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Faculty of the Department of English
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Administrative Secretary, Charlotte Ward
Educated in Canada, John Jaunzems
studied medieval literature at the University of Toronto,
receiving his PhD in 1972. Coming to St. Lawrence in 1973, he has taught
Chaucer and other medieval authors, as well as courses in world
masterpieces, early English literature, fiction, and the history of the
English language. He is especially interested in the way that people use
language to shape and organize their thinking-and in the way that fields
such as grammar and narrative theory can illuminate these elusive and
intriguing processes
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Bob Cowser's
teaching and research interests include creative nonfiction , (particularly
memoir and literary journalism), poetry, and later American literature. His
essays and reviews have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Sonora Review,
Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, American Literary Review and Prairie
Schooner, and his essay "Scorekeeping" appeared alongside the
work of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford in Connecting, an anthology of
writing about family edited by Lee Gutkind. Cowser spent the summer of 2001 as a defensive end for
the Watertown Red and Black,
America's
oldest semi-pro football team, and plans to turn the experience into a book
in the tradition of Paper Lion, George Plimpton's
classic model of immersion journalism. An Academy
of American Poets prizewinner and
a Pushcart Prize nominee, Cowser holds a Ph.D. in
creative writing from the University
of Nebraska. http://www.bobcowser.com
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Thomas L. Berger,
Piskor Professor of English, teaches courses in
early modern English Literature, 1475-1700. He is the United States
secretary of the Malone Society, for whom he has prepared facsimile
editions of the first quartos of 2 Henry IV and A Mdisummer Night's Dream. With Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University, Chicago) he has prepared a Malone Society
Collections volume of seventeenth-century academic plays from manuscript
books in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Currently he is preparing a facsimile edition of the unique quarto edition
of Titus Andronicus (1594) housed in the Folger
Shakespeare Library. He has recently edited a special issue of Analytical
and Enumerative Bibliography, "Shakespeare and his Stationers,
1593-2001." He has for many years been making fitful progress on a New
Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Henry V for the Modern Language
Association, in collaboration with George W. Williams. He regularly reviews
books on Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and his times for Shakespeare
Quarterly. He is general editor of the Globe Quarto Editions, a series of
modernized editions of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries. With
colleague Sidney Sondergard he revised and
expanded his Index of Characters in Early Modern Drama for Cambridge
University Press. He is a close personal friend of and advisor to This
Corner, editor-in-chief of The Blue Note, a monthly publication at St.
Lawrence University.
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Susan Ward received
her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Connecticut
and also studied journalism at Columbia
University. She is
the editor of Dear Home: The 1901 and 1902 Diaries of Mabel Lila Wait
and the author of numerous articles on Jack London and American women
writers. She teaches courses in American literature, Native American
fiction, women writers, creative non-fiction, and journalism.
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Natalia Rachel Singer teaches courses in the
craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, as well as a seminar in environmental
literature. She is the editor, with Neal Burdick, of Living North
Country: Essays on Life and Landscapes in Northern New York. Her
fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in magazines and literary
journals such as Harper's, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa
Review, The North American Review (where she is a contributing
editor), Ms., O: The Oprah Magazine, Prairie Schooner,
and has appeared in anthologies like Microfiction
and The Best Writing on Writing. She has won won
several national awards for her writing, including the World's Best
Short-Story contest, and she has been a recipient of a grant from the New
York Foundation for the Arts for nonfiction literature.
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Caroline Breashears, who received her PhD from the University of Virginia, specializes in
eighteenth-century British literature. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Philological Quarterly and has
reviewed books for Biography and The Scriblerian. She is at work on a book about
unconventional women’s memoirs published in Britain in
the long eighteenth century. She
teaches introductory courses in British literature and fairy tales and
upper-level seminars in the eighteenth-century novel and British women writers.
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Bruce I. Weiner,
who received his PhD from the University
of Pennsylvania,
specializes in 18th and 19th century American literature and is the author
of The Most Noble of Professions: Poe and the Poverty of Authorship
(1986). His essays on Poe also appear in The Naiad Voice (1983), Poe
and Our Times (1986), Poe and His Times (1990), Poe's Pym
(1992), and Perspectives on Poe (1996). He has also written introductions
to Wordsworth editions of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter, and Irving's
The Sketchbook. He teaches courses on all periods of American
literature, including a course on literature and the environment.
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Mary
Hussmann, who received her MFA from The
University of Iowa, specializes in creative nonfiction and nature and
environmental writing. She has co-edited a book called Transgressions: The Iowa
Review Anthology of Innovative Fiction, and has published essays, poetry,
book reviews and interviews in anthologies and journals including Southern
Cultures, American Nature Writing 2001, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review,
Brevity, and 5Trope, among others. She teaches courses in creative
nonfiction, nature and environmental writing, and environmental
autobiography, as well as teaching off campus in the Adirondack
semester program.
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Kerry Grant,
who received his PhD from the University
of Virginia,
specializes in contemporary fiction, and is the author of A Companion to
The Crying of Lot 49 and A
Companion to V. His articles on a variety of American writers have
appeared in Critique, Pynchon
Notes, Modern Language Studies and The Durham University
Journal. He teaches courses on contemporary American and British
fiction, twentieth-century American literature, and newswriting.
