Faculty and Staff
English Department Faculty
Dr. Laura Bates
Laura Bates enjoys teaching a wide range of courses. With a PhD (University of Chicago, 1998) in Comparative Literature, her academic training involved classic world literature alongside contemporary texts and theory. Her dissertation focused on Shakespearean reception, directed by internationally respected scholar David Bevington. She has one MA in English and another in Theatre; as a playwright with works produced in Chicago, New York, Europe, and Terre Haute, she also brings practical expertise in drama to the courses she regularly teaches: Children's Literature (280), Shakespeare on Film (239), War in Literature (338), and Crime and Punishment (486).
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Dr. Matthew Brennan
Matt Brennan, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, majored in English at Grinnell College and then earned an MA and a PhD at the University of Minnesota. Since 1985 he has taught a variety of courses at ISU: freshman writing, poetry writing, world and British literature surveys, literature and the visual arts, and British romanticism. He has published four collections of poems with a fifth forthcoming, as well as critical books on Wordsworth and on the Gothic. He is currently writing a book on the poetry of 19th-century antebellum American writer William Gilmore Simms.
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Dr. Peter Carino
Peter Carino teaches writing, rhetorical theory, and American literature. He is the editor of the series Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays and has published on baseball literature, John Updike, Raymond Carver, and James T. Farrell. He directed the Writing Center for eighteen years, and two of his many articles on centers won the NWCA award for year's best article. He also authored two basic writing textbooks and essays on teaching writing. He won a 2009 Dreiser Award for Research and Creativity and an Educational Excellence Award in 1993. At present, he supervises teaching assistants in first-year writing courses. His service includes two-years as Chair of the Faculty Senate, and two years as Vice-Chair.
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Dr. Brendan Corcoran
Brendan Corcoran works on twentieth-century and contemporary Irish and British poetry, as well as trauma theory and literary representations of violence and loss. He teaches courses on modern and contemporary British literature, as well as world literature, war literature, environmental literature, and poetry writing. He is managing editor of Grasslands Review. Having written on Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson, Ted Hughes, and John Keats, he is currently writing a book that examines the elegiac poetics of Seamus Heaney.
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Dr. Raymond Dolle
With a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, Raymond Dolle joined the Department of English in 1986 as a specialist in early American literature. He teaches courses in literary analysis, American literature, and technical writing. His publications include a book, Anne Bradstreet: A Reference Guide, and articles on Captain John Smith in Early American Literature and Culture and on the early American literary canon in College Literature. His current research interest is Benjamin Franklin. He has been an undergraduate advisor since 1991 and has chaired the Hazel Tesh Pfennig Committee since 1995.
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Mr. Stanley Evans
Stan Evans is a native of southern Indiana and received his BS and MA degrees from Indiana State University, where he has taught since 1972. He was a demonstration teacher in the Laboratory (University) School for nineteen years before becoming a specialist in children's literature for the Department of English. He has served as a consultant for over twenty school corporations in Indiana. His teaching awards include an Outstanding High School Teacher Award from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, an Intellectual Freedom Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teacher Award from ISU.
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Dr. Robert Goldbort
Professor Goldbort has been a faculty member since 1990, and teaches Technical Writing (ENG 305T) regularly. His scholarship focuses on scientific writing, rhetoric of science, and literature and science. His publications include articles in English Journal and Journal of Medical Humanities; columns in the Journal of Environmental Health and National Forum; entries in the Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (2002), and the text Writing for Science (2006, Yale UP).
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Dr. Rosetta Haynes
Rosetta Haynes is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies. She received her PhD in English from Cornell University in 1996. Her research interests include African American literature, Multicultural American literature, and Women's literature. Some of her publications include: "Zilpha Elaw's Serial Domesticity: An Unsentimental Journey," "Voice, Body and Collaboration: Constructions of Authority in The History of Mary Prince," and "Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Experimentation in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherríe Moraga and Maxine Hong Kingston." In 2002, she received the College of Arts and Sciences Educational Excellence Award for teaching.
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Dr. Katherine Lee
Katherine Lee earned her BA in English at Indiana University, and her MA and PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. An Assistant Professor with research interests in American literature and popular culture, gender studies, and race studies, she has published essays on Asian American literature, women's autobiography, Chappelle's Show, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City. Her current projects include an analysis of sequels in popular culture inspired by "canonical" literature.
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Mr. Mark Lewandowski
Mark Lewandowski's stories and essays have appeared in many journals, and have been listed as "Notable" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, and twice in The Best American Essays. He's also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. After graduating from Wichita State University with an MFA in Creative Writing, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Poland. In 1999, he received a Fulbright Grant to teach American Studies and Creative Writing at Siauliai University in Lithuania. In his spare time he likes to obsess over The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Dr. Nancy McEntire
Nancy Cassell McEntire (PhD, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Indiana State University, where she edits The Folklore Historian and directs the ISU Folklore Archives. She teaches courses in folklore and folk literature. Dr. McEntire was the principal editor of The Lotus Dickey Songbook (Indiana University Press) and the producer of Orkney: Land, Sea, and Community (University of Edinburgh). She will spend the spring of 2010 at the University of Limerick, Ireland, as a Fulbright Scholar..
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Mr. Aaron Michael Morales
Aaron Michael Morales, Assistant Professor of English, holds an MFA from Purdue University (2003). He primarily teaches Fiction Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, and Contemporary Literature courses. His first novel, Drowning Tucson, is slated for release in early 2010 from Coffee House Press. Professor Morales is the fiction editor for Grasslands Review and is currently at work on his second novel, Eat Your Children. His work has appeared in Passages North, MAKE Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, PALABRA, and other places.
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Dr. Robert Perrin
Robert Perrin (PhD, University of Illinois) is Professor of English and Chairperson of the Department. While at ISU, he has taught rhetoric and composition courses (from freshman to graduate levels), as well as British drama; he currently teaches Writing for Teachers and English Teaching Methods. He is the author of six college textbooks on writing and research and has received the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award (1991), the College's Distinguished Professor Award (1992), the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award (2008), and the ICEA Scholar/Teacher Award (2008).
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Dr. Michael Shelden
Michael Shelden (PhD, Indiana University) is the author of four literary biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Orwell: The Authorized Biography, which was also a New York Times Notable Book. For fifteen years, he was a features writer for the London Daily Telegraph, and for ten years he served as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. His work has also appeared in The Shakespeare Quarterly, Victorian Studies, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His new book on Mark Twain will be published by Random House in 2010.
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