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Geoffrey Minter

Asst Professor   Department: English   Location: 3149 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5784   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Began teaching at Brooklyn College in Fall 2003. Website for courses at Brooklyn College: http://www.sutropark.com/courses. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY - 2003 (ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE) Areas of Expertise: Degree focus on Early American Literature (dissertation subject: Boyhood in 19th Century American Literature and Culture), but broadly interested in American literature from the Puritan era to the current century. Other interests: the Enlightenment and related literary modes (Romanticism, the Gothic, etc.); the traditions of English lyric poetry, chiefly from Spenser to Eliot; Aestheticism and Decadence; Queer Representation and Theory; Literature, History, and New Historicism; Opera and Film.