Mark Heberle

• Associate Professor
• BA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Harvard University
• Renaissance literature, Spencer, biography, Vietnam War literature

I was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, and received my B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. from Harvard, with a dissertation on Spenser's Faerie Queene. At U.H., I have taught the undergraduate courses on Milton and Shakespeare, undergraduate courses on war literature and the Vietnam war (in which I served), and other courses for majors, sophomores, and freshmen. For several years, I was the Managing Editor for Biography, a university journal of life writing. I have also twice taught U.H. undergraduates in London during semesters abroad, and was a visiting lecturer at a British college in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. My research interest is English Renaissance literature, with publications on Shakespeare and Spenser, but I have also published on literary biography and Vietnam War literature. Recently, I co-edited a book on how children's language is represented in literary texts, and I am currently engaged in a book-length manuscript on the American Vietnam War writer Tim O'Brien.

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