Mary Lenard, Ph.D.

Mary Lenard, Ph.D.

Director of Composition and Associate Professor - English

Literature and Languages Department

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1996

PHONE:
(262) 595-2018
EMAIL:
lenard@uwp.edu

Mary Lenard grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, has a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1989) and a M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Texas at Austin. She started at UW-Parkside in 1998, after having taught at Alma College in Michigan for two years. Her first book, Preaching Pity: Dickens, Gaskell, and Sentimentality in Victorian Culture, was published in 1999. She lives in Racine, has taught at UW-Parkside for almost twenty years, and is currently serving as the Chair of the English Department.

Areas of Expertise

  • Victorian literature
  • Children's Literature
  • Young Adult Literature
  • British literature
  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature
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