Department of English
Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Vidhu Aggarwal
Professor of English
Carnegie Hall - Room 102
T. 407.646.2387
B.A. University of Chicago
M.A. University of Southern California
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Professor Aggarwal's field is contemporary and modernist poetry and poetics, with specialties in visual culture and Anglophone literature. Her poetry and photo-text works have appeared in a number of journals.
William Boles
Professor of English
Carnegie Hall - Room 106
T. 407.646.2216
B.A. Wake Forest
M.A. University of Maine
Ph.D. University of Tennessee
William Boles is the author of The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall (McFarland, 2011) and Understanding David Henry Hwang (University of South Carolina, 2013). He currently directs the Comparative Drama Conference, an international conference of theatre scholars and professionals across multiple disciplines. In addition, he is a co-founder of the David Henry Hwang Society.
Victoria Brown
Assistant Professor of English
Carnegie Hall - Room 115
T. 407.646.2047
Professor Brown teaches fiction and creative nonfiction. In addition to creative writing, she also teaches transnational literature with a focus on contemporary Caribbean writers and post-colonial theory. She is the author of the novel, Minding Ben (Hyperion, 2011), and has published numerous short stories and works of creative nonfiction.
Martha Cheng
Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 104
T. 407.646.2603
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.
James Driggers
Lecturer
Orlando Hall - Room 106
T: 407.646.2629
BA, University of Georgia
MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Before coming to Rollins, Mr. Driggers taught writing and humanities at UNC Asheville from 2001-2012; he also served as director of creative writing in his final year there. He has also authored two plays, numerous short stories, some of which have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Rapid River Review, and in the 2010 Saints and Sinners Festival Anthology of new fiction. His collection of Southern Gothic novellas, Lovesick, published in 2015, was nominated for the Lambda Literary award.
Matthew Forsythe
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 135
T. 407.691.1341
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.
Carol Frost
Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 138
T. 407.646.2839
B.A. SUNY, OneontaM.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).
Ben Hudson
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 137
407-646-2605
B.A. New York University
M.A. New York University
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Professor Hudson's research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century British literature; his secondary interests are in aestheticism, sexuality studies, and the intellectual history of amateurism. His current manuscript Exquisite Amateurs explores dilettantism as a crucial intellectual ideal at the fin de siecle. His research has appeared recently in Victorian Poetry and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Jill Jones
Professor of English
Carneige Hall - Room 103
T. 407.646.2528
B.A. University of New Hampshire
M.A. University of New Hampshire
Ph.D. Tufts University
Jill Colvin Jones is Professor of English at Rollins College where she teaches courses that include American Literature, popular culture, and African-American Literature; also, Monsters in Literature and Film, Mean Girls, and Breaking Bad and the Great American Novel. Jones has published articles and chapters on mystery novels, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet E. Wilson, Toni Morrison, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, James Weldon Johnson, Connie May Fowler, and Jerry Springer and the Puritans. She also pops off in the press from time to time, from The New York Times to the Orlando Sentinel, and you can find her on podcasts and local television stations giving her opinions on Hurston, Hemingway, Huckabee, and hair products.
Lucy Littler
Lecturer
Orlando Hall - Room 102
T. 407.646.2502
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.
Jana Mathews
Associate Professor of English
Carnegie Hall - Room 113
T. 407.646.2666
Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. University of Colorado
B.A. Brigham Young University
Dr. Mathew's research and teaching focus on the literature and culture of medieval and early modern England, with concentrations in alliterative poetry, legal studies, material culture, and kingship. Essays have appeared in numerous collections as well as in Fragments, The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture and Notes & Queries. Secondary scholarly and pedagogical interests include career and life planning and collegiate sororities and fraternities.
Maurice O'Sullivan
Professor of English
Carnegie Hall - Room 105
T. 407.646.2662
A.B. Fairfield UniversityM.A. Case Western Reserve University
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).
Amy Parziale
Visiting Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 110
T. 407.646.2719
B.A. Roanoke College
M.A. University of Colorado-Boulder
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Dr. Parz's teaching and research interests include 20th/21st century multi-ethnic American literature; film, visual, and cultural studies; women's and gender studies; and the representation of trauma, disaster, and diaspora.
Paul Reich
Associate Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 101
T. 407.691.1273
A.B. Rollins CollegeM.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. 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.
Emily Russell
Associate Professor
Carnegie Hall - Room 114
T. 407.691.1340
B.A. Cornell UniversityM.A. University of California, Los Angeles
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
Anne Zimmermann
Lecturer
Orlando Hall - Room 110
T. 407.691.1705
B.A. Westminster CollegeM.F.A. Purdue University
Staff
Jessica Love McKown
Administrative Assistant
Carnegie Hall - Room 201
T. 407.646.2666
Emeritus Faculty
Barbara Carson
Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English (1979-2007)
B.A., Florida State UniversityM.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Ed Cohen
Professor
B.A. University of Maryland
M.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of New Mexico
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 UniversityPh.D. Indiana University at Bloomington
Alan Nordstrom
Professor
A.B. Yale University
M.A. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Steve Phelan
Professor of English (1971-2007)
B.A. and M.A., Stetson UniversityPh.D., Indiana University at Bloomington.
Thaddeus Seymour
Professor of English and President Emeritus, (1978-1990)
A.B., The Pontifical College JosephinumPh.D., The Ohio State University
Jean West
Irving Bacheller Chair of Creative Writing (1972-1997)
B.A. University of California at BerkeleyM.A., Ph.D.,
Lezlie Laws
Professor Emerita of English
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia