Department Faculty
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Dr. William Barillas |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in English-
American Studies, Michigan State University Research Specialties: Literature of the Americas, Cultural Geography, Latino/a Literature, Regional Literatures of the United States, Midwest Literature, Romanticism and Literature of Nature, Popular Culture, Poetry Classes Taught: Advanced Study of
Major Authors Other interests: Piano and guitar, searching for classic soul on vinyl, hiking, bicycling, gardening, travel |
Dr. Bradley
Butterfield |
Academic Background: B.A. in Philosophy
and Literature, Johnston Center at the University of
Redlands Publications: "Discussing Disgrace in a Critical Theory Classroom."
Encountering 'Disgrace': Reading and Teaching
Coetzee's Novel. Camden House Press (2009). Research Specialties: Critical Theory
after Nietzsche Courses Taught: Western Literature
II: Enlightenment to Present Other interests: Politics, nutrition, film, jazz, Grateful Dead, hip-hop, basketball, disc golf, my little girl Phoebe |
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Prof. Matt Cashion
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Academic Background: B.A. in English from
University of North Carolina - Charlotte Publications: A novel: How the Sun Shines on Noise (Livingston Press). Stories and poems have appeared in Passages North, The Sun, Willow Springs, Northwest Review, Fugue, Hawaii Review, storySouth, Wind Magazine, Wisconsin Review, and Asheville Poetry Review. His poem, "An Hour After Breakfast," appears in the 2009 Anthology The Mysterious Life of the Heart: Stories from The Sun about Passion, Longing, and Love. He is currently completing his second novel. Research Specialties: Creative Writing Pedagogy, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Literature of the American South, Working Class Literature. Courses Taught: Creative Writing Other interests: Running, biking, kayaking, jazz-drumming, blues-harmonica blowing, photography |
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Dr. Virginia Crank |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in English
with a Concentration in Composition and Rhetoric and
Minors in Victorian Literature and Modern American
Fiction, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
Illinois (August 1995) Publications: “’Doing Disney’ Fosters Media Literacy in Freshmen.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9.3 (Fall 2005). “Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.” Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, 2nd Ed. Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. “Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 30.2 (December 2002): 145-155. Multiple Entries. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Greg Glau. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2002. “Chasing Objectivity: How Grading Rubrics Can Provide Consistency and Context.” Journal of Teaching Writing 17.1-2 (Winter 1999): 56-73. “The Best of Both Worlds: Asynchronous Learning as a Bridge to Online Education.” Instructional Telecommunications Council Newsletter, Sept. 2000. (Co-authored with Erin Fisher and Ann Carter) Research Specialties: Composition theory and pedagogy; developmental writing pedagogy; preparation of secondary English teachers. Courses Taught:
Introduction to College Writing (Eng 050)
Other interests: Contemporary fiction, food writing, cooking, vegetable gardening, yoga, travel |
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Dr. Susan Crutchfield Department Chairperson
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English
Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann
Arbor (1997) Publications:
“Deliverance—1919,”
Encyclopedia of American Disability History, ed.
Susan Burch and Paul K. Longmore. New York: Facts on
File, 2009. Research Specialties: Film Studies, Disability Studies, Popular Culture, Western Drama, Feminist Theory Classes Taught: College Writing I Other interests: Flower-gardening, movie-watching, knitting, running, child-rearing |
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Dr. Kimberly DeFazio |
Academic Background: Ph.D., English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Recent Publications: The City of the Senses. New York: Palgrave, 2011. "The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation. Eds. Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Jakob Ladegaard. Aarhus University Press, 2011. "Transnational Urbanism and the Creative Class." Translated into Swedish in Fronesis 24 (June 2007) "IKEA and Democracy as Furniture." Nature, Society, and Thought. 17 (2) (2004). Conference Papers: "The Romance of Techne." Modern Language Association. Seattle, Washington. January 5, 2012. "Tool Aesthetics and the Humanities." Class/Aesthetics/Worlds Conference. Minneapolis, MN. October 15, 2011. "The Romantic City and the Independent Eye." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Park City, Utah. August, 2011. "The Urban (Un)Seen." Writing the 19th Century City Special Session. Modern Language Association Conference. Los Angeles. January 2011. "Posthuman Romanticism and the (Animal) Other." Posthumanism and the Ends of Animality Panel. Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Indianapolis. October 2010. "The (Dis)Continuous City, Identity and the Role of Cultural Critique." The Women's and Gender Studies Lecture Series. State University of New York at Potsdam, December 8, 2009. "The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalization Conference. Aarhus University, Denmark. September 2008. "'Bartleby' and the City of Immaterial Labor." Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago. December 2007. Research Interests: Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century American Literature, the City, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory Courses Taught: British Literature II College Writing I |
