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Laila Amine, Ph.D. (Indiana University, 2011) Dr. Laila Amine specializes in twentieth-century African American and African Diaspora literature with particular interest in comparative race and ethnic studies. Amine has recently co-edited a special issue entitled "Crossroads of Memory" for the journal of Culture, Theory, and Critique. Her book project, The Making of Algerian Paris: Colonial Legacies and Transnationalism, uncovers how the Algerian war (1954-1962) and its legacies shaped representations of a transnational Paris in African American, French, and Maghrebi cultural texts. Her second book examines the interracial romance in post-World War II African American literature. Amine’s work has appeared in: Culture, Theory, and Critique, Black Camera, and Postcolonial Text. For 2011-2012, she was appointed Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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David Anderson, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 2001) Dr. David Anderson specializes in American literature and is currently analyzing conflicting narratives of indigenous contact in colonial American writings. He regularly teaches Composition, early and contemporary American literature surveys, and World literature. He has previously taught advanced courses in American Fiction, American Romanticism, and Southern American Literature, as well as Short Story and Advanced Expository Writing. He is also an Emerald Eagle scholar mentor. |
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Deborah Needleman Armintor, Ph.D. (Rice University, 2002) Dr. Deborah Needleman Armintor specializes in eighteenth-century British literature, gender theory, and sexuality studies. She is the author of The Little Everyman: Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (University of Washington Press, 2011). Dr. Armintor’s articles have appeared in SEL (Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900), ECTI (The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation), 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Literature and Psychology, and Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Views/Modern Critical Interpretations series edition of Gulliver’s Travels. She is now at work on a new project, tentatively titled “Wife and Servant Are the Same”: Domestic Servitude as Same-Sex Marriage in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, a study of homoerotically spousal master/servant relationships. Her latest work-in-progress is a book-length study of accidental incest as class critique in literature of the 1700s. |
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Marshall Needleman Armintor, Ph.D. (Rice University, 2002) Dr. Armintor's research interests are primarily in 20th century British literature and critical theory, especially psychoanalysis; his book Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence (Peter Lang) was published in 2004. He has taught a wide range of courses since coming to UNT in 2003, with topics ranging from graphic novels to 20th century British women's literature and the "gateway" course, ENGL 2500 (Analysis and Interpretation). |
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Bruce Bond, Ph.D. (University of Denver, 1987) Bruce Bond’s collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy (Etruscan Press, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), Blind Rain (Finalist, The Poet’s Prize, LSU, 2008), Cinder (Etruscan Press, 2003), The Throats of Narcissus (U of AR, 2001), Radiography (TIL Best Book of Poetry Award, BOA, 1997), The Anteroom of Paradise (Colladay Award, QRL, 1991), and Independence Days (R. Gross Award, Woodley Press, 1990). Also he has authored two forthcoming books: The Other Sky (poems in collaboration with the painter Aron Wiesenfeld, intro by Stephen Dunn, Etruscan Press) and For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press). His poetry and essays have appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, Raritan, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review, and Poetry, and he has received numerous prizes including fellowships from the NEA, the Texas Institute of the Arts, and the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts. In addition, the university awarded him the David Kesterson Award for Graduate Teaching, the Creative Impact Award, and the Eminent Faculty Award. |
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Jenny Caneen-Raja, Ph.D. Jenny Caneen-Raja’s research interests are primarily in Early Modern British literature. Her research and conference presentations investigate the representation of marginalized populations: the Rogues, Sturdy Beggars and Masterless Men whose fictionalized accounts rendered them into an identifiable threat to the emerging body politic of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. She has also taught at Kent State University, Twinsburgh Community College, and Florida State University. She has designed an eclectic variety of courses over the years, ranging from Shakespeare Appropriations, Science Fiction and The Rhetoric of Disease and the Body, to Science Literacy, the Faerie Tale and Early American Literature. She is the recipient of the Fred L. Standley Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Phi Eat Sigma Award for Excellence in Teaching. Since coming to UNT, she has been teaching survey courses in British and World literatures, Literary Analysis, and first-year composition. Before attending graduate school at Florida State University, Ms. Caneen-Raja was a professional singer/dancer/actress. |
