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Sophia Andres

Faculty: Dr. Sophia Andres
Chair of Literature and Languages,
Professor of English and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in Humanities,
English Graduate Program Head
Office: MB 4116
Phone: (432) 552-2293
E-mail: andres_s@utpb.edu

Education:
BA, MA, San Jose State University in California
PhD, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Publications:
Her work has been published in ELH, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Victorian Newsletter, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies, and Victorians Institute Journal.

Her book, The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries was published in 2005 by Ohio State University Press.

Research:
Victorian Fiction and Poetry, the Pre-Raphaelites, Modern and Postmodern British Fiction.

2008 Minnie Stevens Piper Professorship Award Announcement.

For more information, please visit Sophia Andres's Faculty Homepage.

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Rebecca Babcock

Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Babcock
Assistant Professor
Office: MB 4138
Phone: (432) 552-2304
E-mail: babcock_r@utpb.edu
Education: BA, University of Massachusetts-Boston (English Lit.)
MA, University of Massachusetts-Boston (Bilingual Ed.)
PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (English)

Research:
My primary interest is in Writing Centers and how they can serve all students. Currently I am working on the intersections of writing centers and disability studies and generating writing center theory through a synthesis of qualitative studies of writing center tutoring.

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Kay Kolb

Faculty: Kay Kolb
Lecturer of English
Office: MB 4125
Phone: (432) 552-2298
E-mail: kolb_k@utpb.edu
Education: BA - Mass Communication, UTPB
MA - English, UTPB

Research:
20th Century American Literature, & Composition and Rhetoric.

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Jason Lagapa

Faculty: Dr. Jason Lagapa
Assistant Professor of English
Office: MB 4110
Phone: (432) 552-2301
E-mail: lagapa_j@utpb.edu
Education: BA, Bennington College (1991)
PhD, University of Arizona (2003)

Publications:
His work has been published in Contemporary Literature, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation (Stanford University), The Arkansas Review, and Theory at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo)

Research:
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Postmodern Theory and Fiction.

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Maureen Page

Faculty: Maureen Forsythe Page
Lecturer of English
Office: MB 4127
Phone: (432) 552-2294
E-mail: page_m@utpb.edu
Education: BA (2000),
MA (2004) The University of Texas of the Permian Basin

Research:
British Literature, Victorian Novel, & Writing and Composition.

Todd Richardson

Faculty: Dr. Todd Richardson
Associate Professor of English
Office: MB 4154
Phone: (432) 552-2292
E-mail: richardson_t@utpb.edu
Education: BA (1990), College of Wooster;
MA (1997) University of Delaware;
PhD (2002), University of South Carolina

Publications:
His work has been published in The Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism, The New England Quarterly, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Resources for American Literary Study, Melville Society Extracts, and Victorian Periodicals Review.

Research:
Nineteenth Century American literature, American Transcendentalism, Nature Writing, & American Periodicals.

Shawn Watson

Faculty: Dr. Shawn Watson
Associate Professor of English
Office: MB 4144
Phone: 552-2295
Email: watson_s@utpb.edu
Education: BA, University of Massachusetts-Boston
MA, Ohio University
PhD (1983), Cornell University

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Mark Wildermuth

Faculty: Dr. Mark Wildermuth
Professor of English
Office: MB 3132
Phone: (432) 552-2296
E-mail: wildermuth_m@utpb.edu
Education: BA, MA, George Mason University;
PhD (1991), University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Publications:
His work has been published in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, The Age of Johnson, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and The Journal of Popular Film and Television. His book, Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema, was published in 2005. His most recent book, Print Chaos and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture, was published in 2008 by the University of Delaware Press.

Research: Eighteenth Century British Literature, Film as Literature, Rhetoric, & Media Studies.

Contingent Faculty and Graduate Assistants

Rita Bledsoe

Rita Bledsoe
Part-time Lecturer of English
Office: MB 4272
Phone: (432) 552-2050
E-mail: bledsoe_r@utpb.edu
Education: AA, Midland College
BA (2004), The University of Texas-Permian Basin
MA (2006), The University of Texas-Permian Basin

Research:
Romantic Period; American Transcendentalism

Clark Moreland

Lecturer of English
Office: MB 4272H
Phone: (432) 552-2297
E-mail: moreland_c@utpb.edu
Education: BA (2003), The University of Texas-Permian Basin
MA (2005), The University of Texas-Permian Basin

Publications:
Conference Presentations at South Central MLA (2006), VISAWUS (2008)

Research:
British Fiction and Poetry; The Aesthetic Movement and Pre-Raphaelitism; Cultural Studies.

Rod Stewart

Part-time Lecturer of English
Office: MB 4272
Phone: (432) 552-2050
E-mail: stewart_r@utpb.edu
Education: MA (Education and Counseling), (1982); MA (English) (1986); MA (School Administration) (1988)

Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford

Senior Lecturer/Mesa Journal Advisor

Office: MB 4148 and MB 2138 (Mesa Journal)
Phone: 552-2312 or 552-2659 (Mesa Journal)
E-mail: vanderford_n@utpb.edu
Education: PhD., Louisiana State University (Nineteenth-Century British and Children's Literature); MA, University of Southwestern Louisiana (Literature); BA, University of Southwestern Louisiana (English, French minor)
Publications: Her work has been published in Civil War Book Review and Children's Literature Quarterly.
Research: She is currently working on several articles about childhood constructions in Victorian and Children's Literature. Her primary interest is Lewis Carroll and the image of childhood in his photography, illustrations, and literature.

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Mary Strain (Katie)

Graduate Assistant
Office: MB 4248
Phone: (432)552-2050
Email: strain_m808@utpb.edu
Education: Associate of Arts in English: Howard College, Big Spring, Texas; Bachelor of Arts in English: The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas; Currently pursuing Graduate Degree Research: N/A