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Gregg Hecimovich is the author of two books, Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Peter Lang, 2007) and Austen's Emma: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2008). He has published articles on Dickens, Browning, Hardy, Blake, Joyce, and others in such publications as ELH, Victorian Poetry, The Victorian Newsletter, The James Joyce Quarterly, and The North Carolina Literary Review. He is also the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Anthony Trollope's Phineas Redux (Penguin USA, Penguin UK 2003).
He is recipient of the 2006 UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award, East Carolina University's 2005-2006 Scholar-Teacher Award in the Humanities, the English Department's 2005 Bertie Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2005 College Research Award.
He is currently working on a book, "Hannah Crafts and North Carolina," and a documentary film project, "In Search of Hannah Crafts," in support of which he has received a "We the People Grant" from the National Endowment for the Humanities and grant support from the North Caroliniana Society, ECU's Division of Research and Graduate Studies, and the ECU Faculty Senate. These projects seek to chronicle the life and times of the author of The Bondwoman's Narrative, a fictional autobiography and the first novel written by an African-American woman and escaped slave.
Degrees
B.A. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
M.A. Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
Areas of Interest
Victorian Literature
Romantic Literature
The Novel
African-American Literature
Literary Theory
Courses Taught
6175: Victorian Literature
5060: History of Literary Criticism
4170: Victorian Literature
3420: The Short Story
3010: History of British Literature, 1700-1900
2000: Interpreting Literature
1100: Composition
1000: Appreciating Literature
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