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Gabriel Cervantes, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 2009) Before coming to UNT Gabriel Cervantes had his graduate training and postdoctoral research supported by a Graduate School President’s Fellowship at Princeton University and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in English at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature and culture in a global context with special attention to Britain and colonial America. He is completing his first book, which examines how literary works imagined and linked the legal systems of the eighteenth-century Anglo-Atlantic. He has published articles on this topic in ELH and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Additionally, in collaboration with Geoffrey Sill (Rutgers University-Camden) he is preparing a Broadview Press edition of Daniel Defoe’s The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacques (1722), an important early eighteenth-century novel that has not seen a critical paperback edition since 1970. Dr. Cervantes regularly teaches courses in eighteenth-century British and American literature as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars on transatlantic culture. |
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Shari M. Childers, Ph.D. (UT-Dallas, 2007) Dr. Shari M. Childers explores the confluence of literature, the environment, and gender, specifically the role that language plays in shaping and reshaping human interactions with our environments, communities, and with one another. Her most recent research, article submissions, and conference presentations have investigated conceptions of sustainability in a variety of women’s literatures since 1850. While pursuing her own professional accomplishments, she has also been fortunate enough to teach. Her teaching experience in the last decade encompasses the full range of learners from tenth graders to college undergrads, from developmental learner populations to advanced placement students. Her current course offerings include World Literature, British Literature, and composition courses. She is one of the lucky few; she loves what she does. |
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J. Robin Coffelt, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 2001) Lecturer robincoffelt@gmail.com 408L Language Bldg 940-369-8951 Dr. Robin Coffelt specializes in twentieth-century American literature, especially fiction by women. Other current areas of interest include animal studies, especially the animal as narrator, and music in/music as literature. She teaches a variety of courses, including survey courses in world and American literatures and the short story, and first-year composition as well as advanced writing classes. She has helped develop a blended (online/onsite) course for World Literature II (the eighteenth century to the present), which debuted in Spring 2010. |
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Britta Coleman, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 2012) Lecturer brittacoleman@gmail.com 408L Language Bldg 940-369-8951 Dr. Britta Coleman specializes in creative writing and twentieth-century literature. Her first novel, Potter Springs, was published by Warner Books and won the Lone Star Scribe Award from Barnes and Noble Booksellers. Her writing has appeared in anthologies from Simon & Schuster and BenBella books, and she served as a columnist for the Amarillo Globe-News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. As the Production Editor and then the Managing Editor for American Literary Review, she was honored to help publish the magazine’s 20th-anniversary issue. She teaches a variety of classes including World Literature, American Literature, Technical Writing, Creative Writing and first-year composition courses. |
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Bryan Conn, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, 2010) Dr. Conn specializes in twentieth century African-American and American literature. His secondary interests include the intellectuals of the African diaspora, critical theory, and psychoanalysis, especially object relations theory. He is currently working on a book project that explores issues of interracial social relations and intersubjective psychical relations in late modernist African-American and white American fiction. Conn’s writing on James Baldwin’s Another Country has won essay prizes from the Northeast Modern Language Association’s LGBTQ caucus and from the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. He has taught courses on the depiction of trauma and melancholia in African-American and American Indian fiction, the intersection of existential philosophy and African diaspora literature, and the figure of the robot in international literature and cinema. Before coming to UNT, Conn was a lecturer in the English department at Case Western Reserve University. He is also an experienced teacher of composition, having taught college writing at Johns Hopkins, Case, and now UNT. |
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Kevin Curran, Ph.D. (University College Dublin, 2005) Dr. Curran specializes in Renaissance literature and theater with particular interests in Shakespeare, law, philosophy and critical theory, performance, and the culture of the court. His first book, Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009), looks at how political, religious, and sexual understandings of “union” came to bear on the formation of a uniquely Jacobean political imagination. Curran is also preparing an edition of Samuel Daniel's play, The Tragedy of Philotas, which will be published by Manchester University Press as part of the “Revels Plays” series. He is currently working on a new book called Shakespeare’s Legal Subjects: Law and Selfhood in the Plays and Sonnets, and he recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Criticism on “Shakespeare and Phenomenology.” Curran has received grants and fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Harry Ransom Research Center, among others. He is the editor of a new book series called "Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy," published by Edinburgh University Press. At UNT, he is founder and convener of the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium. In 2012, Dr. Curran won the Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and the Professor of the Year Award from the Graduate Students of English Association. |
