Faculty Experts- English
Name: George Butte (On Sabbatical Spring 2010)Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6508
E-mail: gbutte@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. University of Arizona; B. Phil. Oxford; Ph.D. John Hopkins University
Came to CC in: 1975
Courses taught at CC: 18th and 19th Century English Novel; Film Studies; Hitchcock; American Film Comedy; Narrative Theory
Major publications: "I Know that you Know that I Know: Narrating Subject from "Moll Flanders" to "Marine" Ohio State University Press, 2004
Name: Regula Meyer Evitt (Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Associate Professor
Office phone (719) 389-6706
E-mail: rmevitt@coloradocollege.edu
Education: Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, January 1992 M.A., English, Stanford University, 1982 B.A., English, Stanford University, High Honors, 1981
Came to CC in: 1997
Courses taught at CC: Chaucer (Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer’s Fabliaux, Chaucer and Shakespeare); The Pearl-Poet; Shakespeare; Marie de France (Lais, Fables); Dante (The Commedia; Dante and Michelangelo); Bodies and Gender in Medieval Literature; Medieval Dream Visions; Medieval Drama; Medieval Antisemitism; Introduction to Poetry; Introduction to Literary Theory; Renaissance Culture.
Areas of expertise: Medieval literature and culture, English and Continental, including: Medieval Drama, Fabliau, Lai/Romance, Medieval Lyric Poetry, Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval Culture, Women in Medieval Literature.
Major publications: “Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s Abraham.” Comparative Drama 42 (2007): 349-69; "Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays," in The Apocalyptic Year 1000, ed. Richard Landes and Andrew Gow (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003); Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997) [co-authored with Monica Potkay]; "Undoing the Dramatic History of the Riga Ludus Prophetarum,” Comparative Drama 24 (1990/1991); "Musical Structure in The Second Shepherds' Play," Comparative Drama 22 (1988/89)
Other areas of professional/personal interest: Editor of Le Cygne (Journal of the International Marie de France Society); comparative literature; literary theory; classical music (plays Oboe and English Horn); Swiss culture and history
Name: Claire Garcia
Title: Associate professor; director, American cultural studies
Office phone: (719) 389- 6510
E-mail: cgarcia@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Denver, English and American literature
Came to CC in: 1989
Courses taught at CC: 19th and 20th Century African American Literature; 19th and Turn of the Century American Literature; Introduction to American Cultural Studies; Race, Class and Gender; single author classes on Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison, Henry James, and Willa Cather.
Areas of expertise: Multicultural and diversity issues, American literature, women of color issues
Major publications: On being faculty of color teaching at a PWI; Henry James
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Ballet and other forms of dance; contemporary popular literature, especially women's writing
Name: Steven Hayward
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6604
E-mail: shayward@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D. York University (Canada)
Came to CC in: 2008
Courses taught at CC: Creative writing (fiction, all levels); Canadian literature; Shakespeare; literary theory
Major publications: The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke (a novel, winner of Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour prize for first novel); Buddha Stevens and Other Stories (collection of short fiction, winner of the Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award, Globe and Mail Top 10 book of 2001)
Other areas of professional interest: Canadian Studies in the United States
Name: Jane Hilberry
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6501
E-mail: jhilberry@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Oberlin College, 1980; M.A. in creative writing, Indiana University, 1987; Ph.D. Indiana University 1988
Came to CC: 1988
Courses taught: Creative Writing (Poetry) at all levels; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Women in the Renaissance; Senior Seminars on "Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare" and "Multiple Identity in Literature: Disintegration and Integration."
Areas of expertise: Creativity; would lead workshops designed to cultivate participants' creativity; given talks and workshops on topics such as "Cultivating Creativity," "Women and Creativity," and "The Power of Metaphor: A Method for Problem-Solving." Enjoys working with businesses as well as academic audiences.
Major publications: "Body Painting", a collection of poems; poems in Hudson Review and other literary journals.
Other areas of personal/professional interests: Artist Edgar Britton
Pertinent biographical information: Led creative writing workshops at the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs and in the Leadership Arts program at the Banff Centre in Canada.
