Faculty Profiles: E to P

Angela Eaton

Assistant Professor | Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Her research interests include technical communication pedagogy and practice, especially within online environments; quantitative research methods, grant and proposal writing, and technical editing.

Colleen Fitzgerald

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Arizona

Director of Linguistics, specializes in linguistics, with a focus on phonology (sound systems), field linguistics (especially Native American languages), and multicultural issues of language. She often collaborates with underrepresented communities in her research, teaching and service, as in the ESL/Literacy Service-Learning Initiative and in her documentation and revitalization work with the Tohono O’odham tribe.  Her publications include nearly twenty articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press on Language in a Multicultural America. She is currently serving as the Past President of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO).

Sean Grass

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Penn State

Grass specializes in Victorian literature and has particular interests in Victorian fiction and the Victorian literary market. He is Director of Graduate Studies in English, and his articles on Victorian poetry and prose have appeared in Nineteenth-century Literature, JEGP, Dickens Studies Annual, and other venues. In 2003 he published The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner. His current project is called "Portable Property": Commodity and Identity in Victorian Narrative.

Ann R. Hawkins

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Kentucky

Hawkins specializes in Bibliography, Book History, and Textual Studies. She has published scholarly editions of Disraeli's Henrietta Temple and Venetia and Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington's Victims of Society. She has also published articles on Disraeli, nineteenth-century women poets, and Lord Byron, and edited a collection of essays on teaching book history and textual criticism. She is currently writing “Byron and the Shakespeare Trade,” part of the research for which was featured in an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in fall 2007. [more]

Mary Jane Hurst

Professor | Ph.D. Maryland

English Faculty Assistant to the President and Professor of English, Hurst is a past Executive Director of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.  A founding member of the Teaching Academy and recipient of the President's Excellence in Teaching Award and the Faculty Distinguished Leadership Award, she teaches linguistics and American literature.  Most of her research is concerned with language in literature, although her two books and more than three dozen articles, essays and reviews also cover other topics in linguistics, literature, and various professional issues.

Fred Kemp

Associate Professor | Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin

His research interests include Computer-Based Instruction in English; history and theory of rhetoric; collaborative strategies for composition instruction; the computer-based classroom; guided heuristics in composition instruction; design and programming of software to support writing and literature instruction; and the use of wide-area electronic networks for professional collaboration, research, and instruction.

Min-Joo Kim

Assistant Professor | Ph.D. Massachusetts-Amherst

Kim specializes in theoretical syntax and semantics, with secondary specialty in language acquisition and pragmatics. Her research aims to deepen our understanding of how linguistic systems work together with context to derive sentence meanings. She has worked on various linguistic phenomena including wh-movement, relativization, polarity, and Case in English, Korean, Japanese, and Russian, among others. [more]

Miles Kimball

Associate Professor | Ph.D. University of Kentucky

Kimball is the author of Document Design: A Guide for Technical Communicators (Bedford-St. Martin's 2008) and The Web Portfolio Guide (Longman 2003), as well as a variety of articles on the history of technical communication, information graphics, intersections of technical communication and culture, and web portfolios. In 2008 he will be the First Vice President of the College English Association; in 2009 he will become its president. Kimball is also the coordinator of ENGL 2311, Introduction to Technical Writing.[more]

Amy Koerber

Associate Professor | Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Research interests include health communication, rhetoric of science and technology, women's studies, and internet studies.

Jacqueline Kolosov-Wenthe

Associate Professor | Ph.D. New York University

She works in poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction (literary and young adult). Her first full-length collection of poems is VAGO. A young adult novel, The Red Queen's Daughter, was published by Hyperion in October 2007, and the press has just purchased from her a second Renaissance novel. Modigliani's Muse, a second poetry collection, will be published in 2009. Recent poetry and prose have appeared in Orion, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and Passages North.

Constance Kuriyama

Professor | Ph.D. Berkeley

Kuriyama is a specialist in English Renaissance drama whose current research interest includes film comedy, comic tradition, and theories of authorship. A former president and current advisor of the Marlowe Society of America, she has published four books and numerous articles on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and film. Her most recent books are The Intimate Charlie Chaplin (2001) and Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (2002).

Susan Lang

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Emory

Research interests include computer-based instruction in composition and literature, intellectual property issues, hypertext, and textual theory.

Brian McFadden

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Notre Dame

McFadden studies marvels and miracle stories in Old English and Anglo-Latin prose, especially the concept of the monstrous.  He has edited a special issue of Religion and Literature on visions of the other world and has published articles on Beowulf, the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History, the Liber Monstrorum, the Exeter Book Physiologus and Phoenix, the Old English lives of St. Margaret, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s use of Anglo-Saxon monster lore in his fiction; he also has an article forthcoming on the Exeter Book riddles in their tenth-century context.  His book project discusses the compilation of the Beowulf manuscript in the context of tenth-century English social changes.

Jill Patterson

Associate Professor | Ph.D. Oklahoma State

Patterson has been the recipient of a Texas Writers' League Fellowship and two Kimmel-Harding Nelson residencies.  Her fiction and nonfiction have most recently appeared in Colorado Review; Quarterly West; Fourth Genre; Image: Art, Faith, Mystery; Carolina Quarterly; and other journals, as well as in anthologies published by Texas Christian University Press, Texas A&M University Press, and Texas Tech University Press.  She founded and continues to edit Iron Horse Literary Review, which is published six times a year.  She also founded and directed the San Juan Writers' Workshops, and she currently serves as production manager for Creative Nonfiction, the first literary journal dedicated solely to narrative nonfiction. [more]

John Poch

Associate Professor | Ph.D. University of North Texas

His first book, Poems, was published in January 2004 from Orchises Press, and his most recent book, The Essential Hockey Haiku (a poetry/fiction collaboration with Chad Davidson) came out from St. Martin's Press in 2006. A 1998 recipient of the "Discovery"/The Nation Prize in 1998 and Colgate University Writing Fellow in 2000-2001, he has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Saltonstall Foundation and Blue Mountain Center. His other work includes the chapbook In Defense of the Fall (2000) and Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle (2006). He has published poems in Ploughshares, Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, New England Review and other literary magazines and is the editor of 32 Poems Magazine. His book of poems, Dolls, will be published in December 2008 by Orchises Press. [more]

Marjean Purinton

Professor | Ph.D. Texas A&M

Author of Romantic Ideology Unmasked: The Mentally Constructed Tyrannies in Dramas of William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Joanna Baillie, and the forthcoming Staging Grotesques and Ghosts: British Romantic Techno-gothic Drama, as well as articles on Romantic drama, early 19th-century women writers, feminist theory and pedagogy.  A member of the Teaching Academy and a recipient of a President's Excellence in Teaching Award, she teaches in the Women's Studies Program and is the Teaching Section Editor for the online project British Women Playwrights Around 1800.  She is past President of the International Conference on Romanticism.