Lori HaslemAssociate Dean of the College, Professor of
EnglishPh.D., University of Denver, 1990
"I continue to work on the popular use of the riddle in early modern England and its carryover to Shakespeare's plays, especially as those riddles pertain to issues of female sexuality and to dramatic closure."
Natania RosenfeldProfessor of
EnglishPh.D., Princeton University, 1992
"Some current projects of mine include:A collection of memoir essays in which a vision is formed through errancy and movement. The book is autobiographical in exploring the formation of my own mind through travel, books, art and, especially, the clash and combination of several languages."
Marilyn WebbDistinguished Professor of
JournalismM.S., Columbia University, 1981
Webb was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1997 book The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life, which traces the lives of 15 terminally ill patients, using their experiences to explore social, legal, and moral issues surrounding death in America.
Emily Anderson
Associate Professor of
EnglishPh.D., University of California-Berkeley, 2003
"I work on the implications of a narrator's point of view, the way reliability or unreliability shapes a narrative, and the interplay between forms and genres."
Monica BerlinAssociate Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., Vermont College, 2002
"I've found myself fascinated by edges-the edges of everything-particularly the threshold of language or that moment where utterance edges toward something new, something different."
Gina Franco
Associate Professor of
EnglishPh.D., Cornell University, 2004
"I'm also working on superstition in nineteenth-century British Romanticism, a project that has led me to look at the tragic dramas of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley."
Nick RegiacorteAssociate Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., University of Iowa, 1998
"My motivation to make poems remains to attain single moments of surprise, in which I feel at once stupider than humanly possible and smarter than I have ever been.
Cyn KitchenVisiting Assistant Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., Spalding University, 2005
"I explore the inherent darkness of the soul and its equally disproportionate capacity for light." Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
Robert HellengaGeorge Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of
EnglishPh.D., Princeton University, 1969
"I'm very interested in the nature of literary experience, which is affective as well as interpretative."
Alex KuoDistinguished Affiliated Scholar in
EnglishM.F.A., University of Iowa, 1963
Writer-in-Residence and Lecturer
Chad SimpsonVisiting Assistant Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2005
Cooperating faculty from other programs
John HaslemDirector of the Center for Teaching and Learning
Ph.D., University of Denver, 1990
Frederick HordProfessor of
Black StudiesPh.D., Union Graduate School, 1987
"My most immediate projects are in the areas of Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, and the status of Blacks in Latin America."Paul Marasa
Writing Coordinator, Educational Development Program
M.A, Indiana University
Elizabeth Carlin Metz Professor of
TheatreMFA, Temple University, 1983
"I seek to integrate physical theatre techniques with more traditional Western theatre practices so as to discover new levels of expressiveness and meaning in theatre of all styles and genres and, thus, in the world."Emeritus Faculty
Michael Gardner Crowell
Professor Emeritus of English
Robert Riner Hellenga
George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of English
John McCall
Professor Emeritus of English, President Emeritus
Edward Lee Niehus
Professor Emeritus of English
Douglas Lawson Wilson
George Appleton Distinguished Service Professor of English Emeritus faculty
Robin Metz
Robert Smith, Chair
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