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James Duban, Ph.D. (Cornell University, 1976) James Duban is the author of Melville’s Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination (1983), The Nature of True Virtue: Theology, Psychology, and Politics in the Writings of Henry James, Sr., Henry James, Jr., and William James (2001), and Be a College Achiever: The Complete Guide to Academic Stardom (2005). His articles have appeared in such journals as American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Philological Quarterly, The New England Quarterly, The Harvard Theological Review, The Harvard Library Bulletin, and Journal of Speculative Philosophy, among others. He continues his work in the area of James and Melville studies, while advancing his interests in such writers as Philip Roth and Meyer Levin. As director of the UNT Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships, Dr. Duban has guided students through the process of applying successfully for Truman, Goldwater, Udall, Madison, Gates Millennium, P.E.O Peace, Rotary, DAAD, NSF, HSF, and many other national awards, all of which, beyond considerations of generous funding and recognition, have life-changing value. |
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B.H. Fairchild, Ph.D. (University of Tulsa, 1975) Dr. B. H. Fairchild's most recent book, Usher (Norton, 2009), is his sixth collection of poetry. His previous volume, Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton, 2004), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has earned numerous awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the Arthur Rense Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the California Book Award, the PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, and The Sewanee Review. He is also the author of Such Holy Song: Music as Idea, Form, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake. |
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Ian Finseth, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, 2001) Dr. Ian Finseth specializes in nineteenth-century American and African American literature, with particular research interests in the slave narrative, Civil War literature, and the environmental humanities. He is the author of Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 (University of Georgia, 2009), which reinterprets early national and antebellum American literature in terms of the symbolic and material relationships between racial identity and the natural world. Dr. Finseth has also edited several books, including The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2013), and his articles have appeared in American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Early American Literature, Leviathan, Studies in the Novel, and other journals. He is currently at work on a new book, provisionally titled The Civil War Dead and American Modernity, which will challenge conventional accounts of the cultural significance of Civil War mortality, particularly in relation to the development of American realism and contemporary historicism. |
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Jacqueline Foertsch, Ph.D. (Tulane, 1998) Dr. Foertsch specializes in the areas of post-WWII American literature, culture, and film and is the author of four books and numerous articles on these and related subjects. Most recently she has published American Culture in the 1940s, part of the American Culture series through Edinburgh UP (2008), and Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America (Associated UPs 2009). Her current project is Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America, an excerpt of which appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature in 2007. In Reckoning Day, Foertsch examines multiple aspects of African Americans’ interface with the atomic threat in the postwar decades of 1945 to 1965, including the response of major intellectuals such as Du Bois and Robeson, civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., artists such as Lorraine Hansberry, and the diverse editorship of the African American press. In addition, Foertsch examines African American characters in the works of white-authored fiction and nonfiction (e.g., doomsday scenarios and survival guides) in this period, as well as the collaborative occasion of African American lead actors starring in atomic-survival Hollywood films. Foertsch is the editor of Studies in the Novel. |
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Bonnie Friedman, M.F.A. (University of Iowa, 1984) Bonnie Friedman writes both creative nonfiction—focusing on the personal essay and memoir—and fiction. She is the author of the Village Voice bestseller Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life (HarperCollins), which has been anthologized in six different writing textbooks. She is also the author of the memoir The Thief of Happiness (Beacon). Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and magazines including O. The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, The Ladies Home Journal and Self. Her writing has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best of O., The Oprah Magazine. |
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Nora Gilbert, Ph.D. (University of Southern California, 2010) Dr. Nora Gilbert specializes in the areas of nineteenth-century British literature and classical Hollywood film with particular research interests in gender studies and the intersection of law and culture. Her first book, Better Left Unsaid: Victorian Novels, Hays Code Films, and the Benefits of Censorship (forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2013), is an interdisciplinary exploration of the paradoxical ways in which the novels written during the Victorian era and the films produced under the Production Code were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them. Dr. Gilbert has published recent essays in PMLA and Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and is currently embarking on a second book project that she is tentatively titling Unwomaned: Lady Novelists, Hollywood Starlets, and the Threat of Female Independence. |
