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Christopher M. Armitage

Christopher Mead Armitage, who joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1967, specializes in seventeenth- and twentieth-century English and Canadian literature. His lively style and personal interest in his students have earned him several awards for excellent teaching: the Nicholas Salgo Outstanding Teacher Award, the first UNC Professor of Distinguished Teaching in 1995, a Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate instruction in 2003 and most recently, his second Bowman and Gordon Gray chair (1986-1989, 2005-2010) for excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduates. Armitage earned a bachelor's degree with honors (1954) and a master's degree (1958) from Oxford University. He earned a second master's degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1964, and a doctorate from Duke University in 1967. Since 1970 he has returned annually to England to conduct a six-week study program on "Shakespeare in Performance" for students and alumni. In addition, Armitage lectures frequently for the Carolina Speakers program. He appeared on horseback and in eighteenth-century costume to represent William R. Davie at UNC's Bicentennial and on later occasions. His recent publications include The Poetry of Piety: An Annotated Anthology of Christian Poetry, which he compiled with UNC alumnus Rev. Dr. Ben Witherington; and "Blue China and Blue Moods: Oscar Fashioning Himself at Oxford" in Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings and His World, ed. Robert N. Keane.

Department of English and Comparative Literature | Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520 | University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
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