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Faculty Credentials : SummerI 2008
English


1. Ira R. Adams (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA SPANISH -- WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY(1967)
  • MA ENGLISH -- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA(1969)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA(1972)
  • medieval literature 24+
  • historical linguistics 6
  • Selected Papers Published “Editing Piers Plowman B: The Imperative of an Intermittently Critical Edition,” Studies in Bibliography 45 (1992): 31-68. “Langland’s Ordinatio: the Visio and the Vita Once More,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 8 (1994: 51-84. “Evidence for the Stemma of the Piers Plowman B Manuscripts,” Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 173-94. (with Helena Halmari). “On the grammar and rhetoric of language mixing in Piers Plowman,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 103 (2002): 33-50. “The R/F MSS of Piers Plowman B and the Pattern of Alpha/Beta Complementary Omissions: Implications for Critical Editing,” TEXT 14 (2002): 109-37. “The Kane-Donaldson Edition of Piers Plowman: Eclecticism’s Ultima Thule,” TEXT 16 (2006): 131-41.
  • Books Published Ramon Lull, The Book of the Order of Chivalry, ed. and trans. Robert Adams (Huntsville, TX: Sam Houston State U P, 1991). 107 pp. An Electronic Edition of Oxford MS Corpus Christi 201, ed. Robert Adams, Hoyt Duggan, et al. (Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2000). CD-ROM.
2. Kimberly K Bell (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE, ATHENS(1990)
  • MA ENGLISH -- CLARK UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY(2002)
  • Greek and Roman History 6
  • Greek and Roman Literature 6
  • Medieval Literature and History 24+
  • Old and Middle English Languages 24+
  • Recipient of CHSS Teaching Achievement in English Award, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007
  • Finalist, SHSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008, 2009
  • Co-editor of two peer-reviewed collections of essays: Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Text and Context: Oxford University, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 (Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2010)
  • Three peer-reviewed articles on Homeric and Virgilian epic
  • Five peer-reviewed book chapters and articles on medieval literary texts (Havelok the Dane, King Horn, Saints' Lives, Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas', and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain) and manuscripts (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108).
  • Languages: Latin, Demotic Greek, French, Old and Middle English
  • Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in English and History. Ph.D. exams in Medieval Literature and Greek and Roman history. Passed all areas with high distinction
3. Tracy E. Bilsing (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1983)
  • MA ENGLISH -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1984)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1998)
  • British Literature 24+
  • Selected publications: “‘Rosalba and All the Kirchner Tribe’: Mary Butts’ ‘Speed the Plough’ and the Regenerative Image of the Feminine” in Essays in the Arts and Sciences 34.1 (Summer 2005): 61-73. “‘To every man the war is himself’: D. H. Lawrence, the Battle of the Sexes, and the Great War” in The CEA Critic (Summer 2005): 76-91. “The Process of Manufacture: Rudyard Kipling’s Private Propaganda.” in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Volume 167, Sept. 2005. Reprinted from War, Literature, and the Arts. Ed. Donald Anderson. 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 76-98. Selected conference presentations: “Looping Mrs. Bathurst: Kipling’s Quest for the Feminine through the Modern” College English Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 27-29, 2008. “The Inverse of Passion: Elizabeth Bowen’s War Stories.” Thirteenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature,Cortland, NY, October 2003.
4. Charles W. Bridges (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY(1969)
  • MA ENGLISH -- STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY(1973)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY(1976)
  • Rhetoric and Teaching Composition 9
  • Dissertation--an application of Kenneth Burke's theories for freshman composition 18
  • American Literature 24+
  • Co-author, Longwood Guide to Writing (4th ed.) [a freshman composition textbook, 736 pp.]
  • Director of National Writing Project affiliate sites in New Mexico and Texas, 15 years [workshops in writing and the teaching of writing]
  • Participated in NEH Summer Seminar on contemporary trends in composition theory and practice (8 weeks, U Pitt, 1977; funded by NEH)
5. Paul W Child III (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY(1978)
  • MA ENGLISH -- JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY(1984)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME(1992)
  • Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature; General Literary Studies 24+
  • All prominent publications have concerned Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture.
  • PhD qualifying orals in prose fiction from 1719-1837 (Defoe to Dickens). PhD dissertation on eighteenth-century medicine and medical literature. Extensive conference activity in Restoration and 18th-century topics. Member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1987 to present). NEH Summer 2007 Fellowship in seminar on Anglo-Irish literature of the Restoration and 18th century. Generalist comprehensive examination in MA program and rigorous five-day generalist examination in PhD program.
