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 378: Advanced Prose Style
• EN 378: Nonfiction Workshop
• EN 378: Cultural Criticism
• EN 364: Literary Journalism
• EN 280: Logic and Rhetoric
• EN 280: Science Writing
• EN 280: Political Writing
• EN 280: How to Write a Sentence
• EN 280: Introduction to Nonfiction Writing
• EN 228: Prose Boot Camp
• EN 219: Nonfiction
• EN 105/EN 105H: Writing on Demand
• EN 105/EN 105H: Confidence: the Conundrum
• SSP: Writing America

Selected Publications:

Essays and reviews published in Salmagundi, Southwest Review, Guardian America, 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
• Faculty commencement speaker
• Jon Ramsey Periclean Honors Forum Lecturer
• McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction
• Bechtel Prize finalist
• four "Notable Essays of the Year" in The Best American Essays
• profiled in The Best 300 Professors