Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Teaching Assistants
Emeritus
In Memoriam
Adjunct Faculty and Teaching Assistant Handbook
Faculty (an * indicates Graduate Faculty)
*Carla Billitteri,
Ph.D. (SUNY at Buffalo, 2001). Associate Professor. Literary
theory;
feminist theory and gender studies; poetry and poetics; European and American
Literature (19th- & 20th-century); drama.
James Bishop, M.A. Lecturer III (Part-time). Creative and narrative/ descriptive writing.
*Robert A. Brinkley, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979). Professor. Romanticism, critical theory,
Spenser, Milton.
*Richard T. Brucher,
Ph.D. (Rutgers, 1978). Associate Professor, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator. Shakespeare; British
and American drama; literary analysis and argument.
*A. Patricia Burnes,
Ph.D. (St. Louis University, 1977). Associate Professor and
Coordinator of College Composition. Composition
theory and practice, American literature.
Murray Callaway, M.A. (University of Maine, 1982). Lecturer. American
literature, popular culture, and technical communication.
*Laura Cowan,
Ph.D. (Princeton, 1988). Associate Professor. Auden,
Eliot, Yeats, modern British poetry, nature and literature.
*Charlsye Diaz, Ph.D. (Texas Tech University, 2004). Assistant Professor. Professional and technical writing.
*Dylan B. Dryer, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007). Assistant Professor. Composition studies.
*Jeff Evans,
Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 1974). Associate
Professor. American literature, popular culture, film.
*Steven R. Evans,
Ph.D. (Brown University, 2000). Associate Professor, Graduate Studies Coordinator, and New Writing Series Coordinator. Contemporary
and modern American poetry, poetry & poetics, critical theory.
*Benjamin Friedlander,
Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo, 1999). Associate Professor. Poetry and poetics, 19th- and 20th-Century
American literature.
Judy Hakola, M.A. (University of Maine, 1965). Lecturer and Cooperating
Lecturer, Engineering. Technical writing, literature,
sports literature.
*Alexander Irvine, Ph.D. (Denver University, 2005). Assistant Professor. Creative writing, fiction, new media.
Margery Irvine, M.A. (University of Kansas, 1968). Lecturer. Maine
literature, nonfiction prose, composition.
*Naomi Jacobs,
Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 1982). Professor and Department Chair. British
and American fiction, women's literature, utopian literature.
*Harvey Kail, Ph.D.
(Northern Illinois, 1977). Professor and
Coordinator of the Writing Center. Composition theory and practice.
*David Kress, Ph.D.
(Pennsylvania State University, 2002). Assistant Professor. Creative writing, fiction, critical theory.
*Margaret A. Lukens,
Ph.D. (University of Colorado, 1991). Associate Professor. Nineteenth-century American literature,
Native American literature, multicultural studies.
*Jennifer Moxley, M.F.A. (Brown, 1994). Associate
Professor. Creative writing, poetry & poetics, translation.
*Virginia Nees-Hatlen, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 1980). Associate Professor. College and advanced composition.
*Kenneth W. Norris, Ph.D. (McGill, 1980). Professor. Canadian literature,
creative writing.
*Deborah Rogers,
Ph.D. (Columbia, 1982). Professor. Restoration and
eighteenth-century British literature.
Robert Whelan, M.A. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971). Lecturer. Literature of the Vietnam War, technical communication.
*John R. Wilson,
Ph.D. (University of Kansas, 1969). Associate Professor.
Victorian literature, advanced composition.
Adjunct Faculty
Travis Baker, M.A. (University of Maine, 2006). Adjunct Professor of English. College Composition.
Mary Bartosenski-Bowden, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Lecturer
III. Business and technical Writing.
Jane Beecher, M.A. (University of Delaware, 1999). Adjunct Faculty in English. Business and technical Writing.
Terrell Hunter Crouch, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Lecturer III. Creative
writing, technical writing, the Beat Generation.
Kathleen Ellis, M.A. (University of Maine, 1988). Adjunct Faculty in English. Creative writing, poetry and ecopoetics, American women's literature, Latin American literature, persuasive and analytical writing.
Henry Garfield, M.F.A. (University of Southern Maine, 2004). Adjunct Faculty in English. Creative writing, analytical and persuasive writing.
Martha Garfield, M.A. (San Francisco State University, 2004). Adjunct Faculty in English. College Composition. Academic advisor, Explorations Program.
