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Faculty
Dr. Scott Boltwood
Associate Professor of English
276.944.6783
Wiley 110
Degrees:Ph.D., University of Virginia, B.A.,Cornell University
Dr. Boltwood teaches a wide variety of topics from ancient literature and philosophy, through the first half of Major British Writers, to Twentieth-Century English literature.
However, his scholarly interest is firmly focused on Irish literature; he has written articles on several Irish playwrights, including Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Brian Friel (b. 1928), Stewart Love (b. 1934), and Frank McGuinness (b. 1953). He is author of Brian Friel, Ireland, and The North (Cambridge University Press) and editor of Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in 20th-Century Irish Drama (Oxford University Press 2009).
He has been a Research Fellow at the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, Londonderry, and a Visiting Professor at The Queen's University, Belfast.
He is currently working on several projects associated with Belfast's Ulster Group Theater.
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Dr. Kathleen Chamberlain
Professor of English
276.944.6805
Wiley 103
Degrees: M.A. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A., Cleveland State University
Dr. Chamberlain was named Virginia Professor of the Year in 1994 by the Council for Advancement and Support for Education. The award is considered one of the highest teaching honors in higher education in Virginia. Chamberlain's interests include Nineteenth-Century studies, women's studies, film, advanced writing, popular culture and literature.
Dr. John Lang
Professor of English
276.944.6143
Wiley 203
Degrees: Ph.D., Stanford University; B.A., St. Olaf College
Dr. Lang coordinates Emory & Henry's annual Literary Festival and serves as editor of The Iron Mountain Review, which publishes the proceedings of each festival. He teaches the college's American literature surveys and courses in African American Literature, Appalachian Literature, and Twentieth-Century Southern Literature. In 1999 he received one of twelve Outstanding Faculty Awards in the state of Virginia. He has published many scholarly articles as well as Understanding Fred Chappell (2000) and Appalachia and Beyond: Conversations with Writers from the Mountain South (2006). In the spring of 2010 Louisiana State University Press will publish his new book, Six Poets from the Mountain South.
Dr. Felicia Mitchell
Department Chair
Professor of English
276.944.6225
McGlothlin-Street 230
Personal page
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Mitchell is a widely published poet and scholar, with interests in composition, teacher education and women's studies. A recipient of a Sears Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Leadership, she chairs the Department of English and directs the writing center. Her poetry chapbooks include The Cleft of the Rock (Finishing Line Press, 2009), There is No Map (Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, 2008), and Earthenware Fertility Figure (1999). Other publications include Words and Quilts, A Selection of Quilt Poems and Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry. Dr. Mitchell writes a weekly column for Washington County News, a newspaper produced in Abingdon, Virginia.
Dr. Robert Reid
Professor of English
276.944.6141
Wiley 218
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Virginia; B.A., Yale University
Dr. Reid is a two-time recipient of the Exemplary Teaching Award at Emory & Henry and is the author of the recently published book, Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel. His special interests include Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, Russian and Soviet literature, Utopian literature, epic literature, romance literature and Mythology.
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Katherine Litton
Instructor of English
276.944.6490
Wiley 211
Degrees:M.A., Western Connecticut State University; B.A., Emory & Henry College
Professor Litton has a broad background with a bachelor's degree in Biology and a master's degree in Literature. She has worked professionally at the Stanford Human Genome Center where she contributed to the sequencing of the human genome. Additionally, she has worked in publishing as an editor and as an on-line English tutor. Her literature interests focus on Medieval Literature with an emphasis on the works of Chaucer. Professor Litton is also a movie enthusiast with a keen appreciation for horror films.
Caroline Norris
Visiting Instructor of English
276.944.5563
Wiley 008
Degrees:M.S.Ed., Iona College; B.A., New York University
Caroline Norris has taught English in a variety of locations over a period of many years. She has taught in France and in Japan and in a Greek Orthodox orphanage; she has conducted classes in a maximum security prison and has inaugurated literacy courses in a county parole department; for ten years she taught a commercial speed-reading course. She has been an English Department chair and has served on the faculties of colleges in five states. Additionally, she has served as a reporter and editor, as a senior technical writer, and as a career counselor. She is a published poet.
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