Faculty If you need to locate a professor's office, find the office number below, and then consult the Smith Hall Floorplan (East Wing). Stephen Cooper, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Chair, Professor of English. Twentieth-Century American Literature, Southern Literature, African-American Literature. The Politics of Ernest Hemingway (UMI, 1987). Essays in Studies in Short Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South, South Atlantic Review, and Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction: New Perspectives (UMI, 1989). Member, Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and Western Literature Association. Office: Smith Hall, Room 274A  |  Tel.: 334-670-3848  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: stcooper@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~stcooper Elaine Bassett, M.S. (Troy State University), Writing Center Director and Adjunct Instructor of English. Composition, Rhetoric, Developmental English. Editorial Assistant, Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States. Member, National Association for Developmental Education, Alabama Association for Developmental Education, National Writing Centers Association, Southeast Writing Centers Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Alabama Council of Teachers of English, Delta Kappa Gamma. Office: Wright Hall, Room 133  |  Telephone: 334-670-3305  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: ebasset@troy.edu James G. Davis, M.F.A. (University of Alabama), Assistant Professor of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 248  |  Tel.: 334-670-3287  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: jdavis@troy.edu James F. R. Day, Ph.D. (Duke University), Professor of English. Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Late Medieval Literature, Chaucer. Essays in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 2001), Sewanee Medieval Studies, Renaissance Papers, and Tudor Political Culture (Cambridge, 1995). Member, The Oxford Society, Southeast Alabama Phi Beta Kappa Association. Office: Smith Hall, Room 258  |  Tel.: 334-670-3308  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: jday@troy.edu Sharon Eller, M.Ed. (Troy University), M.S. (University of Central Arkansas), Instructor of English. Composition, Teaching English to Students of Other Languages. Member, Modern Language Association. Office: Smith Hall, Room 180  |  Tel.: 334-670-3531  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: seller@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~eller Albert Glover, Ph.D. (Florida State University), Assistant Professor of English. Early American Literature, World Literature, Literature and Philosophy. Member, Melville Society. Office: Smith Hall, Room 252  |  Tel.: 334-670-3313  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: aglover@troy.edu Katona D. Hargrave, M.A. (Central Missouri State University), Instructor of English. Essays in Publications of the Missouri Philological Association (CMSU Press, 1999 and 2002), Chair Academy Journal (International Chair Academy, 2002). Member, National Council of Teachers of English. Sponsor, Pi Lambda Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta. Office: Smith Hall, Room 250  |  Tel.: 334-670-5670  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: khargrave@troy.edu Deborah C. Hicks, M.S. (Troy State University), Instructor of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 253  |  Tel.: 334-670-3285  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: dhicks@troy.edu William E. Hicks, M.A. (University of Georgia), Editor, Alabama Literary Review and Associate Professor of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 166B  |  Tel.: 334-670-3971  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: whicks@troy.edu Catherine Hutcheson, MA (University of Tulsa), TESL (University of Texas, Arlington), Director of American English Group, Director of English as a Second Language, and Instructor of English. English-as-a-Second-Language Writing, Composition, University Study Skills. Presentations at regional and international Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Conventions. Member, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Office: International Center (Pace Hall), Room 127  |  Telephone: 334-670-3335  |  Fax: 334-670-3735 E-mail: chutcheson@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://www.troy.edu/internationalprograms/aeg/index.html Theresa M. Johnson, M.Ed. (Troy State University), Instructor of English. Teaching English to Students of Other Languages, Composition. Recording Secretary, Troy University Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Sponsor, Pi Lambda Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta. Member, National Council of Teachers of English and Alabama Council of Teachers of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 256  |  Tel.: 334-670-3306  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: tmjohnson@troy.edu Jean Jones, Ph.D., Instructor of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 180  |  Tel.: 334-670-3531  