Emeritus and Retired Faculty

Professor of English, Emeritus
Former Director, Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence

Education

• Ph.D., University of Washington, 1975
• B.A., Lehigh University

Research Interests

• Technical and scientific communication
• Writing across the curriculum
• Research methods and methodology
• Research ethics
• Assessment

Selected Publications

• Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1987; second edition 1991; third edition 1995; fourth edition 1999; fifth edition 2003; sixth edition 2007.
• “Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Research in Composition Studies,” College Composition and Communication 55 (2004): 479-484. [An official policy of the Conference on College Composition Communication that I co-authored with a committee of distinguished researchers, which I chaired.]
• “The Three-Part Program for Preparing TAs to Lead Professional Communication Courses at Miami University (Ohio).” In Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, and Practices. Edited by Betty Pytlik and Sarah Liggett. New York: Oxford, 2002. Co-authored with Todd DeLucca and Lisa Rosenberger.
• “Simple Gifts: Ethical Issues in Person-Based Composition Research.” College Composition and Communication 49 (1998): 63-89. Anthologized in Trends and Issues in Postsecondary English Studies. Edited by National Council of Teachers of English. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999, pp.102-132.

Work in Progress

Dr. Anderson is currently researching various ways to increase the positive impact of writing across the curriculum programs.

Professor Emerita
Former Ohio Writing Project Director
Ohio Board of Regents’ Writing Institute Network Director
Director of MAT Program

fullermj@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D, English, Florida State University, 1979
• M.A.T., English, Appalachian State University, 1974
• B.S., English, Appalachian State University, 1973

Teaching Interests

• Writing theory and practice
• English education
• Teacher research

Research Interests

• Writing program evaluation and administration
• Gender and authority
• Responding to student writing
• Composition and rhetoric
• Pedagogy
• Teacher training and research

Selected Publications

• “Exploring Authority: A Case Study of a Composition and a Professional Writing Classroom,” Technical Communication Quarterly, 16 (2), 201-232, March 2007. With Jean Lutz.
• Literature: Options for Reading and Writing. First and Second Editions. NY: Harper & Row, 1985 & 1989. With Donald Daiker and Jack Wallace.
• “Taking Reading/Writing Workshops to New Heights.” National Middle School Journal, Vol 34, No 3, January 2003. (Pp.20-27) With Ruth Pettitt
• “Constructing Authority: Student Responses and Classroom Discourse.” in Discourse Studies in Composition, eds. Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall. New Jersey: Hampton, 2002. (Pp. 353-375) With Jean Lutz
• “Teacher Training Abroad: The Ohio Writing Project International,” English Language Arts, Fall, 1998.
• “Teaching Style in Advanced Composition.” Teaching Advanced Composition, Eds. Katherine Adams and John L. Adams. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1991. Pp. 119-132.
• “A Rose for Emily: Celebrating One Student’s Writing.” English Language Arts Bulletin. (Summer 1991): 20-25. I was first author with Gordon Allen, Donald Daiker, Max Morenberg, and Janet Ziegler.
• “Evaluation High School Writing: What Are English Teachers Really Looking For?”Writing Program Administration 10 (Fall/Winter 1987): 27-42. With Donald Daiker, Max Morenberg, and Janet Ziegler.
• “Miami University Freshman Composition Program,” New Methods in College Writing Programs. NY: Modern Language Association, 1986. With Don Daiker
• “Ohio Writing Project/Miami University,” School-College Collaborative Programs in English. NY: Modern Language Association, 1986. With Max Morenberg
• Editor, English Language Art Bulletin (ELAB). Volumes 27-33. Fall 1987 - Spring 1990, state-wide journal of Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. Readership 3000.

Work in Progress

Dr. Mary Fuller directs the Ohio Writing Project (OWP) and the department’s Master of Arts (MAT) in Teaching English. Since 1980, the OWP has trained over 100,000 K-12 teachers across the state. The department’s MAT program has graduated more than 150 teachers since its inception several years ago. Fuller has received grants for over $7 million to support these programs. She currently teaches a capstone for English Education majors, consults with school districts throughout southwest Ohio, and regularly offers classes in the honors first-year writing program. She is currently directing a five-year research project for the National Writing Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Her most recent research includes an article on composition, business writing, and authority, co-authored with Jean Lutz.

Associate Professor
Coordinator of English, Middletown Campus

220 Johnston Hall
Middletown Campus
(513) 727 3283
heydajf@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1979
• M.A., University of Pittsburgh
• B.A., University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Interests

• Composition
• Film studies

Research Interests

• Histories of composition instruction
• Writing program administration

Selected Publications

• “Sentimental Education: First-Year Writing as Compulsory Ritual in U. S. Colleges and Universities.” In Teaching Academic Writing in UK Higher Education: Theories, Practices & Models. Edited by Lisa Ganobscik-Williams. Basingstone, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.
• “Along the DMZ Between Composition and Literature.” In Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education. Edited by Edith Baker and Linda Bergmann. Urbana, IL: NCTE Press, 2006.
• “Industrial-Strength Composition and the Impact of Load on Teaching.” In Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline, edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2004.
• “Fighting Over Freshman English: CCCC’s Early Years and the Turf Wars of the 1950s,” College Composition and Communication, June 1999.
• “Challenging Antiwriting Biases in the Teaching of Film.” In Cinema-(to)-Graphy: Film and Writing in Contemporary Composition Courses, edited by Ellen Bishop. Heinemann: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999.

Work in Progress

Dr. Heyda is currently working on “Another Chance for Reader Response Theory?” a paper first presented at the First International iPED Conference: Pedagogic Research and Academic Identities. Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom. September, 2006.

Professor (Emerita)

lewiecc@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of New Mexico, 1990
• M.A., English, University of New Mexico
• Bachelor of University Studies, University of New Mexico

Teaching Interests

• First-year and advanced composition
• Advanced writing and rhetoric
• Theories and practices of teaching composition
• Rhetoric of science and the body
• Disability memoir and popular representations of disability
• Rhetorics of disability
• Women’s studies

Research Interests

Difference theory cuts across the three areas of my research interests: Composition and Rhetoric (basic writing, open admissions and disabled students, histories of writing programs); Disability Studies (disability memoir and rhetoric, disability pedagogy); and Women’s Studies (feminist pedagogies and epistemologies).

