• Fall 2011 Instuctor 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.  On sabbatical spring 2012

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

*A. Patricia Burnes, Ph.D. (St. Louis University, 1977). Associate Professor and Coordinator of College 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. Auden, Eliot, Yeats, modern British poetry, nature and literature.  Director of Graduate Studies.

*Charlsye Diaz, Ph.D. (Texas Tech University, 2004). Assistant Professor. Professional and technical writing.  Coordinator of Professional 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, Graduate Studies Coordinator, and New Writing Series Coordinator. Contemporary and modern American poetry, poetry & poetics, critical theory.

*Benjamin Friedlander, Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo, 1999). Associate Professor. Poetry and poetics, 19th- and 20th-Century American literature.

Judy Hakola, M.A. (University of Maine, 1965). Lecturer and Cooperating Lecturer, 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 and Department Chair. British and American fiction, women’s literature, utopian literature.

*Harvey Kail, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois, 1977). Professor and Coordinator 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). Associate Professor. Creative writing, poetry & poetics, translation.

*Virginia Nees-Hatlen, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1980).  Associate Professor. Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. College and advanced composition.

*Elizabeth Neiman, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011). Adjunct faculty in English. Romanticism, 19th century British fiction, gender studies.

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

*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.

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

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

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.

Lola Ellis.  M.A.  Lecturer I. Composition and women’s studies.

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

Samuel Hanes, Lecturer I. Technical writing.  Engineering Communication Project

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

Sandra Hutchison, Instructor. College composition, Canadian literature, women’s studies.

Mary Larlee, M.A. (University of Maine, 2005). Lecturer II and Assistant to the Coordinator 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, Lecturer I. College composition, business and technical writing.

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

Elizabeth Payne, Lecturer I. 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.

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

Lyndsy Shuman, M.A. (University of Maine). Lecturer I. Business and technical writing.

Sara Speidel, 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, Lecturer I. Persuasive and analytical writing, business and technical writing, college composition.

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

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

Teaching Assistants

Corey Bean, BA (University of Maine, 2010). College composition.

Brad Beauregard, BA (University of Maine, 2010). College composition.

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

James Brophy, BA (University of Maine, 2010). College composition.

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

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

Sadie Emery, BA (St. Joseph’s College of Maine, 2010). College composition.

Joe Fernandez, BA (University of Southern Maine, 2008). College composition.

Katie Fuller, BA (Colby College, 2006). College composition.

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

Jacob Kempfert, BA (Bethany Lutheran College, 2007). College composition.

Elizabeth Maliga, BA (University of Maine, 2009).  College composition.

Wes McMasters, BA (Penn State University, 2010). College composition.

Jason Mitchell, BA (Rutgers University, 2005). College composition.

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

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

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

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

Ryan Roderick, BA (Drexel University, 2008). College composition.

Brooke Sheridan, BA (University of Montana, 1998). College composition

Chad Van Buskirk, MA (University of Findlay, 2008), BA (Bluffton University, 2005). 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

In Memoriam

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

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, Adjunct faculty in English. College composition, multicultural literature, women’s studies.