Dr. Leslie Simon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, where she has been on faculty since 2011. Dr. Simon is the recipient of the Dean's Award of Excellence for Scholarship (2023), the Faculty Excellence Award (2015), the UVU CAL Mentor of the Year Award (2018), and a Student Association Wolverine Commitment to Excellence award (2016, finalist). She has served as department chair, Humanities coordinator, Honors Faculty Fellow, and interim director of the Honors Program, and has taught classes like the following_
Forms and Genres ("Narrative Studies"), Period Studies ("Dickens"), Topics in Humanities ("Filthy Victorians"), Topics in Humanities ("The Infinite and the Instant_ Studies in Modern Literature and Mathematics"), Adventures of Ideas II ("By the Books, by the Numbers"), Adventures of Ideas II ("Road-trip America"), Approaches to Humanities, Honors Modern Legacies ("Victorian Controversies"), Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar ("Heaps"), Honors Capstone, Honors Thesis/Project, Honors Colloquium, Humanities Capstone, Integrated Studies Capstone
Dr. Simon earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Boston University, and her B.A. in English Literature and French from Texas A&M University. She has published in Dickens Quarterly, Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in the Novel, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and is currently working on a book manuscript on the heap -- as an image, an object, and a paradox -- in the nineteenth-century imagination, /Heaps: On Dickens and Modern Mathematics/.
Major: English Literature
Major: English Literature
Major: English Literature / French Literature
Advanced Topics in Humanities, Spring 2024
Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar, Spring 2024
Humanities Through the Arts HH, Spring 2024
Modern Legacies, Spring 2024
Established in 2022, the Honors Faculty Fellow designation is given to faculty who advance the mission of the Utah Valley University Honors Program. Faculty apply following the process below; if selected, each faculty will receive reassignment of 3 ICHE/ACHE or $4000 per semester to participate in the leadership of the Honors Program.
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