Anne Baker,
Associate Professor
of English (Ph.D., Columbia University), teaches courses in early Western
literature for the program. Her current research focuses on nineteenth-century
American literature. Her book, Heartless Immensity: Literature,
Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America, will be published
in 2006.
Tompkins 211; tel: 515-4103
abaker@unity.ncsu.edu
John Balaban,
Professor and Poet-in-Residence, is the author of eleven books of poetry
and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy
of American Poets' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and
two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge
of Summer: New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams
Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is a translator of several
books from Vietnamese, and he is a former President of the American Literary
Translators Association.
Tompkins 256; tel: 515-4147
jbalaba@unity.ncsu.edu
Brian Blackley,
Assistant Professor
and Assistant Head of the Department of English (Ph.D., University of
Kentucky), teaches courses in European literature for the program. His
interests include Renaissance satire and the western sonnet tradition.
He is managing editor of the John Donne Journal.
Tompkins 224; tel: 515-7456
blackley@gw.ncsu.edu
Helga Braunbeck,
Associate Professor of German (Ph.D., University of California, Santa
Barbara), teaches courses in European literature for the program. She
is the author of a book on Christa Wolf and articles on contemporary German
literature.
301 Withers; tel. 5-9320;
helga_braunbeck@ncsu.edu;
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hgb/
Greg Dawes,
Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., University of Washington), teaches
Latin American literature, Comparative Literature, and Postmodernism for
the program.
415 Withers; tel: 5-9317
gadfll@unity.ncsu.edu
Meredith Fosque,
Senior Lecturer (Ph.D., Georgetown University), teaches Chinese literature
in translation as well as courses in Western and non-Western literatures
for the program. Her research and course development interests are now
focused on South Asian literatures, in particular the evolution of Indian
critical theory.
Tompkins G103B; tel :5-4125;
mgfosque@unity.ncsu.edu
Michael Grimwood,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Princeton University), is co-chair of the
NCSU World Literature program. He teaches courses in American literature,
Southern Literature, and Twentieth-Century literature as well as courses
in European literatures for the program. Author of Heart in Conflict:
Faulkner's Struggles with Vocation, he has received departmental,
college, and university awards for distinguished research and for outstanding
teaching. He is Director of the Summer Institute in World Literature.
Tompkins 250 ; tel: 515-4161;
grimwood@ncsu.edu
Charlotte Gross,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Columbia University), teaches courses in
European literature for the program, as well as special topics courses
such as "Arthurian Legend" and "Medieval Women Writers.
She has published essays on medieval philosophy, the songs of the troubadours,
Chaucer, and Middle English poetry.
Tompkins 257; tel: 515-4164;
charlott@unity.ncsu.edu
Ruth Gross, Professor
of German and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
(Ph.D., Yale University).
311 Withers; tel: 515-9310
Nick Halpern,
Associate Professor of English (Ph. D., Harvard University), specializes
in twentieth-century literature and has taught courses in contemporary
poetry, American and European modernism (prose and poetry), Holocaust
literature, the memoir, and Proust. A recipient of the CHASS Outstanding
Teaching Award, his first book is on the relationship between the prophetic
and the everyday in twentieth-century American poetry.
Tompkins G105C; tel: 515-4168;
nhalpern@unity.ncsu.edu
Thomas Hester,
Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Florida), and Alumni Distinguished
Professor of English, teaches English and Continental Renaissance literature
for the program. Author and editor of eight books and more than fifty
essays on Renaissance literature, founding editor of the John Donne
Journal, and editor of Renaissance Papers, he has received numerous
awards for teaching and research. Tompkins 269; tel: 515-4148;
hester@unity.ncsu.edu
Hans Kellner,
Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Rochester), teaches courses
in European literature and European intellectual history. He is the author
of numerous articles on these subjects. 261 Tomkins; tel: 5-4165
hdkellne@unity.ncsu.edu
Anita Kerr,
Lecturer II (Ph.D., Ohio State University), teaches courses in World Literature
for the program.
Tomkins G103A; tel: 5-4144
anita@ncsu.edu
Dudley Marchi,
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature (Ph.D., Columbia
University), and Associate Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
and
Literatures, teaches courses in ancient and modern literature for the
program. His other teaching interests include French language, literature,
culture, civilization, and art history. He has published a book on Michel
de Montaigne as well as articles on modern literature, translations, and
original poetry; he has received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award.
and is currently working on a book concerning French-American relations
in the nineteenth century.