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Dr. Natalie K. Eschenbaum |
Academic
Background:
Ph.D. in English, Emory University (2006) Recent Publications: Review of Loving in Verse, by Stephen Guy-Bray. University of Toronto Quarterly (Winter 2007/2008) “Ghostly Metaphysicality: A Manuscript Variant of Robert Herrick’s ‘The Apparition,’” Notes & Queries (June 2005) Recent Conference Presentations: “‘Outrageous Grossness’: A Taste of Robert Herrick,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 2008) “Donne, Herrick, and the Early Modern Fetish,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (February 2007) “Selections and Collections: Piecing Together Herrick's Hesperides,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, California (December 2003) “Appropriating Authority and Navigating Narrative in Thomas Nashe’s Traveling Text,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Meeting, Newport Beach, California (October 2003) “Surfacing Robert Herrick’s Hesperides,” Renaissance Society of America National Meeting, Toronto, Canada (March 2003)
“Liquid Subjectivities: Love of Self and Other in Baz Luhrmann’s Water-logged Romeo and Juliet,” Southwest Popular Culture Association Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 2001) Research Specialties:
16th and 17th Century English
Literature Courses Taught:
ENG 110: College Writing I Other Interests: Yoga, world travel, hiking, camping, movie-watching, baking, Native American literature, English football (soccer) |
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Dr. Margaret Finders
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Academic Background:
Ph.D. in English Education, the University of Iowa
(1994) Publications: Finders, M. and Hynds, S. (2007). Language Arts and Literacy in the Middle School: Planning, Teaching and Assessing for Achievement. Columbus, OH: Merrill, Prentice Hall. Finders, M. and Hynds, S. (2003). Literacy Lessons: Teaching and Learning in the Middle School. Columbus, OH: Merrill, Prentice Hall. Finders, M. (1997). Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. New York: Teachers College Press. Research Specialty: Teacher Education, the sociopolitical dimensions of literacy learning and early adolescence and gender Classes Taught: College Writing I Literature and Human Society Methods of Teaching in English Education Language Study for Secondary Teachers |
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Dr. Rebekah M. Fowler
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Academic Background: Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale Recent Conference Presentations: "How to Do Satire: Old Irish Satire as Ritual Speech Act." 44th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. (May 7-10, 2009). "'Wip faerie forth y-nome': Fairy Abduction as Metaphor in Sir Orfeo." Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (March 5-7, 2009) "Absolutist Tendencies: Philanax and Philip Sidney's Anti-Absolutism." AEGIS Graduate Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (April 10-11, 2009). "'Liberty and Union Now and Forever': Marianne Moore and Marriage." Midwest Conference for Language, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (March 30-31, 2007). Areas of Specialization: Old and Middle English Literature Research Interests: The High and Late Middle Ages; Chaucer; Medieval Romance; Affective Piety; Theories of Emotions and Affect; Gender Studies; Theories of Authenticity Classes Taught: Western Literature I (ENG 205) |
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Dr. Ryan Friesen
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English,
University of Leeds Publications: Working on an article involving the supernatural in Early Modern English Drama. Research Specialty: Representations of the supernatural in the culture of Early Modern England. Classes Taught: Shakespeare I |
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Dr. James Gray
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Mr. Bruce Handtke
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Dr. David Hart
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English,
Cultural Studies, University of Florida Publications: “Making a Mockery of Mimicry: Salman Rushdie’s Shame.” Postcolonial Text 4.4 (2008) [Fall 2009] “Louise Bennett,” “Linton Kwesi Johnson,” “Mervyn Morris,” “Mutabaruka,” “Mikey Smith,” and “West Indies Federation” in Africa and the Americas (2008) “On Behalf of Harry/Harriet: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven,” Radical Teacher 80 (2008) “Caribbean Chronotopes: From Exile to Agency,” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 2.2 (2004) "Erosion, Noise and Hurricanes: A Review of Kamau Brathwaite's A History of the Voice: The Development of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry" Revista Mexicana del Caribe 6.12 (2001) Research Specialties: Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture, Globalization Studies, Folklore, Exilic Narratives Courses Taught: ENG 110: College
