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| William
Baer, Professor |
| Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry,
an NEA Fellowship for fiction, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting
Award, Dr. Baer was the founding editor and publisher of
The Formalist (1990-2004).
He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.A. in English
from New York University, an M.A. in Writing from The Johns
Hopkins University, an M.A. in Screenwriting from the University
of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in English from the
University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He is the
author of twelve books, including "Borges"
and Other
Sonnets; Writing
Metrical Poetry; Luis de Camoes: Selected Sonnets; Conversations
with Derek Walcott; and Elia
Kazan: Interviews.
His award-winning play The Amistad Case was produced
at the Dayton Playhouse, and his bio-drama Guiteau
was performed at the Metropolitan Theater of New York. He
has also received an ATHE Development Award and the James
K. Wilson Playwriting Award. He teaches creative writing,
cinema, and world cultures. |
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William Baer, Professor
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Office: Room 330, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2975
email:
wb4@evansville.edu
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| Paul
Bone, Assistant Professor |
Paul Bone is from Vandalia, Illinois. After
graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
he earned an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1999.
His manuscript Momentary Vision of
the Assistant Meteorologist won the 2005 Uccelli
Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from Uccelli Press,
and his poems have been published in The Cream City
Review, Quarterly West, and Farmer’s
Market. Professor Bone is also the founding co-editor
of Measure:
An Annual Review of Formal Poetry. He teaches creative
writing, literature, and World Cultures.
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Paul Bone, Assistant Professor
M.F.A. University of Arkansas
Office: Room 322, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-1254
e-mail:pb28@evansville.edu
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| Arthur
Brown, Associate Professor |
| Arthur Brown has published literary essays,
poetry, drama, and fiction. His essays on Poe, Henry James,
Faulkner, and Raymond Carver have been published in Nineteenth-Century
Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Short
Fiction, Colby Quarterly, Critique,
and American Literary Realism and have been reprinted
in books and anthologies. His poems have been published
in Poetry, The Formalist, The Southwest
Review, Measure, Blue Unicorn, and
other journals. His poem “The Tomb of Hunting and
Fishing” was the winner of the 2005 Southwest
Review Morton Marr Poetry Prize, and his sonnets have
been finalists three times for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet
Award and reprinted in Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets.
“Augustina,” a one-act version of his play Sleep
Beauty, which was produced at the Hudson Guild Theatre
in New York, was selected by Horton Foote as the winner
of the Arts & Letters Drama Prize and published
in Arts & Letters. |
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Arthur Brown, Professor
Ph.D., University of California
Office: Room 326, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2976
e-mail:
ab48@evansville.edu
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| Larry
Caldwell, Professor |
| Dr. Caldwell received his B.A. from Central
College and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. He
was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year and has published
a number of articles on utopian literature, especially the
works of George Orwell and H.G. Wells. Dr. Caldwell teaches
linguistics, literature, and world cultures. |
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Larry Caldwell, Professor
Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Office: Room 324, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2010
e-mail:
lc4@evansville.edu
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| Michael
Carson, Professor |
| Michael Carson has taught literature and
writing at the University of Evansville since 1969. His
poems have appeared in a variety of journals including Westview,
The Formalist, The New Virginia Review,
The Spoon River Quarterly, Bitterroot International
Poetry Journal, Amaryllis, and The Southern
Review. Dr. Carson earned his B.A. from the University
of Evansville, his M.A. from Miami University in Ohio, and
his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. His poem "Words"
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has served as poet-in-residence
at St. Meinrad College and as a participant at the Bennington
Writers' Workshops and at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Dr. Carson was named outstanding Teacher of the Year in
1978. He teaches creative writing, Shakespeare, and world
cultures. |
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Michael J. Carson, Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Office: Room 327, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2968
e-mail:
mc32@evansville.edu
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| Mark
Cirino, Assistant Professor |
Mark Cirino received his Ph.D. at the Graduate
Center-CUNY. His dissertation examines the works of Ernest
Hemingway. He taught creative writing and American literature
at New York University for eight years, and he is the author
of two novels, Name
the Baby (Anchor, 1998) and Arizona Blues
(Rogner & Bernhard 2000). His fiction has been published
in Drunken Boat, and he has written articles for
The Hemingway Review and Voices in Italian
Americana.
He teaches creative writing and American literature.