His interests include the role of computers in teaching.
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Sid Sondergard,
Craig Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern
California, specializes in early modern English literature and popular
culture, and is the author of Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of
Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers, and
co-author of The Cabala of Pegasus: An Annotated Translation of Giordano
Bruno's Cabala del cavallo Pegaseo
(1585) [with Madison U. Sowell] and An Index of Characters in Early
Modern English Drama: Printed Plays, 1500-1660 [with Thomas L. Berger
and William C. Bradford]. His articles have appeared in such journals as Acta, The American Journal of Semiotics, Critique,
Mediaevalia, Studies in Philology, Studies
in Scottish Literature, and Theatre Survey. He teaches courses
on European and American popular culture, early modern European and Asian
literature, and screenwriting. His research interests include the
literature and history of magic.
vita
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Margaret Kent Bass's
research interests are autobiography studies and literatures of the African
Diaspora. Her current research is on the
literature and culture of Black Canadians. In addition to scholarly
essays, Bass writes creative nonfiction.
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Robert DeGraaff (Ph.D. from Duke, 1972) has
published criticism on various British writers in Victorian Newsletter,
Victorian Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique and
other places. His magnum opus, however, is an excursion into literary
herpetology, The Book of the Toad; recently, he has taken to writing
poetry. He regularly teaches "Introduction to Poetry," the second
half of the English literature survey, and several courses in Victorian
literature.
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Patricia Alden
received her Ph.D. at Stanford
University,
specializing in
modern British literature. In over a quarter of a century at St. Lawrence,
her research focus has shifted from Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence to
post-colonial and, specifically, African literature. She co-authored a book
on Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah
and has published articles on Zimbabwean authors. Her courses include the
modern British novel, African literature, survey of British literature, and
post-colonial literature in English. She also serves on the African Studies
Board and currently serves as associate dean for international and
intercultural studies. The best part of this new position, in her view, is
advising students about their proposals for travel and research grants to
enrich their study abroad experience.
Link to Vitae
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Robert Thacker,
who teaches in the Canadian Studies program as well as the English
department, specializes in Canadian literature in English with particular interest
in Canada-U.S. literary comparisons, western writing, and Alice Munro. He
edits The American Review of Canadian Studies and his publications
include The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination and two
recent edited volumes: The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice
Munro and Willa Cather’s Canadian
and Old World Connections. He is at work on a critical biography of Ms.
Munro. Vita
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Eve Stoddard is Professor
of English and Chair of the Global Studies
Department at St. Lawrence. She has been at St. Lawrence since 1986,
having earned her A.B. at Mount
Holyoke and her Ph.D.
at UCLA where she
specialized in the literature and philosophy of the Romantic era,
writing her dissertation on Wordsworth and Kant. The confluence of her
work in literary theory and in 18th-century British attitudes toward
slavery, she has moved into the field of post-colonial and cultural
studies. Her current teaching interests include Irish and Caribbean
literatures as well as post-colonial theory. She collaborates frequently
with Grant Cornwell, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at St. Lawrence.
Together they have edited a book called Global Muilticulturalism:
Comparative Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Nation and they have
written a monograph called Globalizing Knowledge for the Association of
American Colleges and Universities. They team
teach several courses for
the Cultural Encounters program and they are writing a book on the
semiotics of sugar mill ruins in the Caribbean.
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Peter Bailey, Piskor Professor,
attended Kenyon College before receiving his B.A. from the
New School College,
New School of Social Research. The Johns Hopkins
University Writing
Seminars provided him with an M.A., and his Ph.D. in
English is from the University
of Southern California.
Bailey is the
author of two books of criticism--Reading Stanley Elkin(1985) and The Reluctant
Film Art of Woody Allen (2000)--as well as articles on
contemporary American literature and film.
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Pedro Ponce has
published fiction in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review,
3rd bed, DIAGRAM, and other journals. He teaches courses in
fiction writing and 20th-Century American literature and his research
interests include narrative theory and theories of genre. He has an M.A.
from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and an M.F.A. from Western Michigan University.
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Duriel E. Harris -Heralded as one of three Chicago poets for the 21st century by
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Duriel E. Harris is a co-founder of the Black Took
Collective and a Poetry Editor for
Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora. Drag (Elixir Press, 2003), her first book, was hailed by Black Issues Book Review as one of
the best poetry volumes of the year.
She is currently at work on AMNESIAC, a media arts project (poetry
volume, DVD, sound recording, website) funded in part by the UCSB Center for Black Studies Race and
Technology Initiative. AMNESIAC writings appear or are forthcoming in Beyond the Frontier, Warpland, nocturnes, The Encyclopedia Project, Mixed Blood and The Ringing Ear. A performing poet/sound artist, Harris is a
Cave Canem fellow, recent resident at The MacDowell Colony, and member of the free jazz ensemble Douglas Ewart & Inventions.
Recent appearances include featured performances at Millennium Park
(Chicago),
The UCSB Multicultural Center (Santa
Barbara), the Studio Museum
in Harlem, The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the
Bowery Poetry Club (NYC). Her
teaching and research interests include Modern and Contemporary American
poetry, blues and funk aesthetics, oppositional/experimental poetics,
trauma studies, and new media. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois,
an M.A. from the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU and a B.A. in
Literature from Yale
University.
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