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Email: ldopp@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall 101
Office: Stauffer Hall 101
Leah Dopp, M.A.
Faculty Since 2025
Assistant Professor of English
An alumna of Pacific Union College, Leah Dopp holds an M.A. in English and a certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Claremont Graduate University, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in literature. Her area of expertise is 19th-century U.S. American and Hemispheric Americas literature. Her research is particularly interested in cultural studies, feminism, and gendered tropes. She has presented papers on themes such as toxic masculinity, subversion, and observation in U.S. American and Cuban novels. She teaches courses in composition, U.S. American literature, and “Hemispheric Connections.”
Degrees
M.A. In English from Claremont Graduate University
2022
Tel: 1-707-965-6609
Email: llgill@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall
Email: llgill@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall
Accomplishments:
“Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Narrative, Empowerment, Gender and Religion.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal. 5.3 (2014). Ed. Dr. Anna Faktorovich. Tucson: Anamorpha-Pennsylvania Literary Press. 36-57. Print.
“The Sermon and the Victorian Novel” in The Oxford Handbook of The British Sermon 1689-1901. Eds. Keith A. Francis and William Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
“The Sermon and the Victorian Novel.” The Oxford Handbook of the Modern British Sermon 1689-1901. Ed. Keith R. Francis. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
“Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Narrative Empowerment, Gender and Religion.” Presentation at Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media. March, 2012.
The Princess in the Tower: Gender and Art in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." Victorian Institute Journal.35 (2007): 109-136. Print.
Harry's Great Expectations or the Great Expectations of Harry Potter?: Self-fashioning or Destiny in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2005.
"The Snake Problem: Adolescence, Masculinity and Power in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2004.
"Women Beware ! The Appropriation of Women in Hollywood's Revisioning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 24 (Fall and Winter 2001): 93-98.
Linda Gill, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 1993
Professor of English
Linda Gill specializes in Victorian England, development of the novel, literary theory and dramatic performance. Gill has written articles for Dickens World, The Journal of Popular culture and Victorian Institute. She has also presented papers on Victorian authors such as Bronte, Dickens and Kipling, in addition to papers on the Harry Potter novels at Popular Culture conferences. She is particularly interested in investigating identity construction, meaning making and power in narratives. In addition to teaching courses in Romantic and Victorian literature, Gill teaches courses in Acting and performs regularly in DAS productions.
Degrees
B.A., Andrews University
1984
M.A., La Sierra University
1986
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
1992
Emily Logan, M.F.A. - Chair
Faculty Since 2023
Assistant Professor of English
Emily Logan specializes in creative writing with an emphasis on prose. She is particularly interested in short story, flash fiction, and personal essay forms. Her stories and essays appear in The Roadrunner Review, Reflex Fiction, Watershed Review, and elsewhere, and her work has received support from AWP's Writer to Writer Mentorship Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She teaches courses in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.