English Department Faculty
Janet E. Aikins Yount
is serving a three-year term as Chair of the UNH English Department
(2003-2006). She received her B.A. from Grinnell College and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests
center on eighteenth-century studies, with special emphasis on the novel and
drama as genres. In 1989 she received a UNH Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Her two most recent graduate courses focused on narrative theory
and on the legacy of Ian Watt’s groundbreaking study, The Rise of the Novel
(1957). Professor Aikins Yount's essay, “Picturing ‘Samuel
Richardson’: Francis Hayman and the Intersections of Word and Image,” a
study of Hayman’s portrait of the Samuel Richardson family, appeared in
a special issue of
Eighteenth-Century Fiction devoted to “Fiction and Print
Culture” [vol. 14, nos. 3-4 (April-July 2002): 465-505. Currently she is in
the process of editing two volumes of twentieth-century critical, cultural,
and creative response to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, to be published by AMS Press as part of "The Clarissa Project." She is also a Series Editor for
Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies, a monograph series
published by the University Press of New England. To access Professor Aikins
Yount's web page, please click:
http://www.unh.edu/english/faculty/aikins/index.html
Charlotte Bacon
was born in New York City and earned a
B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from Columbia. She has taught at UNH
since 1998 and earned the 2004 Outstanding Assistant Professor Prize.
She has published three books: a collection of short stories called A
Private State (1998) from the University of Massachusetts Press; a novel
Lost Geography (2000) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Picador; and
another novel, There is Room for You (2004), also from Farrar, Straus
and Giroux and Picador. In 2000, she won a fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2001, she received an award from the
Guggenheim Foundation. Her new project, a novel set in Wyoming, will
be published in 2006.
Brigitte Bailey
(BA University
of Virginia, MA and PhD Harvard University) Her teaching and research interests focus on 19th-century United
States literature and culture (especially visual culture), travel writing,
cultural productions of nationhood, and on the “spatial turn” in recent
critical theory. Representative articles include "Travel Writing and the
Metropolis: James, London, and English Hours" (American Literature
1995), "Representing Italy: Fuller, History Painting, and the Popular Press"
(in Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique, ed. Fritz Fleischmann,
2000), "Gender, Nation, and the Tourist Gaze in the European 'Year of
Revolutions': Kirkland's Holidays Abroad" (American Literary
History 2002), and "Tourism and Visual Subjection in Letters from
Abroad and 'An Incident at Rome," (in Catharine Maria Sedgwick:
Critical Perspectives, eds. Lucinda Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements,
2002). Current research projects include antebellum tourist writing and
urban representations in the New York journalism of 1840s public
intellectuals.
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
teaches Critical Theory, Early Modern Literature, and Women's
Studies. She is the author of Translations of Power: Narcissism and
the Unconscious in Epic History (Cornell, 1992) and Affective Genealogies:
Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the 'Jewish Question' After Auschwitz
(Nebraska, 1997). She has published articles on topics ranging from Early
Modern Literature to the relevance of psychoanalysis for cultural critique in
such journals as Diacritics, The Yale Journal of Criticism,
South Atlantic Quarterly, English Literary History, and Spenser
Studies, as well as in essay collections from Princeton, Minnesota, SUNY
Press, and others. She is co-editor (along with Patrick Cheney and
Michael Schoenfeldt) of Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton (Palgrave,
2003).
Thomas Carnicelli
received his B.A. from Princeton
University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He
specializes in Medieval literature, the history of the English language,
and English pedagogy.
Monica Chiu
specializes in Asian American Studies, teaching the literature, theory, and
film of the field. She is presently writing a book that addresses
both the real and socially constructed pathogens and pathologies she frequently
encounters in Asian American literature. Given such interests in examining
the body from literary, medical, anthropological, feminist, and cultural studies
angles, she recently taught a course called Literature and the Body. Monica
also enjoys her American literature survey courses (1865 to the present) and
Writing About Literature. She places significant emphasis on student essays—setting
high standards—by assisting students in shaping sophisticated arguments and
eloquent prose. Monica has been published in a variety of journals, including
MELUS, Journal of American Studies, and Lit: Literature, Interpretation,
Theory. She completed her M.A. at Binghamton University and her Ph.D.
at Emory University.
Mary Clark
received her B.A. degree in English from UNH in
June 1962 and her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, in June 1978. Before coming to UNH in Fall 1978, she taught
English at Kennett High School in Conway, NH; in Nigeria (as a Peace Corps
Volunteer); and at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT.
