Faculty
Our faculty includes publishing writers and scholars, experienced teachers, and enthusiastic mentors! With our small class sizes, you will get to know each of your English professors as you engage in thoughtful class discussions. Our professors are passionate about what they teach and are dedicated to helping you get the most out of your liberal arts education.
Courtney Rydel
Chair, Associate Professor of English | Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Minor
Teaching: Medieval Literature, Women’s Writing, Chaucer, Arthurian Romance, Fairy Tales
Elizabeth Foley O'Connor
Associate Chair, Associate Professor of English, Internship Coordinator, Director
of the Gender Studies Program
Teaching: Modernism; 20th-Century British, Irish, and Postcolonial Literature; Journalism
Teaching: 18th- and 19th-Century Transatlantic Literature, the History of the Novel, Gender Studies
Teaching: US Popular Culture, African American Culture, Edgar Allan Poe
James Hall
Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Associate Professor of English and Creative
Writing
Teaching: Creative Writing (Poetry and Nonfiction); Editing & Publishing; Queer Literature
Roy Kesey
Associate Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House, Lecturer in English and Creative
Writing
Teaching: Fiction, Travel Writing, Modern and Contemporary Literature
Sean Meehan
Professor of English; Director of Writing; Co-Director, Cromwell Center for Teaching
and Learning
Teaching: Rhetoric and Composition, Multimedia Writing, Environmental Literature
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