English Department Faculty

Ted Billy: Professor of English

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,(Chair)
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
Associate 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
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"

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

Linnea B. Vacca
Assistant Professor (Emerita) 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
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