Faculty & Staff 

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Lisa MacFarlane
Professor of English and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
207 Thompson Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3290
Fax: (603) 862-4741
E-mail: lwm@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Princeton University, 1979
M.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1982
Ph.D., ibid., 1987
Courses Taught:
ENGL 516: Survey of American Literature
ENGL 744: American Literature 1915-1945
ENGL 935: Seminar/Studies in American Literature
INCO 444: Portable/Exportable Nation
Fields of Research:
American studies, mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century culture, photography
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Courtney Marshall
Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies
Phone: (603) 862-0732
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: courtney.marshall@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Rutgers University, 2000
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
Ph.D., ibid., 2009
Fields of Research:
African-American literature, critical race feminism, queer ethnic studies, law and popular culture
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Sandy Marsters
Lecturer
51C Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3538
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: n/a
Education:
B.A., Beloit College, 1975
Courses Taught:
ENGL 621: Newswriting
ENGL 711/811: Editing
ENGL 721: Advanced Reporting
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Mekeel McBride
Professor of English
212C Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0255
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mmcbride@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Mills College, 1972
Courses Taught:
ENGL 627: Writing Poetry
ENGL 694: Topics/The Gift
ENGL 705: Advanced Writing of Poetry
ENGL 805: Advanced Poetry Workshop
ENGL 897: Study/Master Poetry Workshop
Fields of Research:
poet
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Martin McKinsey
Associate Professor of English
212A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2762
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: martinm@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Hampshire College, 1977
M.A., Syracuse University, 1990
M.A. University of Virginia, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2002
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 514: Survey of British Literature
ENGL 697: Seminar/Yeats and Heaney
ENGL 774: British Literature 20th Century
ENGL 775: Irish Literature
Fields of Research:
modern and contemporary British, Irish, world literature, and translation theory
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Andrew Merton
Professor and Chair of English
109 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3967
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: andrew.merton@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1967
Courses Taught:
ENGL 621: Newswriting
ENGL 623: Essay Writing
ENGL 704: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
ENGL 806: Researching Literature of Fact
ENGL 923: Advanced Essay Writing
Fields of Research:
journalist, expertise in reporting, newswriting, and other non-fiction writing
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Lisa Miller
Associate Professor of English
104 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0251
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: lcm@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1980
M.A., ibid., 1988
Courses Taught:
ENGL 621: Newswriting
ENGL 622: Advanced Newswriting
ENGL 711/811: Editing
ENGL 722: Feature Writing
ENGL 723: Issues in Journalism
Fields of Research:
journalist, expertise in newswriting, feature writing, computer-assisted reporting
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Sean Moore
Assistant Professor of English
117 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3827
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: sean@cisunix.unh.edu
website
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Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991
M.A., Georgetown University, 1995
Ph.D., Duke University, 2003
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 513: Survey of British Literature to 1800
ENGL 767: Literature of the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century
ENGL 768: Literature of Later Eighteenth Century
ENGL 968: Seminar/Eighteenth Century Literature
Fields of Research:
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, cultural and Irish studies
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Thomas Newkirk
Professor of English
133 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3981
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: thomas.newkirk@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Oberlin College, 1970
M.Ed., University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1973
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1977
Courses Taught:
ENGL 503: Persuasive Writing
ENGL 710/810: Teaching Writing
ENGL 914: Topics/Composition & Rhetoric
ENGL 916: History of Composition
Fields of Research:
composition pedagogy, teacher training, and literacy learning at all levels
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Christina Ortmeier-Hooper
Assistant Professor of English
52B Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0292
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ortmeier@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1995
M.A.T., University of New Hampshire, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2007
Courses Taught:
ENGL 401: First-Year Writing
ENGL 501: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Fields of Research:
composition studies, second language writing
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Thomas Payne
Assistant Professor of English
225E Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4517
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: tly33@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Princeton University, 1984
M.F.A., Columbia University, 1996
Courses Taught:
ENGL 901: Advanced Writing of Fiction
Fields of Research:
fiction writing
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Petar Ramadanovic
Associate Professor of English
203 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0253
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: petarr@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1989
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993
Ph.D., ibid., 1997
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 619: Critical Approaches to Literature
ENGL 926: Seminar/Literary Theory
HUMA 515: Twentieth Century Humanities
Fields of Research:
critical theory, cultural studies
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Maya Ravindranath
Lecturer
Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1268
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mqq6@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Cornell University, 1998
Courses Taught:
ENGL/LING 405: Intro to Linguistics
ENGL/LING 719/819: Sociolinguistics Survey
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David Rivard
Associate Professor of English
207 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4421
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: David.Rivard@unh.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Education:
B.A., University of Massachusetts, 1975
M.F.A., University of Arizona, 1982
Courses Taught:
ENGL 627: Writing Poetry
ENGL 805: Advanced Poetry Workshop
Fields of Research:
poet
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Janet Schofield
Senior Lecturer
225A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0256
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: janet@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1975
M.A., ibid., 1977
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1979
Courses Taught:
ENGL 401: First-Year Writing
ENGL 501: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 625/626: Writing Fiction
ENGL 701: Advanced Fiction Writing
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Nancy Sell
ESL Lecturer
232 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3990
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: n.sell@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Michigan State University, 1983
