Mary Bendel-Simso
Associate Professor
218 Hill
410/857-2426
mbendels@mcdaniel.edu

B.A., The College of St. Catherine
M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton

Research Interests

• Colonial, 19th- and 20th-Century
• American Literature
• Southern Literature

Recent Courses

• The College Essay
• Writing about Literature
• American Lit. Modern and Contemporary
• American Novel

Students Say. . .

Personal website

Syllabi

• ENG 1002 - The College Essay
• ENG 1102 - Composition and Reading II
• American Literature III: Modern and Contemporary
• ENG 2253 - Southern Literature

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

— J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye