Dr. Ross teaches British literature, specializing in the Romantic and Victorian Periods and the history and practice of rhetoric. Her current research projects focus upon Romantic Polymathy. education in the Romantic Period, and active-learning pedagogies.
In the Fall Semester, 2009, Dr. Ross will be teaching:
ENGL 2310: Literary Appreciation for Science Majors
ENGL 2323: British Literature from 1780
to the Present
ENGL 4320: The Romantic Period
ENGL 4397: Senior Seminar in Poetry
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of . . . a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment,
and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling --Samuel Taylor Coleridge