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: TBA Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University), Professor of English and Administrative Assistant for Specified University Programs. Medieval Literature, Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Eighteenth- through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Western Civilization, Literature of the Trojan War. The Mindes Medicine or the Phisicke of Philosophie: John Bracegirdle's Translation of Boethius' De Consolation Philosophiae, with Jason Steed (Arizona State University, 1999); Creative and Critical Approaches to the Short Story: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Mary Rohrberger (Edwin Mellen, 1997); The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1992). Essays in Kindlers Neues Literaturlexikon and Language and Civilization. Member, New Chaucer Society, Modern Language Association, Southeastern Medieval Association, International Boethius Society, International Arthurian Society, and Medieval Academy of America. Office: Bibb Graves Hall, Room 015  |  Tel.: 334-670-3530  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: nkaylor@troy.edu Elaine T. Knight, M.A. (University of South Alabama), Instructor of English. Basic Writing Skills, English Composition, American and English Literature. Current project, Growing Up in the South (Short Story Collection). Office: Smith Hall, Room 176  |  Tel.: 334-670-3286 (dept.)  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: eknight17951@troy.edu Priya Menon, M.A. (Calicut University), M.S.Ed.(Troy University), Assistant Professor of English. Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Contemporary Literary Theory, Feminist Theory, Contemporary Cosmopolitanism, Globalization, Postcolonial Diasporic Literature. Member, Modern Language Association, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2005). Office: Smith Hall, Room 178  |  Tel.: 334-670-3518  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: pmenon@troy.edu Theron Montgomery, Ph.D. (University of Southern Mississippi), Professor of English. Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing. Fiction Editor, The Blue Moon Review; Founder, Alabama Literary Review. The Procession and Other Stories (United Kingdom Artists, forthcoming 2005); To Cry Is Not a Sin (Grossmont, 1978). Publications in Southern Writers in the Nineties (1992), Tampa Review, Texas Review, South Carolina Review, Habersham Review, Echoes Magazine, Red Mountain Review, CrossConnect, Blue Moon Review, Alabama Literary Review, The Sniper Review, The Paper, Product, and Three O'Clock at the Pines. Member, Sigma Tau Delta, National Council of Teachers of English, Alabama Council of Teachers of English, Alabama Writers' Forum, American Civil Liberties Union, and Amnesty International. Office: Smith Hall, Room 242  |  Tel.: 334-670-3382  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: tmontgom@troy.edu Festus N'deh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English. Office: Smith Hall, Room 249  |  Tel.: 334-670-3307  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: fndeh@troy.edu Richard Scott Nokes, Ph.D. (Wayne State University), Assistant Professor of English. Medieval Literature, World Literature, Film/Popular Culture. Conflict in Southern Writing (ATSP, 2006), Global Perspectives on Medieval Literature and Culture (forthcoming 2007). Publications in Anglo-Saxon England, Old English Newsletter, Medieval English Studies, Carmina Philosophiae and Alabama English. Presentations at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Southeastern Medieval Association, Medieval English Studies Association of Korea, Popular Culture Association, English Symposium: Celebrating the Western Tradition, Association of College English Teachers of Alabama, Michigan Academy of Science Arts & Letters Conference. Member, Medieval Academy of America, Medieval English Studies Association of Korea, Modern Language Association, Societas Magica, and Southeastern Medieval Association. Fulbright Seminar, Guatemala (2003). Office: Smith Hall, Room 246  |  Tel.: 334-670-3303  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: rsnokes@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~rsnokes Michael Orlofsky, M.F.A. (University of Iowa Writers' Workshop), Writer-in-Residence, Director of Creative Writing Program, and Professor of English. Creative Writing, World Literature, Composition. Publications in Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story (Praeger, 2003), The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer's Digest Books, 2002), Alabama Bound: Contemporary Stories of a State (Livingston, 1995), Writer's Guide to Creativity, WD Guide to Novel Writing, Writer's Digest (frequent contributor), Fiction Writer (frequent contributor), The Basics of Writing and Selling Fiction, Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Prairie Schooner, Alabama Literary Review, and Pulpsmith. Distinguished Artist, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (1998). President, Association of College English Teachers of Alabama. Current