Tenure Track Faculty
Dr. Tim Antrim: Classical literature of Greece, 17 th and 18 th century British literature, literature of science, Milton, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield
Dr. Brinda Charry: Early Modern British culture and literature, post-colonial literatures, Indian literatures, literary theory, and creative writing.
Dr. Robin
Dizard: Black
American literature,
Caribbean literature,
autobiography, multi-ethnic
literature of the
United Sates
Web site: http://academics.keene.edu/rdizard/
Dr. William Doreski: creative writing, modern poetry and poetics, literary theory and critical practice
Dr. Nona Fienberg: Shakespeare, Renaissance women writers, Renaissance studies, Holocaust literature
Dr. Sally Joyce: American Indian studies and literature, linguistics, Anglo-Saxon and 14th-century British literature
Dr. Anna
Kaladiouk:
Nineteenth-century
British and Russian
literature and culture,
Dickens, Dostoevsky,
representations
of criminality in
Russian and British
literature, law
and literature
Web site: http://academics.keene.edu/akaladio/index.htm
Dr. Richard Lebeaux: 19 th century American literature and culture, Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau; American studies, including the 1930s and 1960s; popular culture, folk music revival, Phil Ochs
Dr. Mark
C. Long: American literature from the colonial period through the 20th century, poetry and poetics, Writing and the Teaching of Writing, literary criticism and theory, American studies, literature-and-environment studies
Web site: http://academics.keene.edu/mlong/mark_long.htm
Dr. Anne-Marie Mallon: 20th century American literature, modern and contemporary drama, women writers, African American writers
Dr. Meriem Pagès: Chaucer, Medieval literature, history, and iconography, Medieval and modern images of Islam, Nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism, and Irish literature
Dr. Kirsti Sandy: writing program administration, writing across the disciplines, expository writing, creative non-fiction writing, rhetorical theory, composition theory
Dr. William
Stroup: British
Romanticism, the
Shelleys and Jane
Austen, Victorian
literature, literature
and the environment,
including ecocriticism;
expository writing,
poetry
Dr. Jan
Youga: English
Education, creative
non-fiction writing,
rhetorical theory,
adolescent literature
Web site: http://academics.keene.edu/jyouga
Contract Lecturers
Dr. Fiona Mills: African American literature, Latino/a literature and theory, gender studies, film studies, expository writing
Full Time Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Lorianne DiSabato: 19th century American literature; American nature writing; environmental literature; ecocriticism; women's literature; creative nonfiction; spiritual autobiography; place-based writing, photography, and blogging.
Website: http://www.pedestrianthoughts.com/
Blog: http://www.hoardedordinaries.com/
Jeff Friedman ( MFA Creative Writing): Poetry Writing, Contemporary Poetry, “The Narrative That Sings,” Midrashic poetry, the poem of the family, the short short story, spirit of place, contemporary Hebrew poetry in translation. Co-founder of the Keene State Writers' Conference. Core faculty member in the MFA program in Poetry Writing at New England College; http://www.nec.edu/grad/
Dr. Ali Lichtenstein: Rhetoric/composition; contemporary and canonical feminist fiction; creative nonfiction and memoir; creative process theory; feminist theory and pedagogy; gender studies. Founder and leader of Empty Bowl Writers, creative writing workshops for private as well as underserved groups in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Web site: http://www.emptybowlwriters.com/
Liz Pacilio (JD): Writing, constitutional law and family law , philosophy, and spirituality
Part Time Adjunct Faculty
Tracy Botting ( MA/Literature): American Regional Fiction, Women's Literature, Fiction Writing, Native American Literature, Memoir, Biography
Beth Stickney: 20th Century American Poetry; African-American Modernism and Cultural Theory; American Intellectual History; Cultural Criticism. Feature writing for The Commons, an alternative monthly publication for Windham County, Vermont
Jack Hitchner: Essay Writing, American Literature in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Creative Writing, the fiction of John O’Hara, John Cheever, John Updike, Ernest Hebert and Thomas Williams
Jack Bouley: Native American and multicultural studies, early 1900s American literature, composition and rhetorical studies
Steve Kessler: American literature and culture from the frontier to the present; film history and analysis, especially film noir and the Western.
Dr. Janet Grayson (professor emeritus): medieval literature; Renaissance, specifically Shakespeare, Metaphysical poetry and prose; Greek mythology and drama/James Joyce/European myth and folklore/19th century English and Continental literature
Tracy Mendham (MFA) creative writing, contemporary American poetry, and English composition.
Web site: http://academics.keene.edu/tmendham/
Richard LeDuc: American literature (Transcendentalism, early 20 th century), American studies (architecture, art history, popular culture), rhetoric and composition
Tony Dubois: American Studies (the 1920s, 1950s, the American Dream), American literature (20 th-century), Thinking and Writing(first-year writing), New England history and literature(regional studies)
George Russell ( MA, English Literature, MA, English a Second Language): second language acquisition, second language pragmatics, teaching of writing, storytelling
Ellen Moynihan: written & oral communication, American literature, modern short stories and Irish literature
Vesta Hornbeck: Essay Writing/ English Composition; Drama; Literature and Fiction (American, English, World); Short Story; Feature Writing (Entertainment Times, Leisure Weekly, etc.)
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Phyllis Benay (Interdisciplinary Studies): Expository Writing
Dr.
Helen Frink (Modern
Languages)
Dr.
David White (Education): Children's Literature