M.A., Esatern Michigan University, 1990
Courses Taught:
ENGL 400/600: English as a Second Language
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Oksana Semenova
ESL Lecturer
226 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: none
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ovs@cisunix.unh.edu
Education:
B.A., Kramatorsk Institute of Economics and Humanities, 1998
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 2005
Courses Taught:
ENGL 400/600: English as a Second Language
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Siobhan Senier
Associate Professor of English
228 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2466
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ssenier@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
A.B., Bowdoin College, 1987
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992
Ph.D., ibid., 1997
Courses Taught:
ENGL 515: Survey of American Literature
ENGL 540: Intro to Native American Studies
ENGL 658: Women's Literary Traditions
ENGL 739: American Indian Literature
ENGL 840: Indigenous New England
Fields of Research:
Native American and nineteenth-century American literature, women’s studies
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Sarah W. Sherman
Associate Professor of English
225D Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0260
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ssherman@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Marlboro College, 1972
Ph.D., Brown University, 1983
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 516: Survey of American Literature
ENGL 698: Seminar/American Literature & Consumer Culture
ENGL 749: Major American Authors/Wharton and James
ENGL 743: American Literature: 1865-1915
ENGL 744: American Literature 1915-1945
Fields of Research:
nineteenth-century American literature and American studies, consumer culture
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Sandhya Shetty
Associate Professor of English
131 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0258
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: sshetty@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Nowrosjee Wadia College, Poona, India, 1977
M.A., University of Poona, India, 1979
M.A., University of Rochester, 1982
Ph.D, ibid., 1987
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 514: Survey of British Literature
ENGL 581: Intro to Postcolonial Lit in English
ENGL 681: Intro to African Lit in English
ENGL 777: Postcolonial Novel
Fields of Research:
postcolonial literary and cultural studies, colonial discourse, the Victorian novel
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Charles Simic
Professor of English
229 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3991
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: csimic@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., New York University, 1967
Courses Taught:
ENGL 705/805: Advanced Writing of Poetry
ENGL 709/809: Form and Theory of Poetry
Fields of Research:
poet, essayist, translator, and editor
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Laura Smith
Lecturer
12B Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2429
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: Las5@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Grove City College, 1992
M.S.T., University of New Hampshire, 2001
Ph.D., ibid., 2007
Courses Taught:
English 401: First-Year Writing
English 515: American Literature Survey (to the Civil War)
English 516: American Literature Survey (Civil War to the Present)
English 725/726 and 810S/892S: Seminar in English Teaching
English 792/892: Teaching Secondary School English
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Rachel Trubowitz
Associate Professor of English
222 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0254
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: rt@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Barnard College, 1976
M.A., Columbia University, 1977
M.Phil., ibid., 1980
Ph.D., ibid., 1985
Courses Taught:
ENGL 518: Bible as Literature
ENGL 657: Shakespeare
ENGL 759: Milton
ENGL 959: Seminar/Studies in Milton
ENGL 965: Seminar/Studies in Early Seventeenth Century Lit.
Fields of Research:
Milton, seventeenth-century poetry and prose, Shakespeare, gender, nationhood
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David Watters
Professor of English
205 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3983
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: david.watters@unh.edu
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Education:
A.B., Dartmouth College, 1972
Ph.D., Brown University, 1979
Courses Taught:
ENGL 515: Survey of American Literature to Civil War
ENGL 741: Literature of Early America
ENGL 787: Seminar/Black New England
ENGL 936: Seminar/Literature Early America
Fields of Research:
American Studies, New England Culture, and early American literature
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Cord Whitaker
Assistant Professor of English
01A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0703
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: cord.whitaker@unh.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Education:
B.A., Yale University, 2001
M.A., Duke University, 2005
Ph.D., Ibid., 2009
Courses Taught:
ENGL 513: Survey of British Literature from Beowulf through the 18th Century
ENGL 756: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Fields of Research:
Chaucer, late medieval romance, racial and religious discourses in late medieval English literature
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Reginald A. Wilburn
Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
132 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0731
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: raj27@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of the District of Columbia, 1999
M.A., University of Connecticut, 2001
Ph.D., ibid., 2007
Courses Taught:
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 517: Introduction to African American Literature and Culture
ENGL 690: Introduction to African American Literature in America
Fields of Research:
African American literature and culture
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Ann Joslin Williams
Assistant Professor of English
225C Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4208
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ann.j.williams@unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1980
M.A., ibid., 1990
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 1997
Courses Taught:
ENGL 625: Writing Fiction
ENGL 707: Fiction: Form and Technique
ENGL 901: Advanced Writing of Fiction
Fields of Research:
fiction writing
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Leah Williams
Lecturer
318 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1210
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ldu5@cisunix.unh.edu
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Education:
B.A., Indiana University at Bloomington, 1997
M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2004
Courses Taught:
ENGL 401/401H: First-Year Writing
ENGL 501/501H: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 910: Practicum in Teaching College Composition
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Janet Aikins Yount
Professor of English
51A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3977
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: janet.yount@unh.edu
More Information
Website
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Education:
B.A., Grinnell College, 1972
M.S., University of Chicago, 1973
Ph.D., ibid., 1980
Courses Taught:
ENGL 649: Study/Literature and Visual Arts of Eighteenth Century Britain
ENGL 783: English Novel of Eighteenth Century
ENGL 968: Seminar/Eighteenth Century Literature
Fields of Research:
Restoration and eighteenth-century studies, narrative theory, gender, visual culture
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Carol Zickell
Lecturer in ESL
Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1313
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: TBA
Education:
B.S., Worcester State College, 1970
M.S., University of NY, Albany, 1974
Courses Taught:
ENGL 400/600: English as a Second Language
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