Dr. Meoghan Cronin teaches nineteenth-century British literature and specializes in the Victorian novel. She also offers courses in Detective Fiction and the Gothic Novel. Her published work focuses on the fiction of Mary Shelley, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë, and others. Her scholarship examines the influences of religion and other forms of belief on young women in fiction—and, most recently, on nineteenth-century children’s books. Dr. Cronin is a Board member of the Nineteenth-century Studies Association, and she has been involved with the Dickens Society for many years, as a trustee, a committee member, and a conference presenter, and a book reviewer for the Dickens Quarterly . She has given many public talks and presentations about poetry and novels, and she teaches these subjects in to NH high school students and in adult learning programs. |
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Dr. Stephen Reno’s academic field is comparative religion, with particular interest in sacred spaces, rituals, mythology, and symbolism. He has taught and been a guest lecturer at universities in the United States, United Kingdom and on the Continent. His published scholarship examines differences and similarities among traditional and contemporary religious expressions such as sites and structures, ceremonies, symbols, and religious festivals. Dr. Reno is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester (UK) and was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religion. In addition to his academic interests, he has served as President of Southern Oregon University, Chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire, and most recently retired as Executive Director of Leadership New Hampshire. |
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