Rob Doggett received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland in 2002 and has taught at Geneseo since 2005. He currently teaches courses focused on 20th-century British and Irish literature. In 2011 he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2018 he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. His research centers primarily on Irish literature, particularly on poet William Butler Yeats. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as a monograph titled Deep-Rooted Things: Empire and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2006). He also served as the editor of When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales by W. B. Yeats (Penguin Classics, 2015). He is the general editor of the Journal of International Yeats Studies.
Every other year, Doggett brings groups of Geneseo students to Ireland for three to four weeks to travel and study at the Yeats International Summer School in County Sligo. The course syllabus can be found here. Doggett is the founder of the Genesee Valley Peace Poetry Contest, which he coordinated from 2005-2015.
Classes
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ENGL 103: Intro to the English Major
This is an introductory course for first semester and second semester students who have declared as or are interested in being English majors. The course will introduce students to English at Geneseo and to career paths for English majors; it will provide enhanced advisement and planning for the undergraduate degree, offer problem solving assistance to students as they navigate the first year of college, expose students to the range of academic and co-curricular opportunities available to English majors at Geneseo, and provide opportunities for students to interact with members of the faculty and more advanced undergraduates.
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ENGL 203: Rdg: Poetics
An introduction to the discipline of English through the study of particular topics, issues, genres, or authors. Subtitles of "Reader and Text" help students develop a working vocabulary for analyzing texts and relating texts to contexts; understand the theoretical questions that inform all critical conversations about textual meaning and value; and participate competently, as writers, in the ongoing conversation about texts and theory that constitutes English as a field of study.