Department of English

Avis Hewitt


Associate Professor
Department of English
Language and Literature

127 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-3244
hewitta@gvsu.edu

Avis Hewitt

Courses
ENG 225 American Literature I: to 1860
ENG 226 American Literature II: from 1860
ENG 330 Studies in Fiction
ENG 605 Seminar in American Literature
ENG 661 Major Author(s): Flannery O'Connor

Research Interests
Feminist, domestic and corporeal issues in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Theological issues in the short fiction of John Updike
Food issues in the fiction of Ben Okri and Jhumpa Lahiri

Recent Publications
Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace. Eds. Avis Hewitt and Robert Donahoo. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2010.

"`Someone to Shoot Her Every Minute of Her Life': Maternity and Violent Death in Flannery O'Connor and Helena Maria Viramontes." The Flannery O'Connor Review. 4 (2006): 12-26.

"Ignoring `Unmistakable Likeness': Mark Fortune's Miss-Fortune in Flannery O'Connor's `A View of the Woods.'" On the Subject of the Feminist Business: Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor. Ed. Teresa Caruso. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

"Intimations of Immortality: Mastered Irony in John Updike's `Pigeon Feathers.'' Christianity and Literature. 49.4  (Summer 2000): 499-509.

Education
B.A., The College of Wooster
M.A., Ph.D., Ball State University

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