Audio Interview with Professor Rohan Maitzen on George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Originally from Vancouver, Professor Rohan Maitzen has an Honours B.A. in English and History from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Since 1995, she has been a member of Dalhousie University’s English Department.
Her main teaching area is the Victorian novel; she has a particular admiration for George Eliot and assigns her greatest novel, Middlemarch, whenever possible.
I had the pleasure of ‘meeting’ Rohan online, in the comments section of her blog Novel Readings. I admire her smooth flowing, erudite prose and her reaching out to an audience wider than just those sitting in her classroom, as well as her grappling with issues about who the academic should address, and how literature should be taught.
Rohan was in Ottawa recently for a ‘Learneds’ conference. I got to meet her in person, and interview her, off the cuff , one on one, about the life and lessons found in Middlemarch. Please listen here:
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August 9th, 2009 at 12:19 PM
AH! Blast from the past! I fondly remember my classes at Dal with Prof Maitzen – both Close Reading and Victorian Lit. Her classes are wonderful, full of great observations, and it’s a treat to listen to them again. Thank you!