Daniel Ritchie

Job Titles

• Professor of English
  English, College of Arts and Sciences
• Humanities Program Director
  General Education, College of Arts and Sciences

Started at Bethel

1985

Education

• Amherst College - B.A. Cum laude in Greek, 1978
• Rutgers University - M.A. in English, 1980
• Rutgers University - Ph.D. in English, 1985

Areas of expertise

Ritchie teaches courses in British literature and specializes in the 18th century. In 2002, he guided Bethel’s efforts to begin a Humanities Program, a team-taught, 4-course introduction to the Western tradition. In 2006, he won Bethel’s Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching. He has edited 2 books on Edmund Burke and has written 2 books of literary criticism, Reconstructing Literature in an Ideological Age and The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer.