Andrea Hearn,Ph.D.

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Andrea Hearn is a native of Stillwater who holds a Ph.D. in English. Her fields are eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British literature, but she enjoys teaching courses in a variety of periods and movements, particularly the literature of the First World War and the Golden Age of detective fiction. She is a former Regional Co-Coordinator of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the Society’s current chair of its Grants Committee. She sits on the Selection Committee of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence; other organizations include the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, and National History Day as well as the Host and Operations Teams at Life.Church Stillwater.

 

She loves to read, walk in her neighborhood and the OSU Botanic Gardens, do yardwork and embroidery, write letters to far-off friends, and enjoy her three cats. More than all of these, she loves to spend time with her family, which includes five nieces and a nephew. She is very slowly learning to play pickleball.

 

Dr. Hearn is committed to helping students make the most of their time at the university, by both excelling in their chosen programs of study and pursuing things simply for the sake of beauty and learning. She is most energized by working with students to improve their writing and find a work of literature that speaks to them. She will talk books as long as you like (and maybe longer).