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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEMBERS
Nathaniel Lewis Dr. Lewis has written on western American literature, literary aesthetics, and nature writing. He is the co-editor of True West: Authenticity and the American West and the author of Unsettling the Literary West, which won the Western Literature Association’s 2004 Thomas J. Lyon award for Best Critical Book in the field. He serves on the editorial board of the Postwestern Horizons series for the University of Nebraska Press and is a past member of the Western Literature Association’s Executive Council. He is currently at work on a collaborative book, tentatively titled Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West. Dr. Lewis teaches courses on literary theory, environmental writing, and multiethnic literatures. Saint Edmund's Hall 335 Dr. Balutansky specializes in Caribbean and post-colonial literature and theory, with a special focus on women writers. She is the author of The Novels of Alex La Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict (1990). Her publications on the Caribbean include translations, interviews and scholarly articles on Caribbean writers and a co-edited anthology of essays by Caribbean writers, Representing Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language and Literature (1998) and Ecrire en Pays Assiégé: Haiti: Writing under Siege (2004). She is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College. Klein Hall, 119A ----------------------------------------------------
Dr. Clary is a Renaissance specialist who is working on the New Variorum Edition of Hamlet, which will be published by the Modern Language Association. He and his co-editors have received three substantial Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support this work. He has published several articles on Shakespeare's plays, particularly on Hamlet, and reviews books on Shakespeare for The Sixteenth Century Journal and Shakespeare Quarterly. He teaches courses on Milton, Shakespeare and drama. Saint Edmund's Hall 343 ----------------------------------------------------
Professor Inness-Brown (a.k.a. Liz Monley) is a fiction writer who loves to teach writing. Author of two books of short stories, Satin Palms (Fiction International, 1981) and Here (LSU Press, 1994), as well as a novel Burning Marguerite (Knopf, 2002), she's been acclaimed nationally; the San Francisco Chronicle called her novel “a stunning debut,” and the New York Times Book Review said “Vivid yet concise, Inness-Brown's language burns away all but the essence of her story.” She teaches fiction writing, of course, but she also runs the Writing Center, a peer-tutoring program, and trains the tutors through her course Teaching Writing. Her favorite course, though, is the first-year seminar The Examined Life, in which students study memoir and examine their own lives by writing about them. Professor Inness-Brown lives with her husband, Keith, and son Michael in South Hero, one of the Champlain Islands, where she gardens in the summer and snowshoes in the winter. Saint Edmund's Hall 333 ---------------------------------------------------- Carey Kaplan Saint Edmund's Hall 342 ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Root teaches courses in British literature, Romanticism, post-colonialism and British fiction. She is working on a full-length study of Romantic literary thinkers who offer ecological alternatives to the dominant, Western, mechanistic modes of consciousness. Saint Edmund's Hall 336 ----------------------------------------------------
Dr. Smith specializes in American poetry and African American Literature. She teaches courses on a variety of topics, including seminars on Whitman and Dickinson, Faulkner and Morrison, Literature and the Blues, Poets of Democratic Vision, and Literature of the Middle Passage. Building on her interest in interdisciplinary learning, she has directed the American Studies Program and has taught in the First-Year Seminar Program since its inception, focusing on race and culture and, most recently, King’s vision of “Beloved Community.” She has been involved in promoting service-learning and diversity initiatives at the College, and she has developed a 3-week study course in Ghana in conjunction with her course on the Middle Passage. Professor Smith’s most recent scholarship includes “Hungry Ghosts and Restless Spirits: Lyric Voices of the Middle Passage,” published in proceedings from an international conference in Ghana, Africa and Its Diasporas: History, Memory, and Literary Manifestations (Africa World Press, 2008) and “Black Arts to Def Jam: Performing Black Spirit Work Across Generations” in New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). She is currently writing a book entitled Reports from Vernacular Valleys: Post-Sixties Black Poetry and the Public Sphere. In her free time, Professor Smith gardens, hikes, and dances. She is passionate about music and tries whenever possible to integrate it into her courses. Saint Edmund's Hall 337 ----------------------------------------------------
Professor Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland and is a widely published Irish poet. His latest poetry collection is The Blind Stitch (Oxford Series, Carcanet Press and LSU 2002). His other published works include The Hellbox (Oxford Series, Oxford University Press, 1998), American Wake (Blackstaff/Dufour, 1995), Southward (LSU, 1992) and Cast In The Fire (Dolmen Press, 1986). His poems have appeared in American, Irish, English, Australian, Japanese and Argentinean anthologies, including the Norton Introduction to Poetry. He also co-edited Jumping Off Shadows: Selected Irish Poetry (Cork UP, 1995) and The Selected Poems of Patrick Galvin (Cork UP, 1995). He has read his poems widely and he was invited to give a recorded reading at The Library of Congress in 2002. He has received many awards. He teaches Irish Literature, Contemporary Poetry and Genres: Poetry. Saint Edmund's Hall 341 ---------------------------------------------------- Bob NiemiAssociate Professor of English and American Studies B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst; M.S. Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst Dr. Niemi has published major essays on Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Horace McCoy, Ed Lacy, Guy Endore, Terry Southern, Harvey Swados and many other figures in American literary and cultural history. His books are: The Bibliography of Weldon Kees [with Daniel Gillane] (Parish House, 1997); Russell Banks [Twayne U.S. Authors Series] (Simon & Schuster/Macmillan, 1997); History in the Media: Film & Television (ABC-Clio, 2006). He is Coordinator of the American Studies Program at St. Michael's and teaches a wide array of courses in American literature, cultural studies, and film. His latest book Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick, will be published by Wallflower Press (London) in 2009. Bob lives in Barretown, VT, with his wife, Gretchen, and an assortment of animals, including goats, chickens, roosters, ducks, dogs, cats, and a 250-pound Vietnamese potbellied pig named Leonard. Saint Edmund's Hall 345 ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Shea has published on women and film as well as Middle High German and Old Norse literature and is working on a book, Engendering Romance: Women and European Medieval Romance. She teaches courses in film, early British Literature, mystery fiction, utopian fiction and women’s literature. Saint Edmund's Hall 339 Saint Edmund's Hall 338 ----------------------------------------------------
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