Faculty Experts- English
Name: George ButteTitle: 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
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: Undergraduate Courses Taught: Major Authors . Chaucer: Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde . Chaucer's Women . Chaucer and Shakespeare . Dante's Commedia . Dante in Exile . Dante and Michelangelo . Marie de France . The Pearl-Poet . Shakespeare . Shakespeare's Women Medieval and Early Modern Periods . Age of Chaucer . Beowulf . The Bible as Literature: The Literary Politics of Genesis . Bodies and Gender in Medieval Literature . Medieval Dream Visions . Medieval Drama . Medieval and Early Modern Drama . Chaucer and Medieval Fabliaux . Medieval Antisemitism . Old English (tutorial) . Readings in Middle English . Renaissance Culture . The Reel Middle Ages (medieval culture through text and film) . Writing Medieval Women (authors and literary representations) Theory/Critical Practice . Critical Practices (introduction to critical theory for English majors) . Introduction to Poetry . Senior Seminar (preparation for senior thesis) Introductory Literature Surveys . Introduction to British Literature . Introduction to Shakespeare. Introduction to Comparative Literature (as a Majors Course; as First Year Experience Seminar). Freedom and Authority (as First Year Experience Seminar). Journeys and Journeying: ('Great Works' tutorial) . Renaissance Culture (as First Year Experience Seminar) Writing. College Preparatory Composition. First-Year Composition. Second-Year Composition. Graduate Seminars Taught Major Authors. Chaucer in the Nineties. Medieval Women Authors Medieval Period. The Alliterative Revival. Medieval Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism. Medieval Drama. Medieval Fabliaux. Medieval Texts and Their Readers. Troilus and Criseyde Intertexts Theory/Critical Practice. Post-structural Approaches to Medieval Drama.
Areas of expertise: Medieval literature and culture, English and Continental, including:. Medieval Drama, Fabliau, Lai/Romance, Lyric Poetry. Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval Culture. Women in Medieval Literature. 14th/15th century English Literatue. Medieval to Renaissance/Early Modern transition. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages Major Author: Marie de France and Gendered authorial strategies. Dante Alighieri and Florence. Geoffrey Chaucer and late Medieval Culture. The Pearl-Poet/Gawain-Poet: The Alliterative Revival . Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and 14th-century Medieval Mysticism . William Shakespeare Critical Theory and Medieval Literatue: . Reader Response Criticism . Semiotics . Gender Theory . Feminist Theory Critical Writing . College Composition Practice . Writing Across the Curriculum Pedagogical applications for the Internet
Major publications: RESEARCH: Publications "'Western Wind': New Historicism," in David Mason, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005) "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)¬ Sound recording: Voice of Daniel, Cleanness, Chaucer Studio sound recording of the medieval alliterative poem Cleanness, Fall 2003 Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997); co-authored with Monica Potkay, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of William and Mary) "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) Book Reviews "Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics, ed. Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler," Review for Comparative Drama, Summer 1998 "Hanna Scolnicov, Women's Theatrical Space," Review for Comparative Drama, Winter 1997/98 "Materializing the Body, Medieval and Modern," Review for San Francisco Review of Books, August-October 1993 Recent Conference Papers Thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003: "Disguising Incest in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's Abraham" Pacific Association of the Modern Language Association, Claremont Colleges, November 1998: "Chaucer, Philomela, and the Metamorphosis of Silence" Journée de Travail des Fabliaux, Columbia University, April 1997: "The Eucharistic Bawdy in English Fabliau" The Apocalyptic Year 1000, Boston University, November 1996: "Vos inquam convenio, O Judaeis": Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays" Thirty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1996: "Bulging Bounds, 'Frely Foode' and the Eucharistic Maternal in the Wakefield Salutation of Elizabeth" Journée de Travail de Marie de France, Columbia University, April 1996: "Writing from the Space of the Displaced"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Films with medieval focus/subject; Monty Python and medieval culture; Study travel (Dante in Italy; Canterbury Tales in England); Western medieval contexts for contemporary misogynic stereotypes; Writing college application essays; Swiss Culture (dual national, Swiss-American)
Pertinent biographical information: Regula Meyer Evitt is an associate professor of English at Colorado College. A medievalist, she teaches all kinds of literature from the Middle Ages with special interests in drama, Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer. She also enjoys teaching comparative literature courses, Renaissance culture, Shakespeare, and critical theory. Prof. Evitt has written on musical structure in medieval drama, political uses of liturgical drama in the High Middle Ages, and dramatic representations of Jews in western medieval Europe. Her most recent publications include "Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays" in The Apocalyptic Year 1000 and a book on women in medieval culture (co-authored with Monica Potkay, College of William and Mary), Minding the Body-Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500. Prof. Evitt is interested in cultural poetics, collaborative learning, and effective use of internet technology in the classroom.
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: 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: Barry Sarchett
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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