Faculty
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Jay McRoy I specialize in Cinema Studies, Contemporary Literature and Cultural Studies. |
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Teresa Coronado My academic specialty is primarily early American literature, specifically 18th and 19th century literature. My theoretical concentrations are Humor, Social Class, and Eco-Criticism. |
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David Glaub |
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Carol Jagielnik |
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Dean Karpowicz My specialty is American Literature, with interests in Modern and Postmodern studies and Speculative Fiction. I also teach creative writing and composition, and of course, run Straylight, where students can intern. |
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Amy Kushner To earn my PhD, I wrote a dissertation which focused on women's "wasting illness" in late nineteenth century British Literature. I am still very interested in how female maladies, especially those considered "psychosomatic", are portrayed in literature, from the Romantic all the way in to the Postmodern period. As far as my teaching specialties, the classes I most often teach here at UWP are Writing for Business and Industry, Introduction to Literature, Composition and Writing, Women Writers, and Survey of Modern World Literature. |
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Mary Lenard My teaching interests are: Nineteenth-Century British literature, both Romantic and Victorian; the British novel; British women writers; children's literature; and young adult literature. I am also currently Composition Director and teach the Teaching Composition course (ENGL 489). |
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Maria Martinez I specialize in gender studies, ethnic studies and Latina literature. |
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Patrick McGuire I have no specialty. Or, rather, my specialty is that I know a wide breadth of English and American lit. I say this modestly since I know that I have much to learn especially from my younger colleagues. My graduate university (NYU) insisted that we know the full tradition. This, of course, just a year or two before the canon wars exploded the entire enterprise. I consider myself lucky to have avoided those wars, and luckier still to have colleagues who have survived them and can teach me. |
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Gwendolyn Miller My specialty is writing, especially writing concisely. |
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Dana Oswald I specialize in early British literature, including both Old and Middle English, with secondary interests in theories of gender, sexuality, and the body. My recent scholarly work focuses on medieval monsters and on rhetorics of the body in Anglo-Saxon England. |
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Tara Pedersen I received my Ph.D. in early modern literature from The University of California at Davis. My teaching and research focus on how literature participates in constructing categories of knowledge, with a special emphasis on the categories related to understandings of sexuality, gender, and the boundaries of the human. |
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John Spartz I earned my Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics at Purdue University, where I also completed secondary concentrations in Professional Writing and ESL. Here at Parkside, I teach a variety of linguistics and grammar courses, as well as technical communication and rhetorical theory courses in the Professional Writing Certificate curriculum. Viewing language from a sociolinguistic/sociocultural perspective, my linguistic research is centered on identifying and analyzing contemporary American English constructions that break prescriptive grammar rules. My current work in technical communication centers on the writing needs, values, and attitudes of entrepreneurs and small business owners at various stages of the entrepreneurial venture. |
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Carole Vopat I specialize in Holocaust Studies, Women's Studies, Multicultural narratives, Creative Writing: Fiction, Traumatology |
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