Literary Studies and American Culture Literary Studies and American Culture: Cultural and Social patterns in late- Capitalism/Postmodernity especially as they are represented in spatial and geographic terms; cultural production including American Literature, particularly African American literature and cultural production, including Black music, American ethnic literatures, American poetic traditions; Blues Aesthetic, Blues poetry, Jazz Poetry, urban studies and the engagement between place, space, and cultural production. Poetry by Michael S. Harper, Sterling D. Plumpp, Gwendolyn Brooks. I am working to develop an understanding of Conspiracy and Underground as
American Cultural templates.
Education:
Ph. D: Emory University
Contact:
(603) 358-2980
Brinda
S
Charry
Assistant Professor
Expertise:
English Renaissance Literature Primary Interest: Shakespeare, British Literary History, Post-Colonial Studies, Post-Colonial Literatures. Other: Literature from India, Literary Theory, Creative Writing.
Education:
Ph.D.: Syracuse University
Contact:
(603) 358-2727
Dr. William
E
Doreski
Professor
Expertise:
Poetry and writing Primary interest: Teaching creative writing and modern (19th- and 20th-Century, and contemporary) literature, especially poetry.
Other: Writing and publishing poems, collections of poetry, essays, and reviewing poetry.
Education:
Ph.D: Boston University
Contact:
(603) 358-2698
Nona
Fienberg
Dean of Arts and Humanities
Expertise:
Literature; Education Primary Interest: Early Modern Women Writers, Theories of Renaissance Literature, English Renaissance, Shakespeare, Literature of the Holocaust, British Literature, Essay Writing, Feminist Theory, Literary Analysis. Other: Issues in Higher Education, Leadership in Academic Administration.
Education:
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Contact:
(603) 358-2772
Dr. Helen
H
Frink
Professor
Expertise:
German culture; Women in Germany; East Germany Primary interest: German literature and culture, the history of East Germany 1949-89, German unification, and modern Germany.
Other: Recording the history of the towns of Acworth and Alstead, N.H., and German translation.
Education:
Ph. D.: Univ. of Chicago
Contact:
(603) 358-2956
Dr. Ali
Tucker
Lichtenstein
Adjunct Faculty
Expertise:
English, Women's Studies Primary Interest: Intersections of gender, culture, creative process and writing. Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities with a concentration in Rhetoric/Composition and Women's Studies. Other: Research on non-traditional women writing within and beyond academia. Expertise in: Composition, Women's Studies, Creative Process Theory, writing workshops, gender workshops.
Education:
Ph.D.: Union Institute and University
Contact:
(603) 358-2780
Meriem
Pages
Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Medieval English, Continental Literatures Primary Interest: Comparative Literature, Arthurian literature, Chretien de Troyes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Historiography and Literature, Images of Women in Medieval Literature, History, Medieval Studies, Images of Islam in medieval and modern Europe, French medieval literature. Other: Autobiography, Children's Literature, Fantasy Literature.
Education:
Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts
Contact:
(603) 358-2912
Dr. Katherine
E.
Tirabassi
Assistant Professor
Expertise:
English Primary Interest: Composition Studies, Historical/Archival and Theoretical Studies in Composition, Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum Theory and Practice, Creative Nonfiction, Multi-genre Writing, Professional Writing, Research Methods in Composition, Literacy Studies. Other: Secondary School English, Autobiographical Criticism, Folklore and Folklife, English Grammar
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