Writing Other interests: Creative Writing, American and British Literature, guitar, biking, and walking the dog |
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Dr. Karen (Stuart) Hart
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in Literature, University of California, San Diego M.A. in German Literature, University of California, San Diego B.A. in Literature and Writing, University of California, San Diego Research Specialties: World and Diasporic Literatures, Essayism and Utopian Forms of Writing, Modernism, German Literature and the work of Robert Musil, Post-colonial Theory, Fairytales and Storytelling Courses Taught:
College Writing I
(ENG110) Other interests: Creative writing, cooking, knitting, hiking, biking, skiing, and walking the cat and dog |
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Mr. Paul Heckman
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Academic Background: M.E.P.D. Secondary
Education, UWL, 1992 Publications: Letters Home:
Experience as Short Story in Europe Courses Taught: ENG050 Other interests and biographical tidbits: writing short stories and polemics, humanities, environment, classic fiction, current nonfiction, married, two children, one grandchild |
Dr. Lalita Pandit Hogan
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Dr. Sharon Jessee
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Academic Background: 1986 PhD in English,
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma Research Specialties: American Literature after 1945, especially postmodern, African American, and Chicano/a literature. Recent research focuses on Toni Morrison. Courses Taught: Literature and Human
Experience Course: Mythologies of Modern Memory |
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"Show business is my life." Dr. Gary Konas
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English,
University of California - Davis Publications: Neil Simon: A
Casebook Research Specialties: American Literature, Drama, Musical Theatre, Computer Technology, Film History Courses Taught: American Literature:
1865 to Present Other interests: Professional theatre organist, wine collector, longtime Mac guy, English department webmaster (1999–2010) |
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Dr. Bryan Kopp |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (August
2000) Positions: Writing Programs Coordinator, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Click here for current courses, office hours, and other information |
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Dr. Haixia Lan |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in English specializing in Rhetoric and Composition and Literary Theory, Purdue University (1993) Research Specialties: Rhetorical Invention, Comparative and Contrastive Rhetoric Courses Taught: ENG 110: College
Writing Director of the Writing Center |
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Dr. Stephen Mann |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (concentration: sociolinguistics) Publications: Forthcoming. “Naming versus not naming field sites and fieldwork participants.” In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications. Routledge. 2011. “Drag queens’ use of language and the performance of blurred gendered and racial identities.” Journal of Homosexuality 58. 793-811. Selected Conference Presentations: 2011. “Southern, working class, gay male English varieties and the Gay American English continuum.” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. (Jan. 6-8, 2011) 2010. “Gay men’s discussions of family and the circulation of shared discourses.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (Nov. 17-21, 2010) 2010. “The (in)compatibility of sounding gay and sounding southern.” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 39, San Antonio, TX. (Nov. 4-6, 2010) 2010. “When non-mainstream does not equal nonstandard: Toward an understanding of in-group assessments of intelligence by speakers of Gay American English” American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. (Jan. 7-10, 2010) 2008. “Gay male language socialization through online social networks.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Nov. 19-23, 2008) Research Specialties: sociolinguistics, language & sexuality, language & gender, language attitudes, folk dialectology, social network theory, social varieties of American English, language & identity Courses Taught: College Writing I (ENG 110) |
Dr. Marie Moeller |
Academic Background: Ph.D. in Professional/Technical Writing and Rhetoric, Illinois State University Recent Publications: "Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Rebooting Contingent Faculty's Marginalized Status in Online Writing Courses." Forum in College English Special Issue on Contingent Faculty. Forthcoming, Spring 2011. "Epiphany of A Cynic: Feminist Pedagogy and its Fluidity." In: Jung, Julie. Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005 (131-33). Research Specialties: Issues of Gender and Disability in Technical/Professional Writing Courses Taught: College Writing I (110)Writing for Management, Public Relations and the Professions (307) Other interests: Baking, Film, Piano, Vintage Cookbooks, Basketball (playing and watching) |
