Linda Wagner-Martin
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate students in American literature.
She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a Rockefeller scholar, and the recipient of a senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She has worked at the Liguria Center for the Humanities, at the Bellagio Conference Center, and at the Buntin Institute. During her twenty years at Michigan State University she held a variety of administrative positions, including senior associate dean (she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Michigan State); since coming to Chapel Hill, she has defined herself as a teacher and research professor. Among her many books are biographies of Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver and, most recently, Ernest Hemingway; she has written academic studies and edited collections on the work of these and such other writers as William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Ellen Glasgow, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, and others.
Distinguished Professor
Department of English
425 Greenlaw
CB# 3520
UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
wagnerl@prodigy.net