Bettina Tate Pedersen, Ph.D.

Professor of Literature B.A., Northwest Nazarene College; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Tate Pedersen joined the PLNU faculty in 2000. She teaches 19th and 29th Century British Literature, Feminist Theory and Composition Curriculum Vita Selected publications and scholarly work include:

Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia. Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen New York: Palgrave, June 2006. Released in paperback April 2008.

Review by Melanie Springer Mock, Ph.D.

Review by Anne Eggebroten, Ph.D.

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“Suicidal Logic: Melancholy/Depression in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights,” Victorian Gothic, Edited by Karen Sayer and Rosemary Mitchell. Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, 2003, pp. 110-23, reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Eds. Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 165. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. 150-57.

Review of The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact. Eds. Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis. Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2005). 

“And That I Should Teach Tolerance.” Profession. New York: MLA, 2001. December 2001.

Manuscripts in process:

· An English Sabbatical creative nonfiction memoir covering four months of sabbatical life and study in England

· Different Legs creative nonfiction memoir recounting my son’s year-long leg-lengthening procedure

· Being Feminist, Being Christian Volume 2 collection of essays on the relationship of feminism and Christianity

· Standing Here: Dialogues on Being Feminist Christians co-authored memoir with Allyson Jule on our growing up in different Christian traditions and growing into becoming Christian feminists