Colin Wells joined the St. Olaf English Department in 1995. He was born in Liverpool, England. As a child, he lived for a short time in Toronto, Canada, before moving to the small town of Agawam, Massachusetts. Colin graduated from Boston College in 1987 and received his doctorate in 1995 from Rutgers University, where his special interests included the literature of the American Revolutionary and Early Republican periods and eighteenth-century English poetry. At St. Olaf, Colin has taught courses in 18th-century and early American literature, comedy, the novel, Marxist literary theory, and the Beat Generation. He is the author of The Devil and Doctor Dwight , a study of Timothy Dwight's 1788 verse satire, "The Triumph of Infidelity." Colin lives in Edina, Minnesota, with his wife, Martha, and their daughters Maggie and Elizabeth.
Colin Wells
Associate Professor of English
Director of American Conversations
Office: Rolvaag Library 407
Phone: (507) 786-3441
email: wellsc@stolaf.edu
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American Antiquarian Society Homepage
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This is what every guitar player needs to find chords,
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