George Drake

Chair & Associate Professor of English

I grew up near Portland, Oregon, earning my B.A. at Portland State University and M.A. at the the University of Oregon. During a 12-year hiatus from academics, I ran a family-owned advertising agency. After deciding I'd rather read books for a living, I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Washington. I have taught at CWU since 1998, specializing in eighteenth-century and Romantic period British literature, the novel, poetry, and literary theory. I am currently revising a book manuscript entitled Historical Space in the 18th-Century Novel. In it, I look at the way that the lived dimensions of space, and not just the details of place, are represented in British literature between 1660 and 1832. In my spare time I enjoy watching birds, peering through a telescope at faint nebulae, suffering defeat from my more skilled colleagues at ping pong, and trying to make my 1977 Alfa Romeo run keep my 1977 Alfa Romeo running.

Books I'm reading or have read recently:

The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie (novel)
The Uses of Literature, Rita Felski (Literary Theory)
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker (Cognitive Science)
Fictional Worlds, Thomas Pavel (Literary Theory)

Department of English
L&L Bldg, 423
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7553
Phone: (509) 963-1552
fax: (509) 963-1561
email: drakeg@cwu.edu

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