Contact Information

Office: 4171 JFSB

Phone: 422-1717

Email: dennis_perry@byu.edu

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

Semester Schedule: Winter 2012:

ENGL 384R
MWF 8:00-8:50
B101 JFSB

ENGL 293
MWF 10:00-10:50
B101 JFSB

ENGL 520R
M 1:00-1:50
W 1:00-2:50
3082 JFSB

Student Consultations:
MF 3:30-5:00

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