Associate Professor of English
Web Site
mary.wearn@maconstate.edu

Having earned a B.S. from Case Western Reserve University, Mary Wearn began her career working in biomedical and electrical engineering. After receiving a Ph.D. in American literature from UGA in 2003, she served as a post-doctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2004, Dr. Wearn became Assistant Professor of English at Macon State, where she teaches American literature and writing.  She currently serves as advisor to the English Studies Organization (ESO), and she was instrumental in developing the School of Arts and Sciences undergraduate conference.

Dr. Wearn’s research interests include gender studies, abolitionist writing and slave narratives, maternal theory, and electronic pedagogy. She recently published the book Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge, 2008), and she recently published an essay on Harriet Jacobs in the international essay collection entitled, From the Personal to the Political: Towards a New Theory of Maternal Narrative (Caporale and O’Reilly eds., Susquehanna UP, 2009). Wearn’s newest research project concerns religion and nineteenth-century American women writers.