Dr. Mary Ruth Stewart
Professor of English
Irby 317F
(501) 450-5100
Mary Ruth Stewart is a Professor of English at The University of Central Arkansas, where she specializes in women’s studies and critical theory. She is author of Captive Bodies: American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth, the co-editor of Ten Years After Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm’s Effect on American Culture and Identity and Papa, PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy, and has published articles on Tillie Olsen, Virginia Woolf, Louisa May Alcott, Bernie Babcock, and Sarah Palin, among others, and book chapters on Mad Men and Downton Abbey. Currently she is at work on a book about Arkansas writer Bernie Babcock. Dr. Stewart served as the Executive Director of Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, the state’s only professional Shakespeare theater, from 2010-2020.
Education
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
M.A., University of Central Arkansas
Areas of Specialization
Women’s Studies
Literary Criticism
Spring 2023 Office Hours
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| — | 9:15a – 10:45a
4p – 5p |
— | 9:15a – 10:45a
4p – 5p |
11a – 12p |
Fall 2021 Class Schedule
| Film and Lit. | ENGL 1355 | TTH 9:25
TTH 2:40 |
Irby 303 |
| American Lit. II | ENGL 2313 | TTH 12:15 | Irby 304 |
| Senior Seminar | ENGL 4335 | TTH 8:00 | Irby 313 |
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