Robert Ness
Associate Professor of English
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phone: 717.245.1064
fax: 717.245.1942
ness@dickinson.edu

Bob Ness is Associate Professor of English. His teaching interests are various, ranging from 17th and 18th century British Literature to postcolonial writing from Africa, the West Indies, and South Asia. He has recently completed articles on Ken Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria), Pauline Melville (UK-Guyana) and is just finishing a book on Earl Lovelace (Trinidad).

This academic year provides a pretty representative sample of his courses: English Grammar, West Indian writing, Dryden, Pope and Swift, and a senior seminar on Salman Rushdie and V. S. Naipaul. He regularly teaches African Literature and the History of the English Language.

Sample Course Syllabi:

History of the English Language

West Indian Writing

Three 18th-Century British Novels

African Writing

Caribbean Writing

Pope, Dryden, and Swift

Post-Colonial Women's Writing

This photo was taken in Bafoussam, Cameroon

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