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CHRISTINE BLOUCH
CHRISTINE BLOUCH
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Dr. Blouch (somewhere in the back) and her class at the British Library, January 2004
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Dr. Blouch's picture of QE2 herself, June 2003
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Christine Blouch is Director of International Programs at
Bradley as well as being a faculty member in the English Department. In
Fall 2006, Dr. Blouch received the Putnam Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
Dr. Blouch graduated from Miami University of Ohio and got
her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. She has worked in
Chicago for her favorite newspaper, the Reader. She received her Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation on early
eighteenth-century novelist Eliza Haywood won the Department of English
award for outstanding dissertation. She started at Bradley in 1992.
Dr. Blouch's courses include Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
British Literature, most recently taught with Dr. Conley as a joint course on
Eighteenth-Century Literature in America and Britain. She has also taught
Studies in Women Writers, a graduate seminar on Gothic Sensibilities, and
courses on the Novel as Genre, the History of the Mystery, the Brontės and
Emily Dickenson, and others. She also teaches ENG 190, 320, Argumentative
Writing, and Western Civilization.
Dr. Blouch has taught extensively in Bradley's Study Abroad
program, including courses in European Summer Semester programs in Malta,
Belgium, Munich, Austria, and Madrid. She has taught several courses in
London, including Travel Writing and London in Literature. After the
retirement of former Director Joe Roach in 2005, Dr. Blouch was named
Director of International Programs.
Dr. Blouch's publications include editing two volumes of the
six-volume series Selected Works of Eliza Haywood (Pickering & Chatto, 2000, 2001).
Her article "'What Ann Lang Read': Eliza Haywood and her Readers," appeared in
The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood (University Press of Kentucky, 2000).
Her edition of Haywood's The History of Miss Betty Thoughtless (1751) was
published by Broadview Press in 1999. Previous articles include one in Studies
in English Literature and an introduction in The Norton Anthology of Literature
by Women. With Dr. Laurie Vickroy, she is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on
Dorothy Allison, published in 2005.
Dr. Blouch has served on the Women's Studies Committee, and was
very involved with speakers' events such as campus visits by mystery writer Sara
Paretsky and NOW president Patricia Ireland. She has served as advisor to Sigma
Tau Delta, the English honorary, and was Sigma Tau Delta's Professor of the Year in
1994. She has been faculty advisor to the Bradley Freidan Society and to Common Ground.
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