Dr. Marla Lunderberg
Professor of English, Department Chair616.395.7243lunderberg@hope.edu
                  
Marla Lunderberg began teaching at Hope in 1994. Her teaching interests are wide-ranging: Shakespeare, British literature, cultural heritage, English composition, First Year Seminar and Senior Seminar.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Marla's field of expertise is 17th-century British literature. She loves encouraging students as they tackle John Milton鈥檚 Paradise Lost and dissect John Donne鈥檚 Holy Sonnets. She has a secondary field of interest in Asian studies; she has led students on Hope鈥檚 May Term to Japan and has served as Hope鈥檚 Meiji Gakuin exchange professor.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., early modern British literature, University of Chicago, 1996
 - M.A., University of Chicago, 1986
 - B.A., English, French, 换妻社区, 1982
 
HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS
- Study tour of Japan and Korea, Great Lakes College Association 鈥 Global Liberal Arts Alliance grant, 2019
 - Provost鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Advising, 换妻社区, 2018
 - 鈥淏eyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions across the Early Modern World (1400-1800),鈥 National Endowment for the Humanities Institute at Indiana University, 2017
 - Field study in China, Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) grant, 2011
 - 鈥淚nfusing East Asia into the Undergraduate Curriculum鈥 Asian Studies Development Program Institute at University of Hawaii East-West Center, Freeman Foundation grant, 2008
 
Select publications
- 鈥溾 Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, May/June 2015
 - 鈥溾 Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, February, 2012
 - 鈥,鈥 SEL Studies in English Literature 1500鈥1900 44.1, 2004
 
Outside the college
In her spare time, Marla loves travel, hiking, photography and ballroom dancing.