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Education
BA, MA Istanbul University
PhD Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Research/Teaching Focus
Film studies, modern and contemporary literature

Recent/Selected Publications
“Film and Time in Adam Thorpe’s Still and Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions.” Cinematic Strategies in Twentieth Century Narratives and Beyond. Ed. T. Prudente and F. Sabatini. Youngstown, NY: Cambria P, forthcoming 2011.

“The Black Book: An Ekphrastic Landscape.” Essays Interpreting the Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk: The Turkish Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ed. Nilgün Anadolu-Okur. New York: Edwin Mellen P, 2009. 29–51.

Katherine C. Bassard
Professor
Chair, Department of English

Education
BA Wake Forest University
MA Virginia Commonwealth University
PhD Rutgers University

Research/Teaching Focus
African American literature

Recent/Selected Publications
Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2010. 

“Signs and Wonders: The King James Bible and African American Literature.” The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences. Ed. Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 294–317.

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. 

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John Brinegar
Instructor

Education
BA University of Oregon
MA, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research/Teaching Focus
Composition and rhetoric; Medieval and Renaissance English literature

Recent/Selected Publications
“Some sources of the Old English Boethius.” Proceedings of the first annual symposium of The Alfredian Boethius Project, University of Oxford, July 2003.
www.english.ox.ac.uk/boethius/
     Symposium2003.html

Winnie Chan
Associate Professor

Education
AB University of Illinois
PhD University of Virginia

Research/Teaching Focus
world Anglophone literature, postcolonial studies

Recent/Selected Publications
“The Curry Capital in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.” South Asian Review 32 (2011): 139–160.

“‘The Eaters of Everything’: Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling’s Tales of Imperial Boys.” Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature. Eds. Scott Pollard and Kara Keeling. New York: Routledge, 2009. 125–35.

The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

“Curry on the Divide in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 36 (2005): 1–23.

Susann Cokal
Associate Professor

Education
BA University of California/San Diego
MA, PhD University of California/Berkeley
PhD SUNY/Binghamton

Research/Teaching Focus
Creative writing (fiction); history and theory of the novel; twentieth-century English, American, and world literatures; multicultural American literature

Recent/Selected Publications
“Crime and the Sublime in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume.”   Horror and Philosophy.  Ed. Thomas Fahey. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2010. 179–98.

“The Bed of Imaginary Loves.” The Journal 32.2 (2008): 91–112.

“Clean Porn: The Visual Aesthetics of Hygiene, Hot Sex, and Hair Removal.” Pop(Porn): The Proliferation of Pornography in Popular Culture. Ed. Mardia Bishop and Ann Hall. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Publishers, 2007. 137–54.

Breath and Bones (novel). Denver: Unbridled Books, 2005.

Mirabilis (novel). New York: BlueHen / Penguin Putnam, 2001.

Web Sites
   MFA Faculty Bio

Gretchen Comba
Teaching Assistant Professor

Education
BA Florida State University
MA Virginia Commonwealth University
MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Research/Teaching Focus
Creative writing (fiction); twentieth-century U.S. literature; U.S. women writers

Recent/Selected Publications
“Chronology.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xxi–xxxviii.

“William Maxwell: A Checklist of the Primary Sources.” Resources for American Literary Study 32 (2009): 267–96.

“The Art of Atonement: The Emergence of the Jewish Character in William Maxwell’s Short Fiction.” MidAmerica XXXV (2008): 66–79.

“The Close and Faraway.” The South Carolina Review 39.1 (2006): 181–87.

“The Pretty People Dancing.” Alaska Quarterly Review 21.3–4 (2004): 23–33.

David Coogan
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education
BA College of Wooster
MA, PhD SUNY/Albany

Research/Teaching Focus
Service learning, rhetorical theory and criticism, composition

Recent/Selected Publications
Ed. with John Ackerman.  The Public Work of  Rhetoric: Citizen Scholars and Community Engagement.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2010. 

“Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper.” Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements.  Ed. Patricia Malesh and Sharon Stevens.  Albany: SUNY P, 2009. 149–65.

“Service Learning and Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 57.4 (2006): 667–93.

Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1999.

Web Site
    www.davidcoogan.com
    www.openminds.vcu.edu

Marcel Cornis-Pope
Professor

Education
AB, MA Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
PhD University of Timisoara
Postgraduate courses at Oxford University and Birmingham University

Research/Teaching Focus
Literary theory, narratology, modern/postmodern American literature,
British Victorian and twentieth-century literature, literature and other media

Recent/Selected Publications
Ed. with John Neubauer. History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe. 4 vols. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004–2010

“East-Central Europe and the Search for a Literature of the ‘Third Way.’” Ed. A. N. Hammond,  Global Cold War Literatures: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.

