaucer; The Novel; Arts of Medieval & Renaissance Britain; Senior Seminar: Early Modern Life-Writing.