She also directed the ESL program at the University of Massachusetts and
taught courses in the M.A.T. Program at the School for International
Training. Her research interests are in phonology (especially the
theory of tone), African languages, and the teaching of English grammar. She
teaches courses in Phonetics and Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, English
Grammar, ESL Methodology, and Linguistic Field Methods. She is the
author of
(2003) The Structure of English for
Readers, Writers, and Teachers. Glen Alen, VA: College Publishing Co; (1990) The
Tonal System of Igbo.
Dordrecht Foris Publications; (1978) A Dynamic Treatment of Tone, with Special
Attention to the Tonal System of Igbo.
Indiana University Linguistics Club. She also directs the UNH Intensive
ESL Institute.
Margaret-Love Denman,
currently Director of the UNH Writing Program, was educated at
the University of Mississippi (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1967). She has been been an
Alan Collins Fellow at Breadloaf and a Gustafson Fellow at the UNH Humanities
Center. Her novel A Scrambling after Circumstance (Viking 1990,
Penguin 1991) was nominated for PEN Faulkner and PEN Hemingway awards, and is
part of the Contemporary American Fiction series. She has been an officer
for the UNH AAUP and sits on the Council of Chairs for the AWP. She is totally
devoted to her dogs and her children (often in that order) and, in the fourth
grade, was both founder and president of the "We Never Guess, We Look It Up
Club."
Walter Eggers,
(B.A. Duke
University, Ph.D., University of North Carolina) came to the University as
Provost and Professor of English in 1989. He regularly taught courses
in the Department, and he was active in the national profession of
university administrators. Ten years later, he resumed his career as a
teacher and scholar, focusing on Shakespeare, the drama, genre theory and
teaching; he has written and spoken on Shakespeare's comedies and romances,
on teaching Shakespeare, on the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, and on academic
administration.
Burt Feintuch
came to UNH in 1988 to direct the Center of the Humanities. His
research interests include traditional music, ethnography, cultural
revivals, and public culture, and he has edited and written books, articles,
and reviews on a variety of topics in folklore and folklife. A former
editor of the Journal of American Folklore, he is editor, with David
H. Watters, of the Encyclopedia of New England, to be published in
fall 2005 by Yale University Press. His most recent major publication
is Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture. Lately, he
has been producing sound recordings for the Smithsonian Folkways and Rounder
labels, derived from his research in Cape Breton. Feintuch was
recently appointed by the Librarian of Congress to the National Recording
Preservation Board, and he serves as the American Folklore Society's
representative to the World Intellectual Property Organization. He has
received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Council of
Learned Societies, and other organizations; and he has worked with a wide
range of public culture organizations and institutions.
Michael Ferber
is the Coordinator of the English
Graduate Program. He
came to UNH in 1987 after five years as a lobbyist in Washington for the peace
movement. Before that he was an Assistant Professor at Yale. He
majored in Greek at Swarthmore College and has his Ph.D. from Harvard (1975).
He has written five books, one on the history of draft resistance in the sixties,
two on William Blake, one on Percy Shelley, and A Dictionary of Literary
Symbols (1999). He is at work on an anthology of European Romantic
poetry in translation.
Lester Fisher received his B.A.
from the University of Maine at Orono, his M.A. from the University of New
Hampshire, and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He specializes in
American literature of the twentieth century and African-American
literature.
Diane P. Freedman,
Professor of English, is the author of An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre
Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics; co-author of Teaching Prose;
editor of Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal; and co-editor of The
Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, The Teacher's Body:
Embodiment, Authority, and Identity, in the Academy, and Autobiographical
Writing across the Disciplines: a Reader. [Her critical articles, personal
essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in the journals ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, College
Literature, The Bucknell Review, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,
Crazyquilt, Ascent, Sou'wester, Wind, and Permafrost and in the edited
collections Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by
Women, Constructing and Reconstructing Gender, The Confessions of the
Critics, Shorewords: A Collection of American Women's Coastal Writings, and
Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing.] Her areas of
expertise include contemporary American autobiography/memoir and
autobiographical theory, personal scholarship, poetry, nature writing, and
feminist and Jewish studies. She received her doctorate in English from the
University of Washington, an M.A. in poetry writing from Boston University,
and both M.A.T. and A.B. degrees from Cornell University.
