In Praise of Fright
A three story brick tudor overgrown with ivy, the house gave the impression of cultivated neglect,...
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Dawn Marlan
Dawn Marlan has a BA in Literature and Languages from Bennington College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago, where she worked as a fiction editor for many years on The Chicago Review. She has published essays, literary nonfiction, and reviews on literature, art, and film in a wide range of publications including (among others): PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Evergreen Review, and in Smoke: A Cultural History of Smoking. She is currently at work on Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, a novel inspired by The Who’s rock opera, Tommy. She teaches Comparative Literature and German Studies at the University of Oregon.
Dawn Marlan has a BA in Literature and Languages from Bennington College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago, where she worked as a fiction editor for many years on The Chicago Review. She has published essays, literary nonfiction, and reviews on literature, art, and film in a wide range of publications including (among others): PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Evergreen Review, and in Smoke: A Cultural History of Smoking. She is currently at work on Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, a novel inspired by The Who’s rock opera, Tommy. She teaches Comparative Literature and German Studies at the University of Oregon.
Posts by Dawn Marlan
Ode to Rocky Horror
As a teenager, I knew all the lines of The Rocky Horror Picture Show by heart, and the unscripted...
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