Cynthia Cornell

Jane Cooling Brady Honorary Chair
Ph.D. (University of Missouri/Columbia)
Professor
328 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4676
E-mail: ccornell@depauw.edu

Jewish Studies

Cynthia Cornell has been teaching on the English faculty at DePauw since 1975. Trained as a specialist in medieval and renaissance literature, she regularly offers courses in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante (and, sometimes, Vergil), the survey of British literature, and quest literature. Most recently she has designed and taught a First Year Seminar on "Quests for the Grail," and a senior seminar in the problems of reading racist, antisemitic, and anti-feminist texts in early British literature. This work is leading her to develop a new area of teaching: the literature of Jewish experience in America. Dr. Cornell is also one of the founders of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at DePauw, and has taken a leadership role with the writing program at all levels for nearly twenty years, as well as serving on every major policy-making committee at DePauw and serving as department chair.

Dr. Cornell’s contributions to teaching and her leadership in governance and service at DePauw have been recognized by her appointment to a Distinguished Professorship in the first year of that program. She also holds the Jane Cooling Brady Chair of Literature. She received degrees from Vassar College, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Missouri at Columbia, and has studied as well at Stanford, Dartmouth, University of Illinois, and SUNY-Stonybrook.

Fall 2007:

• ENG 151f: Lit and Interpretation
• ENG 391: Authors: Advanced Topics: Shakespeare: Greek and Roman Plays

Spring 2008:

• ENG 130f: College Writing II
• ENG 155c: Tps: Holocaust Literature