Robin Hackett
specializes in twentieth-century fiction with particular attention
to literature by women writers and writers of the African Diaspora. She
also specializes in contemporary lesbian/gay/queer studies. Her book
Sapphic Primitivism in Modern Fiction (forthcoming) focuses on overlapping
representations of race and sexuality in fiction by Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend
Warner, Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes. She is also working with Jane
Marcus and Gay Wachman on a collection of essays on British women writers of
the 1930s. She has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California
at Davis, an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University, and a Ph.D. in English
from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches
courses in British literature, women's literature, and lesbian/gay/queer literature.
Elizabeth Hageman
received her B.S. from Simmons College, her M.A. from Columbia University, and
her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. Her recent scholarship focuses
on women writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; she and Andrea
Sununu of DePauw University are currently completing an edition of Katherine
Philips's works. Her most recent publication is an edition of the 1529
translation of Juan Luis Vives's Instruction of a Christen Woman (Illinois,
2002). She is co-editor (with Susanne Woods) of Oxford University Press's
series Women Writers in English; chair of the Executive Committee of the
Brown University Women Writers Project; council member for the Renaissance English
Text Society; and editor of Recent Studies in the Renaissance for
English Literary Renaissance. Her courses include Renaissance Women,
Shakespeare, and Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English Literature.
Jane Harrigan
was an Associated Press reporter and managing editor of the
Concord Monitor before she began teaching in the UNH journalism program.
Her book Read All About It traces the process of putting out one day's
issue of The Boston Globe; her book The Editorial Eye is used
in college editing courses around the country. Her travel writing has appeared
in The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, and her
writing on journalism issues has appeared in American Journalism Review,
Quill, and The American Editor.
A writing and editing coach for various
publications, she is a frequent speaker at the American Copy Editors
Society, the American Press Institute, and the Poynter Institute for Media
Studies.
Susan Hertz,
teaches journalism and is author of Caught in
the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line (Prentice-Hall, 1991).
Her magazine articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including
Boston Magazine, the Boston Globe Magazine, New England Monthly,
Parenting, House Beautiful, Offspring, and Walking Magazine.
A former newspaper feature writer, she has worked for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
The Hartford Courant, the Herald in Everett, Washington, and The
Beverly Times. She earned her B.A. from the University of New Hampshire
in 1978.
Delia
Konzett specializes
in American Studies and Film Studies. She
has published on modernist writers, representation of race and ethnicity,
and silent cinema in the journals American Literature, Journal of
Caribbean Literature, Journal of Film and Video, as well as in
the anthology White Women in Racialized Spaces (SUNY Press, 2002).
She has recently published a book study entitled Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia
Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation
(Palgrave MacMillan, 2002). Her present research focuses on war and
Orientalism in American film and literature. Her teaching interests include
modernism, ethnic writing, representations of race in film and literature,
and the history and aesthetics of cinema. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago and also holds B.A.s in Philosophy and English from
Georgia State University.
James Krasner
studies British Victorian Literature (1830-1900), but is interested in a broad
spectrum of nineteenth-century studies, especially concerning aesthetics, science
and nature. Although something of an old fart theoretically, his interests
are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary. He has published articles
about doctors, gypsies, detectives and women who live with apes, in addition
to a book on Darwin, the operation of the eye, and the Victorian portrayal of
nature.
Douglas Lanier
specializes in early
British drama, particularly non-Shakespearean drama of the Elizabethan and
Jacobean periods. He teaches a variety of courses in drama and theater
history, Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, film, cultural studies and
literary theory, and received a UNH Award for Excellence in Teaching in
2000. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Milton,
John Marston, Shakespeare on film, and literature pedagogy. His most recent
articles are ""Shakescorp Noir" in Shakespeare Quarterly 53.2 (Summer
2002): 157-80 and "Nostalgia and Theatricality" in Shakespeare the Movie
II, eds. Richard Burt and Lynda Boose (Routledge, 2003), 154-72. His
book, Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture (Oxford University
Press), was published in 2002. His article, "Shakespeare on the Record," on
audio performances of Shakespeare, will be published in 2004. In addition
to his continuing work on Shakespeare and popular culture, he is currently
at work on a project about cultural stratification and the early modern
British stage. Web pages for his courses are available
here.
Rochelle Lieber received
her B.A. from Vassar College in 1976 and her Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT in
1980. Her areas of specialization are linguistic theory, especially morphology,
syntax, semantics, and the history and structure of the English language.