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Marcia Gilbreath, M.A. (University of North Texas, 1986) Marcia Gilbreath specializes in 19th-century British Literature, with emphasis on the British Romantic poets. She has more recently expanded her areas of interest and study to include Asian Literature (East-West Institute, University of Hawai’i at Manoa). She teaches a variety of courses: World Literature (ENGL 2210 and 2220); British Literature from 1780 to the Present (ENGL 2323); and Writing About Literature I and II (ENGL 1315 and 1325). |
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Stephanie Hawkins, Ph.D. (SUNY Buffalo, 2003) Dr. Stephanie Hawkins specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, with particular interests in visual culture and science and literature. Her book, American Iconographic: National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination (University of Virginia Press, 2010), examines how National Geographic’s cultural iconicity and representational practices have clashed with the ideals and critical reception of its readers. Rather than be anesthetized by the “culture industry,” the magazine’s readership embodies a lively “culture of dissent,” highlighting Americans’ complex responses to social and historical changes brought about by immigration, the Great Depression, and world war. Hawkins is currently working on a new book on modernism and the neuroscience of public opinion, provisionally titled Modernism and the Public Mind: The Science of Belief and the Art of Dissent. She has published essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Arizona Quarterly, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and The Henry James Review, as well as essays on the history of neuroscience in Frontiers in Fractal Physiology and in the forthcoming co-edited collection, Brain and Mind: Essays on the History of the ‘Hard Problem’ in Neuroscience (Springer). |
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Matthew Heard, Ph.D. (University of California, Riverside, 2007) Dr. Matthew Heard specializes in composition studies, pedagogy, and rhetorical theory. He also currently serves as the Director of Writing for the UNT freshman composition program. His research has focused on intersections between rhetorical theory and literature (particularly the literature of transatlantic modernisms), and his current project explores the grounds of "social action" in writing studies through the dynamics of tonality. Dr. Heard has written articles for College Literature, Pedagogy, and JAC, and is currently finishing the manuscript of a book project, which is tentatively titled Learning to Share. |
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David Holdeman, Ph.D. (Michigan, 1992) Dr. David Holdeman specializes in twentieth-century Irish literature and culture (especially W. B. Yeats); modern British and American poetry and drama; and the theory and practice of scholarly editing. His most recent book, W. B. Yeats in Context (Cambridge, 2010), co-edited with Ben Levitas, features thirty-nine essays by distinguished Yeatsians from around the world. His previous books include The Cambridge Introduction to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006); “In the Seven Woods” and “The Green Helmet and Other Poems”: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats (Cornell, 2002); and Much Labouring: The Texts and Authors of Yeats’s First Modernist Books (Michigan, 1997). Dr. Holdeman is an active member of the Society for Textual Scholarship and served as program chair for its 2003 conference held at New York University. |
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Kyle Jensen, Ph.D. (Illinois State University, 2009) Dr. Kyle Jensen specializes in rhetoric and composition studies. He is the online editor of JAC, a scholarly journal that examines the theoretical intersections between rhetoric, writing, politics, and multiple literacies. His essays have appeared in JAC and Rhetoric Review. He is currently working on his first monograph, entitled Reimagining Process: Toward the Development of Online Writing Archives. |
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Raina Joines, M.F.A. (University of Florida, 1997) Raina Joines specializes in American literature, Great Books / World literature, cultural studies, and creative writing in poetry. She has been the recipient of teaching awards from two universities, the Rebecca Porter Scholarship in Creative Writing at UF, and an O. Ruth McQuown Women in Humanities Scholarship. At UNT, she teaches American Literature II, World Literature II, Poetry Workshop, and College Writing. She has also taught courses in Women’s Literature, Modern Science Fiction, and Studies in American Literary Form. Other scholarly interests include critical theory, spatial theory and practice, science fiction, and utopian literature. |
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Richard Joines, Ph.D. (University of Florida, 2001) Dr. Richard Joines teaches Classical Literature, Intermediate Poetry Workshop, Advanced Expository Writing, World Literature, American Literature, and Shakespeare. He has published poems, essays on the political rhetoric of both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jacques Derrida, as well as short essays on the poets Thom Gunn, Timothy Steele, J. V. Cunningham, and Turner Cassity, and book reviews of works of fiction, poetry, philosophy, and classical studies in Quarterly West, Nineteenth Century Prose, Rethinking Marxism, Animus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, A Companion to 20th Century Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace, Tusculum Review, 14 by 14: The Lean Sonnet Zine, Mississippi Encyclopedia, and the American Literary Review. He has been an NEH fellow at the summer institute "Ralph Waldo Emerson @ 200: Literature, Philosophy, Democracy" and a DAAD fellow at the German Studies Summer Seminar "Nietzsche and Heidegger: The Question of Esoteric Political Philosophy,” and is involved with SOPHIA: The Society of Orthodox Philosophers in America. His current research focuses on esoteric and apophatic rhetoric deployed by the philosophers of ancient Greece and the early Church Fathers, especially the Cappadocians. |
