Faculty Emeriti | Dr. Paul Lizotte
Background
Dr. Paul Lizotte has held many positions, such as Director of the Freshman Year Studies Program, Director of Rivier Honors Program, Chair of Faculty Senate, Chair of English/Communications, Chair, Board of Directors, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and Editor of InSight (Rivier Journal).
Degrees
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State Univerisity
- M.A., University of Virginia
- B.A., Boston College
Specialties
- 19th Century Romantic Poetry
- 19th Century British Novel
- 20th Century American Poetry
- Literature and Ecology
Courses Taught
- ENG 110 Freshman composition
- ENG 115 Intro. to Literature
- HS 120/1 EcoThinking: Ecology and Spirituality
- GSP 102 Serving for Dignity (honors)
- ENG 200 Literary Cultures
- HUM 200 Literature, Art, and the Human
- ENG 212 Research and Writing
- ENG 213 Technical Writing
- ENG 214 Report Writing
- ENG 223 Shakespeare
- ENG 230 Critical Thinking and Writing
- ENG 235 Intro to Poetry
- ENG 255 Voyages and Explorations
- ENG 295 Promised Land
- ENG 310 20th Century Literature
- ENG 317 Survey of Brit. Literature I
- ENG 318 Survey of Brit. Literature
- ENG 330 Myths and Ideas of Love
- ENG 335 The Child in Literature
- ENG 336 Self-Discoveries
- ENG 341 Contemporary World Voices
- ENG 342 Law and Literature
- ENG 351 19th Century British Novel
- ENG 352 Modern British Novel
- ENG 356 Romantics & Transcendentalists
- ENG 358 20th Century European Lit.
- BUS 500 Writing for Managers
- ENG 502 Literary Research
- ENG 510 The Teaching of Writing
- ENG 528 Contemporary Amer. Writers
- ENG 535 Contemporary Women Writers
- ENG 540 Literary Theory & Criticism
- ENG 541 Contending with Texts
- ENG 542 Writers on Writing
- ENG 620 Modern and Contemporary Novel
- ENG 622 Dickens and Hardy
- ENG 625 Foster and Woolf
- ENG 640 Williams, Stevens, Bishop
- ENG 644 Modernism
- ENG 661 Seminar in Victorian Literature
- ENG 704 Nature Writing
Recent Publications and Proceedings
- “Ecothinking the University: Paradigms for Sustainable Education,” Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Cambridge, England, (2005).
- “Ecothinking and Sustainable Education,” paper delivered at the Faith Environment, and Ethics Conference, University of Notre Dame 2004)
- “Newman’s Own: Addressing the Question of Learning,” in Rivier InSight (Fall ‘98).
- “Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rhetoric of Rights,” paper presented at the NEH Seminar, “Rousseau and Blake: Inventing the Modern Self,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (August 12, 1995)
- “Billy Budd and the Rights of Men,” Law and Literature Summer Institute, New England College, Henniker, NH (July 1995).
- “Not Just An(Other): Wollstonecraft, Women, and the Republic of Virtue,” in Rivier InSight (Fall 1996).
- “The Dwelling-Places of Power: Dickens and Wordsworth,” in Rivier InSight (Winter 1994).
- “Elegiac Stanzas: Wordsworth and the Problem of Re-Presentation,” paper delivered at Dartmouth College, NEH Seminar, English Romantic Literature, and the Visual Arts (July 1989).
- “‘A New World Naked’: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams,” paper delivered at the Fall (1987) New England Association of Teachers of English Conference, Nashua, NH.
- “Time’s Accumulations to Justify the Past: Whitman’s Evolving Structure in ‘Autumn Rivulets,'” published in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (Fall 1980).