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Faculty and Staff

	Vidhu Aggarwal Associate Professor of English (2005; 2011); B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California. Professor Aggarwal’s field is contemporary and modernist poetry and poetics, with specialties in visual culture and Anglophone literatures. Her poetry and photo-text works have appeared in a number of journals. E-mail: vaggarwal@rollins.edu
	William Boles Professor of English (1995; 2006); B.A., Wake Forest, M.A.; University of Maine; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Professor Boles' field is Dramatic Literature with a special emphasis in Contemporary American and British drama, and he is the Director of Darkness Visible Radio Theatre. He has published essays and reviews on Martin McDonagh, Wendy Wasserstein, Samuel Beckett, Shelagh Delaney, and The Second Shepherd's Play. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: wboles@rollins.edu
	Martha Cheng Associate Professor (2003; 2009); B.A., Christendom College; M.A. Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Cheng's field is rhetoric. Her areas of teaching and research include rhetorical theory, argumentation, visual rhetoric, discourse studies, and professional writing. She has published and presented papers on practical reasoning, narrative manifestations of ethos, and rhetorical strategies in self-help discourse. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: mcheng@rollins.edu
	Lori Coffae Lecturer (2011); B.A. Literature, University of Florida; M.A. Technical Writing, University of Central Florida; Ph.D., Rhetoric and Professional Communication, New Mexico State University. Dr. Coffae's research and teaching interests include Medical Rhetoric; Professional Writing; Argument; and the Rhetoric of Humor. She has published and presented papers on Technology and Literacy; First-Year Composition and Student Identity; and Training Healthcare Professionals. Email: lcoffae@rollins.edu
	Edward Cohen William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English (1967; 1979); B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Professor Cohen's primary field is Victorian studies. His major publications include Ebenezer Cooke: The Sotweed Canon, Works and Criticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Comprehensive Biography, and The Henley-Stevenson Quarrel. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: ecohen@rollins.edu
	Philip Deaver Writer in Residence and Professor of English, (1998; 2009); B.A., St. Joseph’s College; M.A., Ball State University; Ed.D., University of Virginia. Professor Deaver teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary American Short Fiction. His publications include the story collection Silent Retreats (winner, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction), which includes "Arcola Girls" (O. Henry Prize Stories, 1988), and a poetry collection, How Men Pray. He has edited an anthology of baseball essays, Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball and co-edited an anthology of the work of nationally significant local writers, The Orlando Group and Friends. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: pdeaver@rollins.edu Web site: http://www.philipfdeaver.com/
	Patrick C. Fleming Visiting Assistant Professor (2012); B. A., Pomona College; M. A., Ph.D, University of Virginia. Professor Fleming’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the history of the novel, children’s literature, Romanticism, and digital humanities. He has published and presented about Sarah Fielding, Victorian periodicals, Charles Dickens, the psychology of learning in the Victorian period, and teaching the Harry Potter novels to college students. E-mail: pfleming@rollins.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Matthew Forsythe Lecturer (2011); B.A., Calvin College; M.A., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., University of Georgia Dr. Forsythe specializes in writing fiction and creative nonfiction. In addition to writing workshops, he teaches courses on American literature, the wilderness, and reading & writing about sports. His research interests include the fragmentation in early American literature and the elusive narrator in 20th century fiction. E-mail: mforsythe@rollins.edu
	Carol Frost Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English (2008); B.A., SUNY, Oneonta; M.A. Syracuse University. Professor Frost teaches poetry and directs Winter with the Writers. Along with essays in aesthetics, her poetry publications include Honeycomb (2010), The Queen’s Desertion (2006), I Will Say Beauty (2003), Love and Scorn (2000), New and Selected Poems (2000), Venus and Don Juan (1996), and Pure (1993). Curriculum Vitae
	Jill Jones Associate Professor of English (1996); B.A., M.A., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., Tufts University. Professor Jones' teaching interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, African American literature, women writers, and autobiography. She is the former editor of The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. E-mail: jcjones@rollins.edu
