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> Allen, Linda Pierce
B.A. Western Washington University
M.A. Western Washington University
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Linda.Allen@usm.edu | LAB 335 | (601) 266-4796
Research/teaching interests: Multiethnic American literature with emphases in Filipino/a American, Asian American, and African American studies; critical race theory; postcolonial literature and theory; feminist theory and women's studies
Dr. Linda M. Pierce Allen is the recipient of the Junior Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (2007), the Service-Learning Faculty Innovation Award (2007), and the College of Arts and Letters Excellence in Service Award (2008). She has also been recognized for Outstanding Community Service by the Mississippi Retired Teachers Association (2007). Dr. Pierce Allen is the founder of CLOI, the English department’s Community Literacy Outreach Initiative, which partners with Hawkins Elementary School and the Mobile-Bouie Neighborhood Association. Her publications include Global Crossroads: A World Literature Reader, co-edited with Drs. Iglesias and Mays, as well as recent and forthcoming articles in Modern Language Studies, Pinay Power: Feminist Critical Theory, the Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, the Arizona Quarterly, and Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections. Dr. Pierce Allen is currently working on her book-length manuscript, Displaced Memory: Multiethnic Theories of U.S. Decolonization.
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> Ball, Angela
B.A. Ohio University
M.F.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of Denver
Angela.Ball@usm.edu | LAB 366 | (601) 266-4983
Research/teaching interests: Creative writing, poetry; contemporary American poetry
Angela Ball’s prize-winning and frequently anthologized poems and translations have appeared in magazines and journals including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Field, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Southern Review. Her books of poetry include Kneeling Between Parked Cars (Owl Creek Press, 1990); Possession (Red Hen, 1995); Quartet (Carnegie Mellon, 1995); and The Museum of the Revolution (Carnegie Mellon, 1999). Her newest collection, Night Clerk At the Hotel of Both Worlds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), received both the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Poetry and the Donald Hall Prize from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The recipient of an Individual Writer’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ball has represented the U.S. at the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, and has been a writer in residence at both the University of Richmond and Chateau Lavigny near Lausanne, Switzerland.
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> Barron, Jonathan
B.A. Tufts University
M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University
Jonathan.Barron@usm.edu | LAB 337 | (601) 266-6213
Research/teaching interests: American poetry, particularly modernist and contemporary; Jewish-American literature, particularly poetry
Jonathan Barron’s third book, New Formalist Poets, is with Gale Publishing and is co-edited with Bruce Meyer of the University of Toronto. It is volume number 282 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series. The book contains 42 essays by 36 contributors, and is largely comprised of biographical/critical essays of New Formalist Poets such as Dana Gioia, Marilyn Hacker, Alfred Corn, Vikram Seth, and Molly Peacock. His other books include: Roads Not Taken: Rereading Robert Frost (University of Missouri Press, 2000), co-edited with Earl Wilcox of Winthrop University, and Jewish American Poetry, co-edited with Eric Selinger of DePaul University (Brandeis/University Press of New England, 2000). He has published numerous essays on American poets and poetry, including several for the Scribners American Writers series. His most recent essay on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is forthcoming in the MLA Approaches to Teaching Series. Additionally, he directs The Robert Frost Society and edits The Robert Frost Review, the only international peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the life, work, and times of Robert Frost. The journal is produced through the Robert Frost Society with the support of the Southern Miss English department. The Robert Frost Society is the only academic society to regularly sponsor meetings about the life and work of Robert Frost at two annual conferences, the Modern Language Association and the American Literature Association.
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> Barthelme, Frederick
Director, Center for Writers
Editor, Mississippi Review
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Frederick.Barthelme@usm.edu | LAB 369 | (601) 266-4323
Research/teaching interests: Fiction, nonfiction, electronic publishing
Frederick Barthelme is author of sixteen books including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage, Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, Painted Desert, and Bob the Gambler. He is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker and has published in GQ, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch, Playboy, Esquire,TriQuarterly, North American Review, Frank, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, was co-authored with his brother Steven. A retrospective collection of stories, The Law of Averages, was published by Counterpoint. His novel, Elroy Nights, was published in 2003 by Counterpoint, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was one of five finalists for the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award. His new novel, Waveland, is from Doubleday.
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> Barthelme, Melanie
Senior Lecturer
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. The University of Southern Mississippi
mlhb18@hotmail.com | LAB 368 | (601) 266-5495
After several years serving in the role of director of composition, Melanie Barthelme was appointed as a senior lecturer in English and director of the enormously popular Writing Center, a free tutorial service available to any USM student who wants assistance with a writing project. The Writing Center is located in Cook Libary, Room 112.
> Barthelme, Steven
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
Steven.Barthelme@usm.edu | LAB 365 | (601) 266-5211
Research/teaching interests: Fiction, nonfiction prose
Steven Barthelme publishes widely in literary magazines; he has a story collection, And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, and he won a Pushcart Prize in 1993. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Texas Observer, Elle Decor, and elsewhere, and his fiction has been widely published in, among many others, McSweeney's, Yale Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, co-authored with his brother, was released by Houghton Mifflin in November 1999.
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> Cochran, Katherine
Director, Secondary English Licensure Program
B.A. University of Richmond
M.A. University of Mississippi
Ph.D. University of Mississippi
Katherine.Cochran@usm.edu | LAB 355 | (601) 266-4088
Research/teaching interests: Secondary education, southern literature
Kate Cochran has published articles in the New Hibernia Review and the Southern Literary Journal; her most recent article examined rhetorical operation in media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and appeared in the CEA Forum. Kate was an assistant professor, primarily teaching courses in English education and southern literature, at Northern Kentucky University. She is currently working on revising her dissertation manuscript, "The Legacy of Job in Contemporary Southern Literature," and an article examining the orphan figure in current young adult fiction. Her research interests include southern literature, American literature, 20th-century literature, women's studies, literature and composition pedagogy, and popular culture. She will be co-directing the South Mississippi Writing Project for the summer 2009.
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> Franke, Damon
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Damon.Franke@usm.edu | (228) 865-4589
Research/teaching interests: Late Victorian and Modern British literature, modernism, Irish Studies, discourse history, narratology, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Bloomsbury Group, literatures of the environment
Damon’s study of modernism, Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2008. He has published articles and reviews in Studies in the Novel, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Nineteenth-Century Prose, English Language Notes, and SubStance. He is also the sponsor of the Gulf Coast chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.
Current projects: a study of the philosophy of “becoming” in the works of James Joyce; a genealogy of environmental thought in Edwardian literature with the working title The Organic Edwardians.
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B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Damon.Franke@usm.edu | (228) 865-4589
Research/teaching interests: Late Victorian and Modern British literature, modernism, Irish Studies, discourse history, narratology, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Bloomsbury Group, literatures of the environment
Damon’s study of modernism, Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2008. He has published articles and reviews in Studies in the Novel, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Nineteenth-Century Prose, English Language Notes, and SubStance. He is also the sponsor of the Gulf Coast chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.
Current projects: a study of the philosophy of “becoming” in the works of James Joyce; a genealogy of environmental thought in Edwardian literature with the working title The Organic Edwardians.
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> Gehlawat, Monika
B.A. Stanford University
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Monika.Gehlawat@usm.edu | LAB 368 | (601) 266-4070
Research/teaching interests: Modern and contemporary literature
Monika Gehlawat received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where she studied 20th century literature and art. Her current book manuscript, "Boom: The New York City Flaneur and Postwar American Literature and Art," reflects her long-standing interest to work in the interdisciplinary mode. While her most recent work focuses on the relationship between contemporary visual art and literature, she has also published articles on Walter Benjamin, Cubist painting, and Modernist writers, as well as emerging painters and conceptual artists. She teaches courses on contemporary literature, 20th century poetry and painting, the modern short story, and aesthetics.
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> Harris, Elizabeth Kay
Director, Women's Studies
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A.University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth.Harris@usm.edu | LAB 354 | (601) 266-5828
Kay Harris gave the plenary address at the University of Northern Iowa's "Culture and the Medieval King" conference this year, and also presented a paper at the Georgetown School of Law's "Law and Humanities" conference. Her essay, "The Precognition of Crime: Treason in Medieval England and Terrorism in Twenty-first Century America" is forthcoming.
> Hauer, Stanley
Director of Undergraduate Studies
B.A. Auburn University
M.A. Auburn University
Ph.D. University of Tennessee
Stanley.Hauer@usm.edu | LAB 326 | (601) 266-4331
Research/teaching interests: English and Germanic philology
Stanley Hauer teaches courses in the history of the English language as well as instruction in the medieval languages of Old and Middle English, Old Norse, and Gothic. He is best known for his scholarship on the Old English poem "Exodus" and Thomas Jefferson, who was among the first in America to study Anglo-Saxon.
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> Hillard, Molly Clark
Assistant Professor of EnglishM.A. University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. University of Califorina, Davis
molly.hillard@usm.edu | LAB 341 | (601) 266-4199
Research/teaching interests: Nineteenth-century British literature, folklore and national identity, women's literature and gender studies, Victorian popular literature and culture, postcolonial and imperial studies, children's literature
Molly Clark Hillard specializes in nineteenth-century literature and culture. She is the author of such essays as “Dangerous Exchange: Fairy Footsteps, Goblin Economies, and The Old Curiosity Shop” (Dickens Studies Annual, 2005) “‘When Desert Armies Stand Ready to Fight’: Re-Reading Saturday and ‘Dover Beach,’” (Partial Answers, 2008) “‘A Perfect Form in Perfect Rest’: Spellbinding Narratives and Tennyson’s ‘Day Dream’” (Narrative, 2009), and “Dickens’s Little Red Riding Hood and Other Waterside Characters” (SEL, 2009). Her book manuscript is entitled Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and Other Victorian Literature. The project examines the relationship between fairy tales and canonical Victorian genres, and concludes that Victorian literature is “spellbound,” meaning that novelists, poets and playwrights yearn toward the fairy tale; that literary genres are bound to the fairy tale, dependent upon its forms and figures; and that fairy tales are captured within Victorian literary bindings. Dr. Hillard is also the graduate advisor to the English Graduate Organization.
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> Hoem, Sheri
Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo
Sheri.Hoem@usm.edu | LAB 343 | (601) 266-5081
Research/teaching interests: ethnicity, gender, postmodernism and critical theory
Sheri I. Hoem received her Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo and taught for nine years at Xavier U. of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she was a tenured associate professor. Her research addresses issues of ethnicity, gender, postmodernism and critical theory. She has published articles on Samuel Beckett, John Edgar Wideman and others in journals such as Diacritics, Paragraph, African American Review, Textual Practice and Novel. She is currently working on ethnic images in film and television. Her article, “Laundering the Text: Barthes’s Criti-myth-oetics,” will be reprinted in an edited collection entitled Roland Barthes: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, scheduled for publication in 2010 by Routledge.
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> Iglesias, Luis
B.A. Florida International University
M.A. Florida International University
M.A. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Luis.Iglesias@usm.edu | LAB 327 | (601) 266-4060
Research/teaching interests: Early American literature and culture from colonial to antebellum periods, transatlantic culture and history, the literatures of the American hemisphere, the rise of the American novel, book and print histories
Luis Iglesias has presented several papers on sea fiction and the career of James Fenimore Cooper. He has published in The Papers of the James Fenimore Cooper Society and has coauthored an article in American Literature on race and theatre in early 19th century New York City. A review of Afloat and Ashore, the most recent scholarly edition in the James Fenimore Cooper project, is forthcoming. He is currently working on another article on Cooper’s late sea novels and the Mexican American War. His larger project is on the development of American sea fiction and the transatlantic dimensions of Cooper’s literary career as America’s first national author.
> Inman, Joyce
B.A. University of Mobile
M.A. University of Southern Mississippi
Joyce.Inman@usm.edu | LAB 345 | (601) 266-6096
Research/Teaching Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; basic writing; community service writing; and cultural studies
Joyce Inman teaches first-year to senior-level composition courses. She has presented at numerous national conferences including College Composition and Communications Conference and the National Service-Learning Conference. As a Ph.D. candidate she continues to research the effects of legislation on basic writing programming and pedagogy.
> Johnson, Julia
B.A. Hollins University
M.F.A. University of Virginia
Julia.Johnson@usm.edu | LAB 360 | (601) 266-4067
Julia Johnson, a native of New Orleans, was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she took her M.F.A. in 1995. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Third Coast, Poetry International, 64, and New Orleans Review. Her first book of poems, Naming the Afternoon, was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 2002. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize three times and is the winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers' 2003 New Writing Award. She has taught as an assistant professor at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and elsewhere.
> Johnson, Sherita
B.A. Alabama State University (Montgomery)
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sherita.Johnson@usm.edu | LAB 333 | (601) 266-4068
Research/teaching interests: African American Literature (esp. 19th and early 20th century), Southern Literature, African American Women Writers (especially 19th century), Feminist Theory, and Cultural Studies
Dr. Sherita Johnson specializes in African American Literature of the 19th century (particularly women writers) and Jim Crow history and literature. She has served as guest editor of The Southern Quarterly special issue, "'My Southern Home': The Lives and Literature of 19th-Century Southern Black Writers" (Spring 2008). Other recent publications include several contributing articles in The Encyclopedia of Jim Crow (Greenwood Press, 2008) and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005). She is working on a book manuscript that examines the role of black women, historical and fictional, in the making of "New South" literature and culture of the late nineteenth / early twentieth century.
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> Jordan, Nicolle
B.A. Wesleyan University
M.A. Brown University
Ph.D. Brown University
Nicolle.Jordan@usm.edu | LAB 331 | (601) 266-4817
Research and teaching interests: Restoration and 18th-century British literature and culture, history of gardening and landscape, historical ecology, feminist theory
Nicolle Jordan teaches and writes about British literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, focusing on how environmental and ecological concerns inform the literature of the period. Her articles include "'Where Power Is Absolute': Royalist Politics and the Improved Landscape in a Poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea" (The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Fall 2006) and "The Promise and Frustration of Plebeian Public Opinion in Caleb Williams" (Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Spring 2007). She has another article forthcoming entitled "Eastern Pastoral: 'Female Fears' and 'Savage Foes' in Montagu's 'Constantinople'" (Modern Philology, 2009). She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Prolific Ground: Landscape and Eighteenth-Century British Women's Writing, which investigates the role of women in the improvement discourse of early-modern Britain.
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> Kinkopf, Sherry
B.S. The University of Southern Mississippi
M.Ed. William Carey College
Sherry.Kinkopf@usm.edu | LAB 344 | (601) 266-4979
Sherry Kinkopf is a native of Hattiesburg , Mississippi , and has taught in public schools for 10 years, including Lumberton Public School District, Covington County Schools , Petal Education Center , and Hattiesburg High School. While in Covington County, she was a 2002 recipient of a Teaching Tolerance Grant funded through the Southern Poverty Law Association of Alabama. In 2004 she was a South Mississippi Writing Project (SMWP) Summer Fellow and currently serves as a teacher consultant, conducting staff development and in-service training for area schools and teachers. She has presented at several state and regional conferences, including the Mississippi Association of Middle Level Educators, The Destin Nuts and Bolts Symposium, and The MS Write Connection Conference. Currently, she works with English Licensure students in pre-service courses and supervises teacher candidates during field experiences. Service Interests: Co-Director for the SMWP Invitational Summer Institute 2007 & 2008; Continuity Coordinator for the SMWP 2008; University Representative for the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) 2007/2008; University Representative for the MS IHL Blue Ribbon Commission on the Redesign of Teacher Preparation Programs 2008; and USM Secondary & K-12 Caucus Chair.
