Faculty

Faculty
With a 6-to-1 ratio of declared majors to faculty, the average class size is about 19 students. Some literature classes can be 25 or more while creative writing workshops may be 15 or less.

Full-Time Faculty

Christopher Bakken, B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Houston. Creative writing, poetry and nonfiction.

James Bulman, B.A., Cornell University; M.A., University of Wales at Aberystwyth; Ph.D., Yale University. Shakespeare, Milton, modern drama.

M. Soledad Caballero, B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University. 18th and 19th century British literature, Gothicism, travel writing.

Terra Caputo, B.A., Allegheny College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Miami. 18th century literature; composition and rhetoric; feminisms and culture studies.

Caley Cook, 2002: B.A., Communication, University of San Diego 2007: M.A., Journalism, University of Southern California

Diane D’Amico, B.A., Merrimack College; M.A., Villanova University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. 19th century poetry and fiction.

Matthew Ferrence, B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., West Virginia University

Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Medieval and Renaissance literature.

Aisha Lockridge, B.A., City College of New York; Ph.D., Stony Brook University. African American literature; black studies.

Lloyd Michaels, B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. Film theory and criticism, American literature.

David Miller, A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. 19th century American literature and culture, American art, American studies.

Kirk Nesset, B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Creative writing and contemporary literature.

Ryan Paul, B.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Texas State University, San Marcos; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Lawrence T. Potter, Jr. BA Stillman College; MA University of Missouri-Columbia; PhD University of Missouri-Columbia

Laura Quinn, B.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Women’s studies, African-American literature.

Benjamin Slote, B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. American literature and culture.

Susan Slote, B.A. Mount Holyoke College; M.A., M.Phil., ABD Yale University

Jeremy Wells, B.A. Vanderbilt University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan.

Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

  • Terrence Malick, published by Illinois University Press. (Lloyd Michaels)
  • T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry for After Greece, a book of poems published by Truman State University Press. (Christopher Bakken)
  • Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th-Century American Culture, published by Cambridge University Press. (David Miller)
  • Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time, published by Louisiana State University Press. (Diane D’Amico)
  • Romances of the White Man’s Burden, published by Vanderbilt University Press. (Jeremy Wells)
  • “Listening to ‘The Goophered Grapevine,’ and Hearing Raisins Sing,” published in American Literary History. (Benjamin Slote)
  • “On the Turquoise Tee,” published in the Blue Mesa Review. (Matthew Ferrence)
  • “The Mouse Will Play: The Parodic in Walter Mosley’s Fiction,” published in Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction. (Laura Quinn)
  • The Phantom of the Cinema in Modern Film, published by State University Press of New York. (Lloyd Michaels)
  • “Latina is an English Word,” published in Pembroke Magazine. (M. Soledad Caballero)
  • Paradise Road, published by University of Pittsburgh Press, winner of Drue Heinz Prize for Literature. (Kirk Nesset)
  • Past president of Shakespeare Association of America, also the first faculty member from a liberal arts college to hold the position. (James Bulman)
  • “‘For the Honour of Our Country,’ Maria Dundas Graham and the Romance of Benign Domination,” published in Studies in Travel Writing. (M. Soledad Caballero)
  • Goat Funeral: Poems, published by Sheep Meadow Press. (Christopher Bakken)
  • “Moby Dick Meets Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text,” published in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. (Laura Quinn)
  • The Stories of Raymond Carver, published by Ohio University Press. (Kirk Nesset)
  • “Breaking the Filibuster of Race: the Literary Resonance of the Emmett Till Mur-der,” published in Arkansas Review. (Matthew Ferrence)
  • General Editor, Shakespeare in Performance series (36 volumes), published by Manchester University Press. (James Bulman)
  • Editor, American Iconology: New Approaches to 19th-Century Art and Literature, published by Yale University Press. (David Miller)
  • Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, published by Cambridge University Press. (Lloyd Michaels)
  • The Willis Barnstone Translation Award. (Christopher Bakken)
  • The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England, published by Routledge. (Jennifer Hellwarth)
  • “Mr. Agreeable,” published in the 1999 Pushcart Anthology. (Kirk Nesset)