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SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FULL-TIME FACULTY PROFILES |
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William Babula Brantley Bryant teaches and researches medieval literature with special
interest in Chaucer and fourteenth-century literature. Other areas of
interest include classical and ancient literature, medieval women's Robert Coleman-Senghor Gillian Conoley Current projects include an eighth manuscript of poetry and a talk on French poet Henri Michaux, scheduled to occur at Poet's House in New York City in April 2006. Professor Conoley teaches English 318, Introduction to Poetry Writing; English 418, Advanced Poetry Writing: English 500, Graduate Poetry Workshop: English 435 and 535, Directed Writing: English 368, Small Press Editing; as well as graduate seminars in Emily Dickinson, undergraduate GE courses, and a reading series course entitled Writers on Writing. She is the advisor for Zaum, the award-winning Sonoma State University student literary magazine, and the editor and founder of VOLT, the nationally recognized literary magazine also housed at Sonoma State. Students may work on both magazines through her course English 368, Small Press Editing.
Helen Dunn Courses: I currently teach courses in medieval literature and like to
balance standard works (Chaucer, the great epics and romances) with uncanonical
texts (Marco Polo's Travels, Arab crusade chronicles). Other courses:
Women Writers, Classical Myth and Literature, Early and Late British Literature
Surveys, and freshman Expository Writing, most recently in a consumer/global
studies framework. In the recent past I have taught the Irish Renaissance
with a focus on Yeats and British literature from 1660 to 1800.
Anne Goldman teaches courses in both nineteenth and twentieth century American literature. She routinely teaches English 315, California Ethnic Literature, and American literature surveys, as well as seminars on modern and contemporary poetry, Jewish American literature, the African American novel, Chicana/o narrative, and Early Mexican American literature. She has taught courses entitled "Apocalyptic Literature of California," "Fallen Women," and "American Ghost Stories" and a number of courses on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams. Recent classes include seminars on immigrant narrative, twentieth-century Jewish American literature, contemporary poetry, and the nineteenth century American novel. Professor Goldman has published books on the Californiana writer María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives, co-edited with Amelia de la Luz Montes [Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004]), on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel (Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature [New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2000]), and on autobiography theory and practice (Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996]. Her essays have appeared in journals including Feminist Studies, Western American Literature, and Cultural Critique. She has also published essays on autobiography theory, and on writers such as Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. Currently Professor Goldman is finishing up a manuscript on Jewish Cultural Studies, "Glass Half Full," which considers Jewish American achievement across the fields of physics, painting, music, and literature. She is also in the process of writing an essay on Egyptian Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Exilic Memoir in English. In the fall of 2006, she will be coordinating, together with Karen Brodsky,
a campus-wide lecture series on contemporary Jewish American literature
in conjunction with other texts that explore both exilic identity and
visions of home. Kim Hester-Williams, Chair, Department of English Kim Hester-Williams studied early American literary
history and African American literature at UC San Diego. She joined the
English department in 1999. Her research and teaching interests include
American romanticism; nineteenth-century discourses on slavery and freedom;
and African American literary and cultural studies. She is currently a
member of the editorial board for the academic journal, Genders. Her published
articles have explored the politics of racial representation on the Internet
and in contemporary film and literature. Hester-Williams, Kim. "The Reification of Race in Cyberspace: African
American Expressive Culture, FUBU and a Search for 'Beloved Community'
on the Net." Mots Pluriels (October 2001). “The Net: New Apprentices,
Old Masters.” <http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/>
Sherril Jaffe Sherril Jaffe is the English Department's resident fiction writer, specializing
in teaching short story and novel writing-workshops. In addition, she
offers one-on-one mentoring in fiction writing, "Directed Writing."
She is the recipient of a PEN Award for literary excellence and the author
of eight critically acclaimed books, which include Scars Make Your Body
More Interesting, The Unexamined Wife, House Tours, and Ground Rules.
Mira-Lisa Katz Professor Katz teaches courses in the English Department's Single Subject Program geared specifically to those who hope to become English teachers at the secondary and community college levels. Her courses include: Explorations in Language (341); Children's Literature (342); Youth and Literature (343); Pedagogical Grammar (379); the Teaching of Composition (491); Teaching Reading and Responding to Literature (492), and occasional Graduate Seminars on varied topics (588). Scholarly Publications and Presentations Current Research and Teaching Interests
Cathy Kroll teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, English education,
and modern world literature. A recipient of a Fulbright-Hays award to
South Africa in 2004, she works in the areas of critical pedagogy, cross-cultural
rhetoric, and African literature. Her recent writing includes essays on intertextuality, rhetoric, and
orature in the contemporary African novel; critical educultural teaching
approaches using narrative; and public and private discourses in South
Africa. She is a member of the African Literature Association, NCTE, and
co-chair for the Spring 2006 National Association of Multicultural Education
(NAME) Northern California conference. John Kunat Noelle Oxenhandler
Thaine Stearns Areas of Specialization: Twentieth Century British Literature, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce. Visual Culture and Theory. The British Novel. Courses Taught: Anglo-Irish Modernist Novels: Joyce and Woolf; Collaboration
and Exchange in Anglo-American Modernism; Experimental Novels; History
of the British Novel; Post-colonial Literature and Theory; Selected Publications: "The 'woman of no appearance': James Joyce, Dora Marsden, and competitive pilfering" - Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2002 Current Book project: A Visible Chaos: Optics, Status, and Altercations in Anglo-American Modernism
Greta Vollmer Dr. Vollmer received a PhD from the School of Education at the University Professor Vollmer teaches courses in the English Education track: these As of Fall 2006, Dr. Vollmer will serve as the site director of a newly Her areas of interest include: genre theory and genre-based pedagogy, Timothy Wandling
Chingling Wo Chingling Wo studied English (Comparative Literature) at State University
of New York at Stony Brook. She joined the English Department in 2005.
Her work in general engages issues of empire formation, transnational
print culture, and modernization in Asia and Europe. She has presented
conference papers on eighteenth-century travel writing, early modern British
scientific discourse on other cultures, and the discursive function of
the European Enlightenment legacy in late nineteenth-century China.
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