Department of English
Sean Meehan
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: smeehan2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782
Office: Goldstein 116
Education
- Ph.D. English, University of Iowa, 2002.
- M.A. English, SUNY Buffalo, 1996.
- A.B. English, Princeton University, 1991.
Publications
Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman. University of Missouri Press (April 2008).
http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2008/meehan.htm
Scholarly and Teaching Interests
- Composition Theory and Pedagogy
- Digital Literacy
- Transcendentalism
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
- Autobiography Studies
- Literature and other Arts/Media
- Literary Theory
Bio
Originally from New York, Sean Ross Meehan returns east after studying for his doctorate at the University of Iowa and teaching literature and composition at Morningside College, a liberal arts college in Sioux City, Iowa. He is excited to be teaching and helping to develop the new first-year writing course, English 101; subtitled "Writing Machines," his course explores intersections of writing and technology from Frankenstein to Facebook. You can browse his course web site (Comp\Post) and see what he and his students have been reading and writing lately. In the spring he will be teaching a new English department course on the rich tradition of American Environmental Writing, past and present.
His work in progress combines his varied interests in pedagogy and English education, rhetoric and composition studies, digital literacy, and American transcendentalism—or so he hopes. You can read more about this work, tentatively titled The Scholar's Information: Emerson's Education in an Electronic Age. One of the pieces of that project he is currently researching and writing investigates Benjamin Franklin's hand in the emergence of composition pedagogy in America.
In addition to the classroom, his office, and the library, you are likely to find Professor Meehan playing on the tennis court, riding his mountain bike, or kayaking on the river with his wife and two children.
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