Visiting Faculty

• Mark Cantrell, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  

  Mark Cantrell focuses on American literature since 1900, modern and contemporary poetry, and cognitive poetics. He has essays forthcoming in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture and Arizona Quarterly, and the working title of his current project is Poetical Investigations: Philosophical Thought as Enactive Process in Twentieth-Century American Experimental Poetry.

• Debra Dean, M.F.A. (University of Oregon, 1992)
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  

  Debra Dean’s bestselling debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad (Morrow), was translated into more than a dozen languages and received wide critical acclaim, including being selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Borders Original Voice, a #1 Booksense Pick, and a Notable Book of the Year by the American Library Association. Her short fiction has appeared in Mid-American Review, Image, The Seattle Review, Calyx, Writers Forum, and The Bellingham Review and has won awards including the AWP Intro Journals Award and the Nelson Bentley Prize. A native of Seattle, Dean worked as an actor in the New York theatre for nearly a decade before opting for the life of a writer. A collection of short stories titled Confessions of a Falling Woman will be published by HarperCollins in January 2008, and she is currently working on a second novel.

• Paolo Javier, M.F.A. (Bard College, 2004)
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  

  Paolo Javier is the 2008/9 Visiting Associate Professor in Poetry at the University of Miami. He is the author of LMFAO (OMG Press), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award. A 2007/8 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer-in-Residence, Javier is co-editor of book reviews for Boog City. He edits and publishes 2nd Ave Poetry, a small press devoted to innovative art and writing. 

   

• Susanne Woods , Ph.D. (Columbia, 1970)
  Distinguished Visiting Scholar
  

  Professor Woods has taught at Brown University, where she was Associate Dean of the Faculty, Franklin and Marshall College, where she was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, and most recently at Wheaton College, where she was Provost from 1999 to 2006. She has been director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University and she was co-general editor of Oxford University Press’s series, Women Writers in English, 1350-1850. She is the author of Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (a Choice notable book for 1999) and Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1985), and a coauthor of A Handbook of Literary Feminisms (2002). She has edited The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1611) (1993), Milton’s Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained (2001), and coedited Approaches to Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers (2000). Her current project is Freedom and Tyranny in Spenser and Milton.