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Christine Blouch
Office: 373 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-2467
E-mail: blouch@bradley.edu
Christine Blouch is Director of International Programs at Bradley as well as being a faculty member in the English Department. In Fall 2006, Dr. Blouch received the Putnam Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Blouch graduated from Miami University of Ohio and got her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. She has worked in Chicago for her favorite newspaper, the Reader. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation on early eighteenth-century novelist Eliza Haywood won the Department of English award for outstanding dissertation. She started at Bradley in 1992.
Dr. Blouch's courses include Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, most recently taught with Dr. Conley as a joint course on Eighteenth-Century Literature in America and Britain. She has also taught Studies in Women Writers, a graduate seminar on Gothic Sensibilities, and courses on the Novel as Genre, the History of the Mystery, the Brontës and Emily Dickenson, and others. She also teaches ENG 190, 320, Argumentative Writing, and Western Civilization.
Dr. Blouch has taught extensively in Bradley's Study Abroad program, including courses in European Summer Semester programs in Malta, Belgium, Munich, Austria, and Madrid. She has taught several courses in London, including Travel Writing and London in Literature. After the retirement of former Director Joe Roach in 2005, Dr. Blouch was named Director of International Programs.
Dr. Blouch's publications include editing two volumes of the six-volume series Selected Works of Eliza Haywood (Pickering & Chatto, 2000, 2001). Her article "'What Ann Lang Read': Eliza Haywood and her Readers," appeared in The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood (University Press of Kentucky, 2000). Her edition of Haywood's The History of Miss Betty Thoughtless (1751) was published by Broadview Press in 1999. Previous articles include one in Studies in English Literature and an introduction in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. With Dr. Laurie Vickroy, she is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Dorothy Allison, published in 2005.
Dr. Blouch has served on the Women's Studies Committee, and was very involved with speakers' events such as campus visits by mystery writer Sara Paretsky and NOW president Patricia Ireland. She has served as advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, the English honorary, and was Sigma Tau Delta's Professor of the Year in 1994. She has been faculty advisor to the Bradley Freidan Society and to Common Ground.