Nancy Chinn

Nancy Chinn, Associate Professor of English, received her Ph.D. from Florida State University. Her teaching and research interests include 20th-century American literature, women writers, particularly Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston. Some of her publications include the following:

• A. S. Byatt's Christabel LaMotte: Emilly Dickinson and Melusina, Papers on Language and Literature (2001)
• The Hurston-Cather Connection, Willa Cather Newsletter and Review (2001)
• "Games and Tragedy: Unidentified Quotations in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, English Language Notes (1996)
• "Like Love, a 'movin thing': Janie's Search for Self and God in Their Eyes Were Watching God", South Atlantic Review (1995)
• "'The Ring of Singing Metal on Wood':Zora Neale Hurston's Artistry in 'The Gilded Six Bits,'" (Co-author Elizabeth Dunn) Mississippi Quarterly (1996)