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Dr. Thomas Pribek
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in American
Literature and History, University of Wisconsin -
Madison (1987) Research Specialties: Pre-1900 American Literature, Wisconsin/Midwest Literature, Journalism and Mass Communication Courses Taught: ENG 110: College
Writing I |
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Ms. Sharon Scholze
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Research Specialties: Treaty Rights Dispute in Northern Wyoming, Science Fiction, Literature and Drama, Shakespeare Courses Taught: ENG 110: College
Writing I Other interests: Shakespeare in the summer at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Science Fiction--especially Star Trek, reading, poetry, music, working with Church Libraries, spending time on the family farm, long walks in the country, spending time with friends, gardening and baking. |
Dr. Kelly Sultzbach |
Academic Background:
University of Oregon, Ph.D. (2008) Publications: "The Contrary Nature of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Fruits." Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. Special Issue: "Victorian Ecology." John Parham, ed. Forthcoming, Dec. 2011. "The Chiasmic Embrace of the Natural World in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding." Southern Literary Journal. 42.1 (2009): 88-101. Smith, Bennett, ed. Free Speech: A Casebook for Writers. Brian Millington, Kelly Sultzbach, Ben Waller, asst. eds. Casebook Series of the University of Oregon Composition Program. Eugene: U Oregon P, 2008. "The Fertile Potential of Virginia Woolf's Environmental Ethic." Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. (Peer-reviewed.) Helen Southworth and Elisa Kay Sparks, eds. Clemson: Clemson U Digital P, 2006. 71-77. Research Specialties: 20th Century British Literature Courses Taught: College Writing I
(ENG110) Other interests: Hiking, camping, classic films from the 1930s & 40s, and sampling other people's cooking |
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Dr. Darci Thoune |
Academic
Background: Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition,
University of Louisville (2006) Publications: With
Connie Kendall and Deborah Kirkman, “An
Assessment Narrative—The
University of Kentucky.” The NCTE-WPA White
Paper on Writing Assessment in
Colleges and Universities.
http://www.wpacouncil.org/UK “Coming to Terms: Discovering our Rhetorical Values
through Writing Program Assessment,” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA
(March 2009). Research Interests: Instructor identity, personal writing, literacy
practices, composition history, composition pedagogy,
performance theory, assessment, writing program
administration,
feminist theory, creative non-fiction,
mother-daughter fiction, memoir, food writing, and life
writing. Courses Taught: English 110 Other interests: All things gastronomical, cultivating domesticity, travel, junk shops, and exploring my new midwestern environs. |
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Dr. Robert Wilkie
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English, University at
Albany, SUNY (2008) Recent Publications: The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. "The Daydreams of iPod Capitalism" in Post Industrial Society (4 Volumes). London, UK: Sage Publications, 2010. "The 'Open' Ideology of Digital Culture" in Transforming Culture in the Digital Age. Tartu, Estonia: Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum, University of Tartu, 2010. "Soft Labor, Hard Work." Nature, Society, and Thought. 17 (2) (2004). 229-250 "'W' as a Floating Signifier: Class and Politics after the 'Post'." Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC). 22.3 (Summer 2002). 603-621. Recent Conference Presentations: "Post-Operaismo, Techne, and the Common." Modern Language Association Annual Conference. January 5, 2012. Seattle, Washington. (Session Chair and Organizer). "Gaming Ideology: Labor and Class in the 'Ludo Economy'." Class/Aesthetics/Worlds Conference. October 15, 2011. Minneapolis, Minnesota. "The 'Posthuman' Eye: Class, Ethics, and the Digital Image." Versatile Image: Photography in the Era of Web 2.0 Conference. June 24-26, 2011. Sunderland, England. "Class, Race, and the Posthuman Empire." Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association. January 8, 2011. Los Angeles, California.
"The 'Life' of Capital is Labor." Annual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts. October 29, 2010. Indianapolis, Indiana.
"The 'Open' Ideology of Digital Culture." Transforming Culture in the Digital Age. April 16, 2010. Tartu, Estonia.
"Red
Critique in a Digital World." Annual Conference of the
Modern Language Association. December 27, 2006.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Research Specialties: Writing and Technology; Digital and
Visual Culture; Cultural and Critical Theory;
Twentieth and
Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture
Courses Taught: English 110 |
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Dr. Joseph
Young
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Academic Background: Ph.D. in English,
University of Nebraska (1984) Research
Specialties: Other interests: His 1986 Lincoln City Library Foundation Oscar Micheaux Lecture was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored in part by The Nebraska Literary Heritage Association. |






















