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Dr. Amy Berke - Ph.D.
Part Time Instructor
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| Courses: | Fall Semester 2025: English 6400 (online graduate course; second session) This graduate level course provides students with theoretical and practical preparation to teach developmental writing in post-secondary education. This course is part of the graduate Certificate in Teaching College Writing. |
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| Education: | Education Ph.D., English, 1995, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Major: American Literature after 1875 Minor: American Literature before 1875 M.A., English, 1987, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida B.A., English, 1981, cum laude, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia |
| Professional Experience: | Administrative Experience July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2024: Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Letters January 1, 2013 – June 30, 2019: Chair, Department of English, Middle Georgia State University Teaching Experience August 1998 – June 2024: Professor of English (promoted to full professor in 2011) Middle Georgia State University Over a period of 26 years at MGA, courses taught include English 0999 (Learning Support), English 1101, 1102, English 2131, English 2132, English 3010, English 3600, English 3999, and English 6400 (Teaching Developmental Writing), in additional to Honors Program sections of English 1102 and 2132. September 1995 - June 1998, Assistant Professor of English Abraham Baldwin College Tifton, Georgia 31794 |
| Professional Affiliations: | Professional Memberships Ellen Glasgow Society American Literature Association |
| Awards and Honors: | Honors and Awards HERO Award in recognition of outstanding service to USG eCampus students and high performance in online education, 2023 Provost Fellow, Middle Georgia State University, 2018 - 2019 Editor, The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers, 2015 - 2019 President of the Ellen Glasgow Society, 2012 - 2018 State Administrative Coordinator, Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, 2008 – 2012 President of the Georgia Collegiate Honors Council, 2006 – 2007 Institution-wide Award for Excellence in Teaching, Macon State College, 2003 Governor’s Teaching Fellow, 1997 |
| Publications: | Select Publications Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature: 1865 – Present. Co-authored with Robert R. Bleil, Jordan Cofer, and Doug Davis. Dahlonega, Georgia: U North Georgia P, 2016. “University System of Georgia Ad Hoc Steering Committee Report on Transforming English and Reading Remediation.” Report co-authored with D. Michael Keleher, April Gentry, Susan Hendricks, Debra H. Matthews, and Carmine D. Palumbo. University System of Georgia, 2014. “Sexuality and the New Woman in the 1890’s: Amélie Rives’ Barbara Dering.” The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers. 1.1 (Fall 2007): 2-30. “Darwinism and the Spiritual Impulse in the Works of Ellen Glasgow and James Lane Allen.” The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter. Issue 54 (Spring 2005): 7 – 10. “The Hypertextuality of Everyday Life”: John Barth’s “Click.” The Journal of Experimental Fiction.[ Ed. Eckhard Gerdes. N.Y.: Writers Club Press, 2001. 177-184. “Re-Discovered Voices: Southern Literary Canon Formation on the Web.” Co-authored with Gail Dillard, Abraham Baldwin College. The Companion to Southern Literature, LSU Press, 2002. |
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