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A varied and committed group of scholar-teachers, UTC's English faculty has garnered numerous awards from the University and from regional, national, and international organizations. Among us are several Student Government Association Outstanding Professors, and the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association has frequently honored members of our faculty with its prestigious Outstanding Teacher Award. UTC's College of Arts and Sciences, too, has repeatedly recognized the English department with prizes for excellence in teaching, advisement, scholarship, and service.

An unusual number of our faculty hold distinguished professorships at the University, and many have received awards for teaching, writing, and scholarship from such organizations as The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The National Council of Teachers of English. In addition to authoring scores of books, articles, poems, and stories, our faculty members also edit important professional journals such as The Tennessee Philological Bulletin and Poetry Miscellany.


Full-Time Faculty and Staff



Amy Anderson Amy Anderson
Lecturer (M.A.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Amy Anderson teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, for which she has been named Outstanding Professor by the Student Govenment Association.

 

 

 

Office: Library 330      Phone: 423-425-5474     Email: amy-anderson@utc.edu



Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz Atkinson Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz Atkinson
Lecturer (M.A., San Diego State University)

Spring Kurtz teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.




Office: Library 334      Phone: 423-425-5544     Email: spring-atkinson@utc.edu



Sybil Baker Sybil Baker
Assistant Professor (M.F.A., Vermont College of Norwich University)

Sybil Baker teaches creative writing, Asian American and expatriate literature, and Western humanities. She is author of the novel The Life Plan (Casperian Books, 2009). Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Transnational Literature, upstreet, and The Writer's Chronicle. Before coming to UTC she taught at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, where she won several teaching awards. She was the Grand Prize winner of the Seoul Essay Contest in 2005. Her linked short story collection Talismans is forthcoming from C&R Press in Fall 2010.

Office: Holt 325      Phone: 423-425-2338     Email: sybil-baker@utc.edu



Thomas Balazs Thomas Balazs
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., The Unversity of Chicago)

Thomas Balazs teaches creative writing, Western humanities, and the literature of British modernism. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The North American Review, The Dos Passos Review, and REAL, as well as in The Vermont College 25 Anniversary Fiction Anthology and Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology 2004. He has also published scholarly work in The James Joyce Annual. He is currently working on a collection of short stories.


Office: Holt 202      Phone: 423-425-     Email: thomas-balazs@utc.edu



Craig Barrow Craig Wallace Barrow
Professor (Ph.D., University of Colorado)

Craig Barrow specializes in genre studies, the English and American novel, science fiction, Native American literature, and literature of the twentieth century. In addition to teaching a wide variety of courses in literature, he regularly teaches classes in theory, rhetoric, and writing, for which he has won the Student Government Association's Outstanding Professor Award. His research interests include critical approaches to contemporary authors, particularly the speculative fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin and the work of Native American writer Louise Erdrich.

Office: Holt 338-B      Phone: 423-425-4615     Email: craig-barrow@utc.edu



Jill Beard Jill Beard
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Jill Beard teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Holt 231-C       Phone: 423-425-5641     Email: jill-beard@utc.edu



Jennifer Beech Jennifer Beech
Associate Professor and Director of The UTC Writing Center
(Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi)

Dr. Beech specializes in working-class rhetorics, critical pedagogy, and composition theory and pedagogy. At UTC, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in intermediate and advanced writing and rhetoric, working-class rhetorics, rhetorics of whiteness, composition theory, and research methods. At the national level, she has been elected and appointed to leadership positions in the NCTE affiliate Conference on College Composition and Communication. Having published in several edited collections and in such journals as College English, JAC, Lore, and The IWCA Update, Dr. Beech's scholarship has been recognized twice in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Office: Holt 320/119      Phone: 423-425-2153/425-1774     Email: jennifer-beech@utc.edu



Frances K. Bender Frances K. Bender
Mildred Routt Distinguished Teaching Professor
(Ed.D., University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

Fran Bender teaches professional writing and literature for children and adolescents. She also serves as director of the department's computer classroom. Dr. Bender's most recent research has focused on censorship in young adult literature, and on the use of writing groups and portfolios in technical writing courses. She has been honored with the University's Outstanding Service Award.

Office: Holt 324      Phone: 423-425-4636     Email: fran-bender@utc.edu



Jacqueline Boals Jacqueline Boals
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Jacqueline Boals teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and professional writing.




