English Department Faculty, Fall 2009

Mary A. Armstrong, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, and Chair of Women's and Gender Studies Program. Ph.D., Duke. Women's and gender studies, nineteenth-century British fiction; has published on feminist theory and practice, queer theory and practice, and British literature.

Steven Belletto, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Wisconsin. Twentieth-century American literature and culture; has published essays on Nabokov and Cold War literature and culture.

Kenneth Briggs, Visiting Part-Time Instructor. M. Div., Yale. Independent journalist and a former editor of The New York Times; teaches Journalistic Writing.

Deborah Byrd, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Emory. Romantic and Victorian poetry, Irish literature, interdisciplinary and literature-based courses in WGS. Has published on Victorian poets, Joyce, women science fiction writers, and feminist and service-learning pedagogy.

Paul A. Cefalu, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Chicago. 17th-century studies, Milton; has published books on literature, ethics, and economics in the Early Modern period.

Patricia Donahue, Professor. Ph.D., California-Irvine. Rhetorical theory, critical theory, and Renaissance literature; has published books on critical theory and pedagogy.

Bianca Falbo, Associate Professor and Director of the College Writing Program. Ph.D., Pittsburgh. Composition, pedagogy, late-18th through 19th century Anglo-American literary culture, history of the book, textual criticism. Has published on literacy, pedagogy, writing program administration, and 19th-century poets.

Carrie B. Havranek O'Keefe, Visiting Part-Time Instructor. M.A., New York University. Freelance cultural journalist; has published in numerous national and local publications; teaches College Writing and Journalistic Writing; author of Women Icons in Popular Music: The Rebels, Rockers and Renegades (Greenwood 2008).

David R. Johnson, Professor. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State. American literature and culture; has published on Ernest Hemingway and Harold Frederic; author of a biography of Conrad Richter.

Mary Jo Lodge, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Bowling Green. Acting, musical theater, theater and political theater; director/choreographer of numerous theater productions, author of several articles on musical theater.

Peter H. Newman, Part-Time Instructor. M.A., Lehigh University. Composition, the 1960s, secondary public education, media and democracy, theater reviews.

Alix Ohlin, Assistant Professor. M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin. Creative writing, screenwriting, literature and film; author of a novel and story collection.

Michael O'Neill, Associate Professor and Director of Theater. Ph.D., Purdue. Modern theater and theatrical production; has directed plays here and abroad; playwright and novelist.

Joseph R. Paretta, Part-Time Instructor. M.A., Hofstra University. Specializes in composition and American Literature; speaks professionally to individuals, groups, and businesses.

Christopher Phillips, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Stanford. American literature to 1880, law and literature, transatlantic cultures 1700-1880, history of the book, religion and literature, history and theory of epic literature.

Carrie Rohman, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Indiana. British modernism, animal studies, posthumanism; author of a book on discourse of species in literary and cultural modernism in Britain.

Andrew M. Smith, Assistant Professor and Chair of the American Studies Program. Ph.D., New Mexico. American literature, American Studies, film; writing on 19th-century American literature and photography.

Ian Smith, Associate Professor and Associate Head. Ph.D., Columbia. Early modern and postcolonial literature; has published on Shakespeare and Caribbean literature and is writing a book on "race" in the Renaissance.

Christian Tatu, Coordinator, College Writing Program. Ph.D., Lehigh.

Lee Upton, Writer-in-Residence and Professor. Ph.D., State University of New York-Binghamton. Creative writing and modern and contemporary poetry; author of five books of poetry, four books of criticism, and a novella.

Carolynn Van Dyke, Francis A. March Professor of English. Ph.D., Yale. Medieval literature, the English language, and women's studies; author of a book on allegory and one on Chaucer.

Bryan R. Washington, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Harvard. Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, and narrative theory; author of a book on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and James Baldwin.

Suzanne Westfall, Professor and Head. Ph.D., Toronto. Drama; acting theory and practice; author of two books and numerous articles on Renaissance and contemporary theater; directs College Theater productions.

James Woolley, Frank Lee and Edna M. Smith Professor. Ph.D., Chicago. Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture; author of books and articles on Jonathan Swift and related figures; coeditor, Swift Poems Project and Cambridge Works of Jonathan Swift.