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.

Deli
a 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 LinguisticsJournal 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 WritingListening 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.
 

updated:  Tuesday September 26, 2006