Office: Library 339       Phone: 423-425-2551     Email: jacqueline-boals@utc.edu



Earl Braggs Earl S. Braggs
UC Foundation Professor (M.F.A., Vermont College of Norwich University)

Earl Braggs teaches creative writing, poetry, African-American literature, and Russian literature. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Hat Dancer Blue (winner of the 1992 Anhinga Prize), Walking Back From Woodstock, House on Fontanka, and Crossing Tecumseh Street. In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected Poems is scheduled for publication in 2006, and he is currently working on a volume entitled Sketches of Spain. In addition to his numerous prizes for poetry and fiction, he has been named Outstanding Professor by the Student Government Association, and Outstanding Teacher by The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association.

Office: Holt 338-C      Phone: 423-425-4793     Email: earl-braggs@utc.edu



Ann Buggey Ann Buggey
Lecturer (M.F.A., The University of Memphis)

Ann Buggey teaches courses in rhetoric and composition. Her poetry has appeared most recently in the Tulane Review and Bayou. She has new work scheduled to appear in Cairn, Calyx, Blueline, Poetry International, Gingko Tree Review, and Subtropics.



Office: Holt 232-J       Phone: 423-425-2317     Email: ann-buggey@utc.edu



Sara Coffman Sara Coffman
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Virginia)

Sara Coffman teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 307       Phone: 423-425-2536     Email: sara-coffman@utc.edu



Rebecca Cook Rebecca Cook
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Rebecca Cook, co-founder of the Chattanooga Writers Guild, teaches creative nonfiction and western humanities. She writes both prose and poetry and is particularly interested in writing that defies genre. She was a Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was awarded a Dairy Hollow writer's residency in 2005. A two-time Pushcart nominee, she has published in many literary journals including New England Review, Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Orchid, Quarter After Eight, Wicked Alice, Barrelhouse, Midwest Quarterly, and Margie, among others. Her chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby (2006), is available from Dancing Girl Press.

Office: Grote 222      Phone: 423-425-5481     Email: rebecca-cook@utc.edu



Suzy Davis Suzy R. Davis
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Suzy Davis teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and professional writing.




Office: Library 309       Phone: 423-425-2537     Email: suzy-davis@utc.edu



Matthew Evans Matthew Evans
Lecturer (M.A., University of Southern Mississippi)

Matt Evans teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.




Office: Library 317       Phone: 423-425-2545      Email: matthew-evans@utc.edu



April Green April Green
Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

April Green teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 315       Phone: 423-425-2543      Email: april-green@utc.edu



Heather Grothe Heather Grothe
Executive Secretary

Heather Grothe serves as Executive Secretary for the department of English.




Office: Holt 203      Phone: 423-425-4238     Email: heather-grothe@utc.edu



Matthew Guy Matthew Guy
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Louisiana State University)

Matthew Guy specializes in literary theory and criticism, phenomenology, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies, comparative literature, and world literature. His current research examines the works of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, revealing the hermeneutics of Levinas's Talmudic readings.


Office: Holt 326      Phone: 423-425-4613     Email: matthew-guy@utc.edu



Bryan Hampton Bryan Adams Hampton
UC Foundation Assistant Professor and Co-ordinator of Humanities
(Ph.D., Northwestern University)

Bryan Hampton is a Milton scholar with teaching and research interests in the cross-currents of early modern literature, politics, and religion. He has published in Milton Studies, and has written several articles for edited volumes on Milton's prose and poetry. He has been honored with awards for outstanding teaching from both the College of Arts and Sciences at UTC, and from the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association. Currently, in addition to co-ordinating UTC's interdisciplinary Humanities major, he is at work on a book manuscript that examines how Milton's radical theology of the Incarnation informs his hermeneutics, politics, and poetics.

Office: Holt 332      Phone: 423-425-2274     Email: bryan-hampton@utc.edu



Lauren Ingraham Lauren Ingraham
Associate Professor and Director of Composition
(Ph.D., University of Louisville)

Dr. Ingraham specializes in writing program administration and rhetoric and composition studies. She directs the first-year writing program at UTC and teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in writing for nonprofits, writing for publication, and the theory and practice of teaching writing. Her current research focuses on ways to improve high school students' readiness for college writing. Dr. Ingraham is a consultant for NCTE, the National Council of Teachers of English, and her most recent publication appears in The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration, an anthology edited by Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman.

Office: Holt 231-B      Phone: 423-425-5232     Email: lauren-ingraham@utc.edu



Marg Jackson Margaret L. Jackson
Lecturer (M.A., Middlebury College)

Marg Jackson teaches courses in Western humanities, professional writing, and rhetoric and composition.




