Derek Pacheco
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Derek Pacheco (PhD at UCLA, 2006) is an associate professor of English at ASU, having joined the department from Purdue University in 2024. His research interests include: nineteenth-century literature; children’s and young adult literature; print culture and book history.
Over his career, Pacheco has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate literature courses. Select classes taught include: American Literature to 1865; Intro to Lit Theory; Literature for Children; Young Adult Literature; Intro to Game Studies; Exploring Dungeons & Dragons; Your Degree in the World (Career Exploration); Approaches to Research (Intro to English Studies); Antebellum American Literature; Later Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Teaching Literature at the College Level; and Scholarly Writing & Publishing.
He has earned numerous undergraduate teaching awards, including the Charles B. Murphy Award, the highest undergraduate teaching award Purdue bestows.
- PhD. University of California, Los Angeles 2006
- MA. University of Washington 2000
- BA. University of California, Los Angeles 1998
“Romantic Castaways: Children’s Fantasy Lit and Christopher Pearse Cranch’s The Last of the Huggermuggers,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 71, no. 2, spring 2025, pp. 159-99.
“’Funny Queer Fits’: Masculinity and Desire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.” Children’s Literature Quarterly, volume 46, number 3, fall 2021, pp. 263-282.
“Hawthorne and the American Revolution.” Hawthorne in Context, edited by Monika Elbert, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 35-45.
“Engendering Fantasy in Romantic Children’s Fiction.” Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, edited by Monika Elbert and Lesley Ginsberg, Routledge, 2015, pp. 211-228.
Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America. The Ohio State University Press, 2013. Paperback reissue – July 2017.
“‘Dwarves and Hobgoblins’: Hawthorne, Gothic Children’s Literature, and A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, volume 38, number 2, fall 2012, pp. 47-71.
"‘Vanished Scenes…Pictured in the Air’: Hawthorne, Indian Removal, and The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, volume 36, number 1, spring 2010, pp. 186-211.
"‘Disorders of the Circulating Medium’: Hawthorne’s Early Children’s Literature," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, volume 53, number 3, fall 2007, pp. 282-319.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 294 | Special Topics |
| ENG 300 | Your Degree in the World |
| ENG 300 | Your Degree in the World |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 501 | Approaches to Research |
| ENG 300 | Your Degree in the World |