Emeritus Faculty

  • Zack Bowen, Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo, 1964)

    Zack Bowen holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, (B.A.,1956), Temple University (M.A.,1959), and the State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D.,1964). He regularly teaches courses in modern and contemporary British, American, and Irish literature. His special areas of expertise include James Joyce, music and literature, and, more recently, science and literature.

    Until recently Bowen was editor of the Twayne/G.K. Hall/Macmillan series, and Critical Essays in British Literature, as well as the University Press of Florida James Joyce Series, and he remains coeditor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement. He is author of seven books and editor of three others, all on modern British, Irish, and American literature. In addition he has published more than one hundred fifty monographs, essays, scholarly reviews, and recordings related to literature.

    Bowen is Past President of the New York James Joyce Society, former Chair of the Modern Language Association Lowell Prize Committee, and Past President of the International James Joyce Foundation.

  •  Ronald B. Newman, Ph.D. (Michigan, 1972)

    Fields: Composition, rhetorical theory, Victorian literature.

    Author, The Prentice-Hall Diagnostic Test for Writers (1980), The Rinehart Workbook (1988, 2nd ed. 1990), The HBJ Composition Workbook (1992).

    Editor, The Life: The Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler (1976).