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Mark Cirino, Assistant Professor
Office: Room 325, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2233
Email: mc171@evansville.edu |
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| Rob
Griffith, Associate Professor |
| Author of the book A
Matinee in Plato's Cave (Water Press, 2006) and
the chapbooks Necessary Alchemy and Poisoning
Caesar, Professor Griffith was nominated for a
Pushcart Prize in 2000 and twice again in 2004. His poems,
fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in such journals
as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Oxford
American, ACM (Another Chicago
Magazine), Rhino, Kestrel,
The Cape Rock, Cottonwood, Parnassus,
and New Millennium Writings among many
others. He has received numerous awards including the ACM
Literary Award for Poetry, The University of the South's
Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Poetry, Colgate University's
Chenango Valley Scholarship for Poetry, the Felix Christopher
McKean Award for Poetry, and the Lily Peter Fellowship for
Poetry. Professor Griffith received his B.A. from the University
of Tennessee and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the
University of Arkansas. In 2005 , Professor Griffith was
awarded the University of Evansville's Outstanding Professor
Award. He is the Associate Director of the University of
Evansville Press, the Director of the Harlaxton
Summer Writing Program, and one of the founding co-editors
of Measure:
An Annual Review of Formal Poetry. He teaches creative
writing, world literature, world cultures, and American
literature. |
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Rob Griffith, Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Office: Room 323, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2962
e-mail:
rg37@evansville.edu
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| Tiffany
Griffith, Assistant Professor |
| Tiffany Griffith earned her B.A. in English
Literature from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
and also holds a Master of Arts degree in English Literature
and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Translation and Creative
Writing from the same institution. She taught composition,
honors composition, advanced composition, and World Literature
at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and taught
composition and Spanish at Missouri Southern State College
in her hometown of Joplin, Missouri. For the past three
years, she has taught classes in English, Women's Studies,
and World Cultures at the University of Evansville and is
also Director of Writing at the University of Evansville.
Selections of her translations of Icelandic sagas have appeared
in the Evansville Review. |
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Tiffany Griffith, Assistant Professor
Director of Writing
M.A., University of Arkansas
M.F.A., University of Arkansas
Office: The Writing Center; Telephone: 812-488-1125
e-mail: tg35@evansville.edu
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| Bill
Hemminger, Professor, Chair |
| Bill Hemminger earned his B.A. from Columbia
University and his Ph.D. in literature from Ohio University.
He studied piano at Julliard and French at the University
of Paris, Sorbonne, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in
Senegal, and later became a Fulbright professor in Madagascar.
In addition to his work as a literary critic and as a translator,
particularly of works by African writers, Dr. Hemminger
writes poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. His
"Friend of the Family" won the 1994 Syndicated
Fiction Project competition sponsored by National Public
Radio. Dr. Hemminger's work has appeared in Hopewell
Review, Rafters, Flying Island, Kerf,
The Companion, Breeze,
The Journal of African Travel Writing,
and Dominion Review. His academic awards include
the Sadelle and Sydney Berger Award for Outstanding Community
Service, the Dean's Teaching Award, and the Outstanding
Teacher of the Year in 1996. He teaches French, literature,
creative writing, and world cultures. |
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William Hemminger, Professor, Chair
Ph.D., Ohio University
Office: Room 329, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2876
e-mail:
bh35@evansville.edu
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| Kristina
Hochwender, Assistant Professor |
Kristina Hochwender earned her Bachelor of
Arts degree from Cornell College, and her PhD from Washington
University. After three years at the University of Southern
Indiana, Kristie joined the University of Evansville faculty
in 2007, where she teaches literature, composition, and
world cultures. Her research centers on the origins and
cultural functions of the Victorian clerical novel.
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Kristie Hochwender, Assistant Professor
Office: Room 321, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2898
email:
kh125@evansville.edu
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| Margaret
McMullan, Professor |
| Margaret McMullan, winner of the Mississippi
Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction and Southwestern
Indiana's Arts Council Award for Artist of the Year, is
the author of four novels, When
I Crossed No-Bob (2007),
In My Mother's House (2003), When
Warhol Was Still Alive (1994), and How
I Found the Strong (2004), which won the 2006 Award
for Fiction from the Mississippi Library Association, the
Indiana Best Young Adult Book of Fiction 2004, and Booklist's
Top Ten First Novel for Youth, among many other honors.
Professor McMullan's essays and short stories have appeared
in Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, Southern
Accents, the Indianapolis Star, TriQuarterly,
Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern California
Anthology, Boulevard, Other Voices,
and Ploughshares among others. She received her
M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
and she's currently at work on two new novels for Houghton
Mifflin. She teaches creative writing, world literature,
and world cultures. |
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Margaret McMullan, Professor
M.F.A., University of Arkansas
Office: Room 328, Olmsted Administration Hall; Telephone:
812-488-2977
e-mail:
mm44@evansville.edu
Website: www.margaretmcmullan.com |
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