319 Withers;
tel: 515-9283
dudley_marchi@ncsu.edu
John Mertz,
Associate Professor of Japanese (Ph.D., Cornell University), teaches courses
in Japanese and Asian literature for the program. He specializes in nineteenth-century
Japanese Literature and issues of social and literary change, and has
published on Japanese journalism, politics, nationalism, fashion, censorship,
and public hygiene.
402 Withers; tel: 515-9297
john_mertz@ncsu.edu
Larysa Mykyta,
Associate Professor of French (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo), teaches courses in
Francophone and contemporary world literature for the program. Her research
interests include Francophone literature and film, feminist criticism,
and literary theory.
203 Withers; tel: 515-9314
lamfll@unity.ncsu.edu
Juliana Nfah-Abbenye,
Professor of English (Ph.D., McGill University), teaches courses in African
literature, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, and feminist theory. She
is the author of Gender in African Women's Writing, a collection
of short stories, and numerous articles. She has won an award for teaching.
Tompkins 212; tel: 513-8057
Elaine Orr,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Emory University), teaches courses in African
literature, women's literature and modernism courses for the program.
She is the author of a book on Tillie Olsen and a book on contemporary
women authors. Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life is
her memoir of her childhood in Nigeria.
Tompkins 201; tel: 515-4136
elaine@unity.ncsu.edu
Maria Pramaggiore,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Emory University), teaches world film
courses. Co-editor of a collection of essays on Queer Theory, she is
currently finishing a book on depictions of the Irish in U.S. cinema.
She is the recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award,
and an Outstanding Teaching Award, as well as a Fullbright Fellowship.
Tompkins 233; tel: 515-4116
maria_p@unity.ncsu.edu
Carmine Prioli,
Professor of English and English Department Director of Graduate Studies
(Ph.D., SUNY-Stoneybrook), teaches special topics courses for the program.
Author of an edition of General George Patton's poems and a book on the
horses of the Outer Banks, he writes on various aspects of American culture
including specially colonial American literature.
Tompkins 249; tel: 515-4107
prioli@ncsu.edu
Maria G.
Rouphail, Senior Lecturer in English (Ph.D., Ohio State University),
teaches courses in the Western literary canon from antiquity to the early
Renaissance and the modern and postmodern periods (twentieth century).
Her interests include nineteenth-century American literature, Latin American
literature, postcolonial literature and theory, and the literature of
Western mysticism.
Tompkins 116; tel: 515-4130
mgr@gw.ncsu.edu
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/rouphail/
Sheila Smith-McKoy,
Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., Duke University) teaches courses
in African literature, Caribbean literature, and the African Diaspora.
She is the author or When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in
American and South African Cultures, and numerous articles. She is
currently an editor of the journal, Obsidian, and she serves as the Director
of Diversity for CHASS.
Tompkins 237; tel: 515-4174
Allen Stein,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Duke University), teaches a course in Realism
and Naturalism in Europe and America. He also teaches survey courses in
American literature, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in
American Romanticism and American Realism and Naturalism. He is the author
of After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism
(Ohio State University Press), a study of a minor New York writer of the
mid-nineteenth century and Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short
Fiction. He has also written some twenty scholarly articles on topics
in American literature.
Tompkins 121; tel: 515-4134
stein@unity.ncsu.edu
Jon Thompson,
Professor of English (Ph.D., Louisiana State University), teaches
modernism and contemporary world literature for the program. His research
interests include Irish literature and culture theory, and nineteenth
and early twentieth century detective fiction.
Tompkins 241; tel: 515-4157
jont@unity.ncsu.edu
Lamont Welch, Assistant Professor of English
Tompkins 286; tel. 515-4127
Mary Ann Witt,
Professor Emerita of French, Italian, and Comparative Literatures
(Ph.D., Harvard University) is co-chair of the NCSU World Literature Program.
She is the primary author of a textbook, The Humanities: Cultural
Roots and Continuities, now in its fifth edition. The book approaches
literature from a variety of traditions in relation to other humanistic
disciplines. She is also the author of Existential Prisons, a
book on twentieth-century French writers, and of numerous essays on modern
European literature. She is currently an editor of The Comparatist.
401 Withers; tel: 515-9315
wittma@ncsu.edu