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Faculty by Specialty

 
Medieval
 
  David Benson (Medieval History, Art History)  
  Fred Biggs  
  Robert Hasenfratz (Old and Middle English)  
  Tom Jambeck (Language and Literature)  
  Clare Costley King'oo (Late Medieval Literature)  
  Frederick Roden (Medievalism, Religion)  
  Kathleen Tonry (15th C., History of the Book)  
     
 
Renaissance
 
  Ray Anselment (Shakespeare)  
  Amanda Bailey (Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Cultural Studies)  
  Pamela Brown (Shakespeare, Popular Culture)  
  Tom Deans  
  Tom Dulack (Renaissance)  
  F. Elizabeth Hart (Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean Drama)  
  Clare Costley King'oo (Reformation Literature)  
  Greg Kneidel (Poetry & Prose)  
  John Manning (Drama, Historiography)  
  Richard Peterson  
  Greg Semenza (Shakespeare, Milton, Cultural History)  
  Roger Wilkenfeld (Milton)  
     
 
Restoration & 18th Century
 
  Scott Campbell  
  Charles Mahoney  
  Jean Marsden  
  Hans Turley ( Piracy, Defoe)  
     
 
19th Century British
 
  Eleni Coundouriotis (The Novel and Non-fiction Prose)  
  Harris Fairbanks (Blake)  
  Margaret Higonnet (Women Poets, Hardy)  
  Rachael Lynch  
  Charles Mahoney (British Romantic Writing)  
  Tom Recchio (Victorian NOvel & Elizabeth Gaskell)  
  Frederick Roden (Victorian, Religion)  
  David Sonstroem ( Rossetti, Ruskin, Preraphaelitism, Victorian Art)  
  Roger Wilkenfeld (Poetry)  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
20th Century British
 
  Regina Barreca  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Morgne Cramer (Virginia Woolf)  
  Margaret Higonnet (World War I)  
  Donna Hollenberg  
  Jonathan Hufstader  
  Thomas Shea  
  Roger Wilkenfeld (Modern & Contemporary)  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
Irish Literature
 
  Mary Burke (J.M. Synge, the Revival, Irish Minority Identities)  
  Jonathan Hufstader  
  Rachael Lynch (Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction)  
  Thomas Shea (Modern & Contemporary Irish, )  
     
 
American Literature to 1900
 
  Pamela Bedore  
  Mary Bercaw-Edwards (Literature of the Sea)  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Jason Courtmanche (Nathaniel Hawthorne)  
  Martha Cutter (Women's and Multiethnic Literature)  
  Anna Mae Duane  
  Wayne Franklin  
  Sharon Harris  
  Glen MacLeod (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James)  
  Michael Meyer  
  Ross Miller  
  Gary Storhoff  
  Robert Tilton (Colonial; Historical Romance)  
     
 
Twentieth-Century American Literature
 
  Doug Anderson (Modernism)  
  Pamela Bedore  
  Mary Bercaw-Edwards (Literature of the Sea)  
  Lynn Bloom (Autobiography, Women writers)  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Ann Charters (Beat Writers)  
  Jason Courtmanche (William Faulkner)  
  Timothy Cox (Inter-American literature)  
  Martha Cutter (Multiethnic and African American Literature)  
  Tom Dulack (Hemingway)  
  Clare Eby (Realism and Naturalism)  
  Donna Hollenberg  
  Ellen Litman  
  Glen MacLeod (Literature and the Visual Arts)  
  Veronica Makowsky (Women's Ethnic, Southern)  
  Michael Meyer  
  Ross Miller  
  Brenda Murphy  
  Penelope Pelizzon (Film and Visual Culture)  
  Lisa Sanchez  
  Cathy Schlund-Vials  
  Thomas Shea (Irish-American)  
  Katharine Capshaw Smith  
  Gary Storhoff (William Faulkner)  
     
 
Ethnic American
 
  Joyce Ashuntantang (African American Literature)  
  Jason Courtmanche (Latin- and African-American Lit)  
  Timothy Cox (African American writing)  
  Martha Cutter (Multiethnic and African American Literature)  
  Clare Eby (African American)  
  Ellen Litman (Russian; Immigrant)  
  Veronica Makowsky (Multi-Ethnic)  
  Siskanna Naynaha (Latina/o Literature)  
  Lisa Sanchez  
  Cathy Schlund-Vials (Asian American)  
  Katharine Capshaw Smith (African American)  
  Gary Storhoff (African American)  
  Robert Tilton (Native American Literature)  
     
 
LGBT Literature/Queer Theory
 
  Margaret Sönser Breen  
  Morgne Cramer  
  Serkan Gorkemli (LGBT History, Cyberqueer Studies)  
  Frederick Roden (Religious Studies)  
  Hans Turley  
     
