Virginia Pruitt
virginia.pruitt@washburn.edu
Professor Virginia Pruitt has her B.A. from St. Olaf College, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Before relocating to Topeka in 1974, Minnesota, Houston, and Memphis were all places she called home. Her first college teaching position was at the University of Memphis. At Washburn, Dr. Pruitt teaches modern literature survey courses as well as such popular culture courses as Film Noir, Gothic Literature and Film, and Detective Fiction. Her most recent scholarly publications are two essays on short fiction by Alice Munro and an article on W. B. Yeats’s poet “Sailing to Byzantium.” Her scholarly writing has appeared in a variety of literary, psychoanalytic, and psychiatric journals. Over the past eight years, she has given a series of presentations at the annual national Popular Culture meetings on Orson Welles’s radio adaptations of classic novels during the late 1930s through the mid-1940s.
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