Lisa A. Long teaches courses in American literature, gender & women's studies, and writing. She has served in several leadership positions within the faculty, including Faculty Speaker, and spent a decade in administrative roles at North Central, most recently serving as Associate Provost and Dean of College Programs. Long pursues research on popular nineteenth-century American women writers, African American literature, and Southeast Asian American literature.
Download CVSelected Scholarship
“A New Midwesternism in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Twentieth-Century Literature 49.2 (Spring 2013): 87-108.
“Physics and Faith in the Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 42.3 (Summer 2013): 359-83.
“Contemporary Women’s Roles Through Hmong, Vietnamese, and American Eyes.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 29.1 (Spring 2008): 1-36.
White Scholars/African American Texts, Editor (Newark, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2005) 245 pages.
Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2003) 332 pages.
Courses Taught
ENGL122 and 124: Children's Literature and Young Adult Fiction
IDS 125: First-Year Seminar: What is the Midwest?
FILM 200: History of American Film
ENGL 208: American Literature and Culture of the 19th-21st Centuries
ENG 307: Studies in Literature of Cultural Identity: Vietnam & Southeast Asian American Literature
ENGL 404: The Novel Across Time: American Bestsellers
ENG 407: Seminar in Selected Authors: Toni Morrison