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Assistant Professor of English Phone: (239)590-7504 E-Mail: dharriso@fgcu.eduOffice: RH 215
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2005 A.M., Washington University in St. Louis, 2001 B.A., University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1998
Primary Teaching Areas: American Literature and Culture before 1900, American religious thought and psychology
Other interests: contemporary evangelical culture and theology, gospel music and culture, sexuality and gender
Professor Harrison joined the faculty of Florida Gulf Coast University in 2006 after a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University. His main teaching and research interests include the literature and culture of America before 1900 and the half-life of early American thought and writing. His recent articles have focused on Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Shepard and the strategies these writers developed to make traditional ideas about religion and redemption responsive to individual and cultural crises of relevance. Work currently in progress focuses on Edwards and contemporary evangelicalism and the cultural function of gospel music in evangelical Protestantism. In addition to working in his primary field, Professor Harrison also cultivates an interest in academic technology – he was the founding director of the Hurst Digital Archive at Washington University (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~hurst/) – and writes for magazines and websites about gospel music and culture. Publications
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