Stacy Burton

BurtonStacy Burton is an associate professor in the Department of English, where she is also department chair.  She received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University; her research interests include modernism and postmodernism, cultural and literary theory, and travel narrative.  She has taught courses in several fields, including modern British and European literature, literary criticism and cultural theory, the novel, western humanities, women's studies, and composition.  A member of the University of Nevada faculty since 1990, she teaches Core Humanities 202 and is co-editor of the reader for that course, Trials of Modernity.  Her lecture, "Europeans and Others: Travel, Empire, and the 'Orient,'" was broadcast in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures.

UNR Home Core Humanities Faculty