“Shifting Paradigms: East European Literatures at the Turn of the Millennium.” Ed. Christian Moraru. Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imaginary. New York: Columbia UP, 2010.

“‘In Black Inkblood’: Agonistic and Cooperative Authorship in the (Re)writing of History.” Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo, Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, Holocaust.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010.

“Urban Cartographies in the Post-Cold War Era: Postmodern Challenges to Ethnocentric and Globalist Mappings.” World Literature Studies 1.18 (2009): 14–27.  

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After. New York and London: Palgrave, 2001.

Ed. with Ronald Bogue. Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture. Albany: SUNY P, 1995.

Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.

Curriculum Vitae
   Marcel H. Cornis-Pope  [pdf]

Tom De Haven
Professor

Education
BA Rutgers/Newark
MFA Bowling Green State University

Research/Teaching Focus
Creative writing (fiction, screenwriting), popular culture, American studies

Recent/Selected Publications
Our Hero: Superman on Earth. New Haven: Yale UP, 2010.

Ed. with Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry. Richmond Noir. New York: Akashic Books, 2010.

It’s Superman! (novel); San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.

Dugan Under Ground (novel). New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2001.

Funny Papers (novel). New York: Viking, 1985.

Web Site
   MFA Faculty Bio

Thom Didato
Instructor
Graduate Programs Advisor

Education
BA College of William and Mary
MA Georgetown University

Professional/Teaching Focus
Russian Studies, literary editing and publishing, digital publishing

Recent/Selected Publications
With Alexander Steele. Gotham Writers' Wokrshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Editorship
   www.failbetter.com

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Gregory Donovan
Associate Professor
Director of Creative Writing

Education
BA University of Missouri
MA University of Utah
PhD SUNY/Binghamton

Research/Teaching Focus
Creative writing, modernist & contemporary American & British literature, translation

Recent/Selected Publications
“Night Hours in the Office of the Dead” and “After the Fire and the Big Bang and All That.” Copper Nickel, Issue 18 (October 2012): 29–33.

“Cattle Kate” and “Another Offensive Discourse on Love and Marriage, with Fireworks.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Issue 50 (Spring/Summer 2012): 90-93.

“Ravens at Tamalpais,” “Triumph of the Will as Underwater Ballet,” “Sleepwalker in the Medicine Wheel,” and “Sputnik as Holy Ghost.” 42opus 10.2–3 (2010). 42opus.com/authors/gregorydonovan

“Taste,” “Portbou: Walter Benjamin at the Border of Dream.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 22.2 (2010): 145–147.

“Is There a Dead Mule in It.” storySouth 27 (Spring 2009). www.storysouth.com/2009/03/is-there-a-dead-mule-in-it.html

“Winter Solstice: Oregon Hill,” “Strange Child.” Alaska Quarterly Review 19.3-4 (2002):174–176.

Calling His Children Home (poems). Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 1993.

Editorship
   www.blackbird.vcu.edu

Web Site
   MFA Faculty Bio

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Joshua Eckhardt
Associate Professor
Director of MA in English

Education
BA Valparaiso University
MA, PhD University of Illinois

Research/Teaching Focus
Early modern English

Recent/Selected Publications
Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.

“‘From a servaunt of Diana’ to the Libellers of Robert Cecil: The Transmission of Songs Written for Queen Elizabeth I.” Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing. Ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo. London: British Library, 2007. 115–31.

“‘Love-song weeds, and Satyrique thornes’: Somerset Libels and Anti-Courtly Love Poems.” Huntington Library Quarterly 69.1 (2006): 47–66.

Richard Fine
Professor

Education
AB Brown University
AM, PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research/Teaching Focus
American studies, American literature, authorship and intellectual property

Recent/Selected Publications
“The Writer in Hollywood.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. 388–97.

“American Authorship and the Ghost of Moral Rights.”  Book History 10 (2010): 218–50.

“‘Snakes in Our Midst’: The Media, The Military and American Policy Toward Vichy North Africa.” Journalism History 27.4 (2010): 59–82.

West of Eden: Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. [Reprinting with new preface of Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship (1983)].

James M. Cain and the American Authors’ Authority. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 1992.

Curriculum Vitae
   Richard Fine  [pdf]

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Assistant Professor

Education
BA University of New Mexico
MFA Vermont College of Fine Arts

Research/Teaching Focus
Creative Writing (memoir, personal essay, lyric essay, literary journalism), Latino Literature