Faculty
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Dr. Linda Brown 304, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5109 lbrown@ashland.edu |
Linda Joyce Brown joined the English faculty at Ashland in 2006 after teaching in Connecticut for four years. She has also taught at the University of Oregon, where she received her M.A., and the University of New Mexico, where she earned her Ph.D. Brown has taught courses in American literature from its beginnings to the present; literary and social constructions of gender, race, and class; the modern novel;... Read More
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Dr. Hilary Donatini Associate Professor of English 111, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5224 hdonatin@ashland.edu |
Donatini is a native of Bucyrus, OH. After earning a B.A. at The College of Wooster in 1998, she went on to The University of Wisconsin-Madison, finishing a Ph.D. in 2006 and teaching at both UW-Madison and a UW branch campus before joining Ashland's English department. She is the faculty advisor for Ashland University’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English honor society. Donatini led a study tour to London in May... Read More
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Dr. David Fitzsimmons Associate Professor 302, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5694 dfitzsim@ashland.edu |
A former high school teacher with a B.A. from Xavier University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University, David Fitzsimmons directs the Integrated Language Arts program. He also specializes in narrative theory, American literature, modernism and the works of William Faulkner. In addition, he researches and produces visual texts, working as a freelance writer and photographer. One of six Sigma Pro Photographers... Read More
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Dr. Deborah Fleming Chair 308 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5789 dfleming@ashland.edu |
Dr. Deborah Fleming, Professor of English, received her Ph.D. in 1985 from Ohio State University and is Chair of the Department and Editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. Her research interests include W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, Anglo-Irish Literature, Modern Poetry, and Environmentalist Literature. She is author of “A man who does not exist”: The Irish Peasant in W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge from the University of... Read More
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Dr. Maura Grady 113 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5670 mgrady3@ashland.edu |
Dr. Grady comes to Ashland University after 3 years at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught writing, film studies, and graduate composition pedagogy. She completed her doctorate in English with emphases in Film Studies and Gender Theory at University of California, Davis in 2008, where she worked with film historian Scott Simmon. In 2002-3, she was Visiting Lecturer in American Studies at Johannes... Read More
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Dr. Steven Haven MFA Director 101 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5979 shaven@ashland.edu |
Dr. Steven Haven is the author of The Last Sacred Place in North America, selected by T.R. Hummer as winner of the 2010 New American Press Poetry Prize. He has published two previous collections of poetry, Dust and Bread (Turning Point, 2008), for which he was named 2009 Ohio Poet of the Year, and The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks(University of New Mexico/West End Press, 2004). He is also the... Read More
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Dr. Dan Lehman 312 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5983 dlehman@ashland.edu |
Daniel W. Lehman is trustees’ distinguished professor of English. He is author of John Reed and the Writing of Revolution (Ohio University Press) and Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge (Ohio State University Press); co-editor of The River Teeth Reader (University of Nebraska Press) and River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative; and series co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book... Read More
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Dr. Gary Levine 316 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5658 glevine@ashland.edu |
Gary Levine is an associate professor of English and directs Ashland University's first-year composition program. A revised version of his University of Iowa Ph.D. dissertation, The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature 1864-1939, was published in January 2003 by Routledge. He has presented scholarship on topics as diverse as medieval British literature and the post-colonial Filipino... Read More
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Dr. Joe Mackall Professor 306, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5142 jmackall@ashland.edu |
A former journalist with a B.A. from Cleveland State University, M.A. from University of Central Oklahoma, MFA in fiction writing from Bowling Green State University and Ph.D. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Joe Mackall is director of the Creative Writing program and instructor of nonfiction writing for the Ashland University MFA program. He is co-founder of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative... Read More
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Dr. Sharleen Mondal Assistant Professor 115, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5393 smondal@ashland.edu |
A graduate of Texas A&M University (B.A.) and the University of Washington (M.A., Ph.D.), Sharleen Mondal is writing a book on the late 19th Century Indian social reformer and Hindu convert to Christianity, Pandita Ramabai. In particular, her book focuses on Ramabai’s conversion to Christianity, her travels to England and the United States to gain support for feminist work in India and her subsequent unique... Read More
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Dr. Naomi Saslaw Professor |
After completing her B.A. at University of Michigan and M.A. and Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Naomi Saslaw studied at Harvard as a postdoctoral visiting fellow. She also studied at Oxford and Columbia Universities. In addition to her work in Anglo-Saxon, Chaucer and Shakespeare, she earned a J.D. at Cleveland Marshall College of Law where she served on Law Review and began work on biomedical... Read More
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Dr. Jayne Waterman 114 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5284 jwaterma@ashland.edu |
Jayne E. Waterman specializes in nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and contemporary American Literature and Culture with an emphasis on Modernism. She has taught "American Literature III: Realism to Modernism," "American Literature IV: 1945 to the Present," "The American Literary Experience," "The Modern Novel," and "The Modern Drama." Waterman has also taught the “Contemporary American Studies Seminar.”... Read More
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Dr. Russell Weaver 310 , Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall 419.289.5117 rweaver3@ashland.edu |
Dr. Russell Weaver, Professor of English, joined the faculty in 1986. He teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British literature; Greek literature; 19th century Russian Novel (War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov); tragedy; and he offers a rotating set of major writers seminars on Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Melville/Conrad, and Austen. Dr. Weaver published “Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied... Read More
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