Biography
Jeanne Petrolle, Ph.D. is Acting Dean of Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor of English in the School of Communication and Culture. Her teaching areas include the Bible as Literature, Native American literature, and women's literature.聽 She co-edited the anthology Women and Experimental Filmmaking (University of Illinois 2005) and authored聽Religion without Belief: Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith (SUNY, 2007) and Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love (SUNY, Excelsior Trade Division, 2018). Religion without Belief and Dancing with Ophelia explore twentieth-century literature, film, painting, religion, and cultural studies. Petrolle has also published articles and essays about post-1960s literature, film, and painting in such scholarly and literary journals as聽Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Image: A Journal of Art and Religion, Religion and Literature, Annals of Biblical Exegesis, and Literature and Theology. She has contributed chapters to a variety of anthologies covering contemporary literature, film, and the teaching of writing. Most recently, she contributed "Let's Talk Politics and Religion" to The Leader, the newsletter of the Association for Academic Leaders (May 2025 Issue).聽
聽Petrolle received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Degrees
B.A., English Southern Connecticut State University 1991
M.A., English Southern Illinois University 1993
Ph.D., English University of Illinois Chicago 2004