Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

In case you want to know

Marilyn McEntyre. . . earned her B.A. at Pomona College, M.A. at U.C. Davis, Ph.D. at Princeton University in Comparative Literature.

. . . has taught at Princeton University, the College of New Jersey, Mills College, and Westmont College and been a regular guest speaker at the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program

. . . has taught many adult education courses for churches, women’s groups, retirement communities, and other community settings

. . . has written a number of books (see books page)

. . . leads retreats for writers, churches, women’s groups, academic staff, and health professionals

. . . has written for Weavings, The Christian Century, Sojourners, Prism, Academic Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Humanities, Lectionary Homiletics, College Literature, and other periodicals

. . . has won several outstanding teaching awards

. . . is a vegetarian, has an expanding family of wonderfully interesting adults, children, stepchildren, children-in-law, and grandsons, loves to hear her husband read aloud, walks in the woods whenever possible, wants to help heal the planet, doesn’t think we can do that without imagination, compassion, humility, and a massive paradigm shift

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COURSES TAUGHT

  • American Literature: Survey; Before 1865; 1865-1920; Modern American Fiction; Modern Am. Poetry; Architecture and American Fiction; Graduate Seminar: Henry James
  • Interdisciplinary Courses: Medicine in Literature; Medical History and Literature, Attitudes Toward the Environment in American Writing; Theology and the Literary Imagination; Critical Perspectives on Fundamental Human Questions, Humanities: Ideas and Ideals.
  • Other Literature Courses: Approaches to Literature; Contemplative Reading; Introduction to Comparative Literature; World Literature; Mythology; Stories of Good and Evil: Survey of Western Literary Tradition; Portraiture and Personhood ; The Poet and the Painter; Seminar on Tragedy; Modern European Literature; Senior Seminar: Critical Theory; Modern Drama; Women Writers.
  • Rhetoric and writing courses, workshops, Writing for Pre-Meds, CME workshops for medical professionals, teaching strategies workshops.

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Some Favorite Links

Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database:  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new

Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org

Truthout:  http://www.truthout.org

National Religious Campaign Against Torture:  http://www.nrcat.org

Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East:  http://www.ajpme.org

Democracy Now:  http://www.democracynow.org

Progressive Christians Uniting:  http://www.progressivechristiansuniting.org