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Dr. Thomas Austenfeld joined the Department of Language and Literature in July, 2000, as department head. He became full professor in 2003. Born and raised--like Voltaire's Candide--in Westphalia, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He taught at Drury University before coming to North Georgia. Dr. Austenfeld's academic specialties include 20th century literature (both American and British), literature of the American West, intersections between literature and music, literature and ethics, and transatlantic literary identities. Dr. Austenfeld's study of American expatriate women writers, American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman, was published in 2001 by the University Press of Virginia. |
Tanya Long Bennett began teaching at North Georgia College and State University in August 2001. She came to Dahlonega after having taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for five years. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1996, her M.A. from Texas A.&M. University in 1989, and her B.A. from Angelo State University in 1987. Currently, she teaches such courses as African American Literature, Modern and Contemporary American Literature, and Freshman Composition. Her special interest is in 20th Century American Fiction, especially Southern and Multicultural. In addition to teaching, she is faculty advisor for Project Dignity and works with the Visiting Writers Program and the Women and Leadership Conference. Her publications include articles on novelists Lee Smith and Ana Castillo. When she is not teaching, Dr. Bennett enjoys listening to bluegrass music, gardening, painting the rooms of her house surprising colors, and playing with her raucous family, made up of her husband, Chuck, and their children, Zach, Lucas, and Tyler. |
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Steven Brehe received his bachelor's at Southwest Missouri State University and his Ph.D. in English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His areas of interest are medieval English literature, especially early Middle English, Arthurian, and the alliterative tradition. He also teaches technical writing (having worked in Minnesota as a tech writer for 11 years), linguistics, and, more recently, methods in the teaching of English for secondary teachers. By arrangement with the Dahlonega City Council, Steven lives just outside the city limits, where he, his wife, and his son maintain a facade of respectability. |
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Brian Jay Corrigan, J.D. Ph.D., 2004 Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award winner, earned both his Law and English degrees from Tulane University. He is a Renaissance scholar (Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and Early Modern Legal Insitutions) as well as a horse enthusiast. Dr. Corrigan is a member of the International Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Society for Theatre Research, The Renaissance Society of America, the Dramatists Guild (professional playwright's guild), the Authors Guild (professional novelist's guild), and also the American Morgan Horse Association. In an earlier life, he was a professional actor and worked with Katharine Hepburn on stage and once read (and was called back) for the part of Luke Skywalker (although apparently the Force was not with him). He has published dozens of articles as well as The Misfortunes of Arthur: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition, a book on aspects of Renaissance literature, theatre history, and the law, and Playhouse Law in Shakespeare's World on the role of legal institutions in early modern playcraft. A third book, The London Playhouse 1567–1639: a history is in preparation. He is currently engaged as General Editor of The Compendium of Renaissance Drama, an exhaustive CD-ROM database for which he is leading a team of over eighty international scholars. In addition to being a professional playwright, he is a novelist and recently won both the Florida First Coast and Josiah W. Bancroft awards for his novel, The Poet Loch Ness, which is soon to be published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. You may visit his novels web page by clicking here. |
Donna A. Gessell received her Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University, specializing in 18th Century British Literature. She also earned her Master's Degree in English from CWRU, with concentrations in Linguistics and Composition and Rhetoric. At The Ohio State University, she earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.S. in Secondary English Education. At NGCSU, she serves as Director of the NGCSU Writing Center and Director of Composition Programs. In addition to teaching training seminars for tutors and composition courses at all levels, she teaches World and British sophomore-level Surveys, 18th Century British literature, Milton, and Applied English Grammar. Also, she teaches courses for the ESOL endorsement and Strategies for College Success. Students in her courses sometimes hear her stories of Fiji, where she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. |
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Laura J. Getty received her B.A. from St. Mary's College of Maryland, with a Student-designed major in German, French, and folklore, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Pennsylvania State University. Her literary fields of interest are large enough to allow for variety, since they include medieval literature (spanning 1000 years), world literature (around the globe), and folklore (from mythology to local customs). Her teaching experience at Penn State included working for the departments of Comparative Literature, English, and German, with classes in areas ranging from mythology and world literature to English composition and German language. At NGCSU she has taught British, World, and medieval literature classes, a mythology class, Literary Research & Writing, composition courses, and has received Georgia certification to teach German classes. She has published articles on folklore, Renaissance literature, Medieval literature, and composition studies. Her present research interests include African Epics, Renaissance Comedy, and William Faulkner. |
Eric Carl Link received his Ph.D. in American literature from Purdue University in 1995, and he joined the faculty of NGCSU in 1996. He currently holds the position of the Hugh Shott Professor of English, and he served as the Interim Head of the Department of Language and Literature during the 1999-2000 academic year. His research interests are primarily in 19th-century American literature, and he has published a number of articles in journals such as Papers in Language and Literature, American Transcendental Quarterly, The Southern Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, Essays in Arts and Sciences, and Frank Norris Studies, among others. In addition, his first book, Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy, co-authored with G. R. Thompson, was published by Louisiana State University press in 1999, and has been nominated for the Christian Gauss Award. Recently, an essay he wrote on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, entitled "Huck the Thief," was awarded by The Midwest Quarterly the 2000 Victor J. Emmett Memorial Prize for the best literary essay of the year. At NGCSU he teaches a variety of courses in American literature and conducts the Nineteenth Century Reading Group, a weekly meeting of students, faculty, and staff dedicated to reading and discussing nineteenth-century American literature. |
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Sandee McGlaun received her B.A. in English Literature-Creative Writing from
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B. J. Robinson earned her Bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and her Master's and Ph. D. degrees at the University of Virginia. Her field of interests include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British literature and Creative Writing. She has published several articles on late Victorian writers; a special issue of Victorian Poetry to be published Spring 2000 includes her work on British Women Writers at the Turn of the Century. She also serves on the publication staff of the Pater Newsletter as the annotator of research. At NGCSU, she directs the Honors Program. She has published novels and is working on one right now: you might just be in it! |
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Linda Stallworth Williams is Associate Professor of English and interim department head at NGCSU. She received her BA in English from the State University of West Georgia and her MA in English from the University of Central Oklahoma. In 1990, she earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration, with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy, at the University of Oklahoma. After teaching at the University of Oklahoma for five years and Rose State College (Midwest City, OK) for four years, Dr. Williams served as Coordinator of Faculty Development for the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents before joining the NGCSU faculty in 1997. In 2001, she received the Dorothy Golden Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Composition. Her scholarly work has been published in The English Record, Dialogue: A Journal For Writing Specialists, Reaching Through Teaching, and Research in Higher Education. Her teaching memoir, "Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: A Memoir in Three Acts," will be published in The English Record in October 2003. Her professional interests include writing assessment, business and technical communication, writing program administration, faculty development, and faculty evaluation. |
Dr. Randall Clark teaches and also sponsors the campus newspaper, The Voice. |
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