Charles Gobin, Ph.D.

Department Chair
Professor
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Pedagogy

Department: English

Office: Morrison Hall 302

Phone Extension: (859) 858-3511, x2191

Biographical Information

Professor Gobin chairs the English Department at Asbury University, where he joined the faculty in 1996. He has also taught at the University of Alabama and Stillman College. His PhD research at the University of Florida focused on 18th-century British Literature, especially the satire of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His other research and teaching interests include the development of the Novel (particularly the works of Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding), Contemporary Literature, and Film Studies–especially narrative and adaptation theory.

Education

PhD, English, University of Florida, 1994
MA, English, University of Florida, 1989
AB, English, University of Georgia, 1982

Courses Offered:

ENG 110 Exposition and Research
ENG 151 Advanced Exposition and Research
ENG 205 Literature and Culture
ENG 231 The British Literary Tradition I
ENG 311 The English Novel
ENG 315 Film as Literature
ENG 340 Modern Poetry
ENG 348 Contemporary Literature
ENG 382 Reason and Revolution: Studies in the Longer Eighteenth Century

Affiliations:

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Modern Language Assocation