Gabriel Abudu B.A., University of Ghana; Ph.D., Temple University

Professor Abudu is an authority on twentieth-century Cuban poetry. He frequently publishes on Nancy Morejon, a major Cuban poet with whom he has worked closely. He is currently at work on an anthology of Ms. Morejon's poetry, which he has translated and commented on.

Julie S. Amberg, B.A., Boston University; Ph.D. Tulane University

Professor Amberg teaches courses in American literature, language and linguistics, women's writing, composition, and women's and gender studies. She frequently presents at national conferences on women's writing, memoir, and linguistics, and has a textbook on American English currently under contract. Professor Amberg is Coordinator of Literary Studies in the Department of English and Humanities and also coordinates the Women's and Gender Studies minor.

Mary Boldt, B.A. Wilson College, M.A. and Ph.D. Brown University

Professor Boldt has given presentations on theoretical and applied linguistics in Germany, France, and the United States. Her two forthcoming book chapters deal with translation and with authorship identification. She is co-author of the book Learning Interdependence, a case study of the intercultural education of first-year college students.

Dominic Delli Carpini, B.A., The University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

Professor Delli Carpini is Writing Program Administrator, directing the first-year and Professional writing programs.His books, book chapters, articles, and frequent presentations at national conferences focus upon the relationship between writing and civic engagement, and upon writing program administration.He is currently an Executive Board Member of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, and co-director of the National Conversation on Writing, a multi-modal initiative collecting written, videotaped, and audiotaped stories about the influence of writing on the lives of Americans. He also teaches Renaissance literature, including courses on Shakespeare and other major authors of the period.

Cindy Doutrich, B.A. and Ph.D., Penn State University

The Coordinator for Foreign Languages and author of the McGraw-Hill text, NUEVOS DESTINOS (New Destinations), Professor Doutrich is currently completing a conversation/grammar review with a co-author that will be published in 2008 by Heinle and Heinle.

Peggy Herr - B.A., University of the Pacific; M.A. Brigham Young University

Professor Herr is the Coordinator of the Foreign Language Lab. Her interests include language acquisition and attrition, pedagogy and the integration of new technologies in the foreign language classroom.

Rory E. Kraft Jr. B.A. Arizona State, M.A. American University, Ph.D. Michigan State

Professor Kraft works primarily in ethical and applied ethics (specifically medical/bioethics and business ethics). He has additional interests in aesthetics, 19^th and 20^th century German philosophy, and philosophy with children. He is co-editor of the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People and is currently working on a collection of materials related to the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Adult Male Negro.

James McGhee, A.B., Montclair State College, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

Head of the theatre program in the department, Professor McGhee recently published a critical study of the American playwright, Sam Shepard, and published one of the first critical studies of the playwright Don Nigro.

William R. Miller, B.A., Eckerd College; Ph.D., State University of New York (Binghamton)

Professor Miller is a nationally-known poet and award-winning author of multicultural children's books.

(Alexander) Ian Olney, B.A., Rhodes College; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Professor Olney is a film studies scholar whose areas of interest include European cinema, the horror film, American independent cinema, and the relationship between film and literature.  He regularly teaches Intro to Film, Film History, Screenwriting, and Literature & Film, in addition to special topics film courses on a variety of subjects.  He developed the Film Studies minor at York College, and is the coordinator of the Humanities Film Series and the faculty advisor to the York College Film Society.

Colbey Emmerson Reid, B.A. University of Florida; Ph.D. University of Washington

Professor Reid's scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to modernism; her current project studies the function of "mistake" in the aesthetic experiments of that era.  She has recently taught survey and special topics courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literatures, the Harlem Renaissance, salon culture, love and sex in literature, and interdisciplinary writing about the emotions.

Gerald Siegel, B.A., Western Maryland College; Ph.D., George Washington University

Professor Siegel is a former Fulbright lecturer in Macedonia and more recently in Belgium. Professor Siegel is an authority on Middle-European tales of terror, the subject of one of his frequent publications.

Victor Taylor, B.A., Lemoyne College; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Professor Taylor's areas of research are in religious theory, comparative literature, and philosophy. He is the author or editor of seven projects: Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture, (Routledge 2000), The Encyclopedia of Postmodernism with Charles E. Winquist (Routledge 2000), Postmodernism: Critical Concepts, (Routledge 2001), The Religious Pray, The Profane Swear,(PenMark Press 2002), Jean-Francois Lyotard: Critical Assessment with Gregg Lambert (Routledge 2006), Religion, Myth, and Literature, University of Virginia Press, 2008), and Rhetoric/Culture/Theory, (Davies Group Publishers 2009).

Deborah Vause, B.A., North Carolina State University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professor Vause has published on the medieval monster and writer Stephen King. Her areas of interest include the utopian fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Arthurian legends.

Sam J. Waddell, B.A., York College of PA; M.A., Towson University

Professor Waddell is a former teacher at the secondary level. He has presented at a regional conference on writing centers and is an active mentor of writing fellows and peer writing tutors in the campus writing center. Areas of research interest include how to best assess student writing and the potential role of peer tutors in improving student writing.

Dennis Weiss, B.A., Emory University; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Professor Weiss has major research and publications in metaphysics, the philosophy of human nature, and the digital culture. He is currently interested in the impact of digital technologies on our conceptions of human nature. Among the courses he regularly teaches are Epistemology, the study of knowledge and truth, and Metaphysics, which examines the intersection of philosophy and science fiction. He is department chair.

Janet Zepernick, B.A., Bowling Green State University; Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University 

Professor Zepernick is a specialist in rhetoric and composition with an interest in the discourse of public policy-making.

Michael J. Zerbe, B.A., James Madison University; Ph.D., Purdue University

Professor Zerbe is a specialist in rhetoric and composition and has a research interest in the application of rhetorical theory to medical and scientific writing.