• Spring 2013 Instructor Office Hours
• Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty
• Teaching Assistants
• Emeritus
• In Memoriam
• Faculty and Teaching Assistant Handbook

Faculty
(* indicates Graduate Faculty)

*Carla Billitteri, Ph.D. (SUNY at Buffalo, 2001). Associate Professor. Literary theory; feminist theory and gender studies; poetry and poetics; European and American Literature (19th- & 20th-century); drama.

*Tony Brinkley, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979). Professor. Romanticism, critical theory, Spenser, Milton.

*Richard T. Brucher, Ph.D. (Rutgers, 1978). Associate Professor and Department Chair. Shakespeare; British and American drama; literary analysis and argument.

*A. Patricia Burnes, Ph.D. (St. Louis University, 1977). Associate Professor and Director of Composition. Composition theory and practice, American literature.

Murray Callaway, M.A. (University of Maine, 1982). Lecturer. American literature, popular culture, and technical communication.  Engineering Communication Project.

*Laura Cowan, Ph.D. (Princeton, 1988). Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Auden, Eliot, Yeats, modern British poetry, nature and literature.

*Charlsye Diaz, Ph.D. (Texas Tech University, 2004). Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Professional Writing. Professional and technical writing.

*Dylan B. Dryer, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007). Assistant Professor. Composition studies.

*Steven R. Evans, Ph.D. (Brown University, 2000). Associate Professor, Director of National Poetry Foundation, and New Writing Series Coordinator. Contemporary and modern American poetry, poetry & poetics, critical theory.

*Benjamin Friedlander, Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo, 1999). Professor. Poetry and poetics, 19th- and 20th-Century American literature. On sabbatical 2012-13 academic year.

Judy Hakola, M.A. (University of Maine, 1965). Lecturer. Cooperating Lecturer, College of Engineering. Technical writing, literature, sports literature, Maine writers, Engineering Communication Project.

*Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Ph.D. (Cornell University, 2011). CLAS-Honors Preceptor. Medieval literature, folklore, oral traditional studies, and literature and the environment.

*Greg Howard, Ph.D. (University of Denver). Assistant Professor.  Fiction writing, American fiction, postmodern literature.

Margery Irvine, M.A. (University of Kansas, 1968). Lecturer. Maine literature, nonfiction prose, composition.

*Naomi Jacobs, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 1982). Professor. British and American fiction, women’s literature, utopian literature. On sabbatical 2012-13 academic year.

*Harvey Kail, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois, 1977). Professor and Director of the Writing Center. Composition theory and practice.

*David Kress, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University, 2002). Associate Professor. Creative writing, fiction, critical theory.

*Margaret A. Lukens, Ph.D. (University of Colorado, 1991). Associate Professor. Co-Director of Academic Programs, Innovation Engineering. Nineteenth-century American literature, Native American literature, multicultural studies.

*Jennifer Moxley, M.F.A. (Brown, 1994). Professor. Creative writing, poetry & poetics, translation.

*Elizabeth Neiman, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011). Assistant Professor. Romanticism, 19th century British fiction, gender studies.

*Kenneth W. Norris, Ph.D. (McGill, 1980). Professor. Canadian literature, creative writing. On leave fall 2012.

*Deborah Rogers, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1982). Professor. Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature.

*John R. Wilson, Ph.D. (University of Kansas, 1969). Associate Professor. Victorian literature, advanced composition.

William Yellow Robe, Libra Diversity Professor. Native American literature, creative writing, playwriting.

Adjunct Faculty

Travis Baker, M.A. (University of Maine, 2006). Lecturer I. College composition and creative writing.

Mary Bartosenski-Bowden, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Lecturer III. Business and technical Writing.

Bradley Beauregard, M.A. (University of Maine, 2012). Lecturer I. College Composition.

Jane Beecher, M.A. (University of Delaware, 1999). Lecturer I. Business and technical Writing.

James Bishop, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer III (Part-time). Creative and narrative/ descriptive writing.

James Brophy, M.A. (University of Maine, 2012).  Lecturer I. College Composition.

Terrell Hunter Crouch, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Lecturer III. Creative writing, technical writing, the Beat Generation.

Joanna Crouse, M.A. (University of Maine).  Lecturer I.  Writers in Maine, College Composition, Creative Writing.

Kathleen Ellis, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Lecturer III. Creative writing, poetry and ecopoetics, American women’s literature, Latin American literature, persuasive and analytical writing.

Henry Garfield, M.F.A. (University of Southern Maine, 2004). Lecturer II. Creative writing, analytical and persuasive writing.

Samuel Hanes, Ph.D. (Rutgers). Lecturer I. Engineering Communication Project.

Leonore Hildebrandt, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer II. College composition, creative writing, American women writers.

Sandra Hutchison, Ph.D. (University of Toronto). Lecturer. College composition, Canadian literature, women’s studies.

