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Lisa MacFarlane

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

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

 


Courtney Marshall

Courtney Marshall

Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies

Phone: (603) 862-0732
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: courtney.marshall@unh.edu

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

  


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

 

 


Mekeel McBride

Professor of English

212C Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0255
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mmcbride@cisunix.unh.edu

 

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

 


Martin McKinsey

Martin McKinsey

Associate Professor of English 

212A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2762
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: martinm@unh.edu

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

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

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 

 


Sean Moore

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

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

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

 


Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

Assistant Professor of English

52B Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0292
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ortmeier@unh.edu

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

 


Thomas Payne

Thomas Payne

Assistant Professor of English

225E Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4517
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: tly33@unh.edu

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

 


Petar Ramadanovic

Petar Ramadanovic

Associate Professor of English 

203 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0253
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: petarr@cisunix.unh.edu

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

 


Maya Ravindranath

Maya Ravindranath

Lecturer

Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1268
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mqq6@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Cornell University, 1998

Courses Taught:
ENGL/LING 405: Intro to Linguistics
ENGL/LING 719/819: Sociolinguistics Survey

 


David Rivard

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

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

 


Janet Schofield

Janet Schofield

Senior Lecturer

225A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0256
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: janet@cisunix.unh.edu

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

 


Nancy Sell

Nancy Sell

ESL Lecturer

232 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3990
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: n.sell@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Michigan State University, 1983
M.A., Esatern Michigan University, 1990

Courses Taught:
ENGL 400/600: English as a Second Language

 


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

 

 


Siobhan Senier

Siobhan Senier

Associate Professor of English 

228 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2466
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ssenier@cisunix.unh.edu

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

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

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

 


Charles Simic

Professor of English

229 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3991
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: csimic@cisunix.unh.edu

 

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

 


Laura Smith

Laura Smith

Lecturer 

12B Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2429
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: Las5@unh.edu

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

 


Rachel Trubowitz

Rachel Trubowitz

Associate Professor of English 

222 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0254
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: rt@cisunix.unh.edu

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

 


David Watters

David Watters

Professor of English

205 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3983
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: david.watters@unh.edu

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

 


Cord Whitaker

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

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

 


Reginald A. Wilburn

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

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

 


Ann Joslin Williams

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

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

 


Leah Williams

Leah Williams

Lecturer

318 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1210
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: ldu5@cisunix.unh.edu

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

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

 


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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