> Kolin, Philip
B.S. Chicago State University
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Philip.Kolin@usm.edu | LAB 359 | (601) 266-4329
Research/teaching interests: Shakespeare, American drama (especially Tennessee Williams), and writing Christian poetry
Philip C. Kolin was honored by being named a University Distinguished Professor in Fall 2009. In 2006, Kolin won the Innovation Award in Applied Research, and he was the First Charles W. Moorman Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Humanities from 1991-1993. He has published 40 books and about 200 scholarly articles on Shakespeare, modern American drama (especially the plays of Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Adrienne Kennedy), and business writing with such presses as Cambridge, Routledge, St. Martin's, Houghton Mifflin, University of Alabama, University Press of Mississippi, Peter Lang, G. K. Hall, and McFarland. In 2004 Greenwood published his Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, which debuted at the Kennedy Center. Kolin has also taught and done research on African American playwrights and has published Understanding Adrienne Kennedy in 2005 with the U of South Carolina Press and edited Contemporary African American Women Playwrights for Routledge in 2007. Also in 2007, Kolin has published articles on Kennedy in the CLA Journal and the African American Review. In 2009 Houghton Mifflin will release the 9th edition of his widely respected Successful Writing at Work. Further, Kolin is the General Editor for the Routledge Shakespeare Criticism Series and published an article on Othello and St. Matthew's eschatological parable in 25.31-46 in Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. Kolin served as the Guest Editor for the Summer 2008 issue of the Southern Quarterly on The Legacy of Emmett Till. His most recent book is The Inlfuence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights (McFarland, October 2008); and he working on a book, to be published in 2009, on the works of Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American Woman to win the Pulitzer.
A poet as well, Kolin has published three books of poems (Deep Wonder won an award from the Catholic Press Association) and coedited the anthology Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita. More than 100 of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as the Michigan Quarterly Review, Christianity and Literature, Louisiana Literature, Blue Collar Review, Anglican Theological Review, Theology Today (Princeton), and South Carolina Review.
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> Lares, Jameela
B.A. California State University, Fullerton
M.A. UCLA
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Jameela.Lares@usm.edu | LAB 343 | (601) 266-6214
Research/teaching interests: English Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, especially Milton; history of rhetoric, especially English reformed preaching; Bible and biblical style; children's and young adult literature
Publications: Milton and the Preaching Arts (Duquesne University Press and James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 2001), articles in Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Cithara, Notes & Queries, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Dictionary of Literary Biography, MLA Approaches, and numerous reviews.
Current and Forthcoming Projects: a book on seventeenth-century biblical style; extensive notes on Paradise Lost, books 11-12 for the Variorum Commentary of the Poems of John Milton; an edition and translation of Milton's Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio for the Clarendon Edition of the Complete Works of Milton (Oxford University Press); an edition and translation of a short Latin preaching manual; articles for the new Milton Encyclopedia; and an article on linguistic uncertainty in Winnie-the-Pooh.
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> Mays, Michael
B.A. University of Puget Sound
M.A. University of Washington
Ph.D. University of Washington
Michael.Mays@usm.edu | LAB 341 | (601) 266-4319
Research/teaching interests: Modern and Contemporary Irish and English literature; History of Criticism and Theory; Modernism; Cultural and Political Theory
Michael Mays is the author of Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism (2007). His work on modern and contemporary Irish culture and society has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Irish Studies Review, College Literature, Colby Quarterly and elsewhere. World War I and the Cultures of Modernity, a co-edited collection of essays, appeared in 2000.
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> Navitsky, Joseph
BA Saint Joseph’s University
MA Boston University
PhD Boston University
Joseph.Navitsky@usm.edu | LAB 353 | (601) 266-4286
Research/teaching interests: Shakespeare, early modern drama, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, satire and parody, religious literature, print culture, the Bakhtin Circle
Joseph Navitsky’s research and teaching interests begin with the Tudor dynasty and Reformation England. His scholarship is primarily concerned with early modern religious conflict, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, and the rise of satire in 1590’s England. He has work forthcoming on the Martin Marprelate Controversy and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Current projects include studies of state-sponsored satire and the War of the Theaters.
