Dr. Corinne Andersen is a Professor of English at Peace, where she teaches a variety of world literature surveys, women’s and gender studies courses, and Honors seminars. She aims to build student confidence in writing and focuses on helping undergraduates prepare for academic conferences.
Corinne Andersen, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Program Director of English and Writing
Education
- B.A. Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Activities & Honors
- Chair of the English Department
- 2015-2016 Peace Outstanding Advisor Award
Research & Publications
- Women’s Autobiography and Self-Portraiture; Science Fiction Studies; the Interrelationship of the Arts
- ‘Instantly Upon this Thought the Dreadful Vision Faded’: The False Epiphany of Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Grave’.” South Central Review. 33.3 (2016).
- “Remembrance of an Open Wound: Frida Kahlo and Post-Revolutionary Mexican Identity.” Reflections on Empire: Depictions of Latin American Colonization in Literature, Film, and Art. Spec. issue of South Atlantic Review. 74.4 (2011): 119-130.
- “Les Grenades (Pomegranates): Valéry’s Muse of Many Seeds.” The Explicator. 68.1 (2010): 43-47.
- “A Ghost in the Rigging: Vonnegut and Koestler.” Science Fiction Studies. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, et al. 36.1 (2009): 177-181.
- “I Am Not Who “I” Pretend to Be: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and its Photographic Frontispiece.” The Comparatist. Ed. Mary Ann Witt. 29 (2005): 26-37.
- “Que me veux-tu?: Claude Cahun’s Canceled Confessions.” Women in French. Ed. Frédérique Chevillot. 13 (2005): 37-50.
- “She saw herself domesticated with the Horror”: a comparative analysis of Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women and Edith Wharton’s “Afterward.” August 2025. Panel: “Haunting Obligations: Political Ghost Stories” with Peace colleagues Wade Newhouse (English) and Beth Kusko (Criminal Justice). Part of the “Romancing the Gothic: ‘A Warning for the Curious” Online Conference.
- “Fostering Deep Learning through Slow Pedagogy, Community Building and Ungrading.” August 2025. Panel with Peace colleagues Robin Vincent and Jackson Bostian at the Lilly Conference for Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning in Asheville, NC. My presentation focused on slow pedagogy, an educational philosophy that shifts focus from rigid routines and standardized outcomes to more mindful, deeply engaged interactions between students and the material.