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Justin T. Jones, Ph.D. (UNT, 2011) Lecturer Justin.Jones2@unt.edu 408C Language Building 940-565-3370 Dr. Justin T. Jones specializes in British fiction, poetry, drama, and essays of the long nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on the children's literature of the period. His debut article "Manufacturing Men: Boys as Commodities in Kipling's Kim and Captains Courageous" appeared in the spring issue of Victorians (formerly Victorian Newsletter), and his article "Morality's Ugly Implications in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales" is forthcoming in the November issue of Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. His current projects include studying fear and trauma in late Victorian Gothic narratives and an exploration of nihilism and game theory in Lewis Carroll's fiction. He has taught freshman composition, world literature, and British literature classes at UNT. He enjoys drinking vast amounts of coffee while listening to the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan, and he finds tandem bicycles personally distasteful. |
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Marie C. Jones, Ph.D. (UNT, 1999) Dr. Marie C. Jones is a poet, nonfiction writer, translator, and visual artist. She has two chapbooks of poems, A Natural History of the Broken World (Red Mare, 2008) and Love Song with Mass Extinction (Oil Hill Press, 2004). With Antoine Cazé, she translated Li-Young Lee’s The City In Which I Love You (BOA, 1990) into French. The resulting book, La ville oú je t’aime, was published by Le Pli (Paris) in 2003. Marie C. Jones’s poetry, nonfiction, translations, and digital work have appeared or are forthcoming in Cider Press Review, The Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Atlanta Review, and many other periodicals. She is a member of the Ghost Town Art Gallery (Sherman, TX) and the Director and Web Designer of The Threadbare Art Collective (http://www.threadbareart.net). |
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Patrice Phelan Lyke, Ph.D. (Texas Woman's University, 1998) Patrice Phelan Lyke specializes in the teaching of Freshman Composition, both in the traditional classroom (English 1310, 1320) and in the computer lab (English 1313, 1323), and has taught The Principles and Practice of Rhetoric (English 4170). She has had experience with teaching both American literature survey and British literature survey courses, as well as short fiction. |
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Amos Magliocco, M.F.A. (Indiana, 2005) Amos Magliocco specializes in creative writing and has taught courses in Intermediate Fiction Writing, American Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition. A winner of the Pushcart Prize, he is currently shopping his first novel, Remedy Wheel. Set in 1934 Chicago, the book explores the cultural divide between the corporate-sponsored promises of the World's Fair and the rigid boundaries of Bronzeville, enforced by restrictive covenants and violence, where nevertheless a professional middle-class arose in the heart of the Depression. He is also assembling a collection of essays on his early-summer hobby of storm chasing, the first two chapters of which have appeared in The Missouri Review and Isotope. Other work has appeared in the anthology, The Habit of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana Fiction Workshop (Indiana 2005), and journals such as Yemassee, RE:AL, Oxford Magazine, and Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of a Peter Taylor Fellowship in Fiction from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Warren Wilson Fellowship from Indiana University. |
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Corey Marks, Ph.D. (University of Houston, 2000) Dr. Corey Marks specializes in poetry writing. His current project is a collection of poems entitled The Radio Tree. His first book, Renunciation (University of Illinois Press, 2000), was a National Poetry Series selection. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including in New England Review, The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, as well as in the anthology Legitimate Dangers (Sarabande Books, 2006). He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute for Letters, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. |
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Alice Mathews, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 1987) Dr. Alice Mathews specializes in British Renaissance literature (especially the works of John Milton), Victorian literature, and technical editing. She has published articles in collected essays on Milton and in various online and print journals. In addition to a wide range of administrative responsibilities, she teaches courses on John Milton, early British literature, literary analysis and interpretation, poetry, and technical editing. She also served four years as editor of the journal of the Conference of College Teachers of English and as the Project Director of a NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers. |
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Ann McCutchan, M.F.A. (University of Houston, 1998) Ann McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994), The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999), Circular Breathing: Meditations from a Musical Life (Sunstone, 2011) and River Music: An Atchafalaya Story (TAMU Press, 2011). Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as Boulevard, Image, Cimarron Review and The Best American Spiritual Writing. Ann has received grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Vogelstein Foundation, the National Park Service, Lancaster Theological Seminary, and others. Her current book project is titled Of Earth and Sky: A Personal History of Florida's Space Coast. |
