Linda Hall

Associate Professor

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
M.F.A., Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 318
Phone: (518) 580-5182
Email: lhall@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Literary nonfiction (especially cultural criticism and the personal essay)
• Alice Munro
• Elizabeth Hardwick
• Thomas Hardy

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: Writing on Demand
• EN 105H: Confidence: The Conundrum
• EN 105H: Writing on Demand
• EN 228: Prose Boot Camp
• EN 280: Intermediate Expository Writing
• EN 280: Logic and Rhetoric
• EN 280: Science Writing
• EN 280: Political Writing
• EN 280: How to Write a Sentence
• EN 364: Literary Journalism
• EN 364W: Advanced Prose Style
• EN 377 Reading for Writers (Nonfiction)
• EN 378: Nonfiction Workshop
• EN 378: Cultural Criticism
• EN 381: Advanced Projects in Writing Nonfiction
• SSP 100: Writing America

Selected Publications:

Essays and reviews published in PopMatters, The Daily Beast, Salmagundi, Southwest Review, The Guardian, The American Prospect, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Hudson Review, New York, Under the Sun, The Globe and Mail.

Honors:

• Kress Family Creative Pedagogy Grant 
• Jon Ramsey Honors Forum Lecturer 
• Faculty Speaker at commencement 
• McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction 
• Bechtel Prize finalist 
• Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLVII
• 4 Notable Essays of the Year, The Best American Essays
• Profiled in The Best 300 Professors