Denise T. Askin, Ph.D.
Professor
English Department 

Office: 122 Bradley House
Phone: (603) 641-7092
E-mail: daskin@anselm.edu

Dr. Denise T. Askin specializes in American Literature, particularly in the early period (before 1800), American Renaissance, and American modernism. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame, and joined the English Department in 1972. She has held a variety of positions during that time, including executive vice president from 1985 to 1996, chair of the English Department, and director of the honors program.

Dr. Askin teaches a spectrum of special topics courses, including seminars on Transcendentalism, Whitman and Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. In addition to core courses, such as Senior Seminar, Introduction to Literary Study, and Major American Writers, she also teaches genre courses in the novel and in the history and theory of comedy.

Dr. Askin's publications include articles on Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, and William Styron. She has presented conference papers on Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Whitman, and the eighteenth century Native American preacher, Samson Occom. She is conducting research on Occom's unpublished sermons, and on the comedic tradition in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor.

Most recently she has served on the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and on the Public Advisory Board for the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.