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Madhuparna Mitra, Ph.D. (Washington University [St. Louis], 1995) Madhuparna Mitra teaches a range of courses: Writing, British Literature I, Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature and Postcolonial Literature. Her work on South Asian writers has appeared in Ariel, South Asian Review and Explicator. |
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Walton Muyumba, Ph.D. (Indiana University-Bloomington, 2001) Dr. Walton Muyumba specializes in American and African American literature, poetry, jazz studies, pragmatism, and literary criticism and theory. He is currently working two book projects: 1) on American cultural production in the Age of Terrorism and 2) on the recent works of John Edgar Wideman. His most recent book, The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2009; Muyumba connects the writings Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka to the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, particularly its support for more freedom for individuals and more democratic societies. He examines the way the writers responded to and elaborated on that lineage, showing how they significantly broadened it by addressing the African American experience, especially its aesthetics. Ultimately, Muyumba contends, the trio enacted pragmatist principles by effectively communicating the social and political benefits of African Americans fully entering society, thereby compelling America to move closer to its democratic ideals. He has published essays in College Literature, The Electronic Book Review, Oxford American, The Washington Post Book World, The Chicago Tribune, and The Dallas Morning News. |
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Miroslav Penkov, M.F.A. (University of Arkansas, 2009) Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He arrived in America in 2001 and completed a bachelor's degree in psychology and an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, Orion, The Best American Short Stories 2008, andThe PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Winner of the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 and the Eudora Welty Prize, he was also a finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His debut collection, East of the West, has been published in a dozen countries. He is a fiction editor for the American Literary Review. |
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John Peters, Ph. D. (The Pennsylvania State University 1996) John Peters is the author of Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception (Cambridge 2013), a history of the commentary on Conrad, and Conrad and Impressionism (Cambridge 2001), which considers Joseph Conrad’s works in light of the epistemological underpinning of impressionism. Conrad and Impressionism was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 and was runner up for the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies for the best book published from 2001 through 2004. He is also author of The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge 2006); editor of A Historical Guide to Joseph Conrad (Oxford 2010), Conrad in the Public Eye (Rodopi 2008), and Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (Broadview 2010). He is translator of Takamura Kotaro’s book The Chieko Poems (Green Integer 2007) and in 2012 received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts to translate Takamura’s book Journey. His articles have appeared in such journals as Studies in Short Fiction, Studies in the Novel, College Literature, English Language Notes, Victorian Review, The Conradian, and Conradiana. His main areas of interest are Conrad studies, British Modernism, Victorian literature, American Modernism, and Japanese translation. Along with his translation of Takamura’s book Journey, he is currently working on a book project on the aesthetics of perception in the works of Oscar Wilde. |
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Alexander Pettit, Ph.D. (Washington, 1991) Dr. Pettit, who specializes in modern and contemporary drama and textual studies, has recently published essays on Luis Valdez and Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill. A book entitled Writing to Be Read: The Texts of Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams is underway. During his nearly twenty-five years as a scholar of the British eighteenth century, Dr. Pettit placed an award-winning monograph with the University of Delaware Press and published numerous essays, collections, and editions, most recently a critical edition of Samuel Richardson’s Early Works for Cambridge University Press (2011). In 2009, he was awarded the English department’s inaugural Thomas R. Preston Award for distinguished undergraduate teaching. |
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Dahlia Porter, Ph. D. (University of Pennsylvania, 2007)
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Dr. Dahlia Porter specializes in literature and culture of the Romantic period (1770-1830) in Britain. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship of science and literature, the history of books and printing, children’s literature, women authors, and poetry. Her first book examines late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century formal hybrids—long poems with scientific footnotes, experimental novels littered with verse, and mixed genre collections. These “composite orders” adapt the inductive method of natural philosophy to the work of literary composition, revealing how literary authors negotiated the legacy of Enlightenment empiricism by manipulating formal and generic conventions. Her second book project, provisionally titled The Poetics of Inventory, examines how catalogues function to bridge aesthetic, commercial, and scientific practices while also establishing new disciplinary boundaries. Dr. Porter’s articles have appeared in European Romantic Review, Wordsworth Circle, and Romanticism as well as essay collections on Charlotte Smith and Samuel Johnson; she has also co-edited, with Michael Gamer, an edition of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, 1798 and 1800 (Broadview, 2008).
