Lyon D. Evans, Jr.'s Home Page

Professor of English
Faculty advisor, Lumen (student newspaper)
Office hours: Monday, Friday, 2-3 pm; Tuesday, 1-2 pm;
and by appointment
Office: 528 Murphy Center
Telephone: (608) 796-3483
email: ldevans@Viterbo.edu
FAX (608) 796-3050

Information about Lumen

Fall Semester 2000 classes:

• English 201: News Reporting and Writing
• English 210: Student Newspaper
• English 325: American Novel to 1945
• English 341: Greek and Roman Literature

Recent Professional Activities

Courses Taught by Lyon Evans, Jr. Since 1995:

• English 103: Composition & the Elements of Argument
• English 104: Composition and Literature
• English 127/227/327/427: Symposium
• English 208: The Short Story
• English 210: Student Newspaper
• English 221: Survey of American Literature II
• English 309: Non-Western Literature
• English 315: Creative Writing
• English 320: American Renaissance
• English 321: American Masterpieces
• English 322: American Fiction Since 1945
• English 325: The American Novel
• English 336: Shakespeare
• English 336: Shakespeare
• English 338: English Renaissance Literature
• English 341: Greek & Roman Literature
• English 345: The European Novel
• English 354: Western Masterpieces (formerly World Literature)
• English 455: Colloquium: Herman Melville
• English 479: Literary Criticism and Theory I (discontinued 8/99)
• English 480: Literary Criticism and Theory (formerly Lit. Crit. and Theory II)
• English 480: Literary Criticism and Theory
• English 481: Senior Seminar

• State University of New York at Buffalo: M.A., English (1978); Ph.D., English (1981)
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: M.A., History (1975)
• Swarthmore College: B.A.  (Honors); major in History; minors in Philosophy and Religion (1969)

Profile of Lyon Evans, Jr.

Descent from Matthew Lyon (1749-1822): the first person elected to Congress while in jail; popularly known as "Spitting Lyon, the Wild Irishman from Vermont"

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Updated 9/9/00