Onita Vaz
Associate Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Southern California
Background
I specialize in 18th- and 19th-century British Literature, particularly Romanticism. My teaching interests also include colonial/postcolonial literature, textual criticism, canon-formation, and literature and medicine. I have taught at Davidson since 2005.
Teaching
- WRI 101 Writing Medicine
- ENG 110 Literature and Medicine: Ways of Reading, Ways of Knowing
- ENG 220 Literary Analysis
- ENG 260 British Literature since 1800
- ENG 362 British Romanticism
- ENG 361 Writing High and Low: Literary Taste and Mass Appeal (The Eighteenth Century)
- ENG 262 Fictions of Empire
- Seminar: Multiple Personality (Dis)Order: Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues
- Seminar: Firing the Romantic Canon
- Seminar: Romance and Realism: Negotiating Literary and Social Conventions (Studies in British Literature)
- Seminar: The Long Eighteenth Century Gothic
- Seminar: Romantic Radicalism