Faculty and Staff
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
M. 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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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