Her publications include On the Organization of the Lexicon (IULC, 1981
and Garland Press, 1990); An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes
(SUNY Press, 1987); Deconstructing Morphology: Word Formation
in Syntactic Theory (University of Chicago Press, 1992) and
Morphology and Lexical Semantics (Cambridge University Press, 2004), as well as articles
in such journals as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory, Linguistics, Yearbook of Morphology, among others.
Her latest book Handbook of Word - Formation (co-edited with Pavol
Stekauer) will be published by
Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2005.
John S. Lofty,
a former middle and high school teacher, currently directs
the English teaching major program and specializes in English education for
pre-service teachers. From his study of a Maine island fishing community,
he authored Time to Write: The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning
to Write. Interested in school reform, he studies the effects of state
and national (UK) standards on elementary and secondary teachers' professionalism
in rural and urban communities. He received his B.Ed. from the University
of London and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Lisa MacFarlane
has degrees from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and is
currently Director of the University Honors Program. She
has taught a wide range of classes on mid-nineteenth to the
mid-twentieth century culture: on photography, women writers,
interdisciplinary methods, and pedagogy. Publications include
A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender and
the Creation of American Protestantism (Cornell, 1996);
This World is Not Conclusion:
The Spiritual Landscape of Nineteenth-Century New England Fiction
(University Press of New England, 1998); an edition of Henry Adams'
1884 novel Esther
(Penguin, 1999), and Trading
Gazes: Anglo-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans
1880-1940 (Rutgers,
2003). She is
presently at work on
The Minister's New Clothes, on cultural authority in
American fiction. She is a past
president of the New England American Studies
Association, and on the Board of
Directors for the
New Hampshire Humanities Council.
A Fulbright scholar in the
Netherlands,
MacFarlane is especially interested in internationalizing American Studies
curricula. Aya Matsuda,
Assistant Professor of English, received her BA from International Christian
University (Tokyo, Japan) and her MA and PhD from Purdue University. She
specializes in TESL/TEFL and applied linguistics. You can reach her home page
here.
Paul Kei Matsuda (PhD, Purdue University)
is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition. He
teaches various undergraduate writing courses as well as graduate courses in
composition studies and applied linguistics. His research interests include
second language writing, electronic discourse, identity in written
discourse, alternative discourses, and histories and theories of
composition, rhetoric and applied linguistics. He is founding chair of the
Symposium on Second Language Writing, and editor of several publications,
including Landmark Essays on ESL Writing (Erlbaum, 2001), On
Second Language Writing (Erlbaum, 2001), and a special issue of the
Journal of Second Language Writing on Early Second Language Writing
(Elsevier, 2002). He has published widely in national and international
journals such as Academic. Writing, College Composition and
Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and
Composition, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal
of Second Language Writing, and Written Communication. His
work also appears in edited collections published by Cambridge University
Press, Arnold/Oxford University Press, National Council of the Teachers of
English and the University of Michigan Press, among others. More information
is available at
http://webster.unh.edu/~pmatsuda/.
Mekeel McBride
is the author of
six books of poetry, The Deepest Part of the River (2001), Wind of the White Dresses (l996),
Red Letter Days (l986), The Going Under of the Evening
Land (l983) and No Ordinary World (l979), all published by
Carnegie Mellon University Press. A Change in the Weather (l979)
was published by Chowder Chapbooks. Her seventh book, Dog Star
Delicatessen, New and Selected Poems will be published in 2006 with
Carnegie Mellon. Ms.
McBride has received two NEA grants and was a Bunting Institute Fellow. She
also does wildlife rehabilitation.
Martin McKinsey,
Assistant Professor
of English, specializes modern and contemporary British, Irish and world literature,
with a focus on poetry. Recent articles include “Ulysses Victorianus and
the Other Knowledge of Empire” (Ariel, forthcoming); “Classicism and
Colonial Retrenchment in Yeats’s ‘No Second Troy’” (Twentieth Century Literature,
forthcoming); “Counter-Homericism in Yeats’s ‘The Wandering of Oisin’” (Yeats
and Postcolonialism, 2001); and “Looking for the Barbarians” (Poetry
of the Mix: Cavafy, Modernity and Transculturalism, 2000; in Greek).
His translations from modern Greek include Late Into the Night: The Last
Poems of Yannis Ritsos (Field Translation Series, 1995) and the novel
The Courtyard by Andreas Franghias, which won the 1996 Greek National
Book Award for Translation.