Office: Holt 232-J       Phone: 423-425-2317     Email: margaret-jackson@utc.edu



Richard Jackson Richard Jackson
UT National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)

Richard Jackson teaches creative writing and poetry, humanities in UTC's interdisciplinary honors program, and writing seminars at Vermont College. He is the author of numerous books of poems: Resonance is due out in January 2010, and Ultimate Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (translation) in April 2010. Other recent books include Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). His work has been translated into fifteen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poems, among other collections. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. In addition to several dozen essays and reviews that have appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, Contemporary Literature, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, he is the author of Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award). He has been awarded the Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Slovenia for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans, and has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow, and has lectured and given readings at dozens of universities and conferences here and abroad. He leads a group of writing students to Europe each May. (http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/)

Office: Holt 333      Phone: 423-425-4629     Email: richard-jackson@utc.edu



Michael JaynesM. Jaynes
Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

M. Jaynes teaches courses in twentieth century American fiction, adolescent literature, western humanities, developmental writing, and womenÕs studies. His research interests include ecofeminism, animal advocacy and ethics, the embraced rogue, experimental fiction, and American fiction. He lectures on animal advocacy topics across the country and his academic and creative writing has appeared in dozens of peer reviewed journals, nationally circulated magazines, newspapers, ejournals, and books including NPR, Farmhouse Magazine, Earth First! Journal, Paragon Magazine, Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, ABCnews.com, and many others.

Office: Library 311      Phone: 423-425-2539     Email: michael-jaynes@utc.edu



Rowan Johnson Rowan Johnson
Lecturer (M.A., University of Nottingham)

Originally from South Africa, Rowan Johnson earned his MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of Nottingham, England. He has produced various forms of writing, includig poetry and numerous magazine articles.




Office: Library 331      Phone: 423-425-5475     Email: rowan-johnson@utc.edu



Rebecca Jones Rebecca Jones
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

Rebecca Jones teaches courses on argumentation studies, rhetorical theory, writing, and gender studies, and coordinates the English department's internship program. She has published work on Hispanic Serving Institutions, the value of teaching argumentation studies, and the use of images in protest discourse. Her current work investigates the connections between individual belief, activist rhetorics, and the role of citizens in an active democracy. Dr. Jones has also won the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award.


Office: Holt 202      Phone:423-425-4608      Email: rebecca-jones01@utc.edu



Paige Keown Paige Keown
Lecturer (M.F.A.,Vermont College of Norwich University)

Paige Keown teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 310      Phone: 423-425-2538     Email: paige-keown@utc.edu



Immaculate Kizza Immaculate N. Kizza
UC Foundation Professor (Ph.D., University of Toledo)

Immaculate Kizza specializes in African literature, the slave narrative tradition, British modernism, and literary analysis; she also teaches African culture and literature in the University's interdisciplinary honors program. Her current research interests include the slave narrative tradition, the African oral tradition, and inter-textual threads in African and African American literatures. In addition to numerous articles on literature, she is the author of Africa's Indigenous Institutions in Nation Building: Uganda. She has also been named Outstanding Teacher by The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association.

Office: Holt 232-D      Phone: 423-425-4617     Email: immaculate-kizza@utc.edu



Justin Lewis Justin Lewis
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Justin Lewis teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Wetern humanities. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Comparative Literature before moving to Europe for a year to teach English. After returning from Prague, Justin taught high school for a couple of years before moving on to complete an M.A. in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition at UTC. Some of Justin's research interests include computers and writing, digital rhetoric, youth subcultures, and cyborgization.


Office: Library 338      Phone: 423-425-2550     Email: justin-lewis@utc.edu



Chad Littleton Chad Littleton
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Chad Littleton teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and professional writing.




Office: Library 312nbsp;     Phone: 423-425-2540     Email: chad-littleton@utc.edu



Gale Mauk Gale Mauk
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Gale Mauk teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.




Office: Library 308      Phone: 423-425-2535      Email: gale-mauk@utc.edu



Catherine Meeks Catherine Meeks
Lecturer (M.S., The University of Montana-Missoula)

Catherine Meeks teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Holt 231-D      Phone: 423-425-5640      Email: catherine-meeks@utc.edu



Tiffany Mitchell Tiffany Mitchell
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Tiffany Mitchell teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and Western humanities, and is an e-structor with Smarthinking.com, an online writing center. Through her work with Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park, she is one of the voices of Moccasin Bend Moments, heard on 90.5 FM.


