Andretta, Helen

Professor Emerita

English

Phone: 718-262-6472
Office Location: AC-2B09
Email: handretta@york.cuny.edu

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Dr. Helen R. Andretta is Professor Emeritus in the English Department. She has taught courses in language and in literature of the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and Restoration and Eighteenth century periods and inclusive of senior seminars and honors studies in English. Professor Andretta's interest in medieval studies is reflected in her monograph, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: A Poet's Response to Ockhamism (Studies in the Humanities, Vol. 29, New York: Peter Lang, 1997). Her article on Flannery O'Connor is "The Hylomorphic Sacramentalism of 'Parker's Back'" in a collection by O'Connor scholars, Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction, ed. Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007), 41-63. She has presented cross-disciplinary approach papers in regional, national, and international conferences, resulting in numerous publications.

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Areas of Expertise

• Anglo-Saxon (Old English) Language and Literature
• Middle English Language and Literature (especially Chaucer)
• Renaissance Literature (especially Shakespeare)
• Flannery O’Connor Studies

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