John Paine
Dr. John H. E. Paine, Professor of Literature, has been
fascinated by European languages and literatures since early
childhood. He received a B.A. in Literature from Eckerd College
(including a year of French study at the Université
de Neuch
âtel,
Switzerland). His graduate work in Comparative Literature at Emory
University (M.A., Ph.D.) included concentrations in French and
German as well as American Literature and literary theory and
criticism, and a year of study at the Universit
ät
Z
ürich.
He has done research on European and American short fiction and
literary theory and criticism. He has taught German and Humanities
at Emory University, French at Georgia Tech, English and American
Studies at the Universit
ät
Regensburg, and American Literature and Culture as a Fulbright
Fellow in Angers, France. He has also studied contemporary trends
in literary criticism and Philosophy, the literature of the South,
and Homer and the oral epic during summer faculty development
seminars.
At Belmont, Dr. Paine currently teaches French civilization,
conversation, and translation, as well as undergraduate and
graduate courses in World Literature, Modern Fiction, The Short
Story, and Literary Criticism. He is Co-Editor of Journal of the
Stort Story in English. He has directed or co-directed study trips
to Paris, Angers, Florence, and Dresden, and has helped to develop
student programs with institutions in France, Germany, Russia,
Italy, Spain, and China, among others.
email:
John Paine
phone: 615.460.6244
office: WHB 200B