project: Michelangelo in Rome (novel). Office: Smith Hall, Room 247  |  Tel.: 334-670-3315  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: morlof@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~orlofsky Ben P. Robertson, Ph.D. (University of Tulsa), Assistant Professor of English. British Romantic Literature, Trans-Atlantic/Transnational Literature, Cultural Studies, Religion in Literature, Women's Studies. Bibliographer, Keats-Shelley Journal. Folger Fellow (2006, 2005). Editor, The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald, 3 volumes (Pickering & Chatto, 2007); General Editor, Themes of Conflict in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature of the American South: The Proceedings of the 2004 Conflict in Southern Writing Conference (Mellen, 2007) and Conflict in Southern Writing (ATSP, 2006). Publications in Keats-Shelley Journal, The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers (Palgrave, 2007), James Joyce Quarterly, South Asian Review, Names: A Journal of Onomastics, South Central Review, South Atlantic Review, Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction (Facts on File, 2006), The University of Tulsa Graduate Review, The Learning, Wit, and Wisdom of Shakespeare's Renaissance Women (Mellen, 1997), Alpha Chi Recorder, and The Rectangle; forthcoming in Students' Companion to American Literary Characters, Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry, and Keats-Shelley Journal. Contributing Editor, Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. Member, Modern Language Association, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Keats-Shelley Association, Byron Society of America, American Name Society, British Association for Romantic Studies, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, South Central Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Current research, Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance: Little Histories and Neutral Territories (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming 2009). Office: Smith Hall, Room 184  |  Tel.: 334-670-3672  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: bprobertson@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~robertson Catherine Smith, Ph.D. (Northern Arizona University), Assistant Professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Applied Linguistics. Director, Conversation Partner Program and Community Adult English-as-a-Second-Language Program. Publications and presentations in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, descriptive and functional grammar, historical linguistics, and first and second language academic writing. Current research, Multilingual Education and Social Networks/Identity. Office: Smith Hall, Room 186  |  Tel.: 334-670-3535  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: catherinesmith@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~catherinesmith William Thompson, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Associate Professor of English. Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, World Literature, Composition. Conflict in Southern Writing (co-editor) (ATSP, 2006). Fashioned Pleasures: 23 Poets Play Bouts-Rimés with Shakespeare's Rhymes (Parallel Press, 2005). Publications in Alabama Literary Review, Antioch Review, Atlanta Review, Blink, Chautauqua Literary Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Drastic Measures, The Gift of Experience, Iron Horse Literary Review, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sequoia, Southern Poetry Review, St. John's Review, Western Humanities Review. Presentations at the West Chester Poetry Conference (West Chester University) and American Poetry in the 1950's Conference (University of Maine). Member, Modern Language Association, The Academy of American Poets, and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. Office: Smith Hall, Room 254  |  Tel.: 334-670-3300  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: wthompson25316@troy.edu Mary Ann Tighe, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh), Professor of English. Young Adult Literature, Children's Literature, Multicultural Literature, Composition Theory, Writing across the Curriculum, English Education. Publications in Alabama English, Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research, ALAN Review, and English Education. Presentations at the International Federation for the Teaching of English, Conference for Global Conversations on Language and Literacy, National Council of Teachers of English, Alabama Council of Teachers of English, and Alabama Reading Association. Member, National Council of Teachers of English, Alabama Council of Teachers of English, Troy Council of Teachers of English, International Reading Association, Alabama Reading Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa. Distinguished Educator Award, ACTE, 2000; Arbuthnot Award, IRA, 1999. Current research, Sharon Creech, author of young adult literature. Office: Smith Hall, Room 272  |  Tel.: 334-670-3301  |  Fax: 334-670-3519 E-mail: mtighe@troy.edu  |  Web site: http://spectrum.troy.edu/~mtighe