SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Faculty in the English Program
Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
British Literature (Shakespeare, British Short Story, Chaucer)
Major Publications
V.S. Pritchett (1987)
Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989)
H.E. Bates: A Literary Life (1987)
The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography, co-edited with Gregory L. Morris (1994)
British Short Fiction Writers, 1945-1980, editor (1994)
Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Literature and Criticism, Women's Literature and Composition
Major Publications
"On the subject of
the feminist business": Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor
(2004)
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Composition, Creative Writing (Fiction
& Creative Non-Fiction)
Major Publications
The Blue Lady's Hands (novel) (1988)
When the Parrot Boy Sings (novel) (1990)
The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies (1995)
Essays in boundary 2, The Journal of Homosexuality, College English
M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Linguistics; TESOL; Jewish Literature
Major Publications
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Features of Judeo-Greek. (2004)
"Language Regenisis" in Linguistic Minorities in Multicultural Setting
MR. EUGENE CROSS
M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh
Creative Writing
MS. ELIZABETH FOGLE
M.F.A., Georgia College & State University
Dr. Sharon Gallagher
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
19th Century British Literature, Irish Literature, and Irish Gothic
Literature.
Ms. MEREDITH KENYON
M.A., St. Bonaventure University
M.F.A., Bowling Green State University
Creative Writing (poetry); Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Fiction
Major Publications
Hymn of Ash. Minneapolis, MN: Elixir Press, 2007 [forthcoming]. (Elixir Press 2007 Fiction Chapbook Award) [~50 pp.]
The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2005. (White Pine Press Poetry Prize) [96 pp.]
Greatest Hits. [a chapbook of poetry] Johnstown, OH: Pudding House Press, 2001. [40 pp.]
Attendant Ghosts. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Press, 2000. [74 pp.]
Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh. Emporia, KS: Bluestem Press, 1995. [70 pp.]
Dr. Archie Loss
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Modern British Literature (Joyce), American Studies, Popular Culture
Major Publications
Joyce's Visible Art: The Work of Joyce and the Visual Arts (1904-1922) (1984)
W. Somerset Maugham (1987)
Of Human Bondage: Coming of Age in the Novel (1990)
Ph.D., University of Nebraska
American Literature (Contemporary Fiction, Western Literature, American
Short Story), Literary Theory
Major Publications
A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner (1984)
The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography, co-edited with Dean Baldwin (1994)
Talking Up A Storm: Voices of the New West (1994)
Frank Bergon (1997)
Ph.D., Ohio University
Creative Writing (Fiction)
Major Publications
Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories [forthcoming in 2008 from Dufour]
Behold Faith and Other Stories. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 2003. [224 pp.]
Stories have appeared recently in Ascent, Colorado Review, Elixir, Eureka, Image, Laurel Review, Mid-American Review and other journals.
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Major Interests/presentations
Trained in an interdisciplinary writing program and continue to do research and present papers in political philosophy.
Wrote and presented papers on Machiavelli, Hobbes, John Dewey, Leo Strauss, at the Northeast Political Science Association (NPSA) annual conferences.
"The Theory of Equality in Thomas Hobbes' De Cive' at the NPSA meeting in Boston (11/04)
DR. DAVID SAVOLA
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Philosophy
Major Interests
Research interests: ninteenth-
and twentieth-century European philosophy, ethics, philosophy art,
literary and cultural theory.
Publications and Presentations:
Parts of books published:
“George Henry Calvert.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 416-417.
“Curt Ducasse.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 674-676.
“Irwin Edman.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 703-704
Articles published in non-refereed journals:
.“Obstacles to Teaching Feminist Aesthetics.” American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. (2005). 2 p. <http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/shaw.html>.
“Why Does Feminism Matter to Aesthetics?” Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics. 2:1 (2005): 1-11.
DR. SHAWN ST. JEAN
Ph.D., Kent State University
DR. STEPHEN SWANSON
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professional Writing, American Literature, Humanities Computing, and
Gender Studies
Major Publications
BOOKS & INTRODUCTIONS
Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Forthcoming from the Kent State University Press (2008).
Introduction to: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series (2007)
EDITING
Editor of The Ambrose Bierce Project and ABP Journal. http://www.ambrosebierce.org
Craig designed and oversees the humanities computing project, and is the editor of the electronic journal. Two issues released, December 2005 and December 2006.
ARTICLES
"Presidential Wounds: The JFK Assassination and the White Male Body," forthcoming in Men & Masculinities (2008).
"It Reads Like a Novel': The 9/11 Commission Report and the American Reading Public," Journal of American Studies 41 (December 2007): 533-556.
"Mary Johnston: An Introduction," Meridian 10 (Fall/Winter 2002): 41-62. [Introduced the previously unpublished Johnston short story "Broomsedge House."]
"Oh, God, What a Pity!': The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth," Civil War History 47 (September 2001): 193-221.
DR. Holly Welker
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Literary Nonfiction, Contemporary American Literature, Creative Writing
(Literary Nonfiction and Poetry)
Major Publications
"Self-Portrait as Critic with Body," The Iowa Review
"Confronting the Powers," Sunstone
Poetry in: TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, Cumberland Poetry Review, and other journals
Dr. SARAH WHITNEY
Ph.D., University of Virginia
MS. MARGO WOLFE
M.A., Gannon University