Stephen J. Adams, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
19th-century American literature; Transcendentalism, American landscape, Minnesota in literature.
Recent publications:

• The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape. University Press of Virginia, 2001.
• Revising Mythologies: The Composition of Thoreau's Major Works (with Donald Ross, Jr.). Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 1988.
• "Thoreau's Diet at Walden." Studies in the American Renaissance 1990. Ed. Joel Myerson. Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 1990. 247-64.
• "The Genres of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." Approaches to Teaching Thoreau. Ed. Richard Schneider. New York: MLA, 1995. 243-52.
• "Meter," in Shared Visions, ed. Cecilia Lieder (Duluth: Lake Superior Writers/Northern Printmakers Alliance, 2004)

Katherine L. Basham, Associate Professor
(M.F.A., University of Iowa)
Poetry writing; free verse, 20th-century poetry, literary narcissism.
Recent publications:

• "Reaches," in Fall/Winter 99 (vol 2, #5) issue of River Images, page 23.
• "Whereabouts," in Dust and Fire's year 2000 anthology #14.
• "After The Fire," in North Coast Review in Winter 1998, pp 7-8.
• "The Ungrateful King" and "This Harvest." Poets Who Haven't Moved to St. Paul Anthology, Poetry Harbor, 1991.
• "Figure/Ground," "Stepped Leader." (the) Evergreen Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1993: 27-29.
• "At Bluebird Landing." North Coast Review, May 1994: 27.
• "Ghostsinging" North Coast Review, November 1993: 23.
• "Release of Saying II," "The New Silence." Wolf Head Quarterly, Spring 1995: 6-7.

Carol A. Bock, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
19th-century British literature; the Brontës, history of authorship.
Recent publications:

• "Authorship, the Brontes, and Fraser's Magazine: 'Coming Forward' as an Author in Early Victorian England." Forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture.
• " 'Our Plays': The Juvenile Writings of Brontes." Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes."
• Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller's Audience. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1992.
• "Charlotte Brontë and the History of Authorship, 1830-1847." The Brontës: An International Conference. Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University. Waco, Texas. November 3-5, 1994.
• "Anne Brontë and Authorship." 5th Annual Conference on 18th & 19th Century British Women Authors. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March 21-23, 1996.

Martin F. Bock, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Modern English, Irish and American literature; Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, Irish literary revival.
Recent publications:

• "Secret Sharing: Conrad, Ford, and Neurasthenia" (forthcoming).
• Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine. (Texas Tech University Press, 2002)

Paul D. Cannan, Associate Professor and Head, McKnight Land-Grant Professor

(Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)

17th- and 18th-century English literature (particularly drama); the history of dramatic criticism

Recent publications:

• The Emergence of Dramatic Criticism: From Jonson to Pope. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• "Early Shakespeare Criticism, Charles Gildon, and the Making of Shakespeare the Poet-Playwright," Modern Philology 102 (2004): 35-55.
• "Ben Jonson, Authorship, and the Rhetoric of English Dramatic Prefatory Criticism," Studies in Philology 99 (2002): 178-201.
• "A Short View of Tragedy and Rymer's Proposal for Regulating the English Stage," The Review of English Studies, ns 52 (2001): 207-226.
• "Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism," in A Companion to Restoration Drama, ed. Susan J. Owen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) 19-35.
• "New Directions in Serious Drama on the London Stage, 1675-1678," Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 219-242.

Roger C. Lips, Associate Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
American literature colonial to present, esp. 20th century; world literature, Japanese history, Zen Buddhism.
Recent publications:

• "Orestes A. Brownson." American Literary Critics and Scholars,1800-1850. Detroit: Gale, 1987.
• "Francis Fisher Browne." American Magazine Journalists, 1850-1900. Gale 1989.

Joseph C. Maiolo, Professor
(M.F.A., University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
Fiction writing and the modern short story; writing short stories, novels and screenplays.
Recent publications:

• "The Pilgrim Virgin." Shenandoah, 42.3 (1992):88-105.
• "An Arch of Birches." Shenandoah, 39.4 (1989):30-20.
• "A Wry Sleep of Boys." The Sewanee Review, 96.4 (1988): 566-583.

Linda Miller-Cleary, Professor
(D.Ed., University of Massachusetts)
English education; interaction of affect cognition during writing, literacy of minorities, literacy of indigenous people.
Recent publications:

• The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path. With Thomas Peacock and Amy Bergstrom. ERIC, 2002. Awarded the 2002 Multicultural Book Award.
• "An Interviewing Project for Writing Teachers: Preparation: Reflection, Research, Action," In Teaching Writing Teachers. Robert Tremmel and William Broz, Eds. Heinemann Ed Press, 2002.
• "Disseminating American Indian Educational Research through Stories: A Case Against Academic Discourse, with Thomas Peacock. The Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 37.l, January 1999.

John D. Schwetman, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of California, Irvine)
Cultural studies; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Postmodernism and
multiculturalism; Critical Theory
Recent publications:

• "John Steinbeck," Forthcoming in The Literature of Travel and Exploration.
• "Violence" and "Gambling", Forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of American
  Culture.
• The Road to Nowhere: Configurations of the Provincial and the Cosmopolitan
  in Twentieth-Century U. S. Travel Narrative. Dissertation.

Carolyn Sigler, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Florida State University)
Victorian literature and culture; children's literature and culture; women writers; feminist theory.
Recent publications:

• "Was the Snark A Boojum?: One Hundred Years of Lewis Carroll Biographies." Children's Literature 29 (2001): 229-243.
• "Enfants de Siecles: Childhood at the End of Two Centuries." In-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism 7.2 (Fall 1999):179-184.
• "Authorizing Alice: Professional Authority, the Literary Marketplace, and Victorian Women's Re-Visions of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' Books." The Lion and the Unicorn 22.3 (Fall 1998): 351-363.
• Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Krista Sue-Lo Twu, Associate Professor, Department of English
(Ph.D. University of California, Irvine)
Medieval Literature, Old and Middle English, Latin, medieval
penitential theory and practices.
Recent publications:

• "This is Comforting?: Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Rhetoric, Dialectic unicum illud inter homines deumque commercium." Carmina Philosophiae 7 (1998), pp.19-36.
• "Orbis Non Sufficit: Mappa Mundi and the Mundane World." Outburst Section, Journal of Mundane Behavior (August 2002).
• "The Awntyrs off Arthure: Reliquary for Romance," Arthurian Literature (forthcoming).
• "Getting it Right by Getting it Wrong: Beowulf, The Travelogue of Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan and The 13thWarrior," in Time Bandits: Representations of the Medieval Hero on Film (Forthcoming).
• Book Review: F. N. M. Diekstra, ed., Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus and Friar Laurentís Somme le roi. (Mediaevalia Groningana, 24.) Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1998. in Speculum (October 2001).
• Review Article of Consolation of Philosophy. trans. Joel C. Relihan, 2001. Carmina Philosophiae XI (2002) (forthcoming).