SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Faculty in the English Program
Ph.D., The Ohio State University.
British Literature (Shakespeare, British Short Story, Chaucer)
Major Publications
Riverside Anthology of Short Fiction (1997)
British Short Fiction Writers, 1945-1980, editor (1994)
The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography, co-edited with Gregory L. Morris (1994)
Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989)
V.S. Pritchett (1987)
H.E. Bates: A Literary Life (1987)
MS. MELISSA BORGIA
A.B.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Literature and Criticism, Women's Literature and Composition
Major Publications
"On the subject of the feminist business": Re-Reading Flannery O'Connor (2004)
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Composition, Creative Writing (Fiction
& Creative Non-Fiction)
Major Publications
“Walt Whitman, Our Great Gay Poet?” Journal of Homosexuality 55. No. 4 (2008): 648-64.
The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies (1995)
When the Parrot Boy Sings (novel) (1990)
The Blue Lady's Hands (novel) (1988)
Ph.D., University of Birmingham
Major Publications
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Features of Judeo-Greek. (2004)
"Language Regenisis" in Linguistic Minorities in Multicultural Setting
Ph.D., Duquesne University
M.F.A., Georgia College & State University
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
19th Century British Literature, Irish Literature, and Irish Gothic
Literature.
Ph.D., University of Tulsa
M.A., St. Bonaventure University
Ph.D., Indiana University of PA
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Modern British Literature (Joyce), American Studies, Popular Culture
Major Publications
Of Human Bondage: Coming of Age in the Novel (1990)
W. Somerset Maugham (1987)
Joyce's Visible Art: The Work of Joyce and the Visual Arts (1904-1922) (1984)
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ph.D., University of Nebraska
American Literature (Contemporary Fiction, Western Literature, American
Short Story), Literary Theory
Major Publications
Gretel Ehrlich (2001)
Frank Bergon (1997)
Talking Up A Storm: Voices of the New West (1994)
The Short Story in English: Britain and North America, An Annotated Bibliography, co-edited with Dean Baldwin (1994)
A World of Order and Light: The Fiction of John Gardner (1984)
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Major Interests/presentations
Trained in an interdisciplinary writing program and continue to do research and present papers in political philosophy.
Wrote and presented papers on Machiavelli, Hobbes, John Dewey, Leo Strauss, at the Northeast Political Science Association (NPSA) annual conferences.
"The Theory of Equality in Thomas Hobbes' De Cive' at the NPSA meeting in Boston (11/04)
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Philosophy
Major Interests
Research interests: ninteenth-
and twentieth-century European philosophy, ethics, philosophy art,
literary and cultural theory.
Publications and Presentations:
Books published:
Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2008. [194 p.]
Parts of books published:
“George Henry Calvert.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 416-417.
“Curt Ducasse.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 674-676.
“Irwin Edman.” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Ed. John Shook. New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. 703-704
Articles published in non-refereed journals:
.“Obstacles to Teaching Feminist Aesthetics.” American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. (2005). 2 p. <http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/shaw.html>.
“Why Does Feminism Matter to Aesthetics?” Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics. 2:1 (2005): 1-11.
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professional Writing, American Literature, Humanities Computing, and
Gender Studies
Major Publications
BOOKS & INTRODUCTIONS
Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Kent: Kent State University Press (2008).
Introduction to: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series (2007)
EDITING
Editor of The Ambrose Bierce Project and ABP Journal. http://www.ambrosebierce.org
Craig designed and oversees the humanities computing project, and is the editor of the electronic journal. Two issues released, December 2005 and December 2006.
ARTICLES
"Presidential Wounds: The JFK Assassination and the White Male Body," forthcoming in Men & Masculinities (2008).
"It Reads Like a Novel': The 9/11 Commission Report and the American Reading Public," Journal of American Studies 41 (December 2007): 533-556.
"Mary Johnston: An Introduction," Meridian 10 (Fall/Winter 2002): 41-62. [Introduced the previously unpublished Johnston short story "Broomsedge House."]
"Oh, God, What a Pity!': The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth," Civil War History 47 (September 2001): 193-221.
Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.A., Gannon University