Mark D. Koch
Lecturer
While I have recently retired from full-time teaching, I remain committed to the project of first-year writing as essential training for complex academic thinking. In addition to teaching many, many composition and literature courses, I have also served as an administrator for writing programs, including as the associate director of the first-year writing program at the University of Michigan where I worked with PhD students to develop their teaching as they taught their first writing classes. While at Dartmouth I continued in a similar capacity, as assistant director of the Writing Program and as director of Writing 2-3. My research interests and publications were largely in British literature of the early modern and eighteenth-century periods, with a particular interest in cartography and its relation to literature, as well as on beggary, almsgiving, and gift-exchange economics. My last published article considered the rhetoric of British charity sermons in the 18th century.
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Department(s)
Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
Education
- B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- M.A. State University of New York at Buffalo
- Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
Selected Publications
"'A Spectacle Pleasing to God and Man': Sympathy and the Show of Charity in the Restoration Spittle Sermons," Eighteenth-Century Studies 46: 4 (Summer 2013).
"Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in English Accounts of the New World." Literature and Geography. Ed. Richard Helgerson and Joanne Woolway. Special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. October 1998.
"The Desanctification of the Beggar in Rogue Pamphlets of the English Renaissance." The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Edited by David G. Allen and Robert A. White. Newark: University of Delaware UP, 1992. 91-104.
"Utilitarian and Reactionary Arguments for Almsgiving in Wordsworth's 'The Old Cumberland Beggar'." Eighteenth-Century Life 13: 3 (November 1989): 18-33.