Samuel Hanes, Adjunct Faculty in English. Technical writing.
Leonore Hildebrandt, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition.
Sandra Hutchison, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition, Canadian literature, women's studies.
Irene Jackson, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition, descriptive and narrative writing, persuasive and analytical writing.
Emily Kohler, M.A. (University of Maine, 2008). College composition.
Deborah Levine, Adjunct Faculty in English. Business and technical writing.
Alan Marks,
M.A. (University of Maine, 1999). Lecturer III. Creative writing, persuasive and analytical writing, business and technical writing, literature.
Dorathy Martel, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition, business and technical writing.
Audrey Minutolo, M.A. (University of Maine, 2001). Lecturer II. Persuasive and analytical writing, British literature.
Jane Morse, M.A.
(University of Maine, 1947). Professional ESL Tutor.
Writing Center.
Elizabeth Payne, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition.
Scott Peterson, M.A. (Texas A&M University, 1988). Lecturer III.
Technical communication, creative writing, postmodern literature.
Sanford Phippen, M.A. (University of Maine, 1971). Lecturer I in English, Editor of The Puckerbrush Review. College composition, creative writing, film, maine writers, business and technical writing.
Mary Plymale, M.A. (University of Maine, 2005). Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition, descriptive and narrative writing, persuasive and analytical writing.
Bruce Pratt, MA (University of Maine, 2001; MFA University of Southern Maine, 2004). Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition.
Leon Raikes, Adjunct Faculty in English. Business and technical writing, college composition.
Regina Rooney, MA (University of Maine, 2008). Adjunct Faculty in English. Business and technical writing, college composition, women's studies.
Rebecca Ruggiero, Adjunct Faculty in English. Business and technical writing, college composition.
Patricia Sithole, Adjunct Faculty in English. College composition, multicultural literature, women's studies.
Sara Speidel, Adjunct Faculty in English. Reading as gardening, women's studies, college composition, literary analysis.
Stephen Wicks, Adjunct Faculty in English. Persuasive and analytical writing, business and technical writing, college composition.
Judy Williams, Lecturer II in English. Business and technical writing, creative writing, college composition.
William Yellow Robe, Adjunct Faculty in English. Native American literature, creative writing.
Teaching Assistants
Megan Abbott, BA (University of Maine, 2007). College composition.
Kimberly Almeida, BA (University of Maine, 2008). College composition.
Tyler Babbie, BA (University of Mary Washington, 2008). College composition.
Jonathan Barker, BA (Eastern University, 2007). College composition.
Jason DiGioia, BA (University of Maine, 2007). College composition.
Michael Fournier, BA (University of New Hampshire, 1999). College composition.
Sarah Kilch Gaffney, BA (Knox College, 2006). College composition.
Sarah Hill, BA (Morehead State University, 2008). College composition.
Amy Jirsa, BA (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999). College composition.
Katie Lattari, BA (University of Maine, 2009). College composition.
Joe Mayers, BA (Rockhurst University, 2009). College composition.
Stephen Miller, BA (University of San Diego, 2000). College composition.
Paige Mitchell, BA (University of Maine, 2009). College composition.
Rachel Perry, BA (Eastern University, 2006). College composition.
Abigail Prang, BA (Dickinson College, 2009). College composition.
Rachel Pyles, BA (McDaniel College, 2009). College composition.
Adra Raine, BA (Drew University, 2008). College composition.
Carrie Scheel, BA (University of Baltimore, 2003). College composition.
William Toner, BA (University of Maine, 2006). College composition.
Lauren Weinbrown, BA (C.W. Post College, 2005). College composition.
Erin Workman, BA (College of Charleston, 2007). College composition.
Emeritus
*Paul Bauschatz,
Ph.D. (Columbia, 1972). Associate Professor, Emeritus. Literature
and linguistics, critical theory, medieval literature.
Josephine Donovan, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971). Professor, Emeritus.
In Memoriam
† Burton N. Hatlen, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 1971). Professor
and Director of the National Poetry Foundation. Renaissance
literature, modern American poetry. Professor Hatlen passed away in 2008.
† Constance Hunting, B.A.
(Brown, 1947). Professor. Creative writing, the
Bloomsbury Group, modern British and American poetry. Professor Hunting passed away in 2006.
† Sylvester Pollet,
M.A. (University of Maine, 1985). Lecturer and Associate
Editor, National Poetry Foundation Press. Creative writing. Professor Pollet passed away in 2007.
