Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr.
Wright 218, x3315, rhosmer@email.smith.edu
Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr., Senior Lecturer, (A.B., English, College of the Holy Cross; M.A., Religion, Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., English, University of Massachusetts/Amherst) teaches courses in fiction, poetry, and masterpieces of Western literature. In addition, he specializes in the work of twentieth-century women writers including Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Penelope Fitzgerald, Edna O'Brien, and Muriel Spark. He has published the Guide to the seventh Edition of The Norton Reader (1988), Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies (Macmillan, London, 1993), and numerous essays on contemporary fiction and poetry.  His most recent publications include entries on Elizabeth Taylor and Muriel Spark in Blackwell's Companion to the English and Irish Short Story (2008).  'Shall we say I had Fun with my Imagination': Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark is in-press (University of Notre Dame).  He has now begun preliminary work on a book, tentatively titled The Eternal Moment: Time and Design in the Fiction of Muriel Spark.