Office: Library 335      Phone: 423-425-2547     Email: tiffany-mitchell@utc.edu



Sheena Monds Sheena Monds
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

Sheena Monds teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 337      Phone: 423-425-2549     Email: sheena-monds@utc.edu



Andrew Najberg Andrew Najberg
Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

Andrew Najberg teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 313      Phone: 423-425-2541     Email: andrew-najberg@utc.edu



Marcia Noe Marcia Noe
Professor and Coordinator of Women's Studies
(Ph.D., University of Iowa)

Marcia Noe teaches courses in American literature, drama, and women's studies. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland and over twenty other publications on this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. She has been a Fulbright Senior Lecturer-Researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; with Junia C.M. Alves, she has edited a collection of essays on the Brazilian theatre troupe Grupo Galpao (Editora Newton Paiva, 2005). She is a senior editor of The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, editor of the journal MidAmerica, and chairs the editorial committee of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which gave her the MidAmerica Award for distinguished contributions to the study of midwestern literature. She has won the UTC College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher award, and is an elected member of UTC's Council of Scholars.

Office: Holt 338-E      Phone: 423-425-4692     Email: marcia-noe@utc.edu



Susan North Susan North
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)

Susan North teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Holt 310      Phone: 423-425-2273     Email: susan-north@utc.edu



Gregory O'Dea Gregory O'Dea
UC Foundation Professor and Director of The University Honors Program
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Gregory O'Dea teaches courses in the English-language novel, Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, British romanticism, postcolonial literature, and literary analysis. He is co-editor of Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein (Fairleigh Dickinson UP), and his scholarship has appeared in such journals as The South Atlantic Review, Papers on Language and Literature, and the online journal Romanticism on the Net. In addition to directing UTC's interdisciplinary honors program, he is Co-Director and Scholar in Residence for literature and medicine programs sponsored by the American College of Physicians. He has been named Outstanding Professor by UTC's Student Government Association, University Outstanding Advisor, and Outstanding Teacher by The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association. In 2005, The American College of Physicians honored him with the Clifton R. Cleaveland Medical Humanities Award for outstanding contributions to humanism in medicine. His current research concerns crime and criminology in the novels of Charles Dickens.

Office: Holt 229-D/Guerry 202      Phone: 423-425-4611/4166     Email: gregory-o'dea@utc.edu



Heather Palmer Heather Palmer
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Georgia State University)

Heather Palmer specializes in Ancient and Modern Rhetorical History and Theory, gender studies, and critical theory. Her most recent work has been published in Pedagogy and Modern Language Studies. She teaches classes on rhetorics of postmodernism, embodiment, queer theory, and propaganda. Currently, she is working on a project about the function of parrhesia, or free speech, in the history of women's rhetorics from the Delphic Oracles to the Second Sophistic. Her other interests include the arts of improvisation as a model for global ethical communication, and has been invited to speak on this topic at several high profile music festivals, most recently the "Big Ears" festival, featuring Phillip Glass.

Office: Holt 338-A      Phone: 423-425-4693     Email: heather-palmer@utc.edu



Tim Parker Tim Parker
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Tim Parker teaches courses in professional writing and rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 316      Phone: 423-425-2544     Email: tim-parker@utc.edu



Tracye Pool Tracye Pool
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Tracye Pool teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and writing for the social sciences.




Office: Library 336      Phone: 423-425-2548     Email: tracye-pool@utc.edu



Verbie Prevost Verbie Lovorn Prevost
George Connor Professor of American Literature and Department Head
(Ph.D., University of Mississippi)

In addition to serving as Head of the English department, Verbie Prevost specializes in American literature, literature of the American South, and women authors. She pursues research interests in these areas, and particularly on the work of women novelists of the American South. She also teaches courses in international fiction, and has recently led students on seminars abroad, studying short fiction in Ireland and Australia. Dr. Prevost is active in directing several ongoing programs, including the University's Take Five lecture series and the Arts and Education Council's Young Southern Writers Contest.

Office: Holt 203      Phone: 423-425-4238     Email: verbie-prevost@utc.edu



Katherine Rehansky Katherine Heinrichs Rehyansky
Dorothy and James D. Kennedy, Jr. Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)

Katherine Rehyansky teaches medieval literature (particularly Geoffery Chaucer), the history of the English language, and courses in grammar and linguistics. Her research focuses on Chaucer's Romance sources, and she is currently at work on a hypertext edition of the Oriel manuscript of Piers Plowman. She is editor of The Tennessee Philological Bulletin, and has been named Outstanding Teacher by The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association. She is also an elected member of UTC's Council of Scholars.

