Name: Bryan Polk
Rank: Lecturer
Office address: 327 Sutherland
Phone Number: (215)881- 7548
E-mail: bep3@psu.edu
Institution(s) where degrees were earned:
BA Susquehanna University (1977)
M. Div. Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (1981)
M.A. Beaver College (1996)
Names and numbers of courses taught:
ENGL 015
ENGL 202 C
ENGL 202 D
ENGL 104
RL ST 001
RL ST 106
RL ST 101
RL ST 124
RL ST 140W
RL ST 083S
CAMS9 045
Short description of any research interests :
Fundamentalism (esp. in Christianity), Medieval Literature, Coleridge's “Christaber”
Publications:
Symbol of Transformation: Jesus as a Trickster “God”
“The Medieval Image of the Hero in the Harry Potter Novels”
“Both in the Journal of the Society for the interdisciplinary study of Social Images (2001, 2003)
Hobbies:
Vegetable gardening, cooking, and splitting firewood.
