Professional Organization: Modern Language Association
Corinne E. Blackmer
A cultural history of LGBT Jews in American Judaism ("I Believe with a Perfect Faith"), Privacy, History, Price Discrimination, Sexual Orientation: the Queering of Public Higher Education, Invasion of Privacy, Student Tracking, Internet Gossip, and Jewish Ethics of Speech, Homophobia and Antisemitism on the Web: The Rebirth of Old Seductions
Hebrew Bible, Jewish Ethics, LGBT Studies and Cultural Criticism, LGBT subversive redeployment of the internet and "outing the closeters", Promotion of comprehensive critical thinking, Expanding knowledge and use of independent, non-tracking, eco-supportive economic practices and habitats
Professor of English, specializing in the Hebrew Bible, American literature, and LGBT Studies.
Jeff Ritchie
Jeff Ritchie is Associate Professor of Digital Communications and English and director of the Digital Communications program at Lebanon Valley College.
Eric Dean Rasmussen
Eric Dean Rasmussen (PhD, English, University of Illinois at Chicago) is an Associate Professor of English at Nord-Trøndelag University College, an Associate Editor at the Electronic Book Review , and a Research Associate with the Electronic Literature Organization's Archive-It Project.
Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel
Service Learning, African American and Asian Literature, Literary Journalism, Digitized Audio Commentary (on student essays), media composition
Diane K. Lofstrom Miniel has recently obtained her MFA in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and Certificate of Advanced Study in Composition from CSU Fresno. She will be teaching English Composition at Fresno City College in the fall as a part-time instructor. While a graduate student, she was the past president of Students of English Studies Association and the San Joaquin Literary Association. She was the creative nonfiction editor for the 2005 issue of the San Joaquin Review. She also served on the Campus Advisory Fees Committee and Task Force for Graduate Culture. Her essay "Mystery Spot" aired on local Fresno radio station KVPR's Valley Writers Read, 89.3 FM, on Jan. 7, 2009 and is available online.
Taimi Olsen
Faculty development on teaching and learning and assessment, Greek Religion (participating in ACA-Mellon three-year grant for faculty development), research on E. E. Cummings and on George Herriman (20th century cartoonist), use of Sakai project pages for course review, assessment, and departmental business.
Dr. Taimi Olsen is a Professor of English at Tusculum College. She obtained her doctorate from UNC-CH and is the author of Transcending Space: Architectural Places in the Works of Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings, and John Barth. She is also author of several articles on E. E. Cummings, has done presentations on African American cartoonist George Herriman, and regularly conducts faculty development workshops on teaching and learning at the annual Appalachian College Association Summit.
Patricia E. O'Connor
Patricia E. O'Connor, Ph.D., holds her doctorate in sociolinguistics. At Georgetown University she is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. O'Connor was a member of the Visible Knowledge Project from 2000-2005. She is a former Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Social Justice, and former Associate Director of the Georgetown University Writing Program. For over 20 years she directed GU Prison Outreach Programs. She also has served as faculty advisor for GU students' Demeter Educational Project for Women in Substance Abuse Recovery from 1995-2006. In December 2004 O’Connor was named a Mitsubishi Unsung Heroine for her work in substance abuse treatment centers and prisons.Currently, Dr. O’Connor is researching life stories of those in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, interviewing those in treatment centers about their experiences of addiction and about their hopes for recovery.
O’Connor has been Co-Director of the Georgetown University Service Learning Institute and founding member and chair of the national service faculty Educators for Community Engagement (formerly the Invisible College). Her research on narratives of prisoners explores the language of violence and speakers' claims about those acts. This research directly stems from her 20+ years of teaching and service in the District of Columbia's area prisons and jails. Her publications appear in the Journal of African American Men, Pragmatics, Tex , Discourse &Society, Pre/Text and in several edited volumes. Her book on prison discourse, Speaking of Crime: Narratives of Prisoners (2000), is available from University of Nebraska Press. O'Connor is also co-author of Literacy Behind Prison Walls (1992).
On Georgetown’s campus, O'Connor teaches courses in "Theory and Practice of Writing," "Prison Literature," "Narrative Discourse," “Narratives of Violence,” “Working Class Literature,” “Appalachian literature,” “Persuasive Writing,” and first-year English courses in “Critical Methods: Narratology.” She has also taught for Georgetown at its new School of Foreign Service in Qatar (2005-06, 2008).
Paula Berggren
Plague in Shakespeare, The representation of domestic space and intimacy in Renaissance English Drama
Paula Berggren is Professor of English at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Amanda French
Aaron Prevots
Digital Media, Learning Objects, Teaching and Technology, Pedagogy, Language and Literature, Culture, Intercultural Effectiveness, Music
Aaron Prevots is Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. In addition to French through Songs and Singing, his current projects include studies of contemporary French poetry and numerous translations, in particular the full-length bilingual poetry volume Retour au calme / Return to Calm (Jacques Réa, trans. Aaron Prevots, Austin: Host Publications, September 2007).
Brian A Bremen
I am currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?
20th-Century British and American Literature, Modernism, Pedagogy, American Literature, Computers and English Studies, Literature and Medicine, Pragmatism and Literature, Postmodernism, American Ethnogenesis, Literary Theory, Survey of Major Authors.
Brian A Bremen teaches English at The University of Texas at Austin.
Jason B. Jones
Editing Charles Kingsley's _Alton Locke_ for Broadview, Editing Bulwer Lytton's _Paul Clifford_ for Valancourt, Various digital projects
Victorian literature, novel, Dickens, Kingsley, Ainsworth, Eliot, Bronte, Carlyle, Freud, Lacan, psychoanalysis, humanities computing
Jason B. Jones is assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.
ryan m moeller
ryan moeller is an assistant professor of rhetoric and technology in the english department at utah state university. his research interests include the role of agency within systems dominated by technique and technology.
Scott Windham
Scott Windham is Assistant Professor of German and Director of the Language Media Center at Elon University.
Carol Ann Wald
20th Century and Contemporary American Literature, Science and Literature, Science Studies, Popular Culture, Interdisciplinarity
Carol Ann Wald is program assistant for the Electronic Literature Organization, and a doctoral candidate in English at UCLA.
John V. Knapp
Family Systems Therapy and Literary Criticism: article on the American hard-boiled crime fiction writer, Ross Macdonald., College Teaching of Literature -- book-length project on English professor expertise.
Using family systems therapy as a tool for literary criticism, Expertise in the teaching of literature at the college level, Training secondary teachers of English in the college classroom, Modern British Fiction
John V. Knapp is Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
Lutfi M Hussein
-Academic Writing, -Contemporary Rhetoric, -Discourse Analysis, -English as a Second Language, -First-Year Composition, -Modern English Grammar, -Pragmatics, -Writing with Electronic Technology
Lutfi M Hussein is Professor of English at Mesa Community College.
