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FACULTYThe English faculty -- accomplished teachers and scholars -- have a variety of research interests, including 20th-century British literature, literature of the South, Native American literature, Medieval drama, African-American literature, Restoration and 18th-century British literature, critical theory, women's literature, creative writing, and 19th and 20th-century American literature. Aubrey Anable, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow(aanable@hamilton.edu)Aubrey Anable is a visiting assistant professor of English and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arts and Humanities. She earned her bachelor's degree in women’s studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. and master's in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation, Digital Decay: New Visual Culture, Agency, and Urban Space, considers the sites of convergence between new media subjectivities and new urban subjectivities in the U. S. over the past 40 years. Anable will teach courses on cinema and new media at Hamilton. Naomi Guttman, Ph.D., Professor of English(nguttman@hamilton.edu) A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1996, Naomi Guttman holds a MFA degree from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Southern California. Her book, Reasons for Winter, (Brick Books, 1991), won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry in Quebec, and she has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and an Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her book of poems, Wet Apples, White Blood, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in the spring of 2007. Guttman's teaching interests include poetry and poetics and environmental and feminist literary study. With Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca, she is co-leader of the Central Leatherstocking Region Slow Food convivium.Tina Hall, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English(thall@hamilton.edu) Tina Hall earned an M.F.A. in fiction from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. Her novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, was published by Caketrain Press in the spring of 2009. Hall was named the 2010 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’ s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Hall’s book, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in fall 2010. Catherine Kodat, Ph.D., Professor of English(ckodat@hamilton.edu) A member of the Hamilton College faculty since 1995, Kodat earned her Ph.D. at Boston University and is currently the director of the program in American Studies. From 2005 to 2010, she was chair of the department of English and Creative Writing. Her essays on 20th century literature and culture have appeared in journals such as Representations, American Quarterly, Boston Review, and Mosaic. An inaugural recipient of a Millicent C. McIntosh Flexible Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Professor Kodat has been a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and Fulbright lecturer in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) in Budapest. She is completing a book about the uses of culture during the Cold War. In 2008 Kodat received The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award, which recognizes one Hamilton faculty member each year who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to and skill in teaching. More about Catherine Kodat ... Aishwarya Lakshmi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English(alakshmi@hamilton.edu) Aishwarya Lakshmi earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2007. She specializes in nineteenth century British India with a focus on landscape aesthetics. She has published articles in the Feminist Review, Economic and Political Weekly, and Biblio. She is currently working on the use of the picturesque in early 19th century India, its shift in the mid-century from a surface aesthetic to an aesthetic of depth, and how this shift dovetails with changes in Indian landscape art production. Her other research and teaching interests include Ruskin, nineteenth and twentieth century Indian “high” and popular art, Indian cinema (especially as it intersects with popular art), and postcolonial theory and literature. Doran Larson, Ph.D., Professor of English(dlarson@hamilton.edu)Doran Larson teaches courses in prison writing, the history of the novel, 20th-century American literature, and creative writing. He has published articles on Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James and popular film. Since November of 2006, he has taught a creative writing course inside a maximum-security state prison. Larson's essays on prison writing and prison issues have been published or are forthcoming in College Literature, Radical Teacher, English Language Notes and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of two novels, The Big Deal (Bantam, 1985), and Marginalia (Permanent, 1997). Larson's stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Boulevard, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Best American Short Stories. The Iowa Review published his novella, Syzygy, in 1998. He has also published travel writing, magazine features, and paid op-eds. Hoa Ngo, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of English(hngo@hamilton.edu)Hoa Ngo, visiting assistant professor of English, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before coming to Hamilton, he served as managing editor of The Missouri Review and web editor for Unbridled Books. Ngo is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship and an alumnus of the East-West Center. His writing has recently appeared in Mud Luscious, Titular, and Right Hand Pointing. Vincent Odamtten, Ph.D., Professor of English(vodamtte@hamilton.edu) Vincent Odamtten joined the Hamilton faculty in 1985, after earning a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. While he specializes in African, Caribbean and African American literatures Odamtten also teaches science fiction and postcolonial criticism. He has published an acclaimed book, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (1994), and has contributed articles to a number of critical anthologies, including Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo (1998), Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Post-Colonial Narratives (1997), Of Dreams Deferred, Dead Or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (1996) and Language in Exile: Jamaican texts of the 18th & 19th Century (1990). He was the director of the Africana Studies program at Hamilton from 1990-99. In the Spring of 2007, Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko, a collection of articles edited by Odamtten, was published in England. Currently, he is researching the life and times of Togbi Sri II, Paramount Chief of the Anlo-Ewes of South-eastern Ghana, as part of a multimedia narrative project. Onno Oerlemans, Ph.D., Professor of English(ooerlema@hamilton.edu) Oerlemans earned