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Dr. Monica O'Brien joined the faculty of Chester College of New England in 2005 as Assistant Professor of Literature and Humanities. In Fall 2007, she was named Chair of the Dept. of Writing and Literature. She holds a BA in English, an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University. Her primary interest in teaching and scholarly activity is to cross the disciplinary boundaries of fiction, philosophy, aesthetics, and popular culture. She has taught courses such as Literature and Madness, American History In Its Literature, Gothics and Monsters, the Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics, Love and Sexuality, Existentialism and Literature, and Fragments of Rationality: Modernism and Postmodernism. Recently, she presented papers at various juried academic conferences on Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and David Lynch’s Eraserhead; Don DeLillo and the politics of garbage; and Foucault’s theory of the panopticon as it relates to anorexia nervosa. In 2008, Dr. O’Brien served as a Guest Lecturer for the Humanities Seminar at Colby-Sawyer College. Her essay on George Eliot and Hannah Arendt was published in a special anniversary edition of the academic journal Comparative Literature Studies celebrating Don Quixote, and she had her essay on Foucault and anorexia included in the anthology, Bodily Inscriptions: Interdisciplinary Excursions into Embodiment, Cambridge Scholars Press. Currently, Dr. O’Brien is considering embarking on the insane task of studying parallels between the TV show Lost and Danielewski’s House of Leaves.[ < back ]
