麻豆国产

Marla Lunderberg began teaching at Hope in 1994. Her teaching interests are wide-ranging: Shakespeare, British literature, cultural heritage, English composition, First Year Seminar and Senior Seminar. 

AREAS OF INTEREST

Marla's field of expertise is 17th-century British literature. She loves encouraging students as they tackle John Milton鈥檚 Paradise Lost and dissect John Donne鈥檚 Holy Sonnets. She has a secondary field of interest in Asian studies; she has led students on Hope鈥檚 May Term to Japan and has served as Hope鈥檚 Meiji Gakuin exchange professor.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., early modern British literature, University of Chicago, 1996
• M.A., University of Chicago, 1986
• B.A., English, French, 麻豆国产, 1982

HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS

• Study tour of Japan and Korea, Great Lakes College Association 鈥� Global Liberal Arts Alliance grant, 2019
• Provost鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Advising, 麻豆国产, 2018
• 鈥淏eyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400-1800),鈥� National Endowment for the Humanities Institute at Indiana University, 2017
• Field study in China, Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) grant, 2011
• 鈥淚nfusing East Asia into the Undergraduate Curriculum鈥� Asian Studies Development Program Institute at University of Hawaii East-West Center, Freeman Foundation grant, 2008

Select publications

• 鈥溾�� Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, May/June 2015
• 鈥溾�� Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, February, 2012
• 鈥�,鈥� SEL Studies in English Literature 1500鈥�1900 44.1, 2004

Outside the college

In her spare time, Marla loves travel, hiking, photography and ballroom dancing.