his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has published articles on the form and function of lyric in Whitman, Milton, and Wordsworth, on literary theory and Henry James, and on animal rights and taxonomy in romanticism. His book Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature (University of Toronto Press, 2002) examines the many ways in which romantic-period authors explore and represent the physical presence of the natural world. He has recently published articles on the representation of animals in Coetzee and Gowdy, the romantic origins of environmentalism, and architecture in romantic period writing. His current research is on the representation of animals in 20th century literature. John O'Neill, Ph.D., Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus(joneill@hamilton.edu) O'Neill, who has been a member of the Hamilton faculty since 1972, received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. His research interest is the literature of Restoration England, 1660-1700. He is the author of George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1984) and has published articles and reviews in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Huntington Library Quarterly, Modern Philology and the Durham University Journal. Among his recent publications are “Rambler and Cully: Rochester’s Satire and the Self-Presentation of the Restoration Rake” (2005), “Samuel Pepys: The War of Will and Pleasure” (1995), and “Composite Authorship: Katherine Philips and an Antimarital Satire” (1993). He is a contributing editor of the Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama (2001). O'Neill is an editor of the journal The Scriblerian and a member of the editorial board of the journal Restoration. Patricia O'Neill, Ph.D., Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English(poneill@hamilton.edu) A member of the department since 1986, O'Neill teaches 19th century British literature and a college course, Art of Cinema. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is the author of Robert Browning and 20th Century Criticism (1995) and editor of Olive Schreiner's 1883 novel Story of an African Farm (2002). Her current work includes a biography of Amelia Edwards, Victorian traveler and Egyptologist, and essays on cinema and globalization.
Jane Springer, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of English(jspringe@hamilton.edu) Jane Springer, visiting assistant professor of English, received her Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University. Her first book, Dear Blackbird, won the Agha Shahid Ali prize for poetry (University of Utah Press, 2007). Other honors she's received include Pushcart nominations, an AWP Intro Award, a “best emerging writer” award from the CLMP, and the Robert Penn Warren prize for poetry. She is a current recipient for an NEA fellowship and you may read more about her on the NEA’s “Writer’s Corner” at: http://www.arts.gov/features/Writers/index.html. Her academic interests include Southern literature, contemporary poetry, and poetics. Nathaniel Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English(nstrout@hamilton.edu) Strout joined the Hamilton faculty in 1981 after earning a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He teaches and studies the literature of the English Renaissance, in particular the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has published articles on poems and court masques by Ben Jonson, on John Ford's play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and on the idea of mutuality in Shakespeare's As You Like It. He is a contributor to Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet, published by the Modern Language Association. Strout served as Associate Dean of the Faculty from 1992-1996. He served as the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor from 2005 to 2008.
Katherine Terrell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English(kterrell@hamilton.edu) Katherine H. Terrell, assistant professor of English, received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2005, after earning graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and Oxford University. She specializes in Middle English and Middle Scots literature, and her work has appeared in The Chaucer Review, Studies in Philology and Romance Quarterly, and in Cultural Diversity in Medieval Britain (ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, 2008); in addition, Terrell is the co-editor of Scotland and the Shaping of Identity in Medieval Britain (Palgrave, 2012). She was recently a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Terrell’s current project examines how the poetic and historical discourses of medieval Scotland create a nationalist discourse through their responses to English writings. Her teaching interests include Old English, Chaucer, women's writing and medieval Christian depictions of Muslims and Jews. Margaret Thickstun, Ph.D., Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English(mthickst@hamilton.edu) Margaret Thickstun received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and joined the Hamilton faculty in 1988. Her teaching interests include seventeenth-century English and American literature, including Milton and other Puritans, women writers, the relationship between literacy—both literal and cultural—and authority, and issues related to history of the book. She is the author of Fictions of the Feminine: Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women as well as articles on Milton, Bunyan, Swift, and seventeenth-century women's religious arguments. Her articles have been published in journals such as Studies in English Literature and Milton Quarterly. She was appointed to the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professorship in 2005. Her new book, Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in Spring 2007.
Steve Yao, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Associate Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives(syao@hamilton.edu) Steven Yao, associate professor of English, earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Ohio State University from 1997 to 2002. Yao is the author of two books, Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave/St. Martins, 2002) and Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford, 2010). He is also co-editor of Sinographies: Writing China (Minnesota 2008), Pacific Rim Modernisms (Toronto 2009), and Ezra Pound and Education (forthcoming from the National Poetry Foundation). Yao’s academic interests include literary translation, poetry, modernist literature, Asian American literature and cross-cultural poetics. In 2005 he was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Yao also served as a Stanford Humanities Center External Junior Faculty Fellow for 2005-06. The award involved a 10-month residency at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University. He has published essays in journals such as Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Textual Practice, and Representations.
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