> Palmer, Felicity
B.A. University of New South Wales
M.A. Columbia University
M.Phil. Columbia University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Felicity.Palmer@usm.edu | LAB 219 | (601) 266-4259
Research/teaching interests: World literature, comparative literature, post-colonial literature, theories of gender and sexuality, and African literature and film
Felicity Palmer has completed her doctorate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation compares the novels of two contemporary African women writers, Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe and Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon. She focuses on the authors' depictions of women's experiences of sexual pleasure and trauma, exploring the unexpected connection between these experiences and post-independence questions of freedom and modernity in contemporary Africa. An article based on her research was published in a special issue of Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies on Sexuality and Power in African Literature.
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> Ryan, Maureen
B.A. Penn State University
M.A. Temple University
Ph.D. Temple University
Maureen.Ryan@usm.edu | LAB 221 | (601) 266-4831
Research/teaching interests: 20th-century American literature and women's literature
Maureen Ryan's publications include Innocence and Estrangement in the Fiction of Jean Stafford (Louisiana State University Press, 1987); articles on modern and contemporary American women writers (including Marilynne Robinson, Lillian Hellman, and Bobbie Ann Mason); and articles on American women writers and Vietnam, the Vietnam novels of Robert Olen Butler, aftermath novels by Vietnam veterans, Vietnam POW Wives in American Literature, Vietnamese refugees in southern fiction, and the Vietnam antiwar movement in contemporary American literature. Her book, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in Fall 2008.
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> Salda, Michael
A.B. University of Chicago
A.M. University of Chicago
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Michael.Salda@usm.edu | LAB 339 | (601) 266-4454
Research/teaching interests: Medieval and Renaissance English and French literature, King Arthur, history of the book, film, animation, online learning
Publications: La Bibliothèque de François Ier au Château de Blois, The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur (co-edited), five volumes of Chaucer Yearbook (co-edited); articles that include "When Women Learn to Write in Old French Prose Romance," "'What's Up, Duke?' A Brief History of Arthurian Animation," "William Faulkner's Arthurian Tale: Mayday," "Pages from History: The Medieval Palace of Westminster as a Source for the Dreamer’s Chamber in the Book of the Duchess," and "Reconsidering Vinaver's Sources for Malory's 'Tristram'"; and three popular online archives—the Cinderella Project, the Little Red Riding Hood Project, and the Jack and the Beanstalk/Jack the Giant Killer Project—based on original materials housed in USM's de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection. Current projects: "The Earliest Arthurian Animation: 'Bosko's Knight-Mare' (1933) and King Arthur's Knights (1941)," "The Worst Arthurian Cartoon Ever," and a monograph on Arthurian animation.
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> Sciolino, Martina
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo
Martina.Sciolino@usm.edu | LAB 352 | (601) 266-6971
Research/teaching interests: twentieth-century American novel, the short story; twentieth-century African-American literature, American women’s literature, critical theory/cultural studies/feminist theory, literature and film, academic community service learning, and women’s studies.
Martina Sciolino has published articles on postmodern fiction and feminist theory. Her recent work considers mental illness memoir as a site where literary, scientific and social discourses intersect. Her teaching interests are great books, twentieth-century and contemporary prose, twentieth-century African American literature, autobiography and ecocriticism.
> Sumner, Charles
B.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Charles.Sumner@usm.edu | LAB 220 | (601) 266-6016
Research/teaching interests: Modernist and contemporary literature, literary theory, and Marxist social and political criticism
Charles Sumner graduated from UC Berkeley. He has published articles on Adorno, Wyndham Lewis, T.E. Hulme, and Virginia Woolf. He is currently writing a book entitled The Aesthetics of Failure in Anglo-American Modernism, a work which uses Adorno's moral and aesthetic philosophy to understand why certain modernists refuse to imagine resolutions for social antagonisms investigated in their literary works. His teaching interests include modernist and contemporary literature, literary theory, and Marxist social and political criticism.
