About Us
Full-time Faculty
Hardin Aasand
Chair and Professor of English, Ph.D., University of Toronto (1986).
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 147
- Phone: 260-481-6750
- E-mail: aasandh@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Aasand's site
Specializations
Shakespeare, textual editing, Jacobean culture, Old English literature, and history of English.
Books
Stage Directions in Hamlet: New Essays and New Directions (2003); The New Variorum Hamlet (forthcoming); The Winter's Tale (Internet Shakespeare Editions) (forthcoming)
Articles and Book Reviews
Studies in English Literature, Medievalia et Humanistica, Renaissance Quarterly, Seventeenth-Century News, Sixteenth-Century Journal, and other assorted collections.
Steve Amidon
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Universtiy of Rhode Island (2003)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 45
- Phone: 260-481-6277
- E-mail: amidons@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Steve Amidon's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Rhetoric and composition, writing in the workplace
Articles
Rhetoric Review, Writing Lab Newsletter, The Longman Handbook for Readers and Writers, and British Short Fiction Writers.
Irene Anders
Continuing Lecturer, MA, Indiana University (2000).
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 139
- Phone: 260-481-6767
- E-mail: andersi@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Irene Anders IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Composition, English as a second language
Publications
A text on English-Russian translation of legal documents
Troy J. Bassett
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Kansas (2002)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 113
- Phone: 260-481-6089
- E-mail: bassettt@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Troy J. Bassett's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, Native American literature, and history of the book.
Articles
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Book History, English LIterature in Transition, Pacific Coast Philology, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Stuart Blythe
Writing Program Chair and Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University (1997)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 149
- Phone: 260-481-6089
- E-mail: blythes@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Stuart Blythe's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Professional writing, computers and writing, literacy and technology, rhetoric and composition
Articles
College Composition & Communication, Computers and Composition, Journal of Business & Technical Communication, Kairos, Works & Days, The Writing Center Journal, and chapters in various edited collections.
Mary Ann Cain
Professor, Doctor of Arts, State University of New York at Albany (1990)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 111
- Phone: 260-481-6759
- E-mail: cain@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Mary Ann Cain's Users Page
Specializations
Rhetoric and composition, creative writing, gender studies
Books
Revisioning Writers' Talk: Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing (1995)
Articles
College English, College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Dialogue, JAEPL, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Written Communication, Feminist Teacher. Also, Dr. Cain's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies including The North American Review, The Sun: A Magainze of Ideas, Terra Incognita, and First Intensity
Curtis Crisler
Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, MFA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2004)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 115
- Phone: 260-481-6769
- E-mail: crislerc@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Creative writing
Publications
Tough Boy Sonatas (2007), poems, fiction, drama, and reviews in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. Also a Cave Canem Fellow.
Avon G. Crismore
Professor, Ph.D., Univerity of Illinois (1985)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 141
- Phone: 260-481-6755
- E-mail: crismore@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Avon G. Crismore's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Rhetoric and composition, applied linguistics, English as a Second Language
Books
Talking with Readers: Metadiscourse as Rhetorical Act (1989)
Articles
Rhetoric Review, Discourse Processes, Journal of Curriculum, Written Communication, Journal of Reading Behavior, and others
Rachelle L. Darabi
Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Success, Ph.D., Ball State University (2004)
- Office: Kettler Hall G23A
- Phone: 260-481-6140
- E-mail: darabi@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Rachelle L. Darabi's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Composition, ESL
Karol Dehr
Director of the Appleseed Writing Project and Continuing Lecturer, MAT, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (1985)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 125
- Phone: 260-481-6074
- E-mail: dehr@ipfw.edu
Specialization
Composition
Rodney Farnsworth
Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University (1980)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 121
- Phone: 260-481-6886
- E-mail: farnswor@ipfw.edu
- Vita [PDF]
Specializations
Comparative literature and the other arts, Romanticism
Books
The Infernal Return: The Recurrence of the Primordial in Films of the Reaction Years, 1977-1983 (2002) and Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture (2002)
Articles
The Musical Quarterly, The Opera uarterly, Rhetoric Review, LIterature/Film Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and other journals
Sophie Glazer
Visiting Instructor, AB Harvard University (1974), MA University of Chicago (1975)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 133
- Phone: 260-481-6766
- E-mail: glazers@ipfw.edu
Articles
Author of articles in The American Scholar, Commentary, The Forward, The Boston Review, The Chicago Journal and editor of The Jewish King Lear by Jacob Gordin (Yale University Press)
Rachel E. Hile
Assistant Professor and Editor of Clio, Ph.D., University of Kansas (2004)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 39
- Phone: 260-481-6767
- E-mail: bassettr@ipfw.edu
Specialization
Early modern British literature.
