Edgar Allan Poe: Ligeia

Lecturer: Suzanne Disheroon-Green

Click on the links below to view the lectures.

Part 1: Reading	Part 2: Interpreting	Part 3: Writing
Choose "Reading" to hear Suzanne Disheroon-Green read "Ligeia."	Choose "Interpreting" to gain insights into the themes and images found in "Ligeia."	Choose "Writing" to hear suggestions for writing about Poe's "Ligeia."
Questions for Thinking and Writing	Questions for Thinking and Writing	Questions for Thinking and Writing

About the Lecturer:
Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor of American Literature and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She is co-author of four books: At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings (2001), Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Work (1999) with David J. Caudle, Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (2001), and Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945 (2002) with Lisa Abney. Her work has also appeared in journals such as Southern Quarterly and Southern Studies. Disheroon-Green is the lead author of Voices of the American South, which was published by Pearson Longman in the fall of 2004. She recently completed editing a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series titled Twenty-first Century American Novelists with Lisa Abney. She is currently working on a book-length study entitled Understanding Kaye Gibbons for the University of South Carolina Press.