Bettina Tate Pedersen, Ph.D.

• Chair, Department of Literature, Journalism and Modern Languages
• Professor of Literature

Education

• B.A., Northwest Nazarene College
• M.A., Temple University
• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Links

• Being Feminist, Being Christian
• Book Review by Melanie Springer Mock, Ph.D.
• Book Review by Anne Eggebroten, Ph.D.

Background

Dr. Bettina Tate Pedersen joined the PLNU faculty in 2000. She teaches 19th and 20th Century British Literature, Feminist Theory, and Composition.

Her recent scholarly work includes:

Recent Publications and Conference Papers:

Book chapter, "We're Doomed: Why Christian Colleges and Universities Must Lead on the Issue of Gender Equity and Why They Don't," co-written with Allyson Jule of Trinity Western University, Canada, published in the book, The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America's Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning, Eds. Samuel Joeckel and Thomas C. Chesnes. Abilene Christian University Press, June 2011. This paper was also presented presented at the Changing Faces: Changing Opportunities & Campus Climates for Women and Men Conference at abilene Christian University, September 29-October 1, 2010.

At the same conference Dr. Tate-Pedersen also presented a paper titled "When Will We No Longer Need Feminism?"

Manuscripts in process:

· Why Feminism Still Matters - book on the necessity of feminism for Evangelical Christians

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

· "A Son's Leg, a Mother's Heart" -  creative nonfiction memoir recounting my son’s year-long leg-lengthening procedure

Publications

Brief Selection

“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.