6. Robert E. Donahoo (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA JOURNALISM/ENGLISH -- BAYLOR UNIVERSITY(1978)
  • MA ENGLISH -- DUKE UNIVERSITY(1979)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- DUKE UNIVERSITY(1988)
  • English and American Literature 24+
  • Book Chapters: “Moving with the Mainstream: A View of Postmodern American Science Fiction.” In Critical Essays on American Postmodernism. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. New York: Twayne, 1995. 152 165. “Lewis Shiner and the 'Good' Anarchist,” (written with Chuck Etheridge). In Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Ed. George Slusser and Tom Shippey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Juried Articles “Buried Memory: 1918 and the Uses of the Past.” Horton Foote Review 1 (2005): 21-33. “Subject to Limitations: O’Connor’s Fiction and the South’s Shifting Populations.” The Flannery O’Connor Review 2(2004): 16-30. “Remembering and Forgetting: History and Memory in Horton Foote’s The Last of the Thorntons. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 34 (2003): 1-13. “O'Connor's Catholics: A Historical-Cultural Context.” Literature and Belief 16.2 (1996): 100-113.
  • “Healing the Cultural Divides: Reading ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’.” The Journal of Contemporary Thought 4 (1994): 7-21. “Tarwater's March Toward the Feminine: The Role of Gender in O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away.” CEA Critic. 56 (Fall 1993): 96 106. “The Problem with Peelers: Wise Blood as Social Criticism.” The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 21 (1992): 43 57. “O'Connor's Ancient Comedy: Form in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 16 (1991): 29 39. “Toward a Definition of Resurrection: Tolstoy's Novel as Theology and Art.” Literature and Belief 11 (1991): 1 12.
  • President of the Flannery O’Connor Society, June 2006-present (term expires 2009). Editorial Advisory Board Member for The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II. (2007-present). Editor of Cheers! The Newsletter of the Flannery O’Connor Society. June 2002-June 2006. President of the South Central College English Association (1998-99), having previously served as Vice President (1997-98) and Secretary (1996-97). President of the Texas College English Association, 1998-99, having previously served as Vice President (1997-98) and Secretary (1996-87). Book Review Editor for The Texas Review, 1995-2000. Reviewer for manuscript of Reading and Writing the College Experience. Longman Publishers, 2002. Reviewer for the manuscript of Voices of the American South. Longman Publishers, 2002. Editorial Assistant for American Literature, 1986-87.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor,” participant. July 2007. Sam Houston State University Research Enhancement Grant for 1997. College English Association Robert Hacke Scholar Teacher Award, 1994.
  • Bibliography: Contributing Bibliographer for The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1989, 1990, 1991. Creative Publications: “Jack.” (a short story). New Texas (2006): 78-89. “Fishing Round Mars” (a work of creative non-fiction). Concho River Review 13.1 (Spring 1999): 49-56.
  • Introducing Africa: A Guide to Teaching African Literature in the AP Classroom. Durham, N.C.: Talent Identification Program, 1992. Teacher's Manual for an Advanced Placement Course in "Language and Composition". Co authored with Lucy Haagen, et al. Durham, N.C.: Talent Identification Program, 1986.
7. Diane Dowdey (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY(1976)
  • MA ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA(1977)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON(1984)
  • American Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Literature in English, since 1914 24+
  • Author of two compositon textbooks: The Researching Writer published by Holt and TR5: To Research, To Read, To Reason, To Write, To Report: An Introduction to Research Writing published by Simon and Schuster “Online Education and Writing Across the Curriculum.” Panelists Statements. WAC 2002: The Sixth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Houston: Rice University, 2002. "Stephen Jay Gould: 'This View of Science.'" Markham Review 16 (1987): 26‐34. "Rhetorical Techniques of Audience Adaptation in Popular Science Writing." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 17 (1987): 275‐285.
  • "Citation and Documentation Across the Curriculum." Constructing Rhetorical Education. Edited by Marie Secor and Davida Charney. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 330‐351. "Bridging the Gap: Science for a Popular Audience" in Proceedings in Technical and Business Communication: The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis‐ 1985. Ed. Douglas M. Catron. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1985. 147‐155.
  • “Virtual Space: Another Frontier.” International Writing Centers Association. April 12-14, 2007. Houston. “Negotiation Strategies for Tutors.”Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 21-24, 2007. New York. “Negotiation Strategies for Tutors.”Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 21-24, 2007. New York. “Teacher or Editor? Helping Tutors Negotiate Their Role.” College English Association. April 6-8, 2006. San Antonio. “Defining Success at a Writing Center: A Qualitative Approach.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 22-25, 2006. Chicago. “What is a Successful Writing Center? A Problematic Definition” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. February 23-26, 2006. Little Rock, Arkansas. “Reaching the Community: Writing Center Staff Talk to High School English Teachers.” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. March 3-5, 2005. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • “What is a Successful Writing Center? A Problematic Definition” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. February 23-26, 2006. Little Rock, Arkansas. “Reaching the Community: Writing Center Staff Talk to High School English Teachers.” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. March 3-5, 2005. Baton Rouge, Louisiana “Shakespeare on Writing Center Leadership.” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. February 19-21, 2004. Stillwater, Oklahoma. “Building Community in Tutor Training.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 24-27, 2004. San Antonio. “The Third Person at the Conference: Communicating with the Faculty.” South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. February 20-22, 2003. Fayetteville, Arkansas. “Evaluating the Impact of a Writing Center” International Writing Centers Association . October 23-25, 2003. Hershey, Pennsylvania.
