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William F. Naufftus Professor and Interim Chair Ph.D., University of Virginia 224 Bancroft 803-323-4570 E-Mail: naufftusw@winthrop.edu |
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Jack
DeRochi Assistant Professor Director, Graduate Studies Ph.D, USC-Columbia 256 Bancroft 803-323-4577 E-mail: derochij@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/derochij |
Dr. DeRochi's interests are Restoration & 18th century literature, 19th century British Literature, the novel, and most importantly Jack Andrew (Primo) and Rachel Anne DeRochi. He has published 2 articles recently in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. His current research focuses on the formative and performative influences of the novel on late eighteenth century English drama. His other interests include satire and WWI British literature. |
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Jane B.
Smith Professor Director, The Writing Center Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University 232 Bancroft 803-323-4587 E-Mail: smithjb@winthrop.edu |
Most of Dr. Smith's research involves ways to understand writing and improve the teaching of writing. This led to a book she co-edited on student self-assessment and also to her current project The Elephant in the Classroom: Race And Writing, a book on African American students and writing instruction that grew out of her work with Dr. Dorothy Perry Thompson. With her sister, the sculptor Ruth Ann Bowman, she exhibited her poems in a show entitled Memories We Keep, at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan in July 2005. |
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John C.
Bird Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Rochester 260 Bancroft 803-323-3679 E-Mail: birdj@winthrop.edu Web: http://www.shack.org/birdj On sabbatical 2008-2009 |
Dr. Bird's teaching interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, Mark Twain and American humor, critical theory, critical thinking, and composition. His main scholarly interest is Mark Twain, about which he has published critical articles and is finishing a book on Mark Twain and metaphor. He has also published articles and given conference papers on Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, American humorists, and the Andy Griffith Show, among others. He is the editor of The Mark Twain Annual, a publication of the Mark Twain Circle of America, and is currently president of the American Humor Studies Association. |
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Debra C. Boyd Associate Professor Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Director, Winthrop Writing Project Ph.D., University of South Carolina 246 Bancroft 803-323-4626 E-Mail: boydd@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Boyd's research interests are broad and varied but primarily include Renaissance literature, drama of almost any historical period, and critical theory (literary and rhetorical). She also teaches a wide range of courses from Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature to the British novel, as well as freshman writing and technical writing. She is working on a book about Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus and on an article about Ben Jonson. |
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Siobhan Craft
Brownson Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina 237 Bancroft 803-323-4485 E-Mail: brownsons@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Brownson's special interests are 19th and 20th century British literature, the short story, and literary theory, and she teaches courses in all of these areas as well as in Southern literature, world literature, and advanced composition. She is currently working on an artilce about John Clare's poetry, Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, and Mary Wollstonecraft's fiction. |
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Max Lamar Childers,
Jr. Associate Professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina 221 Bancroft 803-323-4571 E-Mail: childersm@winthrop.edu Winthrop Creative Writing Site |
Dr. Childers' interests are fiction writing and modern American literature. He has published three novels (The Congregation of the Dead, Alpha Omega, and Things Undone) and a chapbook of short stories. |
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Litasha Dennis Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina--Greensboro 239 Bancroft 803-323-4627 E-mail: Dennisl@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/dennisl On leave, 2008-2009 |
Dr. Dennis is interested in African American literature, particularly of the 20th century, and my research falls within this category. She has also taught African American and American literature survey courses, as well as a course in the African American novel. |
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Scott Ely Associate Professor Sponsor of The Anthology M.F.A, University of Arkansas 234 Bancroft 803-323-2414 E-Mail: elys@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/elys Winthrop Creative Writing Site |
Professor Ely is a fiction writer. He writes both novels and short stories, but short stories are the form he seems to enjoy working in the most. He has published three novels and two collections of stories. The newest novel is Eating Mississippi, published by Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama in Fall 2005. A collection of his stories, Pulpwood, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. He writes screenplays when he is lucky enough to get the work. He enjoys the process of teaching writing, whether it’s to graduate students or to freshmen in Writing 101. |
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Matthew Fike Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan 258 Bancroft 803-323-4575 E-Mail: fikem@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/fikem |
