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Professor of English
Office
Technology Center 259
Phone
605-626-2405
B.A. in English, Briar Cliff University, 1988
M.A. in English, South Dakota State University, 1995
Ph.D. in English, University of South Dakota, 2001
Dr. Pen Pearson is a professor of English at Northern. Pearson also advises Northern Lights, Northern’s student literary magazine, and mentors high school English teachers in Northern’s Rising Scholar program.
Her novel about Edwardian poet Charlotte Mew, Bloomsbury’s Late Rose, was published in 2019 (Chickadee Prince Books). Dr. Pearson has also published two books of poetry: Trespass to Chattel (Atomic Press) and Poetry as Liturgy (Mellen Poetry Press). Her current project is a memoir about her late father.
Courses Taught
Engl 101 Composition I
Engl 201 Composition II
Engl 283 Introduction to Creative Writing
Engl 241 American Literature Since 1865
Engl 475 Creative Non-Fiction Writing
Engl 476 Fiction Writing
Engl 478 Poetry Writing
Engl 484 Literary Criticism
Academic Interests
American Renaissance poetry and prose
history of western poetics
stylistic linguistics
lexicography
literary theory
comparative mythology
classic Hollywood film