Faculty and Staff
Katherine H. Adams, Hutchinson Professor of
English, received her Ph.D. in English
from Florida State University in 1981. Her book publications
include Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign,
Controlling Representations: Depictions of Women in a Mainstream Newspaper, 1900-1950,
A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940, The Easy Access Handbook, A History
of Professional Writing Instruction in American Colleges, Progressive Politics and the Training of America's Persuaders, Teaching Advanced
Composition: Why and How, and The Accomplished Writer. She has also
published many scholarly articles and reviews. Her primary fields of instruction
include research writing, creative non-fiction, professional writing,
and rhetorical theory. She received the Dux Academicus Award.
Professor Adams may be contacted at 504-865-3841 or by email at kadams@loyno.edu.
Professor Adams' home page: http://chn.loyno.edu/~kadams/
Robert Bell was born and raised in New Orleans and its confines. He was even able to receive an education in New Orleans: BA from Loyola University, MFA from the University of New Orleans. In addition to being the Interim Director for Writing Across the Curriculum, he teaches first-year writing and literature, twentieth century literature, and occasionally Irish film. In his spare time, he has been working on his…he has no spare time. Because he is from and lives in New Orleans, he loves to travel. He can be contacted at 504.865.3094 or rcbell@loyno.edu.
John Biguenet is the author of Oyster, a novel, and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, published by Ecco/HarperCollins. Among his other books are Foreign Fictions (Random House) and two co-edited volumes on literary translation, The Craft of Translation and Theories of Translation (The University of Chicago Press). Biguenet’s radio play Wundmale, which premiered on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio network, was rebroadcast by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian national radio and television network. Two of his stories have been featured in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway. The Vulgar Soul won the 2004 Southern New Plays Festival and was a featured production in 2005 at Southern Rep Theatre; he and the play were profiled in American Theatre magazine. His new play, Rising Water, was the winner of the 2006 National New Play Network Commission Award, a 2006 National Showcase of New Plays selection, and a 2007 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been awarded a 2007 Marquette Fellowship for the writing of his next play, Night Train, which he has been invited to develop on a Studio Attachment at the Royal National Theatre in London. His work has received an O. Henry Award and a Harper's Magazine Writing Award among other distinctions, and his stories and essays have been reprinted or cited in The Best American Mystery Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories, and Best Music Writing. Having served twice as president of the American Literary Translators Association and as writer-in-residence at various universities, he is currently the Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. Named its first guest columnist by The New York Times, Biguenet has chronicled in both columns and videos his return to New Orleans after its catastrophic flooding and the efforts to rebuild the city.
Professor Biguenet may be contacted at 504-865-2474 or by email at biguenet@loyno.edu.
Professor Biguenet's homepage:
http://chn.loyno.edu/~biguenet/
Christopher Chambers was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and has since lived in North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. After receiving a degree in English at the University of Wisconsin—River Falls, he worked as a carpenter, a bartender, a dockworker, and a lifeguard. He has taught martial arts in Minneapolis, high school in south Florida, and writing in Alabama. He received an MFA degree from the University of Alabama, where he was editor of the Black Warrior Review. He has written for television, and has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and book reviews in The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, Indiana Review, Exquisite Corpse, CopperNickel, Louisiana Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Georgetown Review, Notre Dame Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Lit, BOMB Magazine, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. His work has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been anthologized in French Quarter Fiction, Knoxville Bound, Maple Street Rag, and Best American Mystery Stories 2003. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for creative writing in 2008. He teaches courses in creative writing, screenwriting, and editing & publishing, and is editor of New Orleans Review.
Professor Chambers may be contacted at 504-865-2475 or by email at chambers@loyno.edu.
William Cotton, B.A. Cornell,
M.A.-Ph.D. University of New Mexico, teaches English Renaissance, particularly
Spenser and Milton, as well as two genres, utopia and epic. An Associate
Professor of English, his publication has been in medieval subjects and in utopia studies. Dr.
Cotton directs the English Honors Thesis Program and moderates The Reader's Response.
He has served as Department Chair, Director of the University Honors Program, and in
1991, was named Dux Academicus. Cotton is a co-founder of New Orleans
Fencing Academy, member of New Orleans Badminton Club, and a distance
runner who has completed four marathons.
Professor Cotton may be contacted at 504-865-2480 or by email at cotton@loyno.edu.
Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru, after
studying in Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast and France, migrated to University
of Minnesota and graduated Magna cum Laude, French. Moving to UCLA, she
obtained her M.A., M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Comp. Lit. She taught at UCLA,
and in Tanzania, New York, Nigeria, and Rhode Island before Loyola. A
Professor of English, Egejuru teaches Composition, Short Fiction, Black
Literature and Black Aesthetics. She also teaches nineteenth-century British fiction and Victorian England. She has published books in literary criticism,
a novel, and poeticized proverbs.
Professor Egejuru may be contacted at 504-865-2479 or by email at egejuru@loyno.edu.
Barbara C. Ewell is the Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, with a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Kate Chopin, a bio-critical study, lots of articles on Renaissance poetry, various North American writers, and feminist pedagogy. She has co-edited two collections, Louisiana Women Writers: Critical Essays and Bibliography and Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender. A native of Baker, Louisiana, she attended the University of Dallas and taught across the fence at Tulane and up the road at the University of Mississippi before settling in at Loyola's City College in 1984. She continues to instruct and advise non-traditional students and teaches in the Women's Studies Program. She received the Dux Academicus Award in 2003 and can be obsessive about recycling.
Professor Ewell may be contacted at 504-865-2160, or by email at bewell@loyno.edu -- Home Page.
Ronald Foust received his Ph.D.
in 20th Century British & American Literature (with a dissertation
in Literary Criticism) from the University of Maryland in 1976, and has
taught courses in expository writing, modern literature, literary criticism,
modernism and science fiction and fantasy literature at Loyola since 1981.
He has published one book and numerous articles in the areas of modern
literature, literary theory and science fiction and fantasy literature,
is active in a variety of other scholarly, community and teaching activities,
and is currently writing a book on literary theory.
Professor Foust may be contacted at 504-865-2263 or by email at refoust@loyno.edu.
Dale Hrebik earned his Master's degree in Professional
Writing from the University of Southern California with concentrations
in fiction and screenwriting. His stories
have appeared in magazines such as Short Story and Third Coast. Before
coming to New Orleans he worked in New York's East Village as a waiter
and bartender. When not teaching
composition and creative writing, he has been spotted playing in a rock
band. He can be contacted at 504-865-2771 or dshrebik@loyno.edu.
Tony Lala served in the U.S. Army
in Germany, the Philippines and Korea before returning to his home town
of New Orleans to earn his Bachelor's degree at Loyola University (1954).
He earned a degree of Master of Arts at Tulane in 1958, joined the faculty
of Loyola of New Orleans in 1958, and in 1962 started work on his doctorate
at Loyola of Chicago. He resumed his post in New Orleans and completed
his doctoral work in 1969. Taught at the Manchester Polytechnic, England,
1976-77, and spent his sabbatical year (1986-1987) in Italy. He specializes
in Shakespeare, modern American and modern European drama. Drama draws
Dr. Lala to New York and other places, where he sees approximately fifty
plays a year.
Professor Lala may be contacted at 504-865-2477 or by email at lala@loyno.edu.
Andrew Macdonald was born in
Buenos Aires, Argentina and initially educated in bilingual British schools.
He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Tulane University and
a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (Austin), with specialties in English
Renaissance literature and composition/practical linguistics. He has published
in popular culture studies and cultural/linguistic problems in second
language learning. He is co-author of Mastering Writing Essentials,
a text for second language speakers. His book Howard Fast explores the
novelist's contributions to American culture. He served as Academic Director
of the Loyola Intensive English program for seven years.
Professor Macdonald may be contacted at 504-865-2478 or by email at mdonald@loyno.edu.
Professor McCay may be contacted at 504-865-3389 or by email at mccay@loyno.edu.
Professor McCay's homepage: http://chn.loyno.edu/english/mccay.html
Peggy McCormack earned all
of her degrees in Houston, at Rice University and the University of St.
Thomas, a liberal arts university like Loyola--where she enjoyed getting
a B.A. so much that, as soon as she finished her Ph.D. at Rice, she returned
to St. Thomas to teach; in 1981, Dr. McCormack came to Loyola. Her publications
include a book on Henry James, examining gender and economic exchange
theory and an edited collection of essays on James which focuses on gender
studies. She teaches courses on American film and literature andBritish
fiction.
Professor McCormack may be contacted at 504-865-2473 or by email at cormack@loyno.edu.
