Dorothy Z. Baker holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Maryland. Her teaching and research focus on early and antebellum American literature, the literature of New France, and literary translation. She is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry (1986) and America’s Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (2007) and editor of Poetics in the Poem (1996) and The Silent and Soft Communion: The Spiritual Narratives of Sarah Pierpont Edwards and Sarah Prince Gill (2005).
An active member of the Society of Early Americanists, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, the Emily Dickinson International Society, and The Stowe Society, she has received research and travel grants from the American Council of Learned Societies. Dorothy Baker received a 1995 UH Enron Teaching Award and the 2000 Master Teacher Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of English.
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