English, Theatre, and Speech Communication

Draper 201B
CPO 1893
859-985-3756

Contact:

 

Dr. John S. Bolin

Professor of English

Draper , Room 200B
CPO 1704

Office Hours: MWF 10 and 2

Phone: 859-985-3251
Fax: 859-985-3906

E-Mail:

At Berea College since 1970

Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan , 1970
  • M.A. Theatre , University of Michigan, 1967
  • B.A. Theatre , Kalamazoo College , 1965
Honors and Awards
  • Seabury Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1979
  • Kellogg National Fellow
  • Faculty Research Grant from Canadian Embassy to the USA
  • Rackham Prize Fellow, The University of Michigan.
  • NEH Summer Stipend
Courses
  • GSTR100, Stories
  • GSTR 209, Arts in Context: Artists, Ecology and Work
  • ENG 485, Senior Seminar (Edwardian Lit.)
  • THR 118, Theatre and Drama for Teachers
  • THR 311, Theatre and Drama in the Age of Mass Media
Special Interests
Canadian Anglophone drama and fiction; Canadian theatre; Theatre theory and Museum theory; William Morris; The Arts and Crafts Movement; Work and Leisure in Contemporary Society.
 
Affiliations
  • AAC& U
  • Association for Canadian Studies in the US;
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society
  • Kentucky Humanities Council
  • Modern Language Association
  • Slow Food International Association
  • William Morris Society
Papers and Publications
  • Book reviews/articles in The American Review of Canadian Studies; papers before Association for Canadian Studies in the US, the Midwest Association for Canadian Studies, the Speech Communication Association, and the William Morris Society. Director of 48 play productions at Berea College.
Research Programs
  • William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement
  • Theatre theory and Museum theory
  • Connections with the Fireside Industries of Berea