Joshua Dobbs
Associate Professor II
Email:jdobbs@odessa.edu
Phone #1:432.335.6617
Office:WILK 116
Education:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville - PhD in English - 2022
Virginia Tech - MA in English - 2016
Virginia Tech - BA in English - 2013
Biography:
Associate Professor of English at Odessa College and PhD graduate from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Areas of interest are the intersection between folklore and literature, especially in Victorian literature, the tension between Christianity and folklore as reflected in literature, and nineteenth-century Scottish and Irish literature. His dissertation explores Scottish and Irish folkloric fairies who were used by nineteenth-century British authors like Dickens to give voice to marginalized groups throughout the century's societal discourses. Because of this experience, he will forevermore carry a cross of pure iron in his pocket, avoid mushroom circles entirely, and decline all food offered by unknown persons of diminutive stature…just in case.
Associate Professor of English at Odessa College and PhD graduate from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Areas of interest are the intersection between folklore and literature, especially in Victorian literature, the tension between Christianity and folklore as reflected in literature, and nineteenth-century Scottish and Irish literature. His dissertation explores Scottish and Irish folkloric fairies who were used by nineteenth-century British authors like Dickens to give voice to marginalized groups throughout the century's societal discourses. Because of this experience, he will forevermore carry a cross of pure iron in his pocket, avoid mushroom circles entirely, and decline all food offered by unknown persons of diminutive stature…just in case.
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