Name:
Robert R. GarnettEmail: rgarnett@gettysburg.edu
Title/Dept: Professor, English
Box: Campus Box 0397
Address: Breidenbaugh Hall
Room 422
300 North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400
Phone: (717) 337 - 6743
Degree(s): PhD University of Virginia, 1979
Fulbright Scholar, University of Oxford, 1977
MA University of Virginia, 1976
BA Dartmouth College, 1969
Courses Taught: Survey of English Literature: Medieval & Renaissance
Writing through Literature
Wharton, Dreiser, Cather
Seminar: American LiteratureAmerican Writers of the 1920s
Robert Garnett teaches courses in both British and American literature, from the eighth-century monk Bede to Flannery O’Connor. He has published a study of the early career of the British novelist Evelyn Waugh (From Grimes to Brideshead, Bucknell University Press), many scholarly articles on Charles Dickens, and most recently Charles Dickens in Love (Pegasus Books).