	Lezlie Laws Professor of English, (1989; 1999); B.A., University of Missouri; M.A., North Texas State University; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Professor Laws specializes in rhetoric, composition theory and literary non-fiction. She has published essays on rhetorical theory and creative non-fiction. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: llaws@rollins.edu Web site: http://www.lezlielaws.com
	Lucy R. Littler Lecturer (2011); B.A., North Carolina State University; M.A., Appalachian State University; Ph.D., Florida State University. Dr. Littler’s field is twentieth-century American literature. Her research and teaching interests include American exceptionalism and the meanings of race in contemporary American culture. E-mail: llittler@rollins.edu
	Jana Mathews Assistant Professor of English (2010); B.A. Brigham Young University; M.A. University of Colorado-Boulder; Ph.D. Duke University. Professor Mathews' main teaching and research interests focus on the literature and culture of medieval England, with concentrations in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century alliterative poetry, legal studies, textual culture, and kingship. E-mail: jmathews@rollins.edu
	Alan Nordstrom Professor of English (1970; 1986); A.B., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professor Nordstrom's area of specialty is the English Renaissance, and his teaching includes Shakespearean and Renaissance literature, major English writings, and personal essay writing. His publications include The Good Life, According to Me; Come, Spirit; Ped-Antics and Soul Search Sonnets. Curriculum Vitae E-mail: anordstrom@rollins.edu Web site: http://alan-nordstrom.blogspot.com (verses, essays, photos)
	Maurice O’Sullivan Professor of English, (1975; 1980) and Kenneth Curry Chair in Literature; A.B., Fairfield University; M.A., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. Professor O'Sullivan specializes in 18th-century English literature, minority literature, popular culture, and Florida studies. In addition to articles on literature and pedagogy, he has published The Florida Reader (1991); Florida in Poetry (1995); Smith's Book of Job (1996); Crime Fiction and Films in the Sunshine State (1997); Shakespeare's Other Lives (1997); Elizabeth and Orange Pulp (2000); Shakespeare Plays the Classroom (2003). E-mail: mosullivan@rollins.edu Website: http://myweb.rollins.edu/mosullivan/
	Twila Papay Professor of English and Writing (1985; 1991); B.A., Clarion University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University. Professor Papay specializes in composition and rhetorical analysis, personal and travel writing, journal studies, science fiction, and romantic literature. She has widely published on rhetoric, pedagogy, science fiction, and eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. E-mail: tpapay@rollins.edu
	Paul Reich Assistant Professor (2007); A.B., English and History, Rollins College; M.A., American Studies, Purdue University; Ph.D., American Studies, Purdue University. Professor Reich's areas of teaching and research include late 19th and 20th century American literature, African American literature, the American West, interdisciplinary studies and popular culture. E-mail: preich@rollins.edu
	Emily Russell Assistant Professor of English (2007); B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Russell's field is American literature with an emphasis in 20th and 21st century fiction, the multiethnic novel, and theories of embodiment. Her book, Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic (Rutgers University Press, 2011), is part of the Mellon Foundation's American Literatures Initiative. E-mail: erussell@rollins.edu
	Peter Selgin Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (2011); B.A., Western Connecticut State University; M.F.A., New School University Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction, the novel Life Goes to the Movies, and two books on the craft of fiction writing. His memoir in essays, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. E-mail: pselgin@rollins.edu
	Karen Slater Administrative Assistant (1986); B.A., Rollins College E-mail: kslater@rollins.edu
	Anne Zimmermann Rollins Lecturer (2007); B.A., English, Westminster College; M.F.A., Poetry, Purdue University; Ph.D. (expected 2009), American Literature, Purdue University E-mail: azimmermann@rollins.edu

Emeritus Faculty

	Barbara Carson Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English (1979-2007); B.A., Florida State University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
	Margaret “Maggie” Dunn Professor of English, and Coordinator of English Major and Minor in the Hamilton Holt School (1989-2008); B.A. and M.A., Stetson University; Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington.
	Philip Pastore Professor of English (1969-1995); B.A., M.A., University of Connecticut; Ph.D. University of Florida.
	Steve Phelan Professor of English (1971-2007); A.B., The Pontifical College Josephinum; Ph.D., The Ohio State University E-mail: sphelan@rollins.edu Website: http://myweb.rollins.edu/sphelan/ Song of Wekiva Ebook version: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/31/
	Thaddeus Seymour Professor of English and President Emeritus, (1978-1990); B.A. University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	Jean West Irving Bacheller Chair of Creative Writing (1972-1997); M.F.A., Cornell University.