Faculty: Mark Pedreira

Brief introduction:
Academic Degree:	PhD, University of Maryland (1994)
Areas of Expertise:	17th & 18th Century British Literature, Literary Criticism, Lexicography, Textual Criticism & Rhetoric

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Contact Information

Brief biography

Mark A. Pedreira, a second generation American of Cuban/Spanish, Italian, and Polish descent, was born in Syracuse, NY and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from Wheaton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Restoration and Eighteenth-century British Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. His doctoral training included specialization in rhetorical theory, conceptual metaphor theory (a branch of cognitive linguistics/rhetoric), and lexicology. He has taught at various institutions before joining the UPR faculty, including Boston University and Chonbuk National University, South Korea. His current research, a MS entitled 'Dictionary Johnson' and the Protean Word , examines Samuel Johnson's thoughts regarding poetic metaphor in the long eighteenth century , focusing on controversies concerning metaphorical interpretation from the perspective of eighteenth-century literary criticism, textual criticism, rhetoric/poetics, and lexicography.

Course Syllabi

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ENGLISH 3001  ENGLISH 3002  ENGLISH 6457	ENGLISH 3001  ENGLISH 3002 (banked)