Faculty

ELC Faculty, 2009-2010

Front Row: Paul Fallon, Claudia Emerson, James Harding, Teresa Kennedy, Sheshalatha Reddy
2nd Row: Colin Rafferty, Michael McCarthy, Chris Foss, Marie McAllister, Eric Lorentzen, Steve Watkins
3rd Row: Antonio Barrenechea, Connie Smith, Tim O'Donnell, Danny Tweedy
4th Row: Zach Whalen, Benjamin LaBreche, Warren Rochelle, Maya Mathur, Mara Scanlon, Mary Rigsby
Not pictured: Judith Parker, Anand Rao

 

Assistant Professor Antonio Barrenechea. B.A., Fordham University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Comparative literature, literature of the Americas, film studies, literary theory.
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Visiting Assistant Professor Brady Earnhart. B.A., College of William and Mary, M.F.A., University of Iowa, Ph.D., University of Virginia. American Literature, creative writing, composition.

Arrington Distinguished Chair of Poetry and Associate Professor Claudia Emerson.  Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2006. Mary W. Pinschmidt Award, 2006. Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Member, 2003. B.A., University of Virginia; M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Creative writing, poetry.
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Associate Professor Paul D. Fallon. B.S., M.S., Georgetown University; M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Linguistics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, writing systems, Cushitic linguistics.
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Associate Professor Chris Foss. B.A., Concordia College (Moorhead, MN); M.A., Northeastern University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Nineteenth-century British literature, disability studies.
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Associate Professor James M. Harding. B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio; M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Modernism, especially modern and contemporary drama and performance, literary theory.
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Professor Teresa A. Kennedy. Department Chair and Director, Simpson Program in Medieval Studies. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Catholic University of America. Medieval literature, Renaissance literature. 
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Assistant Professor Benjamin J. LaBreche. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yale University. English literature and history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, related continental and classical literatures, politics, gender.

Assistant Professor Eric G. Lorentzen. B.A., B.A., Rowan University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Nineteenth-century British literature, British novel, cultural studies, critical pedagogy/literacy studies, narrative/literary theory, Dickens, and the short story.
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Assistant Professor Maya Mathur. B.A., St. Stephen's College, India. M.A., Ph.D., The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Renaissance literature, cultural studies, comedy and genre theory, gender studies.
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Professor Marie E. McAllister. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University. Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, travel literature, literature and medicine.
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Professor John T. Morello. Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Jepson Fellow. Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Member, 1993. A.B., College of William and Mary; M.A., Northern Illinois University; Ph.D., Wayne State University. Public speaking, argumentation and debate, political communication, rhetoric, small group communication. 
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Associate Professor Timothy M. O'Donnell. Director of Debate. B.A., M.A., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Public argument, debate, rhetoric of science, and rhetorical theory and criticism.
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Professor Judith A. Parker. B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. Linguistics, especially psycholinguistics, acoustic phonetics, speech processing, dyslexia, and women's studies.
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Associate Professor P. Anand Rao. Director of the Speaking Intensive Program. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Rhetorical theory and criticism, visual rhetoric, public argument, and rhetoric of science. (On sabbatical, Fall 2009).
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Assistant Professor Colin Rafferty. B.A., Kansas State University; M.A., Iowa State University; M.F.A., The University of Alabama. Creative writing, creative nonfiction.
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Assistant Professor Sheshalatha Reddy. B.A. Cornell University; M.A., Ph. D, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 19-21st century Anglophone, especially Indian-English, literature; literature of the British empire; Victorian literature and culture; poetry and poetics; theories of the nation; gender studies; periodical culture; visual culture.

Assistant Professor Gary Richards. B.A., Trinity University (San Antonio); M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. U.S. literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. fiction and drama, southern literature, African American literature, and gender and sexuality studies.
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Professor Mary B. Rigsby. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Temple University. Early American literature, literary theory, women's studies. 
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Associate Professor Warren G. Rochelle. B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.S., Columbia University; M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Rhetoric and composition (theory, history, pedagogy), science fiction and fantasy, 20th-century American literature, creative writing.
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Associate Professor Mara N. Scanlon. B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison. Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, Asian American literature, genre theory, women's and postcolonial literature, ethics and literature.
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Senior Lecturer Constance F. Smith. B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., University of Pennsylvania. Short fiction, Shakespeare, poetry, women's studies. 
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Assistant Professor Clarence (Danny) W. Tweedy, III. B.A., Virginia Military Institute; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky. African American literature.

Associate Professor Stephen H. Watkins. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University. Journalism, creative writing, American literature. (On sabbatical, Spring 2009).
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Assistant Professor Zach Whalen. B.A., Carson-Newman College; M.A., University of Florida; Ph.D., University of Florida. New media studies, digital textual studies, comics/graphic narrative, narratology.
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