Presenter Profile

Dr. Darby Lewes
Department of English
Lycoming College

DARBY LEWES is in the department of English and Women's Studies at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where she chaired the Teaching Effectiveness Committee and the biannual Lycoming Conference on Teaching Excellence. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991 and has since published Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction 1870-1920 (University of Alabama Press, 1995), Nudes From Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project (Lexington 2002), and A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates (Folly Hill 2003) as well as several book chapters and journal articles.