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Peter Bayers Associate Professor of English Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 110
Ext. 2797	pbayers@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: American literature, the Frontier and the West in literature, Native American literature, gender studies

Elizabeth H. Boquet Professor of English Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania Beth Boquet is a Professor of English with an area of specialization in rhetoric and composition. She is a co-editor of The Writing Center Journal and is the author or co-author of two books, both published by Utah State University Press: Noise from the Writing Center and The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice. In addition to teaching in the first-year core sequence, she teaches courses in intermediate and advanced composition as well as in areas related to the development of literacy abilities.
Office: Canisius Hall Room 100
Ext. 2221	eboquet@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Composition theory, Writing Center administration

Betsy A. Bowen Professor of English Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Betsy A. Bowen is a specialist in rhetoric and composition with interests in community literacy and English Education. As Director of the Writing Center, she works with peer tutors to provide resources for writers across the campus. Dr. Bowen's interest in women and literacy has led her to serve as a tutor at Mercy Learning Center; students in her course on literacy do service-learning at the Center. Dr. Bowen also serves as Associate Director of the Connecticut Writing Project/Fairfield, part of a nation-wide network dedicated to improving the teaching of writing in elementary and secondary school. Her research has been published in journals including Community Literacy Journal, Business Communication Quarterly, English Education, and Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 247
Ext. 2798	bbowen@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Rhetoric, composition, literacy Personal web page

Kim Bridgford Professor of English M.F.A., University of Iowa Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kim Bridgford is a professor of English at Fairfield University, the editor of Dogwood and Mezzo Cammin, and a resident faculty member of Fairfield's new M.F.A. program on Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Undone, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Instead of Maps, nominated for the Poets' Prize; In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, winner of the Donald Justice Prize; and Take-Out: Sonnets about Fortune Cookies, forthcoming from David Robert Books. She is currently working on a three-book poetry/photography project with visual artist Jo Yarrington, focusing on journey and sacred space in Iceland, Venezuela, and Bhutan. A former Connecticut Professor of the Year and a two-time nominee for U.S. Professor of the Year, she was the 2007 Connecticut Touring Poet.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 105
Ext. 2795	kbridgford@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Creative writing; poetry, 20th-century literature

Robert Epstein Associate Professor of English Ph.D., Princeton University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 120
Ext. 2787	repstein@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Medieval literature, Chaucer

Johanna X. K. Garvey Associate Professor of English Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 112
Ext. 2805	jkgarvey@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Comparative literature, African American literature, gender studies, Caribbean women writers

Diane Menagh Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., Graduate Center of City University of New York
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 107
Ext. 2793	dmenagh@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly lyricInterests: Romantic Literature; lyric poetry

James F. Mullan Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., Fordham University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 122
Ext. 2788	jmullan@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: The novel, modern British literature, Irish-American literature

Sally O'Driscoll Associate Professor of English Ph.D., City University of New York
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 125
Ext. 2804	sodriscoll@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 18th-century literature, comparative literature, women's studies, lesbian and gay studies

Nels C. Pearson Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Office: Canisius Hall Room 106
Ext. 3452	npearson@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 20th Century British and Irish Literature, modernism, and the dialogue between these fields and postcolonial and transnational studies

Elizabeth A. Petrino Associate Professor of English Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 109
Ext. 3014	epetrino@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 19th-century American literature, poetry, gender studies

Gita Rajan Associate Professor of English Ph.D., University of Arizona
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 124
Ext. 2508	grajan@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Victorian literature, Asian-American studies, globalization theory, and feminist studies

Mariann S. Regan Professor of English Ph.D., Yale University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 101
Ext. 2800	msregan@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Early modern literature, gender studies Personal web page

Richard Regan Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., University of Connecticut Richard Regan teaches Shakespeare using multimedia presentations both in the classroom and online. He has developed streaming video protocols for distance learning and also introduced video downloading from iTunes University to the study of Shakespeare. His work with educational technology includes online courses in Composition as well as a Bring-Your-Own-Laptop program for conventional classes. He is currently developing multimedia classrooms and a protocol for recording and podcasting classes.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 103
Ext. 2794	rjregan@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Shakespeare, comedy, computer-assisted instruction, film Personal web page