Books
Editor of Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career (2005)
Debrah Huffman
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University (2007)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 103
- Phone: 260-481-6768
- E-mail: huffmand@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Rhetoric and composition, composition pedagogy, rhetorical reading, writing across the curriculum
Beverly A. Hume
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Davis (1983)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 123
- Phone: 260-481-6763
- E-mail: hume@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Beverly A. Hume's IPFW User's Page
Specializations
Nineteenth-century American literature, environment and American literature, Poe and the American short story, and American women writers (1880-1920)
Articles
Studies in American Fiction, Essays in Literature, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Short Fiction, American Transcendental Quarterly, Essays in Arts and Sciences, and other journals and collections
George W. Kalamaras
Professor and Coordinator of Visiting Writers Series, Doctor of Arts, State University of New York at Albany (1990)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 119
- Phone: 260-481-6756
- E-mail: kalamara@ipfw.edu
- Web site: George W. Kalamaras's IPFW Web Page
Specializations
Rhetoric and composition theory, creative writing
Books
Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (2008), Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair (2004), Borders My Bent Toward (2003), The Theory and Function of Mangoes (2000), Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence (1994), Beneath the Breath (1988), Heart Without End (1986), and poems and essays in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Michael E. Kaufmann
Associate Professor and Director of Liberal Studies, Ph.D., University of Illinois (1986)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 127
- Phone: 260-481-6760
- E-mail: kaufmann@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Twentieth-century American literature, modern British literature, film
Books
Textual Bodies (1994)
Articles
James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Modern LIterature, American Literature, Criticism
Lidan Lin
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of North Texas (1998)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 107
- Phone: 260-481-6771
- E-mail: linl@ipfw.edu
Specializations
20th-century British literature, postcolonial literature and theory, and women's literature
Articles
Ariel: A Review of International English LIterature, The International Fiction Review, Philological Quarterly, English Studies, The Comparatist, Bronte Studies, North Dakota Quarterly, and other collections
John S. Minton
Professor of Folklore, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (1990)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 131
- Phone: 260-481-6758
- E-mail: minton@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Anglo- and African-American folk music and song, American roots music (blues, bluegrass, country, gospel, soul, r&b, and rock & roll), folklore of the southern United States, world folk narrative
Books
The Coon in the Box: A Global Folktale in African-American Tradition (with David Evans) (2001), Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale (1993)
Articles
American Music, Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, JEMF Quarterly, Southern Folklore, as well as numerous book chapters
Lewis C. Roberts
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University (1999)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 105
- Phone: 260-481-6754
- E-mail: robertlc@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Children's literature, Victorian British literature
Articles
The Blackwood Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Companions to LIterature and Culture), Victorian Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies
Suzanne Kesler Rumsey
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State University (2006)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 43
- Phone: 260-481-6770
- E-mail: rumseys@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Suzanne Kesler Rumsey's IPFW Users Page
Research Specialties
Literarcy, technology, cultural and digital rhetorics
Articles
Pedagogy
Beth Lee Simon
Professor of Linguistics and Creative Writing, Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Linguistics), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1986)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 37
- Phone: 260-481-6761
- E-mail: simon@ipfw.edu
- Vita (.doc)
Specializations
World Englishes; Language Variation; Creative Writing; South Asia
Books
Language: Introductory Readings 7th ed.; Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at "Heartland" English; Out of Nowhere, the Body's Shape
Articles, Books, and Creative Writing
World Englishes: North America, New Approaches to Cultural Pluralism, American Speech, Journal of English Linguistics , Dictionary of American Regional English , Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Epoch, Gettysburg Review, New Letters, North American Review, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly
Michael Stapleton
Director of Graduate Studies and Chapman Distinguished Professor of English, Ph.D., The University of Michigan (1987)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 109
- Phone: 260-481-6772
- E-mail: stapletm@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Early modern British literature
Books
Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn, Fated Sky: The Femina Furens in Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood's "Art of Love": The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's "Ars Amatoria", Harmful Eloquence: Ovid's "Amores" from Antiquity to Shakespeare
Articles
Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne, and numerous others
Jennifer Stewart
Continuing Lecturer, MA, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 137
- Phone: 260-481-6073
- E-mail: stewartj@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Jennifer Stewart's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Composition
Hao Sun
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona (1998)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 129
- Phone: 260-481-6775
- E-mail: sunh@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Hao Sun's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Discourse analysis and interaction, second and foreign language pedagogy, language and culture, and ESL writing
Articles
Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, TESOL Case Studies Series on Interaction and Language Development, Pragmatics and Language Learning, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, and other volumes
Chad L. Thompson
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Oregon (1989)
- Office: Kettler Hall G11L
- Phone: 260-481-6101
- E-mail: thompsoc@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Chad L. Thompson's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
General linguistics, Native American languages and folklore, discourse, Amish languages and culture
Books
K'etetaalkkaanee: An Analytical Companion Volume
Articles
Studies in Language, International Journal of American Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, and other journals and collections; numerous translations from Athabaskan languages
Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2006)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 117
- Phone: 260-481-6770
- E-mail: webbs@ipfw.edu
Specializations
Composition history, theory, and pedagogy, literacy studies, folklore and Appalachian studies, basic writing
Articles
Community Literacy Journal and Open Words: Access and English Studies
Worth Weller
Continuing Lecturer, MA, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (2002)
- Office: ClassRoom-Medical Building, Room 33
- Phone: 260-982-2613
- E-mail: wellerw@ipfw.edu
- Web site: Worth Weller's IPFW Users Page
Specializations
Composition and distance learning
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