» Dr. Lynda A. Hall

Assistant Professor

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of English

Office:

WH 223

Office Hours:

T/TH 3-4 pm.; W 10-12 p.m. and 1-3 p.m.

Phone:

(714) 532-6091

Email:

lhall@chapman.edu

Affiliations:

Freshman Foundations Program

Education

Chapman University, Bachelor of Arts in English
Chapman University, Master of Arts in Literature
The Claremont Graduate University, Ph.D. in English

Biography

Lynda Hall graduated from Chapman College in 1980 and completed her M.A. in English Literature, with honors, at Chapman in 1986. She has been teaching at Chapman since that time, first as an adjunct and then full time, beginning in 1995. She completed her Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University in 2009, specializing in 19th Century British Literature. In 1997 she received a University award for teaching excellence. Professor Hall teaches a variety of courses at Chapman, including Introduction to Fiction, Literature into Film, as well as courses relating to Jane Austen studies. She has made various presentations at regional and national meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America, including "Addressing Readerly Unease: Discovering the Gothic in Mansfield Park," and "Jane Fairfax's Choice: The Sale of Human Flesh or Human Intellect," both of which were published in the journal, Persuasions. She also served as the Director of Writing Programs for four years and teaches a course, "Banned Books" in the Freshman Foundations program.

 

B.A., M.A., Chapman College; Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

“Secret Sharing and Secret Keeping: Lucy Steele’s Triumph in Speculation” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 33. (Persuasions and Persuasions On-line is a peer-reviewed annual journal affiliated with the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Acceptance rate in 2011 for Persuasions and Persuasions-online was approximately 49%: Essays considered: 77; Essays published: 38; Geographic distribution: US 25; Canada 6; UK 5; China 1; Japan 1.)

“A View from Confinement: Persuasion’s Resourceful Mrs. Smith.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Fall 2011. (Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed online inter-disciplinary journal with an average acceptance rate, over the past 6 years, of 31%. They receive approximately 100 submissions per year.)