Andrew White

Dr. Andrew White is a native of the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. He grew up near Portland, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. One of the most memorable events of his childhood was the eruption of Mount Saint Helens (65 miles north of Portland) on May 18, 1980.

After completing a bachelor’s degree in theology, Andrew spent two years doing volunteer work in Eastern Europe – mostly in Bulgaria. Returning to the USA, he went on to earn an M.A. in English at Oregon State University (1999) and a Ph.D. in English at Washington State University (2003). Most recently, Andrew has taught at the American University in Bulgaria, an American-style residential, liberal arts college in the Balkans. His research interests include early American life-writing and Balkan literature.

• B.A. Warner Pacific College
• M.A. Oregon State University
• Ph.D. Washington State University

Article in Monograph: “‘Expanding in the Sun’: Margaret Fuller’s ‘Autobiographical Romance’ and the Hellenic Topography of Early American Feminism.” In Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism. Ed. Tatiani G. Rapatzikou. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 116-129. ISBN 9781847182487.

Article in Peer-Reviewed Journal: “A ‘Consuming’ Oppression: Sugar, Cannibalism and John Woolman’s 1770 Slave Dream.” Quaker History 96:2 (Fall 2007): 1-27.

Building Balkan Studies: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (June 2007): “Ottoman Bridges and Balkan Identity.” Workshop – Victor Friedman, moderator

Reinventions of Identity in the Balkans Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (May 2006): “War of the Words: Language, Ottoman Power and the Construction of Identity in Ismail Kadare’s Three-Arched Bridge”

Other Presentations:

Shalom Sunday School Class, Parkview Mennonite Church (Harrisonburg, Virginia): “Sorrow and Doubt: Faith in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson” (March 2009)

Advanced College Writing

Speech

American Literature II

Shakespeare

Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean