Contact Information

Office: 4164 JFSB

Phone: 422-1359

Email: hutchinz@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2012:

ENGL 360
MWF 10:00-11:50
2009 JKB

Student Consultations:
Monday 1:00-4:00

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography: Zach Hutchins received his Ph.D. from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his dissertation earned the C. Hugh Holman Award. A revised version of that manuscript, "Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England," is now with readers for Oxford University Press. His second book project investigates the ways in which American writers used religious rhetoric to challenge racism during Reconstruction, and an essay excerpted from that work-in-progress is forthcoming from ELH. Other essays have appeared in journals such as Early American Literature, Modern Language Studies, Leviathan, Early American Studies, and The New England Quarterly.

In the classroom Zach teaches a wide range of courses, from "Shakespeare at the Movies" to "Wilderness and Witchcraft in the New World" and "Early American Bestsellers." Another course in American literature to 1800, "American Love Letters," was recently recognized by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies with its 2011-2012 Innovative Course Design Award. He is extremely proud of his undergraduate students, who have presented papers at national conferences and whose work has been published in peer-reviewed forums; recently students from his class in "Early American Auto/Biography" had their work accepted for publication by the Center for Documenting the American South.

As the father of three young boys and a brand-new daughter, Zach does not have any free time. However, if he did he would spend it on the basketball court--assuming, of course, that his beautiful wife, Alana, gave him permission.

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