Dr. Lynette Carpenter

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 311
Phone: 740-368-3587
E-mail: llcarpen@owu.edu

Specialty

Women’s literature, American literature, Film, and the Traditional Gothic

Education

M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
B.A., University of Texas

Biography

Professor Carpenter’s specialties are 19th- and 20th-century American women’s literature and American film. She has collaborated on two books about women’s ghost stories. Under the pen names D. B. Borton and Della Borton, she has published eleven mystery novels, the most recent of which is Eight Miles High. She teaches freshman writing, film, American literature, women’s literature, and the Gothic.

Courses Taught

ENG 105, Freshman Writing Seminar
ENG 145, Reading Mark Twain
ENG 150, Introduction to Literary Study
ENG 226, American Images
ENG 254, Introduction to Film
ENG 266, Women’s Literature in English
ENG 314, Writing Fiction
ENG 360, Early American Literature
ENG 372, Modern American Literature

Major Publications

Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on American Women’s Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories by British and American Women Writers

Eight Miles High

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