Faculty

Ted Billy: Professor of English and Chair of the Department

Education: B.A.: King's College, M.A., Ph.D.: State University of New York at Binghamton

Courses taught: American literature (ranging from colonial to contemporary), twentieth-century British literature, film studies, and expository writing

Research interests: Joseph Conrad, American gothic fiction, and film adaptations of novels

E-mail address: tbilly@saintmarys.edu

Thomas F. Bonnell
Professor of English.
B.A., Saint Olaf College;
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Courses taught: "18th-Century Writers," "Script and Stage: 1660-1790," "Novel Women," "Classical Rhetoric," "Women of Genius"

Research interests: currently editing Volumes 3 and 4 of Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Manuscriptfor Yale, The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810 (Oxford University Press), forth coming in spring 2008.

E-mail: tbonnell@saintmarys.edu

Office Phone: 574-284-4479

Rosalind E. Clark
Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.

Courses taught: "Medieval Literature," "Chaucer," "Irish Literature," "Celtic Mythology," "Arthurian Literature."

E-mail: rclark@saintmarys.edu

Office Phone: 574-284-44

Christopher Cobb
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Swavthmore College
M.A., M. Phil, Ph. D. Yale University

Courses taught: "Shakespeare," "16th-17th-Century Literature," "Tolkien and Modern Fantasy"

Laura E. Haigwood
Associate Professor of English.
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California.

Courses taught: "The Romantic Movement," "Victorian Literature," "Jane Austen," "The Brontes," "Women, Mystery, Detection"

Astrid Henry
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies.
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., New School of Social Research; PhD., University of Wisconsin.

Courses taught: "Introduction to Women's Studies," "Feminist Memoirs," "Reading Whiteness," "Feminism Meets Popular Culture"

Sister Eva Hooker
Professor of English
B.A., Saint Mary's College; M.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph. D., S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo.

Courses taught: "Modern Poetry," "Poetry Writing."

E-mail: ehooker@saintmarys.edu

Office Phone: 574-284-4821

Home Phone: 574-284-4869

Frances Hwang
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Brown University, M.A., University of Virginia, M.F.A., University of Montana

Sister Jean Klene
Professor of English.
B.A., Saint Mary's College; M.A., University of Notre Dame;
Ph.D., University of Toronto.

Linnea B. Vacca
Assistant Professor of English.
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Courses taught: Greek Literature in Translation, Writings by Radical Women, "W" Tandem courses.

Research interests: Renaissance Culture, Galileo; Artemisia Gentileschi.

E-mail: lvacca@saintmarys.edu

Office Phone: 574-284-4475

Max J. Westler
Associate Professor and Chair of English.
B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Courses taught: "Poetry Writing," "Creative Writing," "Senior Writing Project," "Screen Writing," "Women and Success," "American Poetry"

E-mail: mwestler@saintmarys.edu