Selected Publications

• Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge. Eds. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio. Syracuse UP, 2011.
• “Uneasy Subjects: Disability, Feminism, and Abortion.” Disability and Mothering. Ed. Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio.
• “Introduction: On Liminality and Cultural Embodiment.” With Jen Cellio. Disability and Mothering. Ed. Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio.
• “Ableist, Nevertheless: Disability and Animals Rights in the Work of Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum.” JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, and Politics. 31. 1-2 (2011): 711-741.
• “Comment/Response: Neurodiversity.” With Jay Dolmage. College English 70.3 (Jan 2008): 314-18.
• “Refiguring Rhetorica: Linking Feminist Rhetoric and Disability Studies.” With Jay Dolmage. Rhetorica in Motion: Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies. Ed. Eileen Schell and Kelly Rawson. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh UP, 2010. 36-60.
• Disability and the Teaching of Writing. With Brenda Brueggemann and Jay Dolmage. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.
• “Not Just Anywhere, Anywhen: Mapping Change through Studio Work.” With John Paul Tassoni. Journal of Basic Writing 24.1 (Spring 2005): 68-92.
• Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. With James C. Wilson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001. 280 pp.
• From Community to College: Reading and Writing Across Diverse Contexts. With Jeff Sommers. NY: St. Martin’s P, 1996. 516 pp.
• Writing Against the Family: Gender in Lawrence and Joyce. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 301 pp.
• “Scripting Writing Across Campuses: Writing Standards and Student Representations.” With Ellenmarie Wahlrab. What Is College-Level Writing? Ed. Patrick Sullivan and Howard Tinberg. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 2006. 158-77.
• “Teaching in the Contact Zone: Multiple Literacies/Deep Portfolio.” Professing in the Contact Zone: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. Ed. Janice M. Wolff. Urbana: NCTE, 2002. 215-229.
• “Constructing a Third Space: Disability Studies, the Teaching of English, and Institutional Transformation,” with James C. Wilson. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Ed. Brenda Jo Breuggemann, Sharon Snyder, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson. N.Y.: MLA, 2002. 296-307. Reprint 2004.
• “Rethinking Rhetoric through Mental Disabilities.” Rhetoric Review 22. 2 (2003): 156-67.
• “‘Doing the Right Thing’ Versus Disability Rights: A Response to Ellen Barton’s ‘Discourses of Disability in the Digest.’” JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Literacy, Culture, and Politics. 21. 4: 870- 881.
• “Rhetoric and the Writer’s Profile: Problematizing Directed Self-Placement,” with Jeff Sommers and John Tassoni. Assessing Writing 7 (2000): 165-183.
• “Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions,” with Jeff Sommers. College Composition and Communication: Fiftieth Anniversary Issue50 (Feb. 1999): 438-462.

Web Publications

• “Disabled Mothers.” With Jen Cellio. Encyclopedia of Motherhood. SAGE, 2010.
• “Dialogue on Teaching Disabilty Literature.” With Black, Sheila, Lydia Fecteau, Heather Garrison, Therése Halscheid, and Michael Northen. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry 3.1 (March 2009).
• “Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom.” A Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. With Vidali, Amy and Margaret Price. 28. 4 (Oct. 31, 2008).

Grants and Awards

• Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring, 2010

Work in Progress

Dr. Lewiecki-Wilson is at work on a new book project, Discourses of Disability in Civic Debate: Minor Rhetorics and the Available Means of Persuasion, a study of contemporary cases in which public issues of important civic debate are embedded in stories of disability, revealing minority intersections of race, class, gender, and disability, the powerful rhetorical work of normative discourses, and the possible rhetorical moves for renewed public engagement with issues of citizenship.

Associate Professor
Director, Bachelor of Arts in Technical and Scientific Communication (BATSC)
Director, Master of Technical and Scientific Communication (MTSC)

lutzja@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• M.A., English, Old Dominion University
• B.A., English, Old Dominion University

Teaching Interests

• Writing, Editing, and Design for Technical and Scientific Communicators
• Usability
• Rhetoric
• Gender, texts, and organizations

Research Interests

• Theory and practice of technical and scientific communication, digital technologies, usability studies, rhetorical theory and analysis (especially medical rhetoric), qualitative methodologies, and gender studies.

Selected Publications

• “Exploring Authority in a Composition and Professional Writing Classroom” with Mary Fuller. Accepted for publication in Technical Communication Quarterly, August, 2006, copyrighted by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.
• The Practice of Technical and Scientific Communication: Writing in Professional Contexts. Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing, 1998.
• With Mary Fuller. “Constructing Authority: Student Responses and Classroom Discourse”. Discourse Studies in Composition. Ed. Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 353-377.
• With Jennie Dautermann and Michele Simmons. “Rumors of Change: Managing Change in Established Technical and Scientific Communication Programs.”Proceedings. Council for Technical and Scientific Communication, 2001.
• “The Transfer of Consulting Experience and Information to the Business Communication Classroom.” Business Communication Quarterly 62.3 (1999).
• With C. Gilbert Storms. “Test Early; Test Often.” NCR Information Products Journal11.4 (1996).
• “Understanding Organizational Socialization: The Role of Internships in Helping Students Acquire Strategies for Writing Effectively in Organizations.” Establishing and Supervising Internships. Ed. William O. Coggin. The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 9 (1989). 78-89.
• “Writers in Organizations and How They Learn the Image: Theory, Research, and Implications.” Worlds of Writing: Teaching and Learning in Discourse Communities of Work. Ed. Carolyn B. Matalene. New York: Random House, 1989. 113-136.
• With Susan Jarratt, Patricia Harkin, and Mary Beth Debs. “Practical Rhetoric & The Art of Composing: A Bibliographic Essay on Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communications.” The Technical Writing Teacher. 14 (1987). 300-319.
• “Attitude Toward the Editing Process: Theory , Research, and Pedagogy.” The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 16.1/2 (1986). 157-165.
• “A Comment on Shared Responsibility & Teaching Technical Writing in the University.” College English. 44 (Nov 1982). 389-401.

Work in Progress

Dr. Lutz is currently continuing her work on the study of students’ perceptions of authority in the classroom and on the rhetoric of traditional and alternative medicines.

Professor of English
Former Roger and Joyce L. Howe Professor
Former Director, Howe Writing Initiative, Richard T. Farmer School of Business

ronaldkj@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Louisville, 1984
• M.A., University of Louisville
• B.A., University of Dayton

Teaching and Research Interests

• Composition and Rhetoric
• Rhetorical History
• Women’s Rhetorics
• Writing-across-the-Curriculum

Selected Publications

• Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s Rhetoric(s). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. With Joy Ritchie.
• Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. With Hephzibah Roskelly.
• Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/ Boynton/ Cook Publishers. With Hephzibah Roskelly. 1990.
• “Pedagogy and Public Engagement: The Uses of Women’s Rhetorics.” In Rhetorical Woman. Eds. Hildy Miller and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles. With Joy Ritchie. Southern Illinois UP. Forthcoming.
• “Literacy on the Margins of Power and Prestige: Louisa May Alcott’s Pragmatic Rhetoric” in Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century, edited by Peter Mortensen and Beth Daniell. Forthcoming from Southern Illinois UP. With Hephzibah Roskelly
• “Mothers, Spinsters, Othermothers: New Models for Women Mentors and Their Students.” In Reinterpreting the Dissertation in Composition and Rhetoric: Reimagining the Discipline. Eds. Nancy Welch, et. al. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003: 55-66. With Joy Ritchie and Hephzibah Roskelly.
• “Embodied Voice: Peter Elbow’s Physical Rhetoric.” In Writing with Elbow. Eds. Pat Belanoff, Sheryl Fontaine, Marcia Dickson, and Charles Moran. Logan, Utah: State University Press, 2002: 210-223. With Hephzibah Roskelly.
• “Learning to Take it Personally: The Ethics of Collaborative Writing.” In Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing. Eds. Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich. Logan, Utah: State University Press, 2002: 253-267. With Hephzibah Roskelly
• “Untested Feasibility: Imagining the Pragmatic Possibility of Paulo Freire.” College English 63 (May 2001): 612-632. With Hephzibah Roskelly.
• “‘Befriending’ Other Teachers: Communities of Teaching and the Ethos of Curricular Leadership.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 1 (Spring 2001): 317-327.

Work in Progress

Professor Ronald is working on a new book on women on the margins of the pragmatic movement in the late 19th/early 20th century.

