Steven Lynn, Chair

Professor

Louise Fry Scudder Professor
Office: 417 Humanities Office Building
and 251 Gambrell
(803) 777-2994
lynns@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1981

Specialization Areas

• Eighteenth-Century Literature (especially Samuel Johnson);
• Science Fiction (especially nanotechnology and bioethics);
• Rhetoric and Composition (especially writing about literature)

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 718   English Literature of the Later Eighteenth-Century

Current Research Project(s)

An Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric (with Christy Friend, for Cambridge UP);

It's Alive?!: Science Fiction and Bioethics;

Johnson's Body

Publications and Presentations

• Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies (Longman)
• Texts and Contexts (3rd edition, Longman)
• A Short Guide to Writing (Allyn Bacon)
• Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction (Southern Illinois University Press)
• The Year's Work in Eighteenth-Century (Oxford UP): "The Eighteenth Century" (General, Prose), 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000;
• The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson (Cambridge UP): "Johnson's Critical Reception";
• plus essays in Eighteenth-Century Studies, College English, Age of Johnson, and other places.