 
Women's Writing and Feminist Literary Theory
 
  Regina Barreca  
  Pamela Bedore  
  Margaret Sönser Breen  
  Pamela Brown  
  Morgne Cramer  
  Martha Cutter  
  Sharon Harris  
  Margaret Higonnet (19th C., Comparative Feminist Theory)  
  Donna Hollenberg  
  Veronica Makowsky (American only)  
  Jean Marsden  
     
 
Postcolonial / World Literature in English
 
  Joyce Ashuntantang (African Literature, African Disapora Literature)  
  Kerry Bystrom  
  Eleni Coundouriotis (Africa)  
  Timothy Cox (Caribbean)  
  Patrick Colm Hogan (South Asian Culture/Arts)  
     
 
Children's Literature
 
  Margaret Higonnet (War, Picture Books)  
  Jean Marsden  
  Sam Pickering  
  Katharine Capshaw Smith  
     
 
Literary / Critical Theory
 
  Amanda Bailey (Sexuality Studies)  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Kerry Bystrom (Postcolonial Theory; Trauma and Memory Studies)  
  Eleni Coundouriotis (Postcolonial Theory)  
  Anna Mae Duane (Disability Studies)  
  F. Elizabeth Hart (Literature and Cognitive Science)  
  Margaret Higonnet (Romantic)  
  Patrick Colm Hogan (History, Cognitive, non-Western)  
  Charles Mahoney  
  Jean Marsden  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
Rhetoric & Composition
 
  Pamela Bedore  
  Lynn Bloom (Research, Style, Essays)  
  Scott Campbell  
  Jason Courtmanche (The Teaching of Writing)  
  Timothy Cox (Porfessional/technical writing)  
  Tom Deans  
  Harris Fairbanks (Political Rhetoric)  
  Serkan Gorkemli (Computers & Writing, Writing Centers)  
  Greg Kneidel (History of Rhetoric)  
  Siskanna Naynaha (Critical literacies, Latina/o rhetorics)  
  Tom Recchio  
  David Sonstroem (Grammar, Usage)  
  Kathleen Tonry (Writing Across the Disciplines)  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
The Novel
 
  Doug Anderson (Epic and the Literature of War)  
  Regina Barreca  
  Pamela Bedore (Popular Fiction)  
  Mary Bercaw-Edwards (Literature of the Sea)  
  Lynn Bloom (20-21st C. American)  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Margaret Sönser Breen  
  Kerry Bystrom  
  Scott Campbell  
  Eleni Coundouriotis (Third World)  
  Morgne Cramer  
  Clare Eby  
  Wayne Franklin (American Fiction to 1900)  
  Ellen Litman (20-21st Century Novel, Russian Novel)  
  Rachael Lynch  
  Ross Miller  
  Tom Recchio  
  Thomas Shea (Modern Novel)  
  Hans Turley  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
Non-Fiction Prose
 
  Doug Anderson (Memoir)  
  Lynn Bloom  
  Tom Deans  
  Wayne Franklin (Nature Writing)  
  Sam Pickering  
  Tom Recchio (the Essay)  
     
 
Poetry
 
  Doug Anderson  
  David Benson  
  Pamela Brown  
  Sharon Bryan  
  Harris Fairbanks  
  Donna Hollenberg  
  Jonathan Hufstader  
  Glen MacLeod (Wallace Stevens, Wm. Carlos Williams)  
  Charles Mahoney  
  Marilyn Nelson  
  Penelope Pelizzon (Prosody, Poetic Forms, Elegy)  
  Roger Wilkenfeld (Milton, 19th C. Modern)  
     
 
Drama
 
  Doug Anderson (Play and Screenwriting)  
  Pamela Brown  
  Mary Burke (The Abbey Theatre)  
  Kerry Bystrom  
  Tom Dulack  
  Tom Jambeck (Medieval English Drama)  
  John Manning  
  Jean Marsden  
  Brenda Murphy (Modern Drama)  
  Greg Semenza  
  Sarah Winter  
     
 
Creative Writing
 
  Doug Anderson (Creative Nonfiction)  
  Regina Barreca  
  Lynn Bloom  
  Scott Bradfield  
  Jason Courtmanche (Poetry and Personal Essay)  
  Ellen Litman (Fiction)  
  Marilyn Nelson (Ethnic American & 20th C. American)  
  Penelope Pelizzon ( Poetry, Creative Nonfiction)  
  Fran Shaw (Business Writing, Teaching Writing)  
  Davyne Verstandig (Litchfield County Writers Project)