Biography
Jeanne Petrolle, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Acting Chair in the English and Creative Writing Department. Her teaching areas include the Bible as Literature, Native American literature, women's literature, and literary theory. She co-edited the essay anthology Women and Experimental Filmmaking (University of Illinois 2005) and authored Religion without Belief: Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith (SUNY, 2007) and Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love (SUNY, Excelsior Trade Division, 2018). Religion without Belief and Dancing with Ophelia explore twentieth-century literature, film, painting, and cultural studies. Petrolle has also published articles and essays about post-1960s literature, film, and painting in such scholarly and literary journals as Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Image: A Journal of Art and Religion, Calyx, Hektoen: A Journal of The Medical Humanities, and Religion and Literature. She has contributed chapters to a variety of anthologies covering contemporary literature, film, and the teaching of writing.
Petrolle received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Degrees
B.A., English Southern Connecticut State University 1991
M.A., English Southern Illinois University 1993
Ph.D., English University of Illinois Chicago 2004