Titles and Organizations
Instructor, Honors College
Contact Information
Email: dforbes7@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1110
Mail Stop: Honors College, MSN 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office: Buchanan 205
Biography
Dr. Forbes teaches Honors 122, Reading the Arts. She trained as a Romanticist and scholar of poetry and is currently a fiction writer.
Selected Publications
"Meet Me at the Edge," first place Zoetrope All-Story short fiction competition, 2021
"Oasis," The Pushcart Prize XLV, 2021
Sincerity's Shadow: Self-Consciousness in Romantic and Mid-Twentieth-Century Poetry, Harvard University Press, 2004
Courses Taught
HNRS 122: Fictions of Identity and the Ethics of Fiction
Education
PhD, English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University (2002)
AB, English, Duke University (1995)