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Masood Ashraf Raja, Ph.D. (Florida State University, 2006) Masood Ashraf Raja specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, and is the author of Constructing Pakistan (Oxford), published in 2010. He is the editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. His critical essays have been published in South Asian Review, Digest of Middle East Studies, Caribbean Studies, Prose Studies, and Mosaic. He is currently working on his second book, entitled Secular Fundamentalism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred. |
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Barbara Rodman, Ph.D. (University of Denver, 1985) Dr. Barbara Rodman specializes in contemporary short fiction; she has published in a variety of literary journals including Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Dickinson Review and others. She is past editor of the Katherine Anne Porter series in short fiction and is currently co-editor of fiction for the American Literary Review. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in fiction as well as Form and Theory of Prose. |
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Javier Rodríguez, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2000) Dr. Rodríguez specializes in the literary interactions between the United States and Mexico, the literature and culture of South Texas, and the relationships of narrative, regionalism, and history. His first book, The Literatures of the U.S. Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity (University of Texas Press, 2010) examines the continuing literary and cultural legacies of the war and its literature in the United States, in Mexico, and along the U.S.-Mexican border. Dr. Rodríguez has published articles in MELUS and in Arizona Quarterly and is the author of a forthcoming essay on Stephen Crane, “Hell in Mexican Texas: Stephen Crane at the American Abyss,” in The Turn Back to Religion in American Literature and Culture, edited by Nan Goodman and Michael Kramer. His new research concentrates on the interplay of literature and migration in South Texas. Dr. Rodríguez has previously taught at Boston University and the University of Notre Dame. He is a native of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. |
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Jean Roelke, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 2003) Dr. Jean Roelke specializes in creative writing, poetry, visual art and bookmaking, with an emphasis on 20th century and contemporary American literature and art. She is currently executive director for the Ghost Town Arts Collective, a non-profit, interdisciplinary artists group that maintains a gallery space, and promotes regional art exhibitions, literary readings, and dance, musical, and video performances. She is also currently involved in a collaborative book project with photographer Tim Tracz. Her visual poetry has been published in the Little Magazine. A chapbook of her poetry has been published by Oil Hill Press. |
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| UNT Faculty Profile | Anne Schoolfield, M.A. (University of North Texas, 1999) Lecturer anne@unt.edu 407A Language Bldg 940-369‐8945 |
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Daryl Scroggins, M.A. (UT Dallas, 1986) Daryl Scroggins teaches Creative Writing (fiction), College Writing I & II, Survey of Ethnic Literatures, American Literature 1870 to Present, and Survey of the Short Story. His special interests include the prose poem, flash fiction, and the novels of Cormac McCarthy. His most recent book is a collection of flash fictions and a flash novel: This Is Not The Way We Came In (Ravenna Press, 2009). His poems, fictions, and non-fiction works have appeared in literary journals and anthologies across the country. |
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Ryan Skinnell, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, 2011) Dr. Ryan Skinnell specializes in rhetoric and composition with an emphasis on histories of rhetoric and composition. His research focuses primarily on rhetorical education in post-secondary institutions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has additional interests in history writing and research and archive theory. He is currently working on a monograph that considers the effects of four overlooked education movements on writing instruction in higher education. His work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, and Enculturation, as well as in edited collections. |
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Nicole Smith, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, 2005) Dr. Nicole Smith specializes in late medieval literature, with special interest in Chaucer, material culture, and vernacular guides of pastoral care. Her book, Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), examines the connection that medieval vernacular texts draw among dress, romance, and moral behavior in their figurations of fashionable aristocrats. In addition to preparing a critical edition of a Middle English guide to penance, The Clensyng of Mannes Sowle, she is presently thinking about the role of pleasure in a variety of vernacular penitential manuals. She has published essays in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and Medium Ævum, and her fellowships include an NEH Summer Seminar on cultural constructions of the seven deadly sins in the Middle Ages. In 2011, she won UNT’s J.H. Excellence in Teaching Award. She is continuously inspired by smart students and intrigued by strange texts. |
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Sandra L. Spencer, Ph.D. (University of North Texas, 1996) Dr. Spencer's articles have appeared in journals such as Victorian Periodicals Review and Women's Writing. She has written bibliographic essays on Joseph Cottle and Isabella Beeton which appear in the Dictionary of Literary Biography and British Women Nineteenth-Century Writers. She has published an online article for The Dickens Project on Our Mutual Friend. In September 2002, Dr. Spencer became the Director of Women's Studies at UNT. She continues to teach English courses as well as courses in Women's Studies. Her favorite courses, "Jane Austen" and "Women and Work," can be used as credit in either English or Women's Studies. |
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John Tait, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 2002) John Tait specializes in creative writing (fiction writing) as well as post World War II American fiction and film. His short stories have appeared in Crazyhorse, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Michigan Quarterly and elsewhere and have been reprinted in New Stories from the Southwest and cited in Best American Short Stories. He has been the recipient of Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Emerging Writers and has also received the Tobias Wolff Fiction Award as well as first prize in the H. E. Francis Literary Competition, the Dogwood Fiction Awards and the River City Fiction Awards. He is currently at work on a novel, Poplar Crescent. |
