English Department Faculty, St. John Fisher College

Full- and Part-Time English Department Faculty

Photo taken by Lorelei Kujat spring 09

Our faculty are devoted teachers whose scholarship enhances their classroom work.

	Chair: Deborah VanderBilt (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) Professor dvanderbilt@sjfc.edu Basil 120, 385-8193 Office Hours: M 12:30-2:30, T/Th 2-3 Medieval literature; Chaucer specifically; and the History of English.
Full Time Faculty
	Melissa Bloom Bissonette (Ph.D. City University of New York) Assistant Professor mbloom@sjfc.edu Basil 131, 385-7397 Office Hours: T/Th 2-4, F by appointment. 18th Century Literature; Theatre; Law
	Jim Bowman (Ph.D. University of Arizona) Assistant Professor jbowman@sjfc.edu Basil 128, 899-3791 Office Hours: MWF 10-11, M 1:30-2:30, W 5-6 Travel writing; rhetoric
	Stephen Brauer (Ph.D. New York University) Associate Professor, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences sbrauer@sjfc.edu Basil 111, 385-8168 Am. Lit and Culture; Modernism; Harlem Renaissance; interdisciplinarity; cultural criticism
	Sharon Delmendo (Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo) Professor sdelmendo@sjfc.edu Basil 123, 385-8216 Office Hours: T/Th 8:30-9:30, T 5:15-6:16 and by appointment 19th Century American Literature; Multicultural Lit.
	Rik Hunter (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) Assistant Professor rhunter@sjfc.edu Basil 114, 385.5269
	M. J. Iuppa, (MFA, Pacific Lutheran U; M.A. Creative Writing, SUNY Brockport) Writer-in-Residence miuppa@sjfc.edu Basil 121, 385-8412 Office Hours: M 10-12, W 10-12, F by appointment Creative writing
	Lisa Jadwin (Ph.D. Princeton University) Professor ljadwin@sjfc.edu Basil 110, 385-8192 Office Hours: T/Th 9-9:30, W 2:30-4:30 Nineteenth and twentieth-century American and British literature; writing; literature and medicine; detective fiction.
	Arlette Miller Smith (Ph.D. SUNY at Buffalo) Associate Professor asmith@sjfc.edu Fay 102, 385-8212 Office Hours: T 10:30-11:30; W 1:30-2:30; Th 10:00-11:00; and by appt African American Literature, Women and Gender Studies
	David Sanders (Ph.D. Cornell University) Professor Emeritus dsanders@sjfc.edu Basil 128, 385-8214 Office Hours: MWF 10:05-11, and by appointment Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British lit; modern American; biblical literature.
	Jill Swiencicki (Ph.D., Miami University [Ohio]) Assistant Professor jswiencicki@sjfc.edu Basil 115, 385-8214
	Deborah Uman (Ph.D. University of Colorado) Associate Professor duman@sjfc.edu Basil 109, 385-5258 Office Hours: MW 11-12:30, and by appointment Renaissance; Shakespeare
	William Waddell (Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Professor bwaddell@sjfc.edu Basil 130, 385-8209 Office Hours: M-F 10:30-11:30, and by appointment Twentieth-century literature (British and American); poetry; African-American literature.
Part-Time Faculty
	Catherine Agar (MA University of Rochester) cagar@sjfc.edu Office hours: MW 11:00-12:00 Victorian literature; Renaissance; religion
	Matthew Anderson manderson@sjfc.edu Basil 022A
	Ann Anthony (MA University of Virginia) aanthony@sjfc.edu Basil 022A Office hours: T-TH 9 - 10:45 and by appt. Professional Writing, Creative Writing, Literature, Film Studies
	Maureen Barry M.S. in Multidisciplinary Studies, RIT Office Basil 022 Office hours: F 11:30 - 2:30 or by appointment
	Lisa Cunningham (Ph.D. Ohio University) lcunningham@sjfc.edu Basil 022, 899-3723 Office Hours: T/Th 12:30-1:40 Women's Studies; Victorian Literature
	Sarah Freligh sfreligh@sjfc.edu Basil 012A, 385-8150 Creative Writing
	Dee Hogan dhogan@sjfc.edu Basil 022A Memoir; Creative Writing
	Greg Lattanzio glattanzio@sjfc.edu Basil 022A
	Jennifer Litt (MA, Chelsea College, University of London, England Humanities (1980); MA, Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode island Human Awareness and Development (1983) Secondary English Certification; MS, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York Education Leadership (2005) jlitt@sjfc.edu Basil 022 Office Hours: MW 10:00-11:30
	Amy McAlpine amcalpine@sjfc.edu Office Basil 022A
	Theresa Nicolay (Ph.D. University of Rochester) Assistant Professor, Director of the Writing Center tnicolay@sjfc.edu Writing Center: Top Floor, Golisano Gateway, Basil 385-8147
	Fionnuala Regan fregan@sjfc.edu Office Basil 022, 385-7299
	Jonathan Rich (M.A, University of Missouri-Columbia; M.B.A, New York University) jrich@sjfc.edu Basil 012A, 385-7398 Adolescent lit; Creative Writing
	Jessica Weintraub jweintraub@sjfc.edu Office Basil 022A PhD University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office hrs T/R: 2-3 Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry), Multiethnic/Multicultural Lit, and Literature about Science
	Bridgette Yaxley (M.S. in Education, Suny Brockport) byaxley@sjfc.edu Office Basil 022A Ethnographic Qualitative Research Methodology, Web 2.0 Digital Literacies, & Multiple Genres in English Literature and Film.