Andrew Merton
has worked as a reporter for the Gloucester (MA) Daily Times
and the Boston Herald Traveler, and as a columnist for the New Hampshire
edition of the Boston Sunday Globe. His work has appeared in
The New York Times, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Glamour,
New Age Journal, Yankee, and Elsewhere. He is the
author of Enemies of Choice: The Right-to-Life Movement and Its Threat to
Abortion (Beacon Press). His anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer's
Reader was published by HarperCollins in 1995. He has taught undergraduate
and graduate courses in non-fiction writing and journalism at UNH since 1972.
Lisa C. Miller,
a faculty member in the journalism program at UNH, teaches courses in
composition, news writing, editing, feature writing and computer-assisted reporting,
as well as a course for K-12 teachers in using Internet resources as tools for
research and collaboration. She holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in nonfiction
writing from UNH. Before coming to the university, she worked as a reporter
and editor at the Gloucester Daily Times in Massachusetts. She is the
author of Power Journalism - Computer-Assisted Reporting. Her
nonfiction has appeared in textbooks Quill, Greenprints, and Kettle of
Fish. Her poetry has appeared in Conscience, CQ and Bitterroot.
Sean D. Moore (Ph.D. Duke 2003, M.A.
Georgetown 1995, B.A. UMass 1991) is Assistant Professor for Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century British Studies, teaching British Literature, Critical
Theory, and Irish Studies. Committed to Postcolonial approaches to the
culture of the early modern era, his scholarship explores the connections
between the period’s emerging literary critique of imperialism and the
“Financial Revolution” – the rise of bourgeois mechanisms for funding
England’s Atlantic empire. He has pursued this “New Economic Criticism” in
articles in Atlantic Studies (April 2005), The Eighteenth
Century: Theory and Interpretation (Summer 2004), Eighteenth
Century Ireland (2002), and the Journal of Commonwealth and
Postcolonial Studies (Spring 2000). Having served as a Congressional
Aide and assistant editor of a legal periodical, he is especially interested
in how canonical authors often earned their reputations through government
patronage, engaging their period’s problems in law, public policy, and
political economy. Currently, he is working on a book analyzing the links
between problems in sovereignty, public finance, and “spin-doctoring” in
early eighteenth century satire. In addition, he is editing Critical
Receptions: Jonathan Swift, a reprint of responses to Swift’s Irish
publications. A Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a student and a former
Resident Scholar with the UNH Cambridge Summer Program, he has an ongoing
international engagement with the cultures of the U.K. and European Union.
He is the Webmaster for the
Jonathan Swift Symposium Series, an annual colloquium on the life and
works of Swift held at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. You can reach his website
at
http://www.unh.edu/english/seanmoore/.
Naomi Nagy
is a specialist in sociolinguistics and language variation. She
focuses on Romance languages in contact situations. She received her
BA from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
You can reach her home page
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~ngn/.
Tom Newkirk currently directs the
New Hampshire Literacy Institutes, a set of summer institutes attended by teachers
from across the country. He has studied literacy learning at all levels, from
the first scribbles a child makes to the writing of college students. He is
the author of four books, Reading Masculinity; More Than Stories: The Range of Children's
Writing; Listening In: What Children Say About Books (And
Other Things); and The Performance of Self in Student Writing. He
is currently studying the ways in which upper elementary school students appropriate
visual narratives (cartoons, TV shows) in their writing.
Alex Parsons
earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa, and his M.A. from New Mexico State University. He is the
author of Leaving Disneyland, which won the 2000 A.W.P. Award for the
Novel and was a finalist
for the PEN West Fiction Award. His second novel, In the Shadows of the
Sun, is a 2005 Barnes& Nobel Discover Great New Writers selection.
He's received a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
and a 2004 Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship. He's at work on his
third novel, New Mexico Repo, which involves auto repossession, green
chili, and lowriders. Sometimes you can find information about his
writing at www.alexanderparsons.com.
Sometimes, though, hackers mess with the site and so there's no telling if
what's there is fact, "embellished" fact, or an outright lie, much less who
authored what. Like that part about him beating Bruce Lee in
hand-to-hand combat. I don't think he wrote that. I mean, I've
been in an ultimate cage-fighting competition with him and his Kung Fu is
good, but not superior. But that thing about the serial-killing
taxidermist named Wayne T. "Wayne" Wayneson, the screenplay?, that's true.
