Eric Heyne has been teaching at UAF since 1986. He received his doctorate in literary theory from Ohio State University in 1984 with a dissertation on the fiction/nonfiction distinction and 20^th-century American prose. He has served as Chair of the English Department, President of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He teaches American literature (particularly the Realist and Modernist periods), literary nonfiction, and Alaskan and other northern literature. 

He has published essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Western American Literature, River Teeth, Extrapolation, and The Northern Review, among other places, is the editor of Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier, (Twayne 1992), and has published poems in Ice-Floe, Big Tex[t], Eclectica, and Alaska Quarterly Review.

After serving as Interim Dean for the 2009-2010 academic year, he will be teaching in Athens, Greece, for the fall semester of 2010, for the AHA study abroad program. His two courses will be Greece in Contemporary Fiction (reading works by Don DeLillo, John Fowles, Jeffrey Eugenides, and others) at the 400 level and Creative Writing about Place at the 300 level.

If you're interested in reading and writing about Greece while drinking the wine, eating the food, breathing the air, watching the light, and listening to the language, sign up to join him.

Please call or email if you have any questions about the courses, and contact Donna Anger in the Office of International Programs (ffdmg@uaf.edu) if you have questions about how to sign up for the program.

Professor of English; Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Phone : (907) 474-7231

Email: efheyne@alaska.edu

Office: Gruening 404