Dr. Pifer's Home Page

Dr. Lynn Pifer is a professor of English in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Mansfield University and the Director of Mansfield's Frederick Douglass Institute. In addition to teaching composition and general literature courses, she specializes in 20th century American and African-American literature. Her current teaching and research interest is in literature of the Civil Rights Movement.

office: 04-b Belknap Hall

phone: x4384

email:  lpifer@mansfield.edu

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ENG 1112W: Composition I   -- every fall

ENG 3313W: Composition II -- every spring

Helpful Composition Links:

· Composition Home Page -- Mansfield University The M.U. Composition Home Page includes our composition course descriptions, objectives, and assessment criteria. 

· Purdue University's Online Writing Lab - The OWL Family of Sites Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers advice on the writing process, grammar, MLA and APA citation styles, and more.

ENG 1115: Introduction to Literature -- most semesters

ENG 2203: Readings in Ancient Literature -- occasional spring semesters. I enjoy this course, but I don't teach it on a regular basis

ENG 2208: Readings in American Literature -- most fall semesters

ENG 2220W: Special Topics -- I occasionally teach ENG 2220W as Civil Rights Autobiography, or as Slave Narrative during the fall semester. I cross-list both    of these courses with HON 2255W.

ENG 3320W: Special Topics -- I occasionally teach ENG 3320W as Civil Rights Novel during the spring semester. I cross-list this course with HON 4455W.

ENG 3327: African American Literature -- Spring of odd years. I teach ENG 3327 as a Neo Slave Novel course.

ENG 3385: Major Author -- fall semesters. I'm not the only one to teach this course, but when it's my turn, I teach this course as a Faulkner/Morrison course.

ENG 3329: Regional Literature -- fall of odd years. I'm not the only one to teach this course, but when it's my turn, I teach this course as a Southern Literature course, focusing on the 20th century.