Faculty and Staff

Ian F. MacInnes, Chair and Professor
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A. & Ph.D., University of Virginia

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Home Page: http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/indexim.htm

Publications: Articles on sixteenth-century literature and culture appearing in Early Modern Literary Studies, Textual Practice, Viator, etc. He is at work on a study of animals in early modern literature and culture. His website, Ian's English Calendar is a resource for students of English history and literature.

Courses: British Literature I, Age of Elizabeth, Voices of Liberty: Milton and His Age, Redeeming Eve: Early Modern Women's Writing, Composition.

Danit Brown, Assistant Professor
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., Indiana University

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Publications: Stories in StoryQuarterly, Glimmer Train, and Story, among others. She is in the final stages of writing a short-story collection, and in the beginning stages of a novel.

Courses: Introductory Creative Writing, Intermediate Fiction, Fiction Workshop, Creative Non-Fiction, Composition.

Nels Christensen, Assistant Professor
B.A., California State University; M.A. & Ph.D. Michigan State University

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• Research and Writing: Ecocriticism, Ecopedagogy, and Environmental Creative Non-Fiction.
• Courses: Composition, The Idea of Nature and the Nature of Ideas, Writing in Place, Terrorists and Treehuggers.

Mary Collar, Professor
B.A., Wisconsin; M.A. & Ph.D., Penn State

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• Publications: Critical theory and I. B. Singer. She continues to work on
  contemporary literature and theory and has received grants for research at Yale, Northwestern, Stanford, and Illinois.
• Courses: Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature in English, Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Immigration Literature, Composition, (1983-84 Teacher of the Year.)

Scott Hendrix, Director of the Writing Center
B.A., Oregon State University; M.F.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Kansas

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Areas of Specialization: Literacy studies, composition studies, writing center theory/practice, and pedagogy.

Courses: Composition, English Language, Responding to Student Writing.

Sarah (Sally) Jordan, Associate Professor
B.A., Salem College; M.A. & Ph.D., Brandeis

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Publications: A specialist in British eighteenth-century and romantic literature and author of The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. Her articles have appeared in The Age of Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Life. She is now at work on her new project, a study of the emergent standards of masculinity in the British 18th century, and specifically of refusals and failures to meet these standards.

Courses: British Literature II, Gay and Lesbian Literature, The Making of Modern Masculinity, Great Issues in the Humanities (The Literature of Horror), The Age of Satire, Eighteenth-Century Culture Shocks, The Romantic Age, Introduction to Literature, Composition.

Judith Lockyer, Professor
B.A. & M.A., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., University of Michigan

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Publications: Articles and a book on William Faulkner. She is presently working on a study of issues of race in the fiction of seven twentieth century white Southern women, and she has received a grant for research at the University of California at Berkeley.

Courses: American Literature I and II, The American Novel, Four American Poets, The Problem of Race in American Literature, African-American Literature, Southern Women's Literature, Composition, (1986-87 New Teacher of the Year; 1992-93 Honors Program Teacher of the Year; 1995-96 PACMA Faculty Award; 2002 Arthur Anderson Teacher of Year.)

Helena Mesa, Associate Professor
B.A., Indiana University; M.F.A. University of Maryland, Ph.D. University of Houston

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Publications: Poetry in literary journals such as Poet Lore and Third Coast At work on a book of poems entitled Brevity of Snow.

Courses: Introductory Creative Writing, Poetry Workshop, Visual Poetry, Latina/o literature, Introduction to Literature, Composition.

Amity Reading, Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A. & Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Publications: Articles on both early and late medieval English literature and culture. Research interests include Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon England, and later medieval religious poetry and prose.

Courses: English Language, British Literature I, Medieval Drama, Chaucer, Medieval Romance: The Non-Arthurian Tradition, Theater and Society in Early Modern England, Shakespeare I, Shakespeare II, Composition.

Jess Roberts, Assistant Professor
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A. & Ph.D. University of Michigan

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Publications: co-editor of Nineteenth Century American Poetry (Penquin,
1996), author of articles on 19th-century American anthologies of infant elegies, the erotics of incest, and American Civil War print culture.

Courses: Composition, Introduction to Literature, American Lit I and II, Literature of the American Civil War, African-American Literature.

Shannon Aikins, Department Secretary

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Telephone: 517/629-0232

Emeritus Professors

James W. Cook B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Wayne State University

John E. Hart B.A., Kansas Wesleyan; M.A. & Ph.D., Syracuse University

Paul Loukides B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., University of Iowa

Eugene E. Miller B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., University of Illinois

Hal H. Wyss B.A., Wesleyan; M.A. & Ph.D., Ohio State