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

	Chair: Deborah VanderBilt (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) teaches Chaucer and other medieval subjects, Grammar and the history of English, and courses in the interdisciplinary Service Learning program. She grew up in Japan, speaks Japanese, and is famous for her excellent Japanese cuisine. She has directed the college's Honors Program since 1998. Dr. VanderBilt won Fisher's Teaching Excellence Award in 1999. webpage
Full Time Faculty
	Melissa Bloom (Ph.D. City University of New York) teaches the literature of the "long" 18th century (1660-1830) and is especially interested in theatrical writing as an intersection of popular and literary forms. She teaches courses in censorship, drama, 18th Century literature, and legal writing. She is the faculty advisor for Fisher Players, and the Co-Advisor (with Dr. Nicols) of the English Club. webpage
	Stephen Brauer (Ph.D. New York University) teaches courses in American Literature, emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature and culture.  He ahs published articles on Fitzgerald, Faulkner, detective fiction, and Fight Club.  In addition to his work in the English department, he currently serves as the Associate Dean for First-Year Programs. webpage
	Lisa Cunningham (Ph.D. candidate at Ohio University) is a Visiting Professor who specializes in Women and Gender Studies and Victorian Literature.  Her work focuses on the life and works of Arthur Munby, a poet and amateur social scientist whose literary representations of working-class women and efforts on behalf of disabled women have been overlooked in Victorian scholarship. She has a Women’s Studies Certificate from Ohio University and teaches a number of WGST courses, including Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, Women and Literature, Women’s Autobiography, Gender and Society, Women and Writing, and Queer Literature.  Professor Cunningham recieved Fisher's Part-Time Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for the year 2007- 2008.
	Sharon Delmendo (Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo), a former Fulbright scholar, won the Trustees' Distinguished Scholar Award in 2006 for her book The Star-Entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines.  She teaches courses in American and Asian-American literature, including a very popular course in Gothic Literature.  She sings in Fisher's Gospel Choir. webpage
	M. J. Iuppa, Writer-in-Residence (MFA, Pacific Lutheran University; M.A. Creative Writing, SUNY Brockport) teaches a wide variety of writing courses. She is the creative advisor for The Angle, Fisher's literary journal, and coordinates the bi-annual performances of Celebration of Words, Fisher's showcase of students' creative writing. Since 1999, she has overseen the English internships and has directed several Honors theses, as well as independent study projects. She has three chapbook collections, and over 300 of her poems have been published in national, international and small press journals. Named one of 4 "Outstanding Advisors of 2008" by SGA for her work with The Angle
	Lisa Jadwin (Ph.D. Princeton University), a California native, won Fisher's Teaching Excellence Award in 1997. She teaches writing, contemporary literature including detective fiction, and 18th- and 19th-century literature courses. She has completed many articles on pedagogy and Victorian studies; a writing textbook; and, with Diane Hoeveler, Charlotte Bronte Revisited (Twayne, 1997).  She chairs the Health Humanities committee and is at work on a book-length study of the ritual work of detective fiction entitled Over Her Dead Body.  Dr. Jadwin's website contains syllabi and course materials as well as links to her extracurricular activities.
	Dana Nichols (Ph.D. University of Louisville) teaches writing and rhetoric, including creative nonfiction, rhetorical theory, and first-year writing.  She is also developing new courses on the rhetoric of hate and social justice, visual rhetoric, and argument and persuasion.  Her creative nonfiction work has appeared in I to I:  Life Writing of Kentucky Feminists.  Her other interests include critical race theory and the literature of passing. She is the Co-Advisor for the English Club. webpage
	David Sanders (Ph.D. Cornell University) has published extensively on the twentieth-century American poet Robert Frost.  He has taught students at a variety of levels and institutions, including high school. The father of two, he is married to a small-animal veterinarian and can sometimes be spotted around campus with one or both of his dogs.  His course on the literature of childhood is one of department's most popular classes.
	Deborah Uman (Ph.D. University of Colorado) teaches literature of the English Renaissance and seventeenth century, including the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and Aphra Behn. Her interests include translation, women writers, feminist theory, and cultural criticism.  She currently serves as the director of the Women and Gender Studies program. webpage
	William Waddell (Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) teaches courses in Modern British and American Literature, with a special focus on poetry. He has recently edited a collection of essays (which includes one of his own) on Adrienne Rich, entitled "Catch if you can your country’s moment": Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich. He has also written about Robert Frost and the films in the Alien series. He went into teaching because Bill Bradley and Bob Weir already had the two jobs he wanted when he got out of college - small forward for the Knicks (not senator from New Jersey) and rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead. Though still both a basketball and a music fan, he loves this life of reading and talking about books. Named one of 4 "Outstanding Advisors of 2008" by SGA for his work with Students With a Vision
Part-Time Faculty
	Sarah Freligh teaches creative writing and Sports Studies classes. One of the first female sportswriters in the U.S., she now devotes her time to teaching and practicing writing. 2008 saw the publication of her poetry collection Sort of Gone, from which the poem "Novena" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (Sarah was interviewed on NPR's Only a Game in May.) She has published her poetry and fiction in The Comstock Review, Iowa Woman, Painted Bride Quarterly, Third Coast, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, and many other journals. She is the recipient of a 2006 Constance Saltonstall Foundation grant for poetry and a 1997 Artist Residency Exchange Grant from the New York State during which she completed work on a short story collection entitled The Absence of Gravity.
	Dee Hogan has spent 40 years in education, 35 of them in New York State public high schools teaching English, acting, and public speaking, and 5 of them at St. John Fisher, teaching creative writing, literature, and memoir.   She is the facilitator of "Write The Night Away," a monthly creative writing workshop open to the Rochester community. She is also one of the founders of "Just Poets," and has been published in many local poetry anthologies.  She has had over 30 essays appear in the Democrat and Chronicle and Messenger/Post papers.  She enjoys swimming, Yankees baseball and spending time with her husband of 36 years.
	Theresa Nicolay (Ph.D. University of Rochester) Coordinator, Center for Academic Excellence and Writing Center Director, teaches courses in first-year writing and peer tutoring. Dr. Nicolay is the author of a book entitled Gender Roles, Literary Authority, and Three American Women Writers (Peter Lang, 1995) as well as “Placement in Context” which appeared in the journal WPA: Writing Program Administration. She is currently writing a book on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In May 2000, Dr. Nicolay won the college’s Award for Teaching Excellence.
	Jonathan Rich (M.A, University of Missouri-Columbia; M.B.A, New York University) teaches writing and literature classes.  Here he is, caught in the act of. . .teaching!  His "real world" orientation to teaching writing arises from twelve years of experience in running his own marketing consulting firm, The Galen Group.  His work includes business and professional writing.  He has published a poetry chapbook, Iris June, and creates digital art in his spare time.  He is fond of frogs and dogs.  He also teaches photojournalism at RIT.