> Tribunella, Eric
B.A. University of Florida
M.A. University of Florida
M.Phil. City University of New York, Graduate Center
Ph.D. City University of New York, Graduate Center
Eric.Tribunella@usm.edu | LAB 329 | (601) 266-4069
Research/teaching interests: children's and young adult literature, lesbian and gay literature, queer theory, gender studies, and critical theory (especially psychoanalysis and reader response)
Eric Tribunella has taught a variety of courses on such topics as the Golden Age of children’s literature, young adult literature, children’s picture books, British children’s literature, trauma theory and children’s literature, children’s literature before 1865, and lesbian and gay literature. He also frequently teaches courses on literary criticism and theory.
He has published work on John Knowles’s A Separate Peace, Esther Forbes’s Johnny Tremain, boy-and-his-dog stories, the curricular institutionalization of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, and the retelling of classic children’s novels as erotica for adults. This work has appeared in such journals as Children’s Literature Annual, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature, and Children’s Literature in Education.
His book, Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children’s Literature, is forthcoming from the University of Tennessee Press.
> Walcher, Sheldon
Director, Composition Program
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz
M.F.A. Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. University of Utah
Sheldon.Walcher@usm.edu | LAB 370 | (601) 266-4815
Research/teaching interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; critical theory; history of rhetoric; writing program administration; critical discourse studies; and the avant-garde
Sheldon Walcher teaches courses in and writes about composition; composition history, theory and pedagogy; critical theory; and conceptual metaphor. He is author of “Environmentalist Approaches to Portals and Course Management Systems” (Journal of Library Science), and his fiction and criticism have appeared in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, Moxie Magazine, CrossConnect, and Quarry West. Sheldon is currently working on a book-length manuscript focusing on the history of “error” as a discursive construct, and the political, social and ideological functions error has played in the maintenance and promotion of Rhetoric and Composition as a discipline.
> Watson, Kenneth
A.B. Kenyon College
M.A. University of Vermont
Ph.D. Duke University
Kenneth.Watson@usm.edu | LAB 342 | (601) 266-4072
Ken Watson serves as associate editor for The Southern Quarterly; the special issue he edited on Southern poetry appeared last fall. The collection of Amazonian folktales, for which he served as translator, is forthcoming. He also recently wrote an introduction and served as an editor for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sections of the Norton Anthology's instructor guide, Teaching with the Norton Anthology of World Literature.
> Watson, William
Gulf Park Program Coordinator
B.A. Western Illinois University
M.A. Louisiana State University
Ph.D. Louisiana State University
William.Watson@usm.edu
Will Watson assumed the role of Coast Coordinator this summer, and currently serves on the Gulf Coast Faculty Council. He has published several poems in a variety of jornals this past year, and has several more forthcoming.
> Weinauer, Ellen
Director of Graduate Studies
B.A. University of Wisconsin
M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University
Ellen.Weinauer@usm.edu | LAB 340 | (601) 266-6045
Research/teaching interests: American literature, particularly of the 19th century; American women writers; women's and gender studies; law and literature
Ellen Weinauer is the co-editor of American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard (2003) and the author of articles on such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, and William Craft. She is currently at work on a book manuscript that explores the relationship between property rights and gothic literature in the American 19th century. Her teaching interests include the American Renaissance, American women and African-American writers, and American cultural studies.
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> White, Elaine
B.A. The University of North Texas
M.A. East Central University
Ph.D. The University of Oklahoma
Elaine.White@usm.edu
Research/teaching interests: English secondary education pedagogy; research in the teaching of writing in elementary and secondary schools; teacher research in the teaching of writing
J. Elaine White is co-author of Making Your First Year a Success: The Secondary Teacher’s Survival Guide as well as articles dealing with effective leadership in National Writing Project sites. In addition to teaching English licensure courses on the Gulf Coast campuses, she also directs The Live Oak Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. Part of the work with LOWP includes partnerships with schools and other educational entities in the coastal counties. Work for Live Oak Writing Project is funded through grants from the U.S. Department of Education and income from staff development programs LOWP sells to local schools. Each year LOWP provides over 20,000 hours of work with students and teachers on the Mississippi Coast.
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