 Emeritus
Dr. Norris Clark
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Cornell |
no email |
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Norris Clark retired from the University of Akron in 2005, and is living in sunny St. Croix. He taught African-American and American studies; African-American poets and novelists; African-American aesthetic tradition--literary and social; and Mark Twain.
Dr. Robert Dial
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Missouri |
dial@uakron.edu
Website
(330) 972-5665 |
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Robert Dial retired in May, 2000. Formerly taught English Literature, Film Studies, and Script Writing. Formerly Acting Director of Composition, Coordinator of English Communication Center. Articles in literary criticism and empirical analysis of style. Conference papers in film study, literary criticism, critical theory, rhetoric, writing pedagogy, invention, and evaluation theory. English Webmaster. Current interests are poetry writing, living in a Web stream of jazz, and stunt flying.
Dr. Mary K. Kirtz
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve |
MVannort@oberlin.net
Website
(440) 775-4148 |
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Mary Kirtz retired in 2003. She specialized in Canadian literature with an emphasis on theoretical approaches to the works of contemporary Canadian writers such as Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. She is presently preparing a book-length study of an intramodernist approach to reading contemporary Canadian novels. Her teaching interests included Canadian, modern World literature (in translation), and professional writing. She has published in Canadian Ethnic Studies, The American Review of Canadian Studies, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Association of Business Communication, The CEA Forum, The Great Plains Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, in Margaret Atwood: Reflection and Reality, Teaching Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and Other Work; both are collections of essays. In 1993, she received the Rufus Z. Smith Prize for best article in the 1991-92 volume of The American Review of Canadian Studies
Janet (Jinny) Marting retired in 2009. A former composition director, she is the author of a chapbook of poetry, The Heart's Geographer, and an argument rhetoric/reader, Commitment, Voice, and Clarity. She also compiled four composition readers: Making a Living, The Voice of Reflection, The Family Tree, and From the Cradle to the Grave. One of her main interests is creative nonfiction, particularly contemporary memoir.
Nicholas Ranson retired in May, 2000. He is a former English Chair. Dr. Ranson has retired to Florida where he still teaches Shakesperean Drama to interested students. He can be reached by email.
Sheryl Stevenson retired in 2008. Her courses focus on critical theory and methods, twentieth-century British literature, Victorian literature, and British women writers. Her publications include articles and book chapters on many women writers, both American and British. In 2005, she published an interview with British novelist Pat Barker, along with an essay drawn from the book she is writing on Barker’s fiction; both appear in Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (University of South Carolina Press). Dr. Stevenson is currently at Trinity College, University of Toronto.
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