Speakers - Literature

Denise Baker
Professor, English
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
PhD University of Virginia
(336) 334-5547, dnbaker@uncg.edu

  • Julian of Norwich
  • Medieval Mysticism
  • Woman Mystics

Claudia Cabello Hutt
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Rutgers University
(336) 334-3853, c_cabell@uncg.edu

  • Bilingual Early Literacy

Karen De Naples
Assistant Professor, Specialized Education Services
MS University of Rochester
(336) 334-3448, kmdenapl@uncg.edu

  • Deaf Culture
  • American Sign Language / Deaf Literature

Stuart Dischell
Professor, English
MFA The University of Iowa
(336) 334-5459, dischell@uncg.edu

  • Poetry and Literature
  • Paris Travel and History

Emily Edwards
Professor, Media Studies
Director, Center for Creative Writing in the Arts
PhD The University of Texas at Austin
(336) 334-4135, ededward@uncg.edu

  • Independent film-making
  • The Supernatural and Popular culture
  • Magic, Media, and the Popular Imagination
  • Media violence, morbid curiosity and pop culture
  • "Write-On Greensboro" Creative Writing Workshops

Anthony N. Fragola
Professor, Media Studies
Atlantic World Research Network
MFA University of Southern California
(336) 334-4138, afragola@uncg.edu

  • Defying the Mafia - The Anti-Mafia movement in Sicily
  • The Relationship Between The American and Sicilian Mafia
  • Italian Cinema and Literature
  • The Art of Screenwriting

Bob Gatten
Professor Emeritus, Biology
PhD University of Michigan
(336) 288-7820, bob.gatten@gmail.com

  • The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1803-1806 (a PowerPoint presentation giving an overview of the Expedition)
  • Images of Lewis & Clark (a PowerPoint presentation showing how artists have depicted the individuals involved and the things they saw)
  • Discovering the Birthplace of William Clark (a PowerPoint presentation describing Gatten's discovery of the site in Caroline Co., VA)
  • The Many Facets of Rex Stout (a PowerPoint presentation about the life and work of Rex Stout, focusing on his Nero Wolfe mysteries and his activism for many causes)

Tara T. Green
Associate Professor and Director, African American Studies
PhD Louisiana State University
(336) 334-5507, ttgreen@uncg.edu

  • African American Women's Literature
  • Achieving Professional Success for Young Black Women & Girls
  • Strategies for Mentoring Ethnic Students
  • 21st Century African American Studies Curriculum & Programs
  • Impact of fatherlessness on African American boys & men
  • History of confinement of African Americans
  • Black Women's Leadership History

Christopher Hodgkins
Professor, English
PhD The University of Chicago
(336) 334-4691, cthodgki@uncg.edu

  • Dangerous Poetry
  • Opening Genesis - A Literary Approach
  • The Best Poems You've Never read
  • Why Shakespeare Was Shakespeare
  • Print or Digital: Which Will Last?

Ana Hontanilla
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
(336) 210-6866, amhontan@uncg.edu

  • Spanish Literature
  • Spanish Culture
  • Spanish Films, History, and Politics
  • HIstory of slavery in Latin America

Jennifer Keith
Assistant Professor, English
PhD Emory University
(336) 334-4692, jmkeith@uncg.edu

  • Women Poets
  • Poetry & the Senses
  • William Blake

Terry L. Kennedy
Lecturer, English
Associate Director, MFA Writing Program
MFA The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(336) 334-5459, terry_kennedy@uncg.edu

  • Entrepreneurship and Independent Press Publishing
  • Writing of Poetry

Andreas Lixl
Professor & Department Chair, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research Fellow, Center for New North Carolinians
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
(336) 334-5427, a_lixl@uncg.edu

  • Carolinian Immigrants: Literary and Historical Perspectives
  • Germany after The Wall: Immigration and Integration
  • Foreign Language Teaching Technologies: Online German

Ignacio Lopez
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
(919) 943-1072, i_lopez@uncg.edu

  • Cervantes
  • Medieval and Early Modern Culture and Literature

Nicole M. Martin
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education & Higher Education
PhD MIchigan State University
(336) 676-4250, nmmarti2@uncg.edu

  • Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
  • Children's Literacy Development
  • Informational Literacy
  • Teaching in Elementary Schools or Urban Education

Logie Meachum
Lecturer, African American Studies
MA Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(336) 392-5803, logieworks@aol.com

  • African American Literature/Theater
  • African American Studies
  • African American Music
  • African American Rhetoric

Craig Nova
Class of '49 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, English
MFA Columbia University
(919) 732-1857, c_nova@uncg.edu

  • Why The Novel is More Necessary Now Than Ever
  • The Nature of Un-intended Consequences
  • The Writing Life
  • The Future of American Publishing

Jeanie Marklin Reynolds
Lecturer, English
PhD The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(336) 334-3981, jmreyno3@uncg.edu

  • Teacher Education
  • The Teaching of Writing
  • Young Adult Literature

Susanne Rinner
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Georgetown University
(336) 256-1159, s_rinner@uncg.edu

  • German Literature, Film, & Cultural Studies
  • The Sixties
  • Women Writers in German Speaking Countries
  • Contemporary Germany

Amy Lynn Rose
Lecturer, Educational Research Methodology
MEd North Carolina State University
(919) 4758283, acallipare@yahoo.com

  • Writing Assessment Items
  • Teaching Novels in the Classroom

Hephzibah Roskelly
Professor, English
Affiliated Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies
PhD University of Louisville
(336) 545-0371, roskellh@uncg.edu

  • Emerson, Hawthorne, Toni Morrison, Jane Addams, Louisa May Alcott
  • The Importance of Stories
  • Mystery Fiction
  • Women and Peace

Maria Carla Sanchez
Associate Professor, English
PhD Harvard University
(336) 334-3981, mcsanche@uncg.edu

  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature
  • Pre-Civil War American Literature
  • American Women's Literature
  • Mexican-American Literature

Mark Schumacher
Reference Librarian, University Libraries
MLS State University of New York at Buffalo
(336) 334-3215, m_schuma@uncg.edu

  • Librarianship
  • Frisbee (history, ethos, technique)
  • French literature

Carmen Sotomayor
Professor, Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
PhD Michigan State University
(336) 334-5655, ctsotoma@uncg.edu

  • Spain: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Issues
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Visual Arts, Literature and History

Karen Weyler
Associate Professor, English
PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(336) 334-4689, kaweyler@uncg.edu

  • Pre-Civil War American Literature
  • American Women's Writings
  • Genre Fiction