Associate Professor of English
Phone: 478.757.5246
Email: mmartin@wesleyancollege.edu
Office: Tate 219
Address: Wesleyan College, 4760 Forsyth Road Macon, GA 31210
Subjects: American literature, African-American literature, Southern literature
Education: B.A., Furman University; B.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Courses taught include:
ENG 341: Issues in American Literature.
Goal: To focus on a prominent issue in American literature as a way of exploring the role of literature in
American society. Representative topics include modernism and postmodernism, race in the American
imagination, and the frontier in American literature.
Content: Works from a diversity of fiction writers, poets, and dramatists from the United States.
Prerequisites: FYS 101 or ENG 101, and ENG 210 and ENG 213, or permission of instructor.
ENG 451: Directed Independent Study.
Goal: To allow students to select authors, works, genres, or themes to study in-depth.
Content: Varied; a topic agreed upon by student and professor and approved by the division chair.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
ENG 452/199: Field Study.
Goal: To provide practical experience for the student to apply what she has learned.
Content: Student will perform professional, creative, or research functions under professional supervision.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and division chair.
ENG 499: Honors Thesis.