Dr. Fike's chief interests are Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Elizabethan literature, world literature, psychological criticism, and Christian literary criticism. He has published a study entitled Spenser’s Underworld in the 1590 “Faerie Queene” and a dozen articles on British and American literature as well as pedagogy. |
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Gloria G. Jones
Associate Professor Dean of University College Ph.D, University of North Carolina-Greensboro 246 Bancroft 803-323-4573 E-Mail: jonesg@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Jones has always focused on 20th century American and British literature, even though her teaching interests include literary theory and grammar. In very recent years, her scholarly work has grown from her teaching and interest in neo-Victorian fiction, although her work on Southern writers continues. She has also published on Reynolds Price, John Crowe Ransome, Virginia Woolf, and other 20th century literary figures. |
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Josephine
Koster Associate Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 261 Bancroft 803-323-4557 E-Mail: kosterj@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj |
Dr. Koster's interests are in medieval literature, Writing Centers, cats, and humanities computing; she currently serves as Department Web Coordinator. She is finishing a book on medieval women's literacy and working with issues of material culture in Chaucer, as well as writing for electronic media. All of this serves as a cover for her fanatical interests in rock and roll and NASCAR and as fodder for making her famous 5-chocolate brownies. She recently published a chapbook of poems called No Going Home with Devil's Millhopper Press. |
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Marguerite
Quintelli-Neary Associate Professor Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta and Student NCTE Affilliate Teacher Certification Supervisor Ph.D., University of Delaware 226 Bancroft 803-323-4630 E-Mail: nearym@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Neary enjoys antiques and archetypes, and has written a book about Irish literature and mythology. She is currently working on a new one, about American Western frontier mythology and the Irish. She also enjoys doing research and writing on English pedagogy, and has taken on such topics as censorship issues and ESL legislation. |
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Kelly Richardson Assistant Professor Technology Liaison, Winthrop Writing Project Director of Freshman Composition Teacher Certification Supervisor Ph.D., UNC-Greensboro M.A., Winthrop University 223 Bancroft 803-323-4644 E-Mail: richardsonk@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/richardsonk |
Dr. Richardson's research focuses on 19th century American literature, but she also works with 20th century lit, composition studies, women writers, and English Education. She presented a paper on Edith Wharton's "Summer" at the American Literature Association conference in May 2003 and recently published an entry on Lizette Woolworth Rice for the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry and a review for Studies in American Humor. She is currently co-writing an article about the role of class discussion in the literature classroom. |
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Susan
Ludvigson Professor M.A. Ed., University of North Carolina at Charlotte 230 Bancroft 803-323-4565 E-Mail: ludvigsons@winthrop.edu Web: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/ludvigsons Winthrop Creative Writing site
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Professor Ludvigson's primary interest is in writing poetry; her most recent collection was Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (2006), and her next collection is Escaping the House of Certainty, appearing from LSU in Fall 2006. . Her reading tends to be mostly contemporary American poetry and fiction, as well as nonfiction dealing with the arts. She writes essays for the photography journal 21st and occasionally for literary magazines. She very much enjoys teaching poetry workshops. She is equally enthusiastic about two related courses she regularly teaches: an honors course called “The Creative Process in the Arts” and a core course in Winthrop’s Master of Liberal Arts Program, “The Intuitive Eye.” At home, she is what one of her colleagues calls “The Martha Stewart of Poetry”—she likes to cook, bake, entertain, decorate, and—after a fashion—garden. She likes to think she has something in common with Victor Hugo, who loved junk-antique stores and said he should have been a decorator. |
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David
L. Rankin Professor Emeritus Director, Master of Liberal Arts Program Director, Teaching and Learning Center Advisor for Science Communication Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic University 150 Bancroft 803-323-4572 E-Mail: rankind@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Rankin continues to study connections between the
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Marge Tebo-Messina
Professor D.A., State University of New York at Albany 262 Bancroft 803-323-4635 Director of Teaching and Learning Center 310 Tillman 803-323-3374 E-Mail: tebomessinam@winthrop.edu |
Dr. Tebo-Messina's number one intellectual passion is grappling with the ideas, and social and political ramifications of language and literacy. And for the past ten years, part of her time has been 'reassigned' to Winthrop's Office of Assessment. She is currently working on a team project to revamp Winthrop's General Education curriculum; a book chapter about assessing General Education; and, on part of a federally funded research project to determine what if any effect the state's accountability legislation has on student learning. |
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Hingle, Cheryl
B. Administrative Specialist 230 Bancroft 803-323-2171 E-Mail: hinglec@winthrop.edu |
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