Doreen Thierauf, Ph.D.
Employment Type Faculty
Program/Department English, School of Humanities

Doreen Thierauf, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

General Education Program Coordinator
Assistant Director of the Teaching and Learning Center
Editor, Omnium: The Undergraduate Research Journal at NCWU


Education
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Interests
As a faculty member at North Carolina Wesleyan, I often have the chance to teach across traditional disciplinary boundaries, as I do in my course on 19th- through 21st-century British literature which focuses on the development of British national identity from 1800 to the present. Moreover, I appreciate that NCWU maintains small class sizes so that students can forge long-lasting professional relationships with their instructors and peers. I not only enjoy mentoring English majors until they graduate—and sometimes beyond—but also working with them on projects and events for our chapter of the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, which invites our majors to make the fullest use of their studies. Was honored to win North Carolina Wesleyan's Exemplary Teacher of the Year Award in 2025.

I’m serving as editor of NCWU’s undergraduate research journal, Omnium, and have been a member of the Wesleyan Singers since 2019.

Research
My scholarly work has appeared in Victorian StudiesVictorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Review, VictoriographiesOxford BibliographiesPedagogy, The Journal of Popular Culture, and other venues.

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