Office Location: 47-32

Phone Number: 756-2596

Email: lhalisky@calpoly.edu

Professor. Department Chair (1994-2000). Director, International Education and Programs (IEP). Director, London Study. Primary Fields: British Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, especially Spenser and the poets of the earlier Seventeenth Century; American Literature to 1865, especially Hawthorne and the American Renaissance; pre-patriarchal mythologies, Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Celtic, and their remnants in the Western literary tradition. Publication: "Redeeming the Irrational: The Inexplicable Heroines of 'A Sorrowful Woman' and 'To Room Nineteen'" (1990). Current research: the Sumerian mythology of Inanna in relation to current narrative treatment strategies for Borderline Personality Disorder. Professor Halisky received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award for 1990-91. Education: B.A. Whittier College 1968; M.A. University of California, Riverside 1978; Ph.D. University of California, Riverside 1984. She joined the Cal Poly faculty in 1984.