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David Taylor, Ph.D. (Tennessee, 1989) David Taylor specializes in environmental literature, natural history writing and pre-1900 American literature. He has written and edited four books: Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (UNT Press, 2006), South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and Lawson’s Fork: Headwaters to the Confluence (Hub City Writer’s Project, 2000) and a book of poetry Praying Up the Sun (Pecan Grove Press, 2008). Forthcoming volumes include, Restoring Home: Essays and Family and Place (Texas Tech University, 2010) and South Carolina Nature Writing, 1860-1970 (University of South Carolina Press, 2011). David serves as Editor for the Southwestern Nature Writing Series with UNT Press. He has published multiple articles, essays, columns, and poetry in such journals as Ecological Restoration, Environmental History Review, ISLE, Borderlands, Mountain Gazette, and Southern Poetry Review. |
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Robert Upchurch, Ph.D. (The CUNY Graduate Center, 2001) Dr. Robert Upchurch specializes in early medieval literature and culture, Old English sermons (especially those of Ælfric of Eynsham), and Old and Middle English saints’ lives. He is currently working on a book on Ælfric’s program of pastoral care. His most recent book, Ælfric’s Lives of the Virgin Spouses, appeared in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series in 2007; it provides editions and translations of Ælfric’s Old English lives of Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria and of their Latin sources, in addition to an introduction placing them in their literary-historical contexts. He has been the recipient of an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, a Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship, and a Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Heckman Research Stipend. His publications also include Saints Lives in Middle English Collections (TEAMS, 2005) and essays in A Companion to Ælfric (Brill, 2009), The Old English Homily (Brepols, 2007), Speculum, Anglo-Saxon England, Traditio, Studies in Philology, and JEGP. |
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Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Ph.D. (University of Washington, 1996) Dr. Jacqueline Vanhoutte specializes in Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare, as well as in literature associated with the Tudor monarchs. Currently she is working on a book about Shakespeare and Elizabeth I. Dr. Vanhoutte published her first book, Strange Communion: Motherland and Masculinity in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics with the University of Delaware Press in 2003. Her other publications include a book co-authored with Laurel Amtower, entitled A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries (Broadview, 2009), and essays in collections and journals like ELR: English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Comparative Drama, and SEL. |
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Kelly Wisecup, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, 2009) Dr. Kelly Wisecup specializes in the literatures of colonial America and the Atlantic world, science and empire, and race in the early Americas. Her first book project, Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press, for the Native Americans of the Northeast series, in spring 2014. Medical Encounters examines how British American colonists, Native Americans, and Africans exchanged medical knowledge in colonial encounters as well the representations of such exchanges in early American literatures. In addition, she is preparing a scholarly edition of Edward Winslow’s Good News from New England (under advance contract with the University of Massachusetts Press) and is working on a second book project, on lists as a cross-cultural form of communication used by Native Americans and European colonists. Her articles have appeared in Early American Studies, Early American Literature, Atlantic Studies, The Southern Literary Journal, and Literature Compass. She was awarded the Society of Early Americanists’ Best Essay Award for 2009-2010, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Brown Library, the Newberry Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cosmos Club Foundation, and the University of North Texas. |
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Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D. (Rice University, 2006) Dr. Ybarra specializes in contemporary Chicana/o Literature and Ecocriticism. Dr. Ybarra's most recently published article, "Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth-Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge," is in the essay collection Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century. In June 2009, she published an article in the journal MELUS titled "Borderlands as Bioregion: Jovita González, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Twentieth Century Ecological Revolution in the Rio Grande Valley." Her book chapter “Lo que quiero es tierra: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision” was published in the 2004 collection New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, and a co-authored article about Mexican and Mexican American environmental writing was published in the 2008 Modern Language Association collection Teaching North American Environmental Writing. Her current book-in-progress, Brown and Green: Mexican American Environmental Writing, is the first study to engage a long-range environmental literary history of Chicana/o writing. Recent speaking engagements have taken her to Reno, Nevada; Bloomington, Indiana; and around Japan. She has taught courses for the Departments of English at Texas Tech University, Rice University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and for American Studies at Yale University. |
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Karen Rachel Yeatts, Ph.D. (UNT, 2003) Dr. Rachel Yeatts specializes in creative nonfiction, poetry, trauma narrative, and writing as healing. She is interested in the relationship between writing, aesthetic distance, and identity. Her work as co-translator of Hélène, or the Vegetable Kingdom, a translation of René Guy Cadou's Hélène, ou le règne végétal, (Seghers: Paris, 1952), is currently in circulation, as are her essays and poems. She teaches writing and literature courses and she helps direct the department’s Introductory Writing Program. |