Name: Genevieve Love
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6507
E-mail: glove@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Wesleyan University; M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell University
Came to CC in: 2002
Courses taught at CC: Shakespeare; Shakespeare's History Plays; Non-Shakespearean Renaissance Drama; Amateur Productions of Renaissance Drama
Pertinent biographical information: Book review editor, Shakespeare Bulletin; Editorial board, Shakespeare yearbook; director and producer of amateur productions of Renaissance drama
Name: David Mason
Title: Associate professor
Office phone (719) 389-6502
E-mail: dmason@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Colorado College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Rochester
Came to CC in: 1998
Courses taught at CC: Creative Writing; Comparative Literature; Modern British/Irish Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Modern Greek Literature
Areas of expertise: Widely published poet and essayist; advisory editor at The Hudson Review; The Swannee Review
Topics: Writing; publishing; Greek, Scottish, English and Irish culture
Major publications: "The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry"; many articles on Greece, Ireland, Turkey; Three books of Poetry; one collection of literary essays; four major literary anthologies; works in such magazines as Harper's, The New Republic, The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement
Pertinent biographical information: Modern Greece, Ireland, Scotland
Name: Jared S. Richman
Title: Assistant Professor of English
Office phone: (719) 389-6889
E-mail: Jared.Richman@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Union College; M.A. University of York; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Came to CC in: 2009
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to Poetry, Romanticism and Radicalism, "Fighting Words": Satire in the Long 18th Century Areas of expertise: Transatlantic Eighteenth Century Literature, British Romanticism, Satire, Literature and the Visual Arts, History of the Book
Name: Barry Sarchett
(Associate Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6499
E-mail: bsarchett@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Utah, 1986, theory and american literature
Came to CC in: 1988
Courses taught at CC: Literary Theory and Criticism; American Literature; Film; Popular Fiction; The Academic Profession; History and Fiction; "Race and Censorship and Huckleberry Finn"
Areas of expertise: Popular culture and film; literature/ literary criticism
Major publications: Several articles on film, literary theory, popular culture, and the academic profession.
Name: Adrienne Seward
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6509
E-mail: aseward@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Indiana University/ Bloomington, folklore; M.A. University of California Berkeley; B.A. Spelman College
Courses taught at CC: Folklore; Film; Drama; African and African American Literature; Women's Studies
Areas of expertise: Toni Morrison, African American cinema history
Major publications: "Aesthetics of Filmmaker Spencer Williams;" "Folklore and Liberal Learning;" "19th Century Minstrelsy and Popular Media"
Name: John Simons
Title: Professor of English and Film Studies
Office phone: (719) 389-6504
E-mail: jsimons@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., Hope College; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Came to CC in:
1971
Courses taught at CC: Ulysses, Western Movies, Contemporary Cinema, Cont. Literature
Areas of expertise: Western movies, film noir, Joyce, Philip K. Dick
Major publications: Essays on Vonnegut, PK Dick, W.C. Williams, Sam Peckinpah, Humphrey Bogart
Pertinent biographical information: Working on a book on Sam Peckinpah's westerns
Name: Rashna B. Singh
Title: Visiting professor
Office Phone: (719) 389-6508
E-mail: rsingh@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. (Honours), Univ. of Calcutta; M.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Came to CC: 2004
Courses taught at CC: The Literature of Empire; The Empire Writes Back: Postcolonial Literature; Anglophone Writers of India; Race, Class & Gender; Hearts of Darkness: Literary Journeys to the Congo
Areas of expertise: British colonial literature; postcolonial literature; Anglophone Indian, Asian, and African writers; multicultural issues; issues relating to the Indian subcontinent with particular reference to women
Major publications: The Imperishable Empire: British Fiction on India (Three Continents Press, 1988); Contributions to Asian American Playwrights: A Biobibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 2002); Goodly is Our Heritage: Empire, Children’s Literature and the Certitude of Character (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); numerous scholarly articles and conference papers
Other areas of personal/professional interests: Zoroastrianism; the Zoroastrians of India and the Zoroastrian heritage of Azerbaijan
Pertinent biographical information: Born and raised in India; granduncle served with Gandhi in the independence movement
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