Department of English

Christopher Wheatley
Ordinary Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office Location: Marist 328
Office Phone: 202 319 5488
Email Address: wheatley@cua.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987

Research interests: 17th- and 18th-century English and Irish drama, 20th-century American and Irish drama, rhetorical concerns in literature and philosophy.

Publications include Without God or Reason: Secular Ethics in the Restoration and the Plays of Thomas Shadwell (1993), "Beneath Ierne's Banners": Protestant Irish Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1999), Plays from Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, co-edited with Kevin Donovan (2 vols., 2003), and "Poland Is Not Yet Lost": Heroic and Tragic Tales for the Polish Diaspora (2004); articles on Thornton Wilder, Thomas Durfey, Thomas Otway, David Hume, Katherine Philips, and sex and marriage in Restoration comedy.

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