Robert Canter
Robert Canter, Senior Instructor

Department of English
219 Shanks Hall
181 Turner Street NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
bcanter@vt.edu
Robert Canter is a senior instructor in the Department of English. Canter has delivered numerous national conference presentations on teaching, literary theory, film and history, and is currently developing a reader and rhetoric on empathy in/as literature.
- American Literature (all periods)
- 20th Century Literature
- Literary Theory & Teaching Praxis
- Film
- The Novel
- Short Fiction
- Composition
- Technical Writing
- BA, SUNY Buffalo, 1984
- MA, University of Virginia, 1986
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- Professional Editor (Academic and Scientific Journals, Textbooks, Projects, and Documents)
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Books
“The Truth Shall Make You Freire,” Philosophy and Literature, October, 1995, Vol. 19, No. 2.
Book Chapters
Elements of Argument, 6th Edition
- National and regional conference presentations on American Literature, history and film, literary theory, teaching praxis, pedagogy and politics
- Department presentations on teaching theory and praxis, using music and film in literature and composition classrooms
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