Office: Holt 229-A      Phone: 423-425-4604     Email: katherine-rehyansky@utc.edu



Lanie Rieth Lanie Rieth
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Lanie Rieth teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 332      Phone: 423-425-5476     Email: lanie-rieth@utc.edu



Aaron Shaheen Aaron Shaheen
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida)

Aaron Shaheen specializes in American modernism and gender theory. Other academic interests include Henry James, literature of the American South, and postbellum cultural studies. He has published articles in The Southern Literary Journal, Children's Literature, and The Henry James Review. At present he is working on a book-length manuscript that examines the ways in which American modernists used scientific, religious, and racial notions of androgyny to formulate models of national cohesion.


Office: Holt 229-C       Phone: 423-425-5398      Email: aaron-shaheen@utc.edu



Mac Shawen Edgar McDowell Shawen
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Yale University)

Mac Shawen teaches Shakespeare, early English drama, literature of the English renaissance, Japanese literature, and rhetoric and composition. He has been named Outstanding Teacher by the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association. His current research interests include twentieth-century poetry and fiction, with particular focus on Japanese fiction.



Office: Holt 321      Phone: 423-425-4631     Email: edgar-shawen@utc.edu



Charles Sligh Charles Sligh
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia)

Charles Sligh specializes in Victorian literature. He teaches courses in Victorian Poetry and the Victorian Novel. His research interests include the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Poets (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and William Morris), late-Victorian print culture, and the digital humanities. In 2004, Sligh co-edited Major Poems and Selected Prose of Swinburne (Yale UP), and he is currently General Editor of The Pater Project, a digital research environment facilitating study of the manuscripts and printed works of Walter Pater.


Office: Holt 230      Phone: 423-425-2150     Email: charles-sligh@utc.edu



Jenny Smith Jenny Cooper Smith
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Jenny Cooper Smith teaches courses in scientific writing and rhetoric and composition.




Office: Library 329      Phone: 423-425-5473     Email: jenny-smith@utc.edu



Joyce Smith Joyce Caldwell Smith
Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English
(Ph.D., Georgia State University)

Joyce Smith teaches American Literature, Western humanities, Latino/a literature, and professional and scientific writing. Her current research and special teaching interests focus on the works of Stephen Crane and Erskine Caldwell, Latino/a literature, and the use of computers in composition.


Office: Holt 229-E       Phone: 423-425-4623     Email: joyce-smith@utc.edu



Chris Stuart Christopher Stuart
Katharine H. Pryor Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Connecticut)

Chris Stuart teaches courses in American literature (particularly the American novel), and humanities in the University's interdisciplinary honors program. He has been named Outstanding Teacher by The University of Tennessee National Alumni Association and serves on the Editorial Board of the University of Tennessee Press. His scholarship has appeared in such journals as American Literary Realism, Critique, and Literature and Belief. His current research focuses on the works of Henry James.


Office: Holt 322      Phone: 423-425-2140     Email: chris-stuart@utc.edu



Thomas C. Ware Thomas Clayton Ware
Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Thomas Ware specializes in Romanticism, Victorian literature, British transitional literature, and James Joyce. He also writes on the literature of the First World War, U.S. Civil War cemeteries, and modern Irish autobiography. He is co-author, with Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr., of Theodore O'Hara: Poet-Soldier of the Old South (University of Tennessee Press), and two of his most recent publications have appeared The James Joyce Quarterly, and Nua': Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing.


Office:       Phone:      Email: thomas-ware@utc.edu



Kristine Whorton Kristine Whorton
Lecturer (M.A., University of Alabama)

Kristine Whorton teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.




Office: Library 333      Phone: 423-425-5481     Email: kristine-whorton@utc.edu




Joe Wilferth Joe Wilferth
UC Foundation Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
(Ph.D., Bowling Green State University)

Joe Wilferth teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in professional writing, intermediate and advanced composition, ancient rhetoric, medieval and renaissance rhetoric, rhetorical analysis, and modern rhetorical theory. In addition to ongoing research in areas such as hypertext/hypermedia and teaching with technology, he is currently at work on a co-edited collection of essays concerning image events and visual rhetorics.

Office: Holt 229-B      Phone: 423-425-4621     Email: joe-wilferth@utc.edu      Web Site



Jane Womack Jane Womack
Lecturer and Director of The English as a Second Language Institute
(M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

Jane Womack teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and English as a second language.




Office: Library 314      Phone: 423-425-2542      Email: jane-womack@utc.edu