Sandy Hutchins
Dr. Sandra Smith Hutchins is an Associate Professor of
English with major teaching focuses in Writing, including Creative
Writing and Composition, and in British literature, 19th and 20th
Centuries. She received a PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1989
with focuses in 19th Century English literature and drama
(1500-1800).
She has taught almost everything under the Belmont sun(in addition
to the aforementioned areas): Honors Ancient World, Women Writers,
Continental Literature, Writing and the Creative Process, and
special topics seminars with topics such as love, madness and
creativity, the family in Victorian literature, Victorian People
and Ideas (co-taught with Dr. Doug Bisson of the History
Department), studies in tragedy as genre, and Dickens and the Idea
of Christmas (taught through the CCSA Study Abroad program in
London.)
Research interests include: daughter/father relationships (19th
Century to Contemporary); social festivity in literature;
Australian literature and creative writing pedagogy, other
literary/cultural study; teaching and pedagogy, especially the
teaching of creative writing and methods of evaluating teaching.
Dr. Hutchins is a writer with publications of fiction, poetry, and
creative non-fiction, who is now working on her third novel.
Writing takes second place to teaching, though, in the ranking of
her passions. She delights in encouraging student writers from all
areas of study. She enjoys music (blues, rock jazz, classical,
country mostly), cooking when there is time for it, and travel.
An American/Australian citizen, she taught in Australian
universities for five years, including directing the creative
writing program in the country's first multi-arts degree
program (undergraduate and graduates), jointly offered by the
Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne.
email:
Sandra Hutchins
phone: 615.460.6389
office: WHB 207A
