Faculty
Meet the Journalism Faculty
Marilyn Webb, Chair
Distinguished Professor of Journalism
M.S., Columbia University, 1981
"As a journalist I am interested in the way large social issues affect individual people, in how people transform those issues, and how the issues in turn shape them."
David Amor Instructor of Journalism and
Anthropology and SociologyM.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986
"I am interested in the complex interplay among journalists and other media producers, the organizations they work for, larger social and political institutions, and the imaginative and material lives of the ordinary people who work, play, think and dream in a world saturated by the mass media."
Robin MetzDirector, Program in
Creative Writing, Philip Sidney Post Professor of
English M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1967
"...young writers in my classes are continually encouraged to explore the artistic and natural world around them as a way of discovering and articulating the intricacies of selfhood."
Robert SeibertRobert W. Murphy Professor of
Political Science Ph.D., Tulane University, 1969
"I am studying the role of Rotary International in world affairs, which will require research visits to Belgium, Switzerland, Bahrain, India, and the Philippines."
Nick Regiacorte
Assistant Professor of
English M.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."
Michael GodsilInstructor in
Art B.A., Knox College, 1976 and 2004
"Recent self-assigned projects have involved multiple trips to the American Southwest to photograph isolated Anasazi ruins, a trip to Peru to photograph Machu Picchu and other Incan ruins, and a project photographing receding glaciers in Alaska, Montana, and the Canadian Rockies."Richard BabcockDistinguished Journalist-in-Residence
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1974
Sue DeansDistinguished Journalist-in-Residence
M.A., University of Colorado, 1975
Lecturers
Christie Cirone Lecturer in Journalism
M.F.A., University of Illinois-Champaign, 1992
Cooperating faculty from other programs
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."
Cyn KitchenAssistant Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., Spalding University, 2005
"I love stories-mining for them, discovering the characters who abide in them, sifting through the grit and uncovering bits of shiny things hidden there. In my short story collection, /The Right to Remain Silent, /I explore the inherent darkness of human nature and its equal capacity for light."
Natania RosenfeldAssociate Professor 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."Sean Mills
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1999
Chad SimpsonVisiting Assistant Professor of
EnglishM.F.A., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2005
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