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 spent years thinking, teaching, and wandering about the West Coast and its sundry borders,
in her travels and as Editor of pacific REVIEW, A West Coast Arts Review Annual. Like her studies, her publications
ground academic interests in lived experience: "Todo Hombre: Testing the Mettle of Man, Machismo, and Marianismo"
traces gender performance in Latino theatre. She explores the commodification of eating and ethnicity in "Of Cabbages and
Kings: On Reading Food Culture and Other Compositions." Recently returned to Tennessee, Spring continues to critically
eye the humanities and the world around her.
Office: Library 334 Phone: 423-425-5544 Email: spring-atkinson@utc.edu
Sybil Baker
UC Foundation Assistant Professor (M.F.A., Vermont College of Fine Arts)
Sybil Baker teaches creative writing and literature. She is author of The Life Plan, Talismans, and Into This World. She is a guest faculty member of the City University of Hong Kong's low residency MFA program and the Yale Writers' Conference, and was a featured writer at the American Writers' Festival in Singapore. She has received Outstanding Teacher and Creative Scholarship Awards from UTC's College of Arts and Sciences, is the advisor for UTC's literary magazine The Sequoya Review, and is Assistant Director of the Meacham Writers' Workshop. She is also the Fiction Editor for Drunken Boat, a journal of art and literature.
Office: Holt 325 Phone: 423-425-2338 Email: sybil-baker@utc.edu
Thomas Balázs
Assistant Professor and Associate Department Head (Ph.D., The Unversity of Chicago)
Thomas Balázs teaches creative writing, Western humanities, and literature. He
also serves as associate head of the English Department. He is the author of the short-story
collection, Omicron Ceti III (Aqueous Books 2012). His short stories have appeared in
numerous journals, including The North American Review, Soundings East, and The Southern Humanities Review. His work has also appeared in The Vermont College
25 Anniversary Fiction Anthology and Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology 2004. A recipient
of a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, he was awarded the Theodore Christian Hoepfner
Award for best short fiction 2010. His stories have been nominated for the
Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and the AWP Intro Journals Project Award.
He has also published scholarly work in The James Joyce Annual.
Office: Holt 202 Phone: 423-425-4660 Email: thomas-balazs@utc.edu
Jill Beard
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Jill Beard teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 329 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
Earl S. Braggs
Herman H. Battle Professor of African American Studies (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 six collections of poetry and a chapbook. His latest book is Younger Than Neil (Anhinga Press 2009). Braggs is the recipient of the Anhinga Poetry Prize, the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize, the Gloucester Country College Poetry Prize and the Cleveland State Poetry Prize (unable to accept because he won the Anhinga Prize the same year with the same manuscript). His novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac, was a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Contest. His teaching awards include the UTNAA Outstanding Teacher Award and two Student Government Association Outstanding Professor awards.
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.F.A., Vermont College of Fine Arts)
Rebecca Cook, MFA Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaches introduction to creative writing, creative nonfiction workshop, poetry workshop, and western humanities. A 2009 Margaret Bridgman Bread Loaf Scholar in Fiction, Cook writes poetry and prose and has published in many journals including Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Wicked Alice, and New England Review. New creative nonfiction is forthcoming in Southeast Review, Pank, and Grist. New poetry is forthcoming in The Cortland Review. Her chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, is available from Dancing Girl Press, and her first novel, Click, is forthcoming from Kitsune Books in 2013. Her website is godlikepoet.com .
Office: Library 318 Phone: 423-425-2546 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
Associate 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
Dorothy and James D. Kennedy Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Co-ordinator of Humanities
(Ph.D., Northwestern University)
Bryan Hampton has teaching and research interests in the cross-currents of early modern literature, politics, and religion. He regularly teaches courses on Milton and Shakespeare, along with a number of seminars examining the literature of the Bible, the devotional poetry of John Donne and George Herbert, and Renaissance epic. He has published in Studies in English Literature, The Upstart Crow, and Milton Studies, and has written several articles for edited volumes on Milton's prose and poetry. Professor Hampton 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, and currently serves as the coordinator of UTC's interdisciplinary Humanities major. His book, Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England (forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press) examines how Milton's radical theology of the Incarnation informs his poetics, hermeneutics, and politics.
Office: Holt 332 Phone: 423-425-2274 Email: bryan-hampton@utc.edu
Lauren Ingraham
Professor
(Ph.D., University of Louisville)
Dr. Ingraham specializes in writing program administration and
rhetoric and composition studies. She 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 324 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, poetry, and humanities in UTC's interdisciplinary honors program, and is a frequent guest lecturer at the MFA writing seminars at Vermont College, University of Iowa Summer Writers' Festival, and the Prague Summer Program. He is the author of ten books of poems including Resonance (2010) (Eric Hoffer Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). He has also published two books of translations, Last Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli from Italian (2010) and Alexandar Persolja's Journey of the Sun from Slovene (2008). He is also the author of two critical books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner), and has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and has appeared in The Best American Poems, among other collections. 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, Witter-Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow, and has lectured and given readings at dozens of universities and conferences in the U.S. and abroad. In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret National Award for Teaching, Writing and Arts Advocacy, and has had 5 Pushcart Prize Poem appearances. He leads a group of writing students to Europe each May. (http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/) (http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/)
Office: Holt 333 Phone: 423-425-4629 Email: richard-jackson@utc.edu
M. JaynesLecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Mike Jaynes teaches various writing, literature, humanities, and Women's Studies courses. His research interests include animal advocacy and ethics, American, and Young Adult fiction. He has lectured across the country on various topics and his academic and creative writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including NPR, Farmhouse Magazine, Earth First! Journal, Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, and more. His story "Gasoline Christmas" won the Long Short Story Prize in 2010.
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, including poetry and numerous magazine articles.
Office: Library 331 Phone: 423-425-5475 Email: rowan-johnson@utc.edu
Rebecca Jones
UC Foundation Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Rebecca Jones specializes in writing studies (academic and professional), rhetorical theory, and argumentation studies. Her most recent work can be found in Writing Spaces and Enculturation. She is currently working on projects related to the creation and maintenance of community belief systems and activists rhetorics. Professor Jones teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in professional writing, advanced composition, ancient rhetoric, rhetorical analysis, and modern rhetorical theory. She is the coordinator of the internship program and has been awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award.
Office: Holt 330 Phone:423-425-4608 Email: rebecca-jones01@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 229-B Phone: 423-425-4617 Email: immaculate-kizza@utc.edu
Chad Littleton
Lecturer (Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Chad Littleton teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and professional writing. His research
interests include communities of practice, online writing groups, writing center theory, developmental
writing, and workplace rhetoric. His current scholarship examines how feedback is used in online fanfiction
groups. His work has appeared in Southern Discourse and The Clearing House.
Office: Library 312 Phone: 423-425-2540 Email: chad-littleton@utc.edu
Lanie Lundgrin
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Lanie Lundgrin teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 332 Phone: 423-425-5476 Email: lanie-lundgrin@utc.edu
Andrew McCarthy
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Washington State University)
Andrew McCarthy specializes in Shakespeare, medieval and Renaissance drama, as
well as early modern literature and culture more generally. Other research and teaching
interests include the Protestant Reformation, Renaissance revenge tragedies, the reception
of classical writers in early modern England, and gender studies. During the summer
of 2010 he participated in the NEH Summer Institute "Ritual and Ceremony" at the
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. McCarthy is currently completing a
book-length study that examines the performance of masculine grief in the plays of Kyd,
Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, and Webster.
Office: Holt 310 Phone: 423-425-4615 Email: andrew-mccarthy@utc.edu
Krista McKay
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Krista McKay teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Holt 232-I Phone: 423-425-5473 Email: krista-mckay@utc.edu
Carrie Meadows
Lecturer (M.F.A., Virginia Tech)
Carrie Meadows teaches courses in professional writing and rhetoric and composition. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best New Poets nominee, and winner of the Academy of American Poets Poetry Society of Virginia Award. Her poetry has appeared in North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, and other publications.
Office: Library 308 Phone: 423-425-2535
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. She also teaches the writing portions of the School of Nursing
diversity program called DREAMWork (Diversity Recruitment and Education to Advance Minorities in the nursing Workforce)
in the summer, and hosts ocumentary screenings as a part of the Awake and Engaged Series (AwAE) originally co-founded
by Lecturer Michael Jaynes at UTC.
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.F.A., Spalding University)
Andrew Najberg teaches classes in Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, and Western Humanities. He received his MFA in poetry from Spalding University, and his MA in English and BA in English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is the author of the chapbook of poems Easy to Lose, published by Finishing Line Press in 2007, and his individual poems have appeared in North American Review, Artful Dodge, Louisville Review, Nashville Review, Yemassee, Bat City Review, and various other journals and anthologies. In addition, he is a recipient of an AWP Intro Award in poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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 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. In 1993 she was 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, 2006). 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 in 2003. She has supervised 27 student conference presentations and supervised or co-authored 27 student publications. In 2004 she won the UTC College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher award and is an elected member of UTC's Council of Scholars and Alpha Society.
Office: Holt 338-B Phone: 423-425-4692 Email: marcia-noe@utc.edu
Susan North
Assistant Professor and Director of Composition (Ph.D., The University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
Susan North teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and directs UTC's first-year writing program.
Office: Holt 231-B Phone: 423-425-5807 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
Josh Parks
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Josh Parks teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and western humanities.
Office: Library 339 Phone: 423-425-2551 Email: joshua-parks@utc.edu
Stephanie Pickard
Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Stephanie Todd teaches courses in Western humanities, literature, and rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 338 Phone:423-425-2550 Email: stephanie-todd@utc.edu
Jim Pickard
Lecturer (M.A., University of South Carolina)
Jim Pickard is originally from the Washington D.C. area and moved south to study 20th Century American Literature. He teaches rhetoric and composition with an emphasis on mass media and pop culture texts.
Office: Library 310 Phone:423-425-2538 Email: James-Pickard@utc.edu
Tracye Pool
Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Tracye Pool has taught ACT preparation classes for Continuing
Education, and Professional Writing, Rhetoric and Composition,
Developmental
Writing, and Writing for the Social Sciences for the English
Department. She is President of the Chattanooga Council of Teachers of
English,
and a member of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English, the
National Council of Teachers of English, and the
Chattanooga Writers Guild. She is Past-President of the Arts and
Education Council and the Conference on Southern Literature.
Publications include Healthscope Magazine, Adobe Abalone, Confection Magazine, Apollo's Lyre, and the National Council of Teachers of English
Writer's Gallery. She has written for several local non-profit organizations, and she has written training manuals for Manufacturer's Life
Insurance Company and Financial Planning Associates.
Office: Library 336 Phone: 423-425-2548 Email: tracye-pool@utc.edu
Verbie Lovorn Prevost
George Connor Professor of American Literature
(Ph.D., University of Mississippi)
Verbie Prevost specializes in American literature with a special interest in the literature of the American South. She also teaches courses in international fiction, and has conducted seminars with students in England, Ireland and Australia. Recognitions include the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award and Outstanding Service Awards from UTC, the Graduate School, and the College of Arts and Sciences. She has served twice as the faculty trustee on the UT Board of Trustees. Her current research interests include Tennessee writers (establishing and maintaining a web site) and children's Civil War fiction.
Office: Holt 331 Phone: 423-425-4627 Email: verbie-prevost@utc.edu
Katherine Heinrichs Rehyansky
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
Aaron Shaheen
UC Foundation Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida)
Aaron Shaheen specializes in American literature of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. Other academic interests include Henry James, literature of
the American South, and gender theory. He has published articles in The Southern
Literary Journal, American Literary Realism, The American Transcendental Quarterly, and The
Henry James Review. His monograph Androgynous Democracy: Modern American
Literature and the Dual-Sexed
Body Politic (U Tennessee Press, 2010) 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
Charles Sligh
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Charles Sligh specializes in Victorian Literature and the History of the Novel. His research interests include the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Poets, late-Victorian print culture, the digital humanities, and the notebooks and manuscripts of Lawrence Durrell. Dr. Sligh is co-editor for Major Poems and Selected Prose of Swinburne (Yale UP). He currently serves as co-chair for Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.
Office: Holt 338-E Phone: 423-425-2152
Email: charles-sligh@utc.edu
Joyce Caldwell Smith
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English
(Ph.D., Georgia State University)
JJoyce Caldwell Smith specializes in American literature of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. She has published articles on Stephen Crane, Erskine Caldwell, and
other American authors, and she is the volume editor of Stephen Crane: Bloom�s Classic
Critical Views (2009) and the author of Bloom�s How to Write about Stephen Crane (2011).
Office: Holt 229-E Phone: 423-425-4623 Email: joyce-smith@utc.edu
Christopher Stuart
Katharine H. Pryor 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
Abbie Ventura
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Illinois State University)
Abbie Ventura teaches courses in children's and adolescent literature. Her research specializations include visual literacies, bilingual picture books and Latino studies, and the economics of childhood and adolescence. She has published on issues of social activism and the role of the youth voice and is currently working on a manuscript that explores how post- World War II economic practices have shaped the genre of children's and adolescent literature nationally and internationally. Her other interests include consumerism and the politics of childhood, as well as the aesthetics of twenty-first century picture books and the Caldecott medaling system.
Office:Holt 323 Phone: 423-425-4631 Email: abbie-ventura@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 Department Head
(Ph.D., Bowling Green State University)
In addition to serving as head of the English department, 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 203 Phone: 423-425-4238 Email: joe-wilferth@utc.edu Web Site
Jane Womack
Lecturer and Coordinator 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