Mary Larlee, M.A. (University of Maine, 2005). Lecturer II and Assistant to the Director of Composition. College composition, descriptive and narrative writing, persuasive and analytical writing.

Audrey Le, M.A. (University of Maine, 2001). Lecturer II. Persuasive and analytical writing, British literature.

Deborah Levine, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer I. Business and technical writing.

Alan Marks, M.A. (University of Maine, 1999). Lecturer III. Creative writing, persuasive and analytical writing, business and technical writing, literature.

Dorathy Martel, M.A. Lecturer I. College composition, business and technical writing.

Paige Mitchell, MA (University of Maine, 2011). Lecturer I. College composition.

Elizabeth Payne, M.A. Lecturer II. College composition and professional writing.  Engineering Communication Project

Scott Peterson, M.A. (Texas A&M University, 1988) and IPh.D. (American Literature and Culture, University of Maine, 2010). Lecturer III. Technical communication, creative writing, postmodern literature, sports in literature, popular culture.

Sanford Phippen, M.A. (Syracuse University, 1971). Lecturer II.  Editor of The Puckerbrush Review. College composition, creative writing, film, maine writers, business and technical writing.

Bruce Pratt, M.A. (University of Maine, 2001; MFA University of Southern Maine, 2004). Lecturer III. College composition and creative writing.

Leon Raikes, M.A., American University of Beirut; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Lecturer III. Business and technical writing, college composition.

Ryan Roderick, M.A. (University of Maine, 2012).  College Composition, Persuasive and Analytical Writing.

Rebecca Ruggiero, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer I and Assistant to the Professional Writing Program. Business and Technical Writing.

Catherine Schmitt, M.F.A. (University of Southern Maine, 2012). Lecturer I. Business and Technical Writing.

Sara Speidel, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer II. Reading as gardening, women’s studies, college composition, literary analysis.

Robert Whelan, M.A. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971). Lecturer III. Literature of the Vietnam War, The Nature of Story.

Stephen Wicks, M.A. (NYU). Lecturer I. Persuasive and analytical writing, business and technical writing, college composition.

Judy Williams, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer III. Business and technical writing, creative writing, college composition.

Erin Workman, M.A. (University of Maine, 2011). College composition.

Teaching Assistants

Ariel Berry, BA (Indiana Wesleyan University, 2011). College composition.

Maurice Burford, BA (Southern Oregon University, 2009). College composition.

Jason Canniff, BA (University of Maine, 2011). College composition

Sarah Cunningham, BA (Southern Oregon University, 2012). College composition.

Andrew Dalrymple, BA (University of Maine, 2009). College composition.

Krestia DeGeorge, BA (Houghton College, 2002). College composition.

Nathan Gentilin, BA (Biola University, 2011). College composition.

Sarah Groves, BA (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011). College composition.

Asif Iqbal, MA (University of Dhaka, 2009). College composition

Nicholas Jackson, BA (University of New England, 2011). College composition.

Adam Kosan, BA (Colgate University, 2005). College composition.

Anna Larsson, BA (Evergreen State College, 2007). College composition.

Kayla Ouellette, BS (University of Maine, 2010). College composition.

Aaron Pinnix, BA (University of Alabama, 2005). College composition.

Valerie Pyles, BA (University of Maine, 2012). College composition.

Emily Rasely, BA (University of Utah, 2010). College composition.

Cory Robertson, BA (Lawrence University, 2007). College composition.

Aleksandra Swatek, MA (Maria Skolodwska Curie University, 2009). College composition.

Christopher Tarbell, BA (University of Maine, 2009). College composition.

Zhaozhe Wang, BA (Qingdao University, 2012). College composition.

Emeriti

*Paul Bauschatz, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1972). Associate Professor Emeritus. Literature and linguistics, critical theory, medieval literature.

Josephine Donovan, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971). Professor Emerita.

*Jeff Evans, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 1974). Associate Professor Emeritus. American literature, popular culture, film.

Elaine Ford, MLS (Simmons College, 1979). Professor Emerita.

Linne Mooney, Ph.D. (University of Toronto, 1981). Professor Emerita.

*Virginia Nees-Hatlen, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1980).  Professor Emerita.

In Memoriam

Welch Everman, Ph.D. (New York State University, Buffalo, 1988). Professor.

Burton N. Hatlen, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 1971). Professor and Director of the National Poetry Foundation. Renaissance literature, modern American poetry.

Constance Hunting, B.A. (Brown, 1947). Professor. Creative writing, the Bloomsbury Group, modern British and American poetry.

Jane Morse, M.A. (University of Maine, 1947). Professional ESL Tutor. Writing Center.

Sylvester Pollet, M.A. (University of Maine, 1985). Lecturer and Associate Editor, National Poetry Foundation Press. Creative writing.

Patricia Sithole, Lecturer. College composition, multicultural literature, women’s studies.