Emeritus Professor of English

sommerjd@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, New York University 1980
• M.A., English, New York University
• B.A., English, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching Interests

• Composition
• Writing assessment
• Scholarship of teaching and learning
• Problem-based learning and literary study

Research Interests

• Composition
• Writing Assessment

Selected Publications

• “The Writer’s Options” 8th ed. New York: Longman’s, 2008. With Max Morenberg.
• “Illustrating the Reading Process: The In-Class Read Aloud Protocol,” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 32 (March 2005), 299-307.
• “Two-Year College English Faculty and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Journey Awaits,” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 32 (Sept. 2004) 14-25.
• “Audiotaped Response and the Two-Year Campus Writing Classroom: The Two-Side Desk, the ‘Guy with the Ax,’ and the Chirping Birds.” Jeff Sommers and Cheryl Mellen. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 31 (2003), 25-39.
• “A Comprehensive Plan to Respond to Student Writing,” Practice in Context: Situating the Work of Writing., eds. Cindy Moore and Peggy O’Neill. NCTE Press, , 2002, 263-273.
• “Spoken Response: Space, Time, and Movies of the Mind,” in Writing with Elbow, ed. Pat Belanoff, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, Charles Moran. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2002, 172-186.
• “Where We Are Is Who We Are, But It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way”: Two- and Four-Year Faculty Discourse Communities." Karen Powers-Stubbs and Jeff Sommers. InPolitics and Writing Instruction at the Two-Year Campus. Keith Kroll and Barry Alford, eds. Portsmouth: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2001.
• “Hero or Villain, Blunderer or Bungler?: Caught in the Middle Pedagogically” InBlundering for Change: Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy eds. John Paul Tassoni and William H. Thelin. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2000. 115-127.
• Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jeff Sommers. “Professing at the Fault Lines: Composition at Open Admissions Institutions.” College Composition and Communication, 50.3 (February 1999), pp. 97-121
• New Directions in Portfolio Assessment , co-edited with Donald A. Daiker, Gail Stygall, and Laurel Black. Boston: Heinemann, Boynton-Cook, 1994.
• “Grades and Context: An Experiment and a Commentary.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 20 (Dec. 1993), 263-274.

Web Publications

• “Critical Reading Outcomes and Literary Study in a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Literature Course” Mountain Rise: An Electronic Journal Dedicated to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Vol 3 No. 6 (2006).http://mountainrise.wcu.edu/index.php/MtnRise/article/view/86
• “Using Digitized Audio Response to Student Writing,” 2005
• “The Hegemony of the Final Exam: Problem-Based Learning in the Literature Classroom,” Inventio , Spring 2005, Vol. 7, issue 1.
  

Grants and Awards

• Editor, Teaching English in the Two-Year College (an NCTE journal) 2006-2011
• Distinguished Educator Award, College of Arts and Science, Miami University, 1993
• E. Phillips Knox Teaching Award, Miami University, 2004
• Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellowship, 2003-2004

Work in Progress

I am currently at work with Max Morenberg on the 8th edition of The Writer’s Options, a composition/style textbook. I am continuing my research into student learning outcomes in literature courses that emphasize Problem-Based Learning. I will be assuming the editorship of Teaching English in the Two-Year College, a National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) journal, and thus am working on the transition from the previous editor.

Emeritus Professor

sbauer@miamioh.edu

Education

• M.F.A. in English, 1975. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• B.A. with Honors in English, 1970. Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Teaching Interests & Research Interests

• Creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction)
• Contemporary American literature
• The meditative poem
• Children’s literature
• Creative writing pedagogy
• Teaching
• American Romanticism
• The literary marketplace
• Electronic publishing

Selected Publications

• A Cat of a Different Color, a novel. New York: Dell Yearling 2001. New York: Delacorte, 2000.
• The Strange and Wonderful Tale of Robert McDoodle (The Boy Who Wanted to be a Dog), a children’s book in verse. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
• Daylight Savings, poems. Layton UT: Gibbs Smith, Inc., 1989. A Peregrine Smith Book.
• Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. Volumes 1 and 2. New York: Charter Books, 1986.
• The River, a novel base on a screenplay by Robert Dillon and Julian Barry. New York: Berkley Books, 1985.
• Satyrday, a novel. New York: A Berkley/Putnam Book, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980. London: Souvenir Press, 1981.
• Take That, Will Rogers, an essay. Dog People, ed. Michael Rosen. New York: Artisan/Workman, 1995
• Fired, a short story. The Dickinson Review, Vol. IX, 1994.
• Becoming a Gardener, an essay. My Poor Elephant: Twenty-Seven Male Writers at Work, ed. Eve Shelnutt. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1992.

Web Publications

• The Blessing, an essay, The Stickman Review 3, 2 (2004)
  http://www.stickmanreview.com/
• Torch Song,: a poem. Poetryfish (2004)
  http://www.poetryfish.com

Work in Progress

Steven Bauer is currently working on Fence, a novel about safety and limits—those that are pressed upon us by others, and ones we self-enforce—explored through the first-person narrative of a fifteen-year-old girl. He is also working on a book about the teaching of creative writing.

Emeritus Professor

schlosd@miamioh.edu

Education

• M.F.A., Poetry Writing, University of Iowa Writers Workshop, 1967
• B.A., English, Brooklyn College

Teaching Interests

• Creative writing/poetry
• American and World Literature (classical, modern and contemporary)
• Film: history and aesthetics

Selected Publications

• Group Portrait From Hell, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009. 96 pages.
• Behind the Eyes (chapbook), Dos Madres Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2005. 32 pages.
• Greatest Hits: 1967-2004, Pudding House Press, Columbus, Ohio, 2004. 32 pages.
• Sex Lives of the Poor and Obscure, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February, 2001. 90 pages.
• Legends (Chapbook), The Windmill Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1976. 32 pages.
• The Beloved, Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland, Ohio, 1973. 64 pages.

Individual poems have appeared in Antaeus, Ohio Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, Paris Review, Chicago Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Shenandoah, Crazy Horse, Western Humanities Review, and many other literary journals. His work has been included in The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Best Poems anthologies, as well as many others. He has written critical essay/reviews on contemporary poetry including a lengthy one in The Cincinnati Review.

Work in Progress

David Schloss has finished another poetry manuscript, Reports from Babylon, and is working on another one, Rational Animals and Others. He is also revising a review, “God Hunger in Three Aging White Men,” of the work of contemporary poets Michael Ryan, Henri Cole and Frederick Seidel towards publication.

Professor of English
Affiliate of American Studies and Women’s Studies

sloansk@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• Ph.D., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984.
• M.A., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979.
• B.A., Sociology, The University of California at Santa Cruz, 1974.

Teaching Interests

• Creative writing
• Contemporary American fiction
• Southern literature and culture
• Women and film

Research Interests

• Fiction writing
• Women and the cinema
• European dissident writers

Selected Publications

Fiction

• The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, The Permanent Press, 2004. Barnes and Noble Selection, Discover Great New Writers. Nominated, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for Best Fiction.
• Elvis Rising (edited with Constance Pierce), Avon Books, 1993.
• Worry Beads, LSU Press, 1988. Ohioana Award for Best Fiction.

Narrative Non-Fiction

• Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano. University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
• The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
• Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 (co-authored with William H. Goetzmann), Viking Press and Princeton University Press, 1982 and 1983.

Poetry

• The Birds are on Fire, Finishing Line Press, 2006. Winner, New Women’s Voices Prize.

Documentary

• Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema, 2003.

Grants and Awards

• Rabbi Nussbaum Award for Civil Justice, 2015.
• Faulkner Award for Novella, Give Me You, 2014.
• Distinguished Scholar, Miami University, 2009.
• Ohio Arts Council Grant for Fiction, 2005.
• Ohio Humanities Council Grant, 2003. 
• Ohioana Award for Fiction, Worry Beads, 1991.

Work in Progress

Sloan is currently working on a history of native white Southerners who resisted the violent racism of the 1960s and joined the Civil Rights Movement.

Retired/Emerita Instructor

wardj@miamioh.edu

Education

• M.A. German, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
• B.A. English and German, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Teaching Interests

• English for foreign students
• Composition and literature
• Creative writing: short fiction and poetry

Research Interests

• Travel writing

Selected Publications and Broadcasts

• “Patriotism in the Land of the Midnight Sun” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati.” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 30 September. 2012. Radio.
• “Loving Places” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati.” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 01 January. 2012. Radio.
• “The Traveler as Collector” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. "Around Cincinnati, NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 01 January. 2012. Radio.
• “A Pig in a Suitcase” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. "Around Cincinnati," NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 12 December. 2011. Radio.
• “Turkish Travel Stories” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati,” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 02 October. 2011. Radio.
• “Since Bitter Lemons, Two Sides of a Fine Green Line” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati,” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 07, 14, 21, 28 August. 2011. Radio. 
• “A Chameleon in Cairene Clothing” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati,” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 15 May. 2011. Radio.
• “Familiar Messages from the Atacama” by Julia Duffy Ward. Reading by Julia Duffy Ward. “Around Cincinnati,” NPR. WVXU, Cincinnati, 17 April. 2011. Radio.
• “A Pig in a Suitcase.” Christmas Stories from Ohio. Ed. Dorothy Dodge Robbins and Kenneth Robbins. Kent State University Press, August 2010.
• “On the Road to Reform: The Traveler Within,” The New York Times, Sunday, March 12, 2000.
• “Secret Hideways — Great Vacation Spots Only the Locals Know,” About New Choices, Vol.37, No. 1., (February 1997), pp 26-32.
• “One Woman’s Spice Route”, Travelers’ Tales—Food, Ed., R. Sterling, Travelers’ Tales, San Francisco, CA., 1996, pg. 155-159.
• “New and Different Vacations You’ll Love,” New Choices, Vol. 36, No. 1, (February 1996), pp. 32-39.
• “Suffering Short Cuts With a Map Reader,” The New York Times, Sunday, April 2, 1995.
• “Stories from the Haman,” Thoughts of Home, Ed. Elaine Green, The Hearst Books, New York, 1995, pp. 268-274
• “A World Tour, via the Root Canal.” The New York Times, Sunday, October 2, 1994.
• “Stories from the Haman,” House Beautiful, April, 1994, pp. 17-23.
• “When Departure is Bittersweet,” The New York Times, Sunday, February 20, 1994.
• International Menus of Istanbul, ed. Julia Duffy Ward and Madeleine F. Panarelli, Redhouse Press, Istanbul, Turkey, 1966

Retired

Associate Professor
Literature
Former Director, Study Abroad Italy

bernhema@miamioh.edu

Education

• PhD – Rutgers U. 1975
• BA – Queens College

Research Interests

• European Literature
• Children's Literature
• Religion in Literature
• Jewish American Fiction
• Flannery O'Connor
• Thomas Mann
• Contemporary Italian Culture

Teaching Interests

• European Literature
• Composition/Short Fiction

Selected Publications

• Father of the Orphans, Dutton/Penguin 1989
• Numerous book reviews and critiques on European writers

Grants and Awards

• Six Fulbright nominations 1971-1996 (three accepted to France and Austria)

Professor, Creative Writing

Education

• AHRB Research Studentship (1999-2004) towards a Ph.D. in Writing, Literature and the Poetics of Performance and Collaboration submitted to English Department, Edge Hill, University of Lancaster. Ph.D. awarded 2004.
• BA (Hons, first class), Cultural Studies, Norwich School of Art and Design (1995-1998).
• Access Humanities, Lowestoft College (1994-95).
• Chisenhale Dance Space collective, London (1981-95)
• Writers’ Forum Workshop collective, London (1975-77).
• Diploma in Fine Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1974).
• Highgate School, London (1967-1972).

Teaching and Research Interests

• discourses around performance
• models of creative collaboration
• writing and interdisciplinarity
• writing and new/emergent media
• poetics

Selected Publications and Broadcasts

• pickles & jams (BlazeVOX, 2017)
  
• part: short life housing. Toronto, Ontario: The Gig, 2009.
• the church, the school, the beer. Oxford, Ohio: Plantarchy, 2007.
• the books: Chapter 5 (TNWK, 2004), cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers. Part of series of subscription only writer-artist books.
• Three Little Heretics, Critical Path into the Bush, Part 1: Report to the Council(Palestine, Texas: Casus Belli, 2003), cris cheek, William R. Howe and Keith Tuma.
• Millennium Collection: things not worth keeping. cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers eds. Cambridge: Object Books, 2000.
• crowding. A three and a half hour ‘live’ internet webcast, commissioned as part oftorkradio from The Junction Multimedia, Cambridge in October 1998.
• Songs From Navigation. London: Reality Street, 1998, cris cheek and Sianed Jones. A book/cd object. “Double narrative of origins, the text provides a careful description of the process of production through improvisation, including the generation of texts during recording sessions, with one writing or drawing while the other records, thus producing ‘scores’ for further performance.” —Robert Hampson
• (PORES)
• stranger. Lowestoft: Sound & Language, 1996. “A startling, compressed exploration of the pathology and politics of travelling and of ‘home’; an exercise in international, interpersonal, intrapersonal defamiliarization including the experience of fatigue, disorientation and the same bourgeois magic wherever the airline takes us.”  —Peter Manson (Object Permanence, Glasgow 1996).
• Music of Madagascar, written and presented for BBC Radio 3, 1994, SONY GOLD AWARD Winner for Specialist Music Programme, 1995. Reworked as Mountain, River, Rail and Reef , for Resonance FM on London’s South Bank, June 1998.
• a present. London: Bluff Books, 1980. ‘An impressive and audacious artist’, Jeff Nuttall (The Guardian). ‘The sheer range and variety of his forms seems to me to be remarkable’, Eric Mottram. “Cheek’s A Present presents 20 different texts, most of which may be thought of as poetry. My hesitation has been produced by the paradigmatic shifts; some of the work in the book is not poetry and this is emphasised by the shift from words to graphics in ‘Root and Flight’. The only relevance of this academic fact is to highlight Cheek’s practice, which is to break the demarcation lines that define a discipline and discard any certainties of Aristotelian category.” —Allen Fisher, Necessary Business p.43.

Web Publications

• Academia.edu page
• Archive of the Now
• PennSound 
• Hellstone.com/Meridian, 1999, websound intervention. This site went online at 05:00hrs (BST) May 1st 1990 unfolding over the day on an hourly basis until 04:00 hrs (BST) May 2nd. It presents selected extracts from a project, initiated as a nod to Mass Observation, which received a wide range of texts and images from the everyday on election Mayday 97.
• Electronic Poetry Center, 1996, early online performance
• Co-owner, with Trevor Joyce, of British and Irish Poets listserv, 1999-2004

Residencies and Fellowships

• Humanities Center, Research Collaborative award with Mack Hagood to produce the podcast Phantom Power
• Guest resident, In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, 2014.
• Altman Humanities Fellow, Miami University, Ohio, May 2011-May 2012.
• E-writing Resident at Brown University, Providence, Spring 2008.
• Poet-in-Residence for Taxi Radio, Cambridge, January-May 2005 a webcast and Restricted Service Licence FM radio initiative working with Coleridge School and the citizens of Abbey neighbourhood Cambridge, England; curator Kirsten Lavers.

Work in Progress

A poet, writer, book artist, publisher, new media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer, cris cheek's writing has been commissioned and shown widely, often in multiple versions using diverse media for production and circulation. His work is increasingly site-responsive and frequently created in full collaboration with other artists.

Professor of English Emeritus

daikerda@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, Indiana University, 1969
• M.A., English, Indiana University
• B.A., Rutgers University, Psychology

Teaching Interests

• Composition
• How to teach composition
• American literature
• Short stories
• Travel literature

Research Interests

• Composition
• Ernest Hemingway

Selected Publications

• "Defending Hemingway's Henry Adams: The Doctor, the Critics, and the Doctor's Son." Forthcoming in The Midwest Review. 
• "An Amateur Sun Also Rises." Forthcoming in Resources for American Literary Study. 2016.
• "In Defense of Hemingway's Dr. Adams: The Case for "Indian Camp."  The Hemingway Review 35:2 (Spring 2016): 55-69.
• "'I think Dad probably waited for me': Biography, Intertextuality, and Hemingway's 'Ten Indians.'" MidAmerica XLII (2015): 36-53.
• "In Defense of Hemingway’s Young Nick Adams: 'Everything Was Gone to Hell Inside of Me.'” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57:2 (June 2015) 242-257.
• "What to Make of Hemingway's 'Summer People?'" The Hemingway Review 34:2 (Spring 2015) 36-51.
• "Hemingway's Neglected Masterpiece: 'Cross-Country Snow.'" MidAmerica XLI (2014) 23-38.
• "Teaching Hemingway's 'Cross-Country Snow.'"  Forthcoming in Teaching Hemingway's Short Fiction.  Ed. Frederic Svoboda.  Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
• "'I Hated to Leave France': The Geography and Terrain of The Sun Also Rises." Forthcoming in Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World.  Ed. Mark Ott  and Kevin Maier.  Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
• "Irene and Ernest: A Love Story?" The Hemingway Review. Spring 2014. 
• "In Search of the Real Nick Adams: The Case for 'A Very Short Story.'"  The Hemingway Review 32:2 (Spring 2013) 28-41.
• "I sure like to get letters."  Review Essay of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907-1922.  Twentieth-Century Literature 58:2 (Summer 2012) 349-354.
• “Jake Barnes as Teacher and Learner: The Pedagogy of The Sun Also Rises” in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. New Edition. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2011. Pp. 165-178.
• “‘Brett Couldn’t Hold Him’: Lady Ashley, Pedro Romero, and the Madrid Sequence of ‘The Sun Also Rises’” Ernest Hemingway: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. New Edition. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011. Pp. 175-188.
• “How a Hemingway Story Works”: a Review Essay of Robert Paul Lamb, Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2010) in Twentieth-Century Literature 56:4 (Winter 2010) 559-556.
• “‘Don’t Get Drunk, Jake’: Drinking, Drunkenness, and Sobriety in The Sun Also Rises.”North Dakota Quarterly 76: 1 and 2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 169-185.
• Composition in the 21st Century: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Southern Illinois University Studies in the New Millennium: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. With Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.
• The Writer’s Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement. Sixth Edition. New York: Longman, 1999. With Andrew Kerek, Max Morenberg, and Jeffrey Sommers.
• Composition in the 2lst Century: Crisis and Change. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. With Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.
• New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1994. With Laurel Black, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall.
• The Writer’s Options: Combining to Composing. Fifth Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1994. With Andrew Kerek, Max Morenberg, and Jeffrey Sommers.
• The Writing Teacher as Researcher: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Class-Based Research. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1990. With Max Morenberg.
• Literature: Options for Reading and Writing. Second Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. With Mary Fuller and Jack E. Wallace.
• Sentence Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.
• “Sentence Combining and College Composition.” Monograph Supplement to Perceptual Motor Skills, 51 (1980), pp. 1059-1157. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.
• Sentence Combining and the Teaching of Writing. Akron: L & S Books, l979. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.

Grants and Awards

• Named to Editorial Board, The Hemingway Review

Work in Progress

• An extended essay/book on Nick Adams and Jake Barnes: Hemingway's Earliest Heroes and Surrogates.
• An article on "Hemingway and 'The Lost Generation'"

Emeritus Professor 
Professor Erlich retired from Miami University in 2006.

711 Island View Circle
Port Hueneme, CA 93041–3447
(805) 488 9131 (messages only)
erlichrd@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1971
• M.A., English, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• A.B., English, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Teaching Interests

• Shakespeare
• Science fiction & fantasy
• Utopian studies
• Satire
• Student engagement

Research Interests

• Science fiction & fantasy
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Frederik Pohl
• SF film

Selected Publications

• Views from a Jagged Orbit: Essays by Richard D. Erlich. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2017.
• "Clockworks 2: The Human/Machine Interface Wiki.” Extrapolation, 57.3 (2016): [355]-58.
• Entries for Beowulf and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Literary Wonderlands: A Journey through 100 of the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created. Laura Miller, general editor. London, UK: Elwin Street Productions, 2016.
• Coyote’s Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Borgo-Wildside Press, 2010.  
• “Always Coming Home: Ethnography, unBible, and Utopian Satire.” Paradoxa #21 (2008): 137-166.
• “A Longish Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia. SFS 35 (2008) 349-53.
• Clockworks: A Multimedia Bibliography [i.e., List] of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn, compilers (so the legal attribution; Dunn and Erlich agreed upon “Richard D. Erlich with Thomas P. Dunn”). Assisted by Edward K. Montgomery, Catherine Mills Royer, and D. Scott DeLoach. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993.
• Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
• The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction. Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
• “Le Guin and God: Quarreling with the One, Critiquing Pure Reason.” Extrapolation 47.3 (Winter 2006): 351–79. 
• “Herons, Ringtrees, and Mud: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Eye of the Heron.”Extrapolation 49.3 (Fall 2002) 314-29. With Diana Perkins [MU undergrad].
• “Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic–Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film.” Science-Fiction Studies, 14 (1987): 316-25. Peter C. Hall and Richard D. Erlich.
• “Ursula K. Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke on Immanence, Transcendence, and Massacres.” Extrapolation 28 (Summer 1987): 105-29.
• “‘That Old White–Bearded Satan’ (or ‘Sympathy for the Devil’): Outsiders Inside Some Fictive Worlds.” West Virginia Philological Papers, 32 (1986 [1987]), 1-11.

Web Publications

• Blog
• Coyote’s Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. (1997) Digital publication of the Science Fiction Research Association, 2001–2005.

Recent Journalism

• "'Yes means yes' may blur the lines of proper disciplinary protocol" (Editor’s title). The Miami Student, 13 October 2015.
• "Some drug basics for changing times" [guest column]. The Dayton Daily News 7 Jan. 2014.
• “Other people’s work doesn’t get respect either" [guest column on comment by Hilary Rosen on Ann Romney’s not working as a stay-at-home mom]. The Hamilton Journal-News and Middletown Journal 23 April 2012 (Journal-News“Ideas & Voices”: A5).
• “Rational thought, family dinners and Little League.” Hamilton Journal-News 25 Feb. 2011. Middletown Journal 25 Feb. 2011.
• "Forget about having beers with your candidates." Hamilton Journal-News 5 November 2010.
• “Hucksters are preying on your anxiety and guilt.” Middletown Journal 29 October 2010. More exact text with more upscale formatting as “Turn Off; Tune Out—and Stick to Your Shopping Lists”.
• “The dark sides of ‘lifelong learning’ await you.” Middletown Journal 27 August 2010.
• “Prop. 8, marriage and the American state.” The Ventura County Star 22 August 2010: B10.
• “The kids aren’t all right — but neither are they impaired.” Hamilton Journal News16 July 2010.
• “Are we ready for more casualties in Afghanistan?” Hamilton Journal-News 23 July 2010.
• “Make 18 the age when you get all adult privileges” (editor’s title). Hamilton Journal-News 25 June 2010.

Teaching Websites

• S. F. Film
• Shakespeare and Film
• Tragedy
• Print S.F.
• Satiric Film
• Clockworks 2 wiki
• Clockworks 2 site

Film Credits

• Associate Producer. 6TH FRIEND. Leita Miller, dir., co-script (with Jamie Bernadette). Post Production.
• Associate Producer. NOSTRUM (vt PSYCHOTICA). Jonathan Wright, dir., script. Toronto: Boutique Films / SuperChannel (TV), 2010.
• Associate Producer. MOST HIGH. Marty Sader, dir., co-script. USA: Second Act Films, 2004. 
• Awards

Work in Progress

Erlich continues to manage Clockworks 2: A Wiki Annotated List of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF. He is retired in Ventura County, CA, where he is does some editing of scholarly texts and fiction and serves as Director of Development for Buchanan Productions, an independent producer of films.

Professor of English and Director of Linguistics
Professor of Black World Studies
Professor of Women’s Studies

etterlg@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Michigan
• MA in Literature, University of Dayton
• BA in Literature, Jackson State University

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Structure of the English Language
• Varieties of English
• African Literature
• Introduction to Women’s Studies
• Black Feminist Theory
• Feminism in the Diaspora
• African Women Writers

Research Interests

• African-American Women in the 1920s
• Contemporary African Women'’s Studies
• Leadership and Education in African Cultures
• Oral Narratives

Selected Publications

• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn and Richard Thomas, eds. Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá’is in North America, 1898-2000. Baha'i Pub, 2006. Print. 
• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn and Michele Foster, eds. Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives. Routledge, 1995. Print.
• Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn. My Soul Is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women in the Professions. Routledge, 1993. Print. 

Community Service

Co-Founder and Director of Project R.E.A.C.H., a college readiness program for under-served high school students in the greater Cincinnati metropolitan area.

Emeritus Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dean, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003–2008

graciewj@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D, English, Northwestern University, 1969
• M.A., English, Northwestern University, 1966
• B.A., English, San Francisco State College, 1965

Teaching Interests

• Victorian literature
• Survey courses in British literature from 1660 to the present
• Advanced composition
• Legal writing
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on twentieth-century warfare

Research Interests

• Victorian poetry and non-fiction
• Tennyson
• Closure and anti-closure in poetry
• Gay literature
• Academic Administration

Selected Publications

• “Summer Reading and an Intellectual Community,” Liberal Education, 83 (Fall 1997): 39-43.
• “Tennyson and His Queens: Guinevere, Mary, Victoria.” Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 42 (November 1995): 41-53.
• “Frederic E. Faverty: His Time and Spirit,” The University of Mississippi Studies in English, NS 9 (1991): 235-243.
• “James Anthony Froude,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Prose Writers. Ed. William B. Thesing. Detroit: Gale, 1987.
• “Print Advertising in the Composition Classroom,” in Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Ed. Sondra J.Stang and Robert Wiltenberg. New York: Random House, 1988.
• “Victorian Poetry and Poetics,” in Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Sally Mitchell. New York: Garland, 1988.
• “The Vast Suspense: Patterns of Anti-Closure in Tennyson.” The University of Mississippi Studies in English ns 6 (1988): 89-105.
• “Faith of Our Fathers: The Autobiographical Novels of James Anthony Froude.” Victorians Institute Journal 10 (1981-82): 27-44.
• “Directing Freshman English: The Roles of Administration in Freshman English Programs,” Writing Program Administration 5 (Spring 1982): 21-25.
• “Accountability Within: Evaluating Freshman English Programs.” College Composition and Communication 27 (February 1975): 34-36.
• “Truth of Form in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son,” Journal of Narrative Technique 4 (September 1974): 176-184.

Emeritus Professor

hardeswh@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1970
• A.M. in English Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1960
• A.B. in English Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1959

Teaching Interests

• 19th and 20th-century British fiction
• American literature

Research Interests

• Alternate histories
• Space opera

Selected Publications

• “Toward a Theory of Alternate History: Four Versions of Alternative Nazis.” Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction. Ed. Edgar L. Chapman and Carl B. Yoke. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
• “Space Opera without the Space: The ‘Culture’ Novels of Iain M. Banks.” Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2000. 115-122.
• “Mercenaries and Special Circumstances: Iain M. Banks’s Counter-Narrative of Utopia, ‘Use of Weapons.’” Foundation 76 (Summer 1999): 39-47.
• “Odds on Treasure Island.” Studies in Scottish Literature XXIX (1996): 29-36. With David D. Mann.
• “Iain M. Banks, The ‘Culture’ Series.” Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Consulting Ed. T.A. Shippey. Project Ed. A.J. Sobczak. Vol. 1. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1996. 183-185.
• “Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Neveron.” Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Consulting Ed. T.A. Shippey. Project Ed. A.J. Sobczak. Vol 2. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1996. 915-916.

Work in Progress

Dr. Hardesty is currently putting together a series of articles on alternate history, which he hopes to turn into a book. In his spare time, he enjoys photography and visiting his grown children.

Professor of English

harwoobj@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970
• M.S. in Education, Canisius College
• B.A. in Philosophy, Hamilton College

Teaching Interests

• Middle English literature
• Theory of genre
• Theory of criticism

Research Interests

• Chaucer
• Epic and society in the Middle Ages
• Theory of genre

Selected Publications

• “Anxiety Over Peasants: Textual Disorder in Winner and Waster.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2006.
• “Chaucer and the Gift (If There Is Any).” Studies in Philology, 2006.
• “Same Sex Desire in the Unconscious of Chaucer’s Parliament,” Exemplaria 13:1 (Spring 2001).
• “Psychoanalytic Politics: Chaucer and Two Peasants,” ELH, 2001.
• “The Political Use of Chaucer in America at the Present Time,” in Medievalism in the Modern World, ed. T.A. Shippey and Richard Utz (Brepols, 1998).
• Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections, co-edited with Gillian R. Overing. Indiana University Press, 1994.
• “The Alliterative Morte Arthure As a Witness to Epic,” in Orality in the Middle English Period, ed. Mark Amodio (Garland, 1994).
• Piers Plowman and the Problem of Belief. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991, 1992, 1994.
• “Gawain and the Gift.” PMLA 106 (1991).
• “Pearl as Diptych,” in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-Poet, ed. Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Youngerman Miller, and Julian N. Wasserman (Troy, N. Y.: Whitson, 1991).
• “Chaucer’s Pardoner: The Dialectics of Inside and Outside,” Philological Quarterly, 1988.
• “Chaucer and the Silence of History.” PMLA 102 (1987).

Work in Progress

Dr. Harwood’s principal piece of work in progress is Pluralist Chaucer: Synthesis and Difference in Contemporary Critical Theory. In it, he attempts to dialecticize critical pluralism and political pluralism, arguing that only a pluralism of critical procedures can produce the historical specificity that political pluralism supposes. He is also working on two freestanding essays: an argument that the therapy employed by the narrator in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess in effect anticipates Freud’s point in the famous Fort-Da passage in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and a feminist reading of the Middle English Sir Orfeo.

Contact Info

Education

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, English and Education, 1988
• M.A., University of Michigan, English, 1973
• B.A., Spelman College, English, 1972

Research Interests

• Black World Studies
• Women's Gender And Sexuality Studies

Professor Emeritus

krafftjm@miamioh.edu
3585 Freeman Avenue
Hamilton, OH 45015
+1 513 550 9114
http://www.ham.miamioh.edu/krafftjm

Education

• Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1978
• M.A., English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976
• B.A., English, Miami University, 1973

Teaching Interests

• American fiction after 1945
• Historical novels
• Gothic fiction

Research Interests

• Thomas Pynchon

Teaching Experience

• Miami University, 1990–2017: Assistant–Associate Professor
• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, 2012–2014: Fulbright Lecturer, Visiting Professor
• Universität zu Köln, 2002, 2011: Fulbright Senior Scholar, Gastwissenschaftler
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Selected Publications

• Pynchon Notes: Co-founder, 1979; co-editor and bibliographer, 1979–2009. View or download the cumulative bibliography and PDF versions of all 35 issues here, or find individual articles at the Open Library of Humanities.
• (With Luc Herman) Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2023.
• "Chronology" and "Biography." Thomas Pynchon in Context. Ed. Inger H. Dalsgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. xix–xxi, 7–14.
• (With Luc Herman) "Pynchon and Gender: A View From the Typescript of V." Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender. Ed. Ali Chetwynd, Joanna Freer and Georgios Maragos. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2018. 179–93.
• (With Luc Herman) "Monkey Business: The Chapter 'Millennium' Removed from an Early Version of V." Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon's V. Ed. Paolo Simonetti and Umberto Rossi. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 13–30.
• Biographical note. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon. Ed. Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. 9–16.
• (With Luc Herman) "Race in Early Pynchon: Rewriting Sphere in V." Critique 52.1 (2011): 17–29.
• (With Luc Herman) "Pynchon, Thomas." The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Vol. II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Ed. Patrick O'Donnell et al. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 785–88.
• (With Luc Herman and Sharon B. Krafft) "Missing Link: The V. Galleys at the Morgan Library and the Harry Ransom Center." Variants 7 (2008 [2010]): 139–57.
• (With Luc Herman) "Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 49.1 (2007): 1–20.
• (With Luc Herman) "From the Ground Up: The Evolution of the South-West Africa Chapter in Pynchon's V." Contemporary Literature 47.2 (2006): 261–88.
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Grants and Awards

• 2012–13, 2013–14: Fulbright Lecturer, Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Lublin
• 2011: Guest Scholar, University of Köln
• 2011: Visiting Professor, Miami University Dolibois European Center, Differdange, Luxembourg
• 2002: Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Köln

Retired/Emeritus Senior Instructor
Film Studies

martinr@miamioh.edu

Education

• M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, 1975
• M.A., English, Marshall University
• B.A., English, Ohio State University

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Film Studies
• Literature and film
• Alternative traditions in film
• Classics of film
• The art film

Research Interests

• The Holocaust on film
• Literature and film
• World cinema

Distinguished Professor of English
Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973
• M.A., University of Chicago
• B.A., Philosophy, Northwestern University

Teaching Interests

• Nineteenth-century British literature
• Colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial theory
• Feminist/gender theory
• Literature of travel
• Cultural studies

Research Interests

• The Novel and Narrative Theory
• Narratives of Travel in English
• Nineteenth-Century British Literature
• Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism and Theory
• Colonial/Post-Colonial/Neo-Colonial Theory
• Cultural Studies
• British Imperial Cultural History

Selected Publications

• Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and IGoverness. University of California Press, 2008. Paperback, 2009. Second, Revised edition, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2010. Thai edition, 2011.
• “The ‘Sphere of Interest’: Framing late Nineteenth-Century China in Words and Pictures with Isabella Bird.” A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s. Eds. Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn. Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
• “Jane Austen, Travel, and International Relations.” Re-Drawing Austen: Picturesque Travels in Austenland. Ed. Beatric Battaglia. Bologna: Universita di Bologna Press, 2004.
• “Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo.” Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia. Eds. Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.
• “Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens’sThe Romance of the Harem.” White Women in Racialized Spaces. Eds. Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth. Albany, NY.: SUNY Press, 2002.
• A critical edition of Ada Pryer’s 1894 A Decade in Borneo. Leicester University Press, 2001, For the Travel Series, Australian National University.
• “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” Year in Review article on 200 books in nineteenth-century British studies. Studies in English Literature, 40, 4 (Autumn 2000).
• Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel Writings about Southeast Asia. Rutgers University Press, February 1996.
• A reading edition of Marianne North’s 1892 Recollections of a Happy Life, Vol I. The University Press of Virginia, 1993, for their Victorian Studies Series (cloth and paperback).
• A reading edition of Anna Leonowens’s 1873 The Romance of the Harem. The University Press of Virginia, 1991, for their Victorian Studies Series (cloth and paperback).
• Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Oxford University Press, 1989.
• In The Meantime: Character and Perception in Jane Austen’s Fiction. The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Grants and Awards

• 2011-12. Cloud Lecturer, College of William and Mary
• 2009. Bombay Anna named one of "Best of The Best from the University Presses," American Library Association
• 2007, 2004: Philip and Elaine Hampton Fund Award
• 2005: Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate Faculty, Miami University
• 2011, 2004, 1997: Assigned Research Appointment, Miami University
• 2003, 1995: Nominee, Outstanding Professor Award
• 2003. Fulbright Grant, Pune, India (regretfully declined)
• 2000-. Miami University Distinguished Professor Award
• 2000. Miami University Outstanding Professor Award
• 2000. Miami University Distinguished Scholar Award
• 1999. Jane Austen Society, North American Scholar Award
• 1998-99: JASNA Traveling Scholar
• 1997-98. Guggenheim Fellowship, "Anna Leonowens Biography."
• 1994: Delta Delta Delta Outstanding Professor
• 1993-94. NEH Fellowship, "Place Matters."
• 1989: Mellon Faculty Development Grant
• 1987: Huntington Library Research Fellow
• 1985. Mellon Grant (gender theory in Australia)
• 1983. ACLS Summer Research Grant, "Sisters in Time."

Work in Progress

Professor Morgan is currently working on a book-length study of “traveling discourses” of colonial education in a range of forms, including the “Madras System” of monitorial education, colonial Mechanics Institutes, governesses and their emigration, and missionary schools in the Pacific.

Professor Emeritus

parksjg@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico
• Rel.D., Claremont School of Theology
• B.A., Political Science, University of California Berkeley

Teaching Interests

• 20th century American literature
• Contemporary American fiction

Research Interests

• Contemporary American fiction

Selected Publications

• The Fiction of E.L. Doctorow. New York: Crossroad/Continuum, 1991.
• American Short Stories Since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• “The Need of Some Imperishable Bliss: John Updike’s Toward the End of Time.”Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. LVII, 2, Winter 2005, pp. 151-157.
• “Edward Lewis Wallant: in The Holocaust Novel edited by Efraim Sicher.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 299, 2004, pp. 348-353.
• “Mining and Undermining the Old Plots: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.” The Centennial Review, 34, 1 (Winter 1995): 163-170.
• “The Politics of Polyphony: The Fiction of E.L. Doctorow.” Twentieth-Century Literature, 37 (Winter 1991) 4: 454-463.
• “Unfit Survivors: The Failed and Lost Pilgrims in the Fiction of Robert Stone.” CEA Critic, 53 (Fall 1990) 1: 52-57.
• “The Grace of Suffering: The Fiction of Edward Lewis Wallant.” Studies in American Jewish Writing, 5 (1985): 111-118.
• “Chambers of Yearning: Shirley Jackson’s Use of the Gothic.” Twentieth Century Literature, 30, (Spring 1984) 1: 15-29.
• “The Terrors of Freedom: Religious Crisis in Recent American Fiction.” The Southwest Review, 67, (Spring 1982) 2: 182-191.

Work in Progress

Professor Parks is working on an essay of Robert Stone’s last two novels and essays on other recent American writers.

Professor of English

powelljk@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Kentucky, 1974
• M.A., Mass Communication, University of Kentucky
• B.A., English, University of Kentucky

Teaching Interests

• Victorian literature
• Modern drama
• Performance studies
• Gender studies

Research Interests

• Oscar Wilde
• Victorian theatre
• Gender and performance studies

Selected Publications

• Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming 2009).
• Cambridge Companion To Victorian and Edwardian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• “Reimagining theTheatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period,” with Susan Carlson, in Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, ed. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 237-256.
• “Gendering Victorian Theatre,” in Cambridge History of British Theatre, vol. 2: 1660-1895, ed. Jospeh Donohue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 352-368.
• “Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No Importance,” in Wilde Writings, ed. Joseph Bristow. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 127-146.
• Women and Victorian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• “New Women, New Plays, and Shaw in the 1890s,” in Cambridge Companion to Bernard Shaw, ed. Christopher Innes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 76-102.
• “A Verdict of Death: Oscar Wilde and the Actress,” in Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 181-194.
• “Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Robins, and ‘The Theatre of the Future,’” in a special issue on Oscar Wilde, edited by Joel Kaplan, Modern Drama, Spring 1994, pp. 220-237.
• “Elizabeth Robins’s Unpublished Memoir of Oscar Wilde,” edited with a commentary,Nineteenth Century Theatre, Winter 1993, pp. 101-113.
• Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Emerita Associate Professor of Linguistics

Affiliate in Black World Studies, Global and Intercultural Studies

rahmanj@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• PhD, Stanford University, 2004
• MA, University of Texas, 1998

Teaching Interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Syntactic and lexical analysis
• African-American English
• Pidgins and creoles

Research Interests

• The intersection of social class with regional and ethnic identity
• Standard and vernacular varieties of African American English: structure, social contexts, verbal traditions
• Linguistic profiling/language discrimination

Publications

• "Linguistics." In English Studies Reimagined: A New Context for Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, Literature, Cultural Studies, and English Education. Bruce McComiskey, Editor, National Council of Teachers of English. Champaign, IL 2022. 45-80.
• “N Word as an Emblem of Survival Identity in African American Comedy.” In The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R Rickford. Edited by Reneé Blake and Isabelle Buchstlaller. Routledge. 2019.
• "Missing the Target: Group Practices that Launch and Deflect Slurs." Language Sciences. Volume 52. 70-81. Elsevier Publications November 2015.
• "African American Divas of Comedy:  Staking a Claim in Public Space." The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Edited by Sonja Lanehart.  2015.
• "Verbal Dueling, including Dozens, Ritual Insult." Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. Edited by Salvatore Attardo. 2014
• "Representations of Race." Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. Edited by Salvatore Attardo. 2014
• "The N Word: Its History and Use in the African American Community." The Journal of English Linguistics, Volume 40, Number 2. June 2012. 137-171.
• "Woman to Woman: Building Solidarity in African American Female Comedy. English World-Wide Volume 32, 3, Fall 2011. 309-337.
• "Middle Class African Americans: Reactions and Attitudes toward African American English.” American Speech, Vol. 83, Summer 2008.
• "An ay for an ah: Language of Survival in African American Narrative Comedy," American Speech, Vol. 82, Spring 2007.

Online Publications

• “Blackface Lays Bare Hidden White Male Anxieties.” 2019. Medium.com.
• “N Word: Looking at the Bad to Understand the Good.” 2019. Medium.com.
• “The N Word Question.” Sociolinguists.com. Audio.

Work in Progress

• Linguistic practices of the African-American middle-class
• Establishing tests to identify instances of linguistic profiling

Professor of English
Assistant Chair for Administration

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin, 1971
• M.A., English, University of Connecticut
• A.B., English, University of Michigan

Teaching Interests

• American literature

Research Interests

• Margaret Atwood literature

Selected Publications

• Margaret Atwood. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1984.; re-published in Twayne’s World Authors on CD-ROM, G.K. Hall/Macmillan Library Reference, 1997.
• “Who Is This Woman,” in Approaches to Teaching Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Other Works, ed. Sharon R. Wilson, Thomas B. Friedman, and Shannon Hengen. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996, pp. 28-32.
• “In a Future World, New Puritans Rule and Women Suffer,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 9 February 1986, Book/Leisure Section, pp. 1, 8-9 (review of The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood).
• “Anthropology as Art in Oliver La Farge’s ‘The Happy Indian Laughter’,” Journal of American Culture, 4 (Winter 1981), 27-33.
• “For of Such is the Kingdom: Margaret Atwood’s Two-Headed Poems”, Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 16 (Fall/Winter 1979-80), 130-139.
• “Woman as Everyman in Atwood’s Surfacing, Some Observations on the End of the Novel,” Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (Winter 1978), 127-132.
• “Cultural Symbolism in Robbery Under Arms,” World Literature Written in English, 17 (November 1978), 488-504.
• “On Reading the Atwood Papers in the Thomas Fisher Library,” Malahat Review, No. 41 (January 1977), 191-194.
• “The New Jerusalem and the Land of Thieves,” Exploration, 1 (1976), 1-14.
• “Narrative Perspective and Cultural History in Robbery Under Arms,” Australian Literary Studies, 6 (May 1973), 11-23.

Emeritus Professor of English

tomarkel@miamioh.edu

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Toronto, 1969
• B.A., Honors in English, U.C.L.A., California

Teaching Interests

• 18th century literary theory, particularly the use of movies and theory
• Undergraduate Associate Program

Research Interests

• Restoration and 18th century literary theory
• Ethics
• Police procedurals

Selected Publications

• Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-Century Critic. University of Delaware Press, 2002.
• As You Like It: From 1600 to the Present, New York, Garland Press, 1997.
• A History of Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson: 1738-1993, Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1994.
• Johnson on Shakespeare: the Discipline of Criticism, Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1991.
• Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
• “Samuel Werenfels, The False Sublime.” Augustan Reprint Society, 1985. Selected articles.
• “Morality in Henry IV,” Sir John Falstaff, edited by Harold Bloom New York: Chelsea, 2004, pp. 187-210.
• “Genre and Teleology: the Faith of Criticism in Evelina and ‘Marriage a la Mode,’” due out in a Festschrift for Armand Michaux, Luxembourg, 2000.
• “James McClure’s Mickey Zondi: The Partner of Apartheid”, in The Post-Colonial Detective. Macmillan, 1999, pp. 37-54.
• “A Discourse with Angels: Religion and Reduction in Richardson’s Clarissa”, inReligion and Reduction, Edited by Thomas Idinopolis, The Hague, 1996, pp. 320-28.

Work in Progress

Edward Tomarken is currently working on a book under contract on movies and literary theory.