Petar Ramadanovic,
a native of the former-Yugoslavia, teaches critical theory, cultural
studies, and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of a book
on forgetting (Forgetting Futures: On Memory, Trauma, and Identity,
2001), and co-editor of three collections of essays: a special issue of
Diacritics (Winter 1998); a special issue of Postmodern Culture
(January 2001); and Topologies of Trauma (2002). His more
recent articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Callaloo,
and Umbra. Currently, he is beginning a new project tentatively
titled Oedipus's Blood: Paternity after Freud.
Siobhan Senier received her Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her B.A. from Bowdoin College.
Before coming to the UNH English Department, she taught for three years at the
University of Maine in Farmington. Teaching and research interests include
Native American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and women's
studies. Senier is the author of Voices of American Indian Assimilation
and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, Victoria Howard
(U Oklahoma Press, 2001) and of articles in American Literature, Legacy,
and other journals.
Sarah W. Sherman
has a Ph.D. from Brown University in American Civilization, with a specialty in
U. S. literature and culture. Her publications include Sarah Orne Jewett,
An American Persephone (1989) and the Centennial Edition of Jewett's
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1997). Her current project, tentatively
entitled "Sacramental Shopping," is a study of American fiction and consumer
culture. She has offered graduate courses in American Literature in the 1890s, Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather, Sentimentalism, American Literature
and Consumer Culture, and Henry James and Edith Wharton. She has served
on the Editorial Board of American Literature and as President of the ASA's
New England chapter, as well as on prize committees for the best work in American
studies. She is presently co-editor of a new publishing series, from University
Press of New England, entitled "Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century
Studies."
Sandhya Shetty received her B.A. from Nowrosjee
Wadia College in Poona, India, M.A.s from the University of Poona and the University
of Rochester, and her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Her research
and teaching interests are in colonial discourse, postcolonial cultural studies
and theory, and the Victorian novel. Professor Shetty has published in
such journals as Genders, differences, LIT, Journal
of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Diacritics.
Her most recent work is a book in progress on medicine and imperialism in late
colonial India. In addition to this project, she is also co-authoring
a book on postcolonialism and deconstruction.
Charles Simic
is a internationally recognized poet, essayist, translator, and editor.
He has published more than sixty books, among them Jackstraws (1999),
Walking the Black Cat (1996, a finalist for the National Book Award in
poetry), A Wedding in Hell (1994), Hotel Insomnia (1992), The
World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990, for which he received the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry), Selected Poems: 1963-1983 (1990), and Unending
Blues (1986). He has also published many translations of French, Serbian,
Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry, and four books of essays, most recently
Orphan Factory (University of Michigan Press, 1998). He was also
the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 1992. His many awards
include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation,
and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been Professor of English
at UNH since 1973.
Rachel Trubowitz received her B.A. from Barnard College and her
Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches courses on Milton, Shakespeare,
and seventeenth-century English and Continental (in translation) poetry and
prose. She has published essays on a variety of topics in early modern
English literature, most recently, "'But Blood Whitened': Mothers and Others
in Early Modern Britain," in Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the
Early Modern Period (Ashgate, 2000) and "'Nourish-Milke': Breast-Feeding
and the Crisis of Englishness, 1600-1660," JEGP (2000). Her book-in-progress
is on nursing, nation-building, and "the Hebraic" in seventeenth-century texts.
David Watters
teaches courses in New England literature and material culture,
with a special emphasis on the colonial period. His publications includes
books and articles on early American literature and gravestone art and on such
authors as Jonathan Edwards, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. He serves as coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New England
Culture.
Professors Emeriti
Karl Diller.
BA, University of Pennsylvania; EdM and PhD, Harvard University.
Robert Hapgood.
BA, MA and PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Jean Kennard.
BA, University of London; MA and PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Edmund Miller.
BA, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, Columbia University.
Donald Murray.
BA, University of New Hampshire.
Philip Nicoloff.
BA, University of California at Los Angeles; MA and PhD,
Columbia University.
Mark Smith.
BA, Northwestern University.
John Yount.
BA, Vanderbilt University; MFA, State University of Iowa.
In memoriam
Robert Connors.
BA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; MA, PhD, Ohio State University.
Michael DePorte, B.A., University
of Minnesota; M.A. and PhD Stanford University.
John Richardson.
BA, Dartmouth, MA, Columbia, PhD, Boston University.
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