Instructor Biography

Dennis Grunes
Dr. Grunes teaches college-level English courses for PSU Independent Study: Survey of American Literature, American Fiction, Contemporary Literature (Fiction), Contemporary Literature (Drama).

He earned his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written about Poe, Hawthorne and Melville, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Stevenson, Sophocles, Shakespeare and Albee. These essays have appeared in the [i]American Transcendental Quarterly[/i], Ball State University [i]Forum[/i], [i]Studies in American Drama[/i], [i]Essays in Literature[/i], [i]Studies in the Humanities[/i], the [i]College Language Association Journal[/i] and other publications.

The 2002 book [i]All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader[/i], edited by Yona Zeldis McDonough, includes an essay of his, “Two Daughters.”

His blue-eyed cat is a Manx with a tail courtesy of her Himalayan father. His favorite movie is Yasujiro Ozu’s Early Summer.