Melanie McKay received her Ph.D. in English from Tulane University in 1982 and joined Loyola's English department in 1990. A serious traveler, Dr. McKay has made it to five continents so far and hopes to see them all someday. In the 80s and 90s, she supported her travel habit with work as a professional writing consultant, and in 2000 published a series of textbooks on workplace writing. She has also published articles in her favorite teaching fields—women’s studies and culture studies—and a book on images of women in the press (Controlling Representations: Depictions of Women in a Mainstream Newspaper, 1900-1950). She has worked extensively with New Orleans’ literary community, and served for three years as the programming director for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Professor McKay may be contacted at 504-865-2199 or by email at mckay@loyno.edu.
Professor McKay's homepage: http://chns.loyno.edu/~mckay/
John Mosier, Professor of English, earned his Ph.D. at Tulane University in 1968, where he held a double fellowship in English and Music and wrote a dissertation on the relationship between historiography and epic poetry. He teaches modern European fiction and the 18th century novel. An active film critic (he served on the Camera d'Or jury at the Cannes Film Festival), he wrote the concluding essay in the Cambridge University study, Jane Austen on Screen, together with over 100 articles on film for Kino, Americas, Variety, and the New Orleans Arts Review. As a military historian, Mosier has written four books: The Myth of the Great War (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), The Blitzkrieg Myth, The Generalship of U. S. Grant, and Cross of Iron. In connection with these books he has appeared on the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, Sky News, and Comcast. His books are currently being translated into French and Czech.
Professor Mosier may be contacted at 504-865-2296 or by email at jmosier@loyno.edu.
Nancy Rowe is the Interim Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Center. She also teaches T122 and T125. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans and a BS from Colorado State University. Professor Rowe may be contacted at 504-865-2297 or at nprowe@loyno.edu.
John T. Sebastian was an undergraduate at GeorgetownUniversity and earned his Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University. Most of his research focuses on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English religious writing, especially the devotional lyric, drama, and mystical texts. His interests also include the history of literacy, paleography and codicology, and gender and class studies. In his courses, John teaches the literatures and cultures of the medieval world from Iceland to Japan. Outside of the English department, he is the Director of Loyola's Medieval Studies Program and the Deputy Director of the University Honors Program.. Professor Sebastian may be contacted at 504-865-2277 or at jtsebast@loyno.edu. His web page is http://www.loyno.edu/~jtsebast .
Marcus Smith, the oldest beard
in the department, takes great delight in engaging his students in debate
and loves being challenged by them. When he was in high school, he won
a summer-long trip on a cargo ship to Panama, Tahiti and Australia and
developed chronic wanderlust. He has traveled on every continent and has
lived in Columbia, Lebanon, Italy, Mexico and Pakistan. He is also an
attorney and a notary public. Despite mischievous rumors, he absolutely
denies that he is Thomas Pynchon.
Professor Smith may be contacted at 504-865-2481 or by email at marcus@loyno.edu.
Mary Waguespack holds a B.A.
in Literature from Louisiana State University and an M.A. in literature
from Boston University. After graduate studies, she taught composition
at Boston University for several years, then returned home to New Orleans
and joined Loyola's English Department in 1989. She teaches freshman composition
courses and directs the English Writing Lab (Bobet 341), tutoring composition
students and mentoring the lab tutors. She also teaches regularly in Loyola's
Summer Bridge program for incoming freshmen.Professor Waguespack may be
contacted at 504-865-2176 or by email at wagues@loyno.edu.
Professor Waguespack's homepage: http://chn.loyno.edu/~wagues/
Kelly Wilson earned her B.A. from Tulane University and her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She teaches creative writing and freshman common curriculum courses. She survived Katrina, and returned to New Orleans to rescue her garden. She loves ballet and Vietnam War literature. When she is not grading papers, she is in her garden making up stories. Professor Wilson may be contacted at 504-865-2771 or at klwilson@loyno.edu.
Mark Yakich began reading poems because they were short and began reading novels because the characters couldn’t talk back to him. His favorite poem is the “Whiteness” chapter of Moby-Dick and his favorite post-modern novel is the Bible. Mark has worked in the European Parliament and has degrees in political science (B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University), West European studies (M.A., Indiana University), creative writing (M.F.A., University of Memphis), and English (Ph.D., Florida State University). He is the author of three poetry collections: Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). Mark’s website is markyakich.com, and he may be contacted at yakich@loyno.edu.