David A. Sapp Associate Professor of English Ph.D., New Mexico State University David Alan Sapp is a workplace writing specialist with expertise in community-based and inter/transnational applications of communication theory and technology. His scholarship on intercultural cooperation and critical reflection explores ongoing struggles of disenfranchised populations including civic development and environmental activists in Africa and Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers in the United States. Dr. Sapp's research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals including the Journal of Technical and Business Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Computers & Composition; his forthcoming book on technical communication and social justice will be published by Texas Tech University Press and edited volume on feminist pedagogy will be published in spring 2009 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 123
Ext. 2815	dsapp@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Professional writing, rhetoric, composition/critical pedagogy

James Simon Chair, Department of English Professor of English Ph.D. Arizona State University James Simon is an award-winning journalism professor who has had a life-long interest in the impact of the news media on government, politics and elections. Simon was a reporter and a top editor with The Associated Press for 10 years. He was named national journalism "Teacher of the Year" in 2003 by a division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the author of scholarly research articles published in such journals as Political Communication. Public Understanding of Science, and Science Communication, and he serves on the editorial board of journals like The Newspaper Research Journal.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 104
Ext. 2792	jsimon@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Print journalism, environmental reporting, student media Personal web page

Michael C. White Professor of English Director, M.F.A in Creative Writing Ph.D., University of Denver Michael C. White's latest novel, Soul Catcher, was a Booksense as well as a Historical Novels Review selection. He is the author of four other novels: A Brother's Blood, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book; The Blind Side of the Heart; A Dream of Wolves, which is currnently under film option; and The Garden of Martyrs. Additionally, he has written a collection of his short stories, Marked Men. He is the program director of Fairfield's MFA in creative writing.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 121
Ext. 3153	mcwhite@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Creative writing, fiction, the American short story Personal web page

Emeritus Faculty

Nicholas Rinaldi Emeritus Professor of English Ph.D., Fordham University Nicholas Rinaldi is the author of three novels - Between Two Rivers, Bridge Fall Down, and The Jukebox Queen of Malta, which is currently under film option. He has also authored three collections of poetry - The Resurrection of the Snails, We Have Lost our Fathers, and The Luftwafffe in Chaos. His novels have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The London Times, as well as in a broad range of magazines including People, Elle, and Time. His work has won numerous awards, and he was recently honored as the 2007 Artist of the Year by the Fairfield Arts Council. Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo has described Between Two Rivers as "a masterpiece ... a book that will take your breath away." And Richard Bernstein, in the New York Times, comparing The Jukebox Queen of Malta to works by Heller, Styron, and Mailer, concluded that "Rinaldi belongs in their company."
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 142
Ext. 2616	nmrinaldi@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: American Literature - poetry, fiction, Native American; Creative Writing - poetry, fiction

Visiting Full-time Faculty - 2007-2008

Ruth Anne Baumgartner Visiting Instructor in English M.A., University of Rochester
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 118
Ext. 2809	rbaumgartner@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, especially Shakespeare; European, British, and American drama (all periods); modern Irish drama; Shakespeare in performance; Dylan Thomas; 17th-century poetry; writing argument and research

Pete Duval Visiting Assistant Professor of English M.A., Boston University, Creative Writing M.A., New York University, Cinema Studies A.M., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Literature Pete Duval's short story collection Rear View (Houghton Mifflin) won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction and the Connecticut Book Award, and was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes). Twice the recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, he has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, and The Sonora Review. His 248-word story "Still Life" won Florida State University's "World's Best Short Short Story Contest." Duval is a member of the core faculty of Fairfield University's MFA program. The technical editor of the online poetry journal Mezzo Cammin, he has recently completed a novel ("Election Day") set in southeastern Massachusetts, where he grew up.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 105
Ext. 2795	pduval@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Creative writing, American short fiction, film

