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
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