Professional Profile
John Pennington is a professor of English at St. Norbert College. He specializes in Victorian fairy tales and focuses much of his work on George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish fairy tale and fantasy writer, a key influence on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Madeleine L'Engle. He has published widely on MacDonald and the following writers: Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, J. M. Barrie, Richard Adams, Ursula K. LeGuin, J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman.
He is the editor of North Wind: The Journal of the George MacDonald Society and the Sigma Tau Delta (the international English honor society) journals, The Sigma Tau Delta Review and The Rectangle. |
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John B. Pennington
Professor of English
Location: Boyle Hall
Room: 329
Phone: (920) 403-3147
Fax: (920) 403-4086
Mailing Address:
St. Norbert College
Boyle Hall 329
De Pere, WI 54115-2099
john.pennington@snc.edu
Academic credentials:
B.A., St. Norbert College
Ph.D., M.A. Purdue University
Courses taught:
Introduction to Literature
Literary Theory and Writing
Great American Novels
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales
19th Century English Novel
Charles Dickens
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