Contact Information

Office: 4171 JFSB

Phone: 422-1717

Email: dperry@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses English 293, 314, 316, 361, 362, 336, 384, 495, 520, and 626

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

ENGL 495
MW 8:00-9:15
B103 JFSB

ENGL 361
MW 9:30-10:45
B103 JFSB

ENGL 384
MW 12:05-1:20
B103 JFSB

AS 360
MW 2:00-3:50
B101 JFSB


Student Consultations:
MW 1:30-3:00

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Dennis Perry teaches courses in American literature and literature and film. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, the first university to teach American literature (beginning in the 1880s). In 2003 he published a book on Hitchcock and Poe: The Legacy of Delight and Terror (Scarecrow). He and Carl Sederholm are co-authors of the forthcoming book The Usher Formula: Poe and the American Gothic Horror Tradition. Professor Perry has published articles several journals, including Early American Literature, Walt Whitman Quarterly, Studies in Short Fiction, Literature/Film Quarterly, Film & History, Poe Studies Newsletter, and Hitchcock Annual. In addition, he has essays in The Films of Stephen King (Palgrave 2008) and Teaching Edgar Allan Poe (MLA 2008).

Degrees: PhD, U of Wisconsin, 1986

Interests:

19C, Film