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Matthew MacFarland '11
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Matt is a member of the tennis team as well as Editor of the student newspaper.
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Hampden-Sydney has taught me to push myself. As an introvert, I may not be the typical H-SC student, but there is room for us all here.
Arley Morelock '14
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Dr. Sarah B. Hardy
Professor of English
Morton Hall, 111
(434) 223-6239
shardy@hsc.edu
Education
B.A., Stanford University, 1984; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993.
Teaching Interests
The Short StoryFaulkner
Postcolonial Literature
Comparative Literature
Modern Fiction
Popular Culture
Hypertext Fiction
Committee Assignments & Service to the College
Chair, Dept. of English 2003-2007Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
Alumni Summer College planning committee, 2000-2007
Faculty Reading Group on Masculinity Studies, fall 2004-present
Gender Issues Committee 2007-present
Most Recent Publications
Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal though Politics, Home, and the Body, a collection of essays co-edited with Caroline Wiedmer. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005Coordinating Editor and author of Preface for The Slate Hill Series, The Authors' Cafe
"Teaching Writing in the Space of Blackboard," coauthored with Evan Davis,
"A Paramount Narrative: Exploring Space on the Starship Enterprise," coauthored with Rebecca Kukla, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, special issue on popular culture, Spring 1999
"The Art of Diagnosis," Narrative, special issue on the short story, Spring 1998
"Condé's 'La châtaigne et le fruit à pain:' the Static Moment into Narrative," essay in Parallèles, a critical anthology of short stories by women in French published by L'instant même, Quebec, Fall 1996
Guest editor, Style, special issue on the short story (Fall 1993)
"A Poetics of Immediacy: the Short Story and Oral Narrative Theory," Style
Honors & Awards
Research Grant for International Collaboration, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, 2004Cabell Award for Excellence in Teaching, May 2004
Bortz Teaching Award for Technology, September 2003
Fuqua Teaching Award, Hampden-Sydney College, May 1999, May 2003
NEH Summer Seminar: "Literature in Transition," UCLA, summer 1998
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship, Spring 1998
Mednick Research Grant, Summer 1997
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of Narrative
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts