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Anne Colwell, a poet and
fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the
University of Delaware. Her work has appeared in several
journals, including: California Quarterly, Mudlark,
Evansville Review, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern
Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Octavo.
An online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review.
Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been
a finalist for the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Prize,
the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly
Review of Literature. Her critical book, Inscrutable
Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop,
was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She
received an Established Artist Award in Poetry and an Emerging
Artist Award in Fiction from the Delaware State Arts Council. She
lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son,
Thomas.
Joan DelFattore holds a
Ph.D. in English from The Pennsylvania State University, with a
specialty in modern American literature and culture. A member of
the UD faculty since 1979, she holds a joint appointment in
English and Legal Studies. Her research focuses on intellectual
freedom issues such as free speech and freedom of religion. Her
first book, What Johnny Shouldn’t Read: Textbook Censorship in
America (Yale, 1992), won awards from the American Library
Association, the American Educational Research Association, and
the Gustavus Myers Center. Her other books include The Fourth
R: Conflicts Over Religion in America’s Public Schools (Yale,
2004) and
the forthcoming The Myth of Academic Freedom in America.
Recent articles appear in such journals as the University of
Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Rutgers Law
School’s Journal on Law and Religion. She has received
three research grants from the Spencer Foundation and is
regularly invited to speak before such groups as the Association
of American Publishers, American Library Association, and Modern
Language Association. She thoroughly enjoys both undergraduate
and graduate teaching; her courses range from sophomore surveys in
drama, short story, and American literature to senior and graduate
seminars on intellectual freedom and American culture. She has
been teaching in the MALS program since the late 1980s and now has
the privilege of serving as its director.
Lawrence Duggan
received his bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross
and his Ph.D. from Harvard
in 1970, when he joined the History Department of the University
of Delaware as an assistant professor. Since then he has risen
through the ranks, teaching courses on Renaissance and Reformation
Europe, the Crusades, medieval kings and queens, Christianity and
capitalism, religion and war, and women in the late Middle Ages;
coaching and grooming applicants for Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell,
and other scholarships; and writing widely on medieval and early
modern Church and German history. Among his works are books on the
bishopric of Speyer in the late Middle Ages, the clergy and
armsbearing in Western civilization and law (forthcoming),
ecclesiastical moneylending in later medieval Gemany (near
completion), myths about Machiavelli (in progress), and The
Renaissance? A Reconsideration (also in progress). He has also
written articles and essays on such topics as art as the book of
the illiterate, fear and confession on the eve of the Reformation,
a reevaluation of the unresponsiveness of the late medieval
Church, and shorter entries for the Dictionary of the Middle
Ages, Medieval Germany. An Encyclopedia, and the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as nearly 40 book reviews.
He has been a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt
Stiftung of Germany since 1976; he was a member of the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1987-88; and he has also taught
at the Center for Reformation Research in St Louis and at Columbia
University in New York. He has been nominated many times for the
University Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 1999 he won
the Award for Excellence in Advising.
Roger Horowitz is
Associate Director of the Center for the History of Business,
Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in
Wilmington, Delaware. With a Ph.D. in History from the University
of Wisconsin (1990), he has published widely on labor, business
and food history as well as on oral history methodology. His
recent publications include Putting Meat on the American Table
(2005), "'That Was a Dirty Job!' Technology and Workplace Hazards
in Meatpacking over the Long Twentieth Century" (2008), and "Meat
for the Multitudes: Market Culture in Paris, New York City, and
Mexico City over the 'Long' Nineteenth Century" (2004). He is
active in professional organizations, currently serving as
secretary-treasurer (executive director) for the Business History
Conference and as a member of the Oral History Association
Executive Council.
Kevin Kerrane
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina ) has edited several
anthologies of drama and has coedited (with Ben Yagoda) The
Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism.
He is the author of Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of
Baseball Scouting, recently cited by Sports Illustrated
as one of the "100 Best Sports Books of All Time." Professor
Kerrane often teaches study-abroad courses in England and Ireland
, and much of his current research deals with Irish drama. He is
also finishing a book begun by the late Robert Hogan, a
distinguished University of Delaware professor. Hogan's The
Presidential Voice will analyze the rhetorical styles of the
twentieth-century presidents, from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill
Clinton.
Ms. Dorry Ross started at the University in 1982 by tutoring
graduate and undergraduate students in the Writing Center. Since
they came from every possible field, she never knew whether the
topic would be nuclear physics, embezzlement, Charles Dickens, or
oil pollution in the Delaware River. Her response was
quintessentially MALS-like: she loved learning about new ideas
and fields. Somewhere in the early 1990s, she began teaching
first year composition as well as a grammar course for future high
school teachers. Then, in 1997, Ray Callahan invited her to become
the writing coach for the MALS program. As she observes, "I had
never imagined that I could be paid to do something I enjoyed so
much. All of us involved in this program know that MALS students
are something special because of their enthusiasm for and interest
in learning." She revels in learning about everything from date
stones in Chester County to problems with ethanol additives to sea
planes in WWII, and she feels privileged to know and work with
people who share her love for learning and who demand the best
education possible. Since 1967, Dorry has lived in Newark, where
she and her husband have raised three children. She likes to
garden, travel, read and collect modern art glass.
Elaine B. Safer (M.A.,Ph.D.,Case
Western Reserve Univ.), is author of "Mocking the Age: The Later
Novels of Philip Roth," State Univ. of New York Press, 2006;
co-editor with Ben Siegel, Saul Bellow As Comic Writer; Vol. 19.
no.1. (2003): special Issue Saul Bellow Journal; The Contemporary
American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and
Kesey. Wayne State UP, 1988; co-editor with Thomas Erskine, John
Milton: L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1970). She has published
articles in such journals as Studies in American Jewish
Literature, Studies in the Novel, Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction Studies in American Fiction, Saul Bellow
Journal, Melus: Society for the Study of MultiEthnic Literature of
the US, Milton Studies; her essays also appear in collections such
as Philip Roth: Modern Critical Views, Ed. Harold Bloom, The
Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story,
Ed.Blanche H. Gelfant., and American Literary Dimensions. Her next
book will be "The Comic Imagination in Contemporary Jewish
American Fiction: The Work of Steve Stern, Allegra Goodman, Ann
Roiphe, and Thane Rosenbaum."
Awards include NEH Summer Stipend (1983); Fulbright to France
(1990); Univ. of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award (1993);
Fellow in the Center For Advanced Studies (1997-98); Distinguished
Professor at Lyon III, France (1990; winter sessions 1992, 1993,
1994, 1995). She has presented papers at MLA, Amer. Lit.
Association, International Society for Humor Studies, as well as
the Sorbonne, Universite of Lyon, Universite Orleans, University
of Valencia. She offers courses in Modern and Postmodern American
Literature, Twentieth-Century American Novel, Critical Studies in
the Novel, and the poetry and prose of John Milton.
David Teague is an Associate Professor of English at the
University of Delaware. Holding a Ph.D. in Literature from the
University of Virginia, David has published books on the
literature of the American Southwest and the literature of urban
landscapes. Creative director of IntEloquence Language Design,
David is also a children’s books author. His next book,
Franklin’s Big Deal, is forthcoming from Hyperion Press in
Spring 2009. |
