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Lawrence Stanley

Senior Lecturer in English; Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 330
Phone: (401) 863-3623

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •  ENGL 0110 - S04: Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay -- CRN 11424
  •  ENGL 1990 - S01: Senior Honors Thesis in Nonfiction Writing -- CRN 14952
  •  ENGL 2950 - S01: Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory -- CRN 11391
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 1140A-S01: Special Topics in Nonfiction Writing: The Literary Scholar -- CRN 20958
  •   ENGL 1990-S01: Senior Honors Thesis in Nonfiction Writing -- CRN 20965

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Degrees
D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1992
M.A. University of Maine, Orono, 1976
B.A. Covenant College, 1970

Research Interests
The English Romantics, travel writing, twentieth-century American fiction;   rhetorical and narrative theory particularly in relation to reading and writing creative nonfiction

Professional Accomplishments
Prior to teaching at Brown, Stanley taught in University College at the University of Maine, Orono. He was Director of Brown's Expository Writing Program from 1999 to 2004. He has published papers on composition, rhetorical theory, and Hemingway. He is currently working on the relations among reading, writing, narrative structure, and rhetorical strategy and has been presenting his research and writing at The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and Rhetoric Society of America conferences.