Doll, Mary A(swell)

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DOLL, Mary A(swell)

DOLL, Mary A(swell). American, b. 1940. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Mythology/Folklore, Women's studies and issues. Career: Garrison Forest School, Garrison, MD, teacher, 1962-65; Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, teacher, 1965-66; Park School, Brooklandville, MD, teacher and chair of senior program, 1966-70; Community College of Baltimore, MD, teacher, 1970-71; State University of New York College at Oswego, instructor, 1978-82, assistant professor of English, 1982-84; University of Redlands, CA, instructor in English, 1985-88; California State University, San Bernardino, instructor in writing and supervisor of student teachers, 1986-88; Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, instructor in English, 1988; Tulane University, New Orleans, visiting assistant professor of literature, 1988-89; Holy Cross College, New Orleans, associate professor and chair of English department, 1989-94, professor, 1995-2000; Savannah College of Art & Design, professor, 2000-. Frequent lecturer at conferences and symposia. Publications: Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach, 1988; (ed. with C. Stites) In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe, 1988; Joseph Campbell and the Ecological Imperative, Joseph Campbell, Uses of Comparative Mythology, 1992; Tom Stoppard and the Theatre of Unknowing, British Literature since 1960, 1993; Ghosts of Themselves: The Demeter Myth in Beckett, Images of Persephone in Literature, 1993; To the Lighthouse & Back: Writings on Teaching and Living, 1996; Like Letters in Running Water: A Mythopoetics of Curriculum, 1999. Address: Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 31405, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]