University of Delaware Graduate Catalog 1996-1997 College of Arts and Science Department of English Faculty in the Graduate Program Mark E. Amsler, Ph.D. (Ohio State), Professor: Medieval literature, literary theory, linguistics. Jerry C. Beasley, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Professor: Novel, eighteenth- century literature. D. Heyward Brock, Ph.D. (Kansas), Professor; also Professor, Department of Biological Sciences: Renaissance literature. Roger L. Cox, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor: Comedy and tragedy, comparative literature. Richard A. Davison, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), Professor: American literature. Carl Dawson, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor: Nineteenth-century literature, autobiography. Joan DelFattore, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), Professor: Literature and pedagogy. Philip D. Flynn, Ph.D. (Maryland), Professor: Romantic literature. William J. Frawley, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Professor; also Professor, Deparment of Linguistics: Semantics, psycholinguistics, grammatical theory. Barbara T. Gates, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr), Alumni Distinguished Professor: Victorian literature. Jay L. Halio, Ph.D. (Yale), Professor: Renaissance literature, modern British literature. Fleda Jackson, Ph.D. (Arkansas), Professor: Poetry and English education. M. Dennis Jackson, Ph.D. (Arkansas), Professor: Modern literature. Kevin J. Kerrane, Ph.D. (North Carolina), Professor: Drama, literary criticism. Thomas M. Leitch, Ph.D. (Yale), Professor: Literary theory. J.A. Leo Lemay, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of English: American literature. Ronald E. Martin, Ph.D. (Boston University), Professor; also Professor, Department of Biological Sciences: Modern literature, American literature. Donald C. Mell, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Professor: Eighteenth-century literature. George Miller, Ph.D. (Connecticut), Professor and Chair: Seventeenth- century literature, bibliography. Hershel Parker, Ph.D. (Northwestern), H. Fletcher Brown Professor of American Romanticism: American literature, textual criticism. Thomas H. Pauly, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Professor: American literature. Jeanne Pfaelzer, Ph.D. (London), Professor; also Professor, University Honors Program: Feminist theory. Ellen I. Pifer, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Professor: Modern literature, novel. Lois Potter, Ph.D. (Cambridge), Ned B. Allen Professor: Renaissance literature. Donald H. Reiman, Ph.D. (Illinois), Adjunct Professor: Romantic literature. Mary P. Richards, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), Professor; also Dean, College of Arts and Science: Anglo Saxon and medieval literature. Charles E. Robinson, Ph.D. (Temple), Professor: Romantic literature. Gibbons Ruark, M.A. (Massachusetts), Professor: Creative writing (poetry). Elaine B. Safer, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve), Professor: Seventeenth- century literature, the novel. Bonnie Kime Scott, Ph.D. (North Carolina), Professor: Irish literature, feminist theory, modern literature. Cruce F. Stark, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor: American literature. Jeanne M. Walker, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), Professor: Creative writing, children's literature. Horst Arndt, Ph.D. (Munich), Adjunct Professor: General linguistics, American English. Werner Enninger, Ph.D. (Bonn), Adjunct Professor: General linguistics, American English Ann Ardis, Ph.D. (Virginia), Associate Professor: Theory, modern literature. Louis Arena, Ph.D. (Georgetown), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Deparment of Linguistics: Applied linguistics and composition, methodology of SEL, Japanese linguistics. Joan S. Bennett, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor and Coordinator, University Honors Program: Milton. Robert B. Bennett, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor: Renaissance literature. Michael A. Cotsell, Ph.D. (Birmingham, U.K.), Associate Professor: Victorian literature. James M. Dean, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Associate Professor: Medieval literature. W. Bruce Finnie, Ph.D. (Ohio State), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, Department of Linguisics: Medieval literature, history of the English language, American dialectology. Susan Goodman, Ph.D. (New Hampshire), Associate Professor: American literature and English education. Edward Guerrero, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Associate Professor: Cultural theory, African-American literature. Steven Helmling, Ph.D. (Rutgers), Associate Professor: Modern literature. Sara R. Horowitz, Ph.D. (Brandeis), Associate Professor and Director, Jewish Studies: Modern literature. Bernard L. Kaplan, M.F.A. (Iowa), Associate Professor: Creative writing (fiction). Alvina Quintana, Ph.D. (California, Santa Cruz), Associate Professor: Multicultural studies, women's literature. Michael P. Rewa, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor: Eighteenth-century literature. Peter X. Feng, Ph.D. (Iowa), Assistant Professor: Asian-American film. Carol Henderson, Ph.D. (California, Riverside), Assistant Professor: African-American literature. Kristen E. Poole, Ph.D. (Harvard), Assistant Professor: Renaissance literature. Julian D. Yates, Ph.D. (UCLA), Assistant Professor: Renaissance literature.