FIG Faculty: Dawn Marlan - Department of Comparative Literature, Clark Honors College
Hi everyone! My name is Dawn Marlan, and I’ll be the instructor of record for our FIG, The Still and Moving Image. I’m really excited to be teaching the FIG in person this year and having outings in the FIG Seminar course. The FIG will be personal and project-oriented while introducing you to a couple of different academic disciplines (literary and cultural studies in my class & journalism in the other).
I’m from the East Coast (Pennsylvania), but I went to graduate school in Chicago, and I’ve been teaching at the UO for about 15 years, so I feel equally at home on all three “coasts.” I write essays, literary nonfiction, and reviews on literature, art, film and politics. I publish in lots of different kinds of venues, from scholarly journals to literary magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and art exhibition catalogues.
These days, I spend most of my writing time on fiction projects and writing personal essays. I am currently finishing a novel manuscript inspired by The Who’s rock opera, Tommy, and will soon be turning to a novel project on a Victorian-era scandal in medical history. Other interests include cooking, hiking, running, and tending to my first garden. I’m an avid spectator of modern dance and all sorts of performing arts and I have two adult children (ages 21 and 24), who are both in California.
Also, know that I will welcome hearing from all of you, even if you don’t have specific questions. Please feel free to reach out either by email or in my Zoom office hours just to introduce yourselves and begin to get acquainted.
Email: damarlan@uoregon.edu