8. Sirkka Helena Halmari (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA -- UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, FINLAND(1978)
  • MA ENGLISH PHILOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, FINLAND(1984)
  • MSS LIBRARY SCIENCE -- UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, FINLAND(1986)
  • MA ENGLISH COMPOSITION -- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO(1990)
  • MA LINGUISTICS -- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES(1992)
  • PHD LINGUISTICS -- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES(1994)
  • Linguistics 24+
  • Philology 24+
  • English Composition 24+
  • 1 single-authored book, 1 co-edited book, ca. 30 journal articles and book chapters.
  • Director of the Academic Spoken English Program (2001-2003), University of Florida.
  • SHSU, CHSS. Research Achievement in English Award 2005-06. Excellence in Research Award 2004-05.
  • Åbo Akademi University, H.W. Donner Visiting Professor, November-December 2008.
  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, member for a 5-year period from October 2007.
9. Melanie A Hanson (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • AB ENGLISH -- SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY(1975)
  • MA ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS(1998)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS(2004)
  • Book: Decapitation and Disgorgement: The Female Body as Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry (8th volume in the series “Studies in English Literatures”). Koray Melikoglu, ed. Ibidem-Verlag, Hannover, Germany, 2007. Articles: “‘You’ve Come a Long Way Baby’: An Update on the Perpetuation of Decapitation Advertisement and its Commodification of Female Sexuality in Las Vegas, Nevada.” Popular Culture Review. Las Vegas, NV: UNLV Press. Winter 2006. “The Jouissance of Disgorgement: Isabella Whitney’s ‘Will’ speaks to Helene Cixous” (Feminismo/s. Maribel Penalver Vicea and Rosa Rodriguez, eds. Magda, 6th issue – September 2006. “‘To Sew is To Pray’: Disgorging the ‘Speech of the Creator,’”Louise Erdrich: New Essays in Criticism. Brajesh Sawhney, ed. Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India, December 2007.
10. Marion Douglas Krienke (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1959)
  • MA ENGLISH -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1965)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO(1976)
  • SHSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990.
  • “The Theme of Damnation in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.” University of Toledo Regional Conference on Renaissance Studies. Toledo, OH, 1991. “A Tragic Vision in Shakespeare’s Lear.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX, 1988.
11. Deborah Lynne Phelps (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS ENGLISH -- TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY(1983)
  • MA ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE(1986)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE(1991)
  • British Victorian and Romantic Literature 24+
  • Poetry Chapbook: Deep East. Concord, CA: Small Poetry Press Select Poetry Series, Feb. 2001. Winner, True Millenia Chapbook Prize.
  • Articles: A"Jorie Graham." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004. "Claire Messud." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004. "Jamaica Kincaid." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004. 'You take us for harlots': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Women Warriors." CCTE Studies 1997: 77-85. "As the Faculty Turns: Hiring, Retiring, and Curriculum Change." CEA Magazine 1997: 53-62. "Service on the Side: Literature Professors and the Teaching of Technical Writing." CCTE Studies 1996: 65-74. "Anna Jameson." British Travel Writers 1837-1875. The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Inc., 1996: 184-190. "Pouring Tea and Filing Suit: Academic Women and the Feminist Generation Gap." Concerns Winter 1995: 15-21.
  • "Women's Writing, Technical Writing: Gender Difference in the Technical Report Process." Rhetorical Designs for Professional and Technical Writing: A Teacher's Guide. Ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas: Caxton's, 1994: 111-117. "'At the Roadside of Humanity': Elizabeth Barrett Browning Abroad." Creditable Warriors: English Literature and the Wider World, 1830-1876. Ed. Michael Cotsell. London: Ashfield, 1990: 225-242.
12. Paul D. Ruffin (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS ENGLISH -- MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY(1964)
  • MA ENGLISH -- MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY(1968)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI(1974)
  • Creeative Writing, American Literature 24+
  • Published 2 novels, 3 short story collections, 11 edited books, 6 collections of poetry, and 2 collections of essays. Published some 80+ stories, 800+ individual poems, and 23 essays in magazines and journals. Individual stories and poems anthologized in 22 collections.
  • Director, Creative Writing Program, SHSU Founding Editor, Editor-in-Chief, The Texas Review Founder and Director, Texas Review Press Faculty Advisor, Sam Houston State Review
13. Eugene O. Young (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- WEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1968)
  • MA ENGLISH -- WEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1975)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE(1979)
  • American Literature 24+
  • "Texas Music at the Crossroads." National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Houston, TX, March 2002. "Between the Wish and the Thing: The Battle of Zacatecas and Mexican History in All the Pretty Horses." National Conference of the Cormac McCarthy Society, San Antonio, TX, October 1999. "Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.
  • Honored for "Extraordinary and Sustained Service" to the College English Association, awarded at the National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.
  • Article: "Joanna Burden as Joe Christmas' Alter Ego." The Rectangle, Spring, 1976. Proceedings: "Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on College Composition and Communications.
  • Director, Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, 2006-present.

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