Jennifer Lee Magas Visiting Assistant Professor of English J.D., Suffolk University Law School
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 137
Ext. 2802	jmagas@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Professional writing, employment law, education law, public relations, and print, TV and radio journalism

Emily Orlando Visiting Assistant Professor of English Ph.D., University of Maryland
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 102
Ext. 3304	eorlando@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, transatlantic Victorian literature, women's studies, and literature and the visual arts Personal web page

Adjunct Faculty - 2007-2008

Gale J. Bellas Adjunct Professor of English Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 145
Ext. 2803	gbellas@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: American Literature; Ethnic American Literature: Asian American, Chicano, African American, Native American; Cultural Studies; 19th Century Russian Literature

Diane H. Feigenson Adjunct Professor of English M.A., Columbia University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 119
Ext. 3016	dfeigenson@stagweb.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Holocaust Literature, Jewish Literature, Urban Writing, Professional and Technical Presentations, Interdisciplinary Cluster Courses (Religious Studies and History), and First Year Experiential Seminars

Cally Ginolfi Adjunct Professor of English M.A. TESOL, Fairfield University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 145
Ext. 2803	cginolfi@stagweb.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: American Literature, Hellenic Literature and history, British literature, Argumentative Writing, Global Politics

Serena Jourdan Adjunct Professor of English Ph.D., Columbia University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 138
Ext. 3083	sjourdan@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Comparative Literature, Shakespeare, cultural history

Janet Krauss Adjunct Professor of English M.A. American Studies, Fairfield University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 142
Ext. 2816	jkrauss@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Creative Writing, Poetry, US Diversity, Spirituality in American Literature

Frank Molinterno Adjunct Professor of English Ph.D., Fordham University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 138
Ext. 3083	fmolinterno@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 19th- & 20th-century British literature, Modernism, Greek & Roman literature

Gail Ostrow Adjunct Professor of English M.S. Education, University of Bridgeport
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 146
Ext. 2509	gostrow@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Hispanic, African-American, Women's, and Jewish literature

Jacqueline Rinaldi Adjunct Professor of English Ph.D., University of Connecticut Jackie Rinaldi teaches courses in American literature and U.S. diversity, and specializes in studies dealing with narratives of illness and the therapeutic uses of rhetoric in literature about disability. Her scholarly publications appear in a variety of journals and anthologies including College English, Computers and Composition, Disability, Teaching and Writing, and The Spiritual Side of Writing: Releasing the Learner's Whole Potential. She has also published essays in the New York Times, presented numerous papers at national and international conferences, and received several research grants, including an NEH. She was awarded the Georgina Davis Award for conducting community writing workshops for people with Multiple Sclerosis.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 142
Ext. 2816	jrinaldi@stagweb.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: American Literature; Autobiography (U.S. Diversity); Adolescent Literature (U.S. Diversity); Rhetoric and Advanced Composition; Literature and Medicine

Jean Santopatre Adjunct Professor of English BS Photojournalism, Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University
Office: Bellarmine Hall Room 210 D
Ext. 2117	jsantopatre@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Dorothea Lange, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Social Documentary photography, Edward Curtis & Native American culture

Fran Silverman Adjunct Professor of English M.A Journalism, Ohio State University Fran Silverman has been a journalist for more than 20 years, working as a staff writer for The Hartford Courant and is a contributing writer for regionals sections of The New York Times. As a freelance writer she also contributes to Connecticut Magazine and other national publications. She has received several journalism awards including best feature story from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 141
Ext. 2796	fsilverman@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Print journalism, literary journalism, composition

Eleanor Whitaker Adjunct Professor of English Ph.D., New York University
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 145
Ext. 2803	ewhitaker@stagweb.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: 19th and 20th century British literature, American diversity

Marion White Adjunct Professor of English M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College
Office: Donnarumma Hall Room 14o
Ext. 3021	mwhite@mail.fairfield.edu
Scholarly Interests: Irish Literature, The Irish Short Story, Irish Women Writers, The Modern Italian Short Story

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