English Faculty

 JANET BLANK-LIBRA: 
Associate Professor

M.A., Univeristy of Montana

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University

News reporting and magazine writing; literary journalism; mass communication law; gender studies

  Composition and Literary Experience

NANCY DICKINSON: 
Director of Academic Support Services and the Writing Center

Ed.S., Appalachian State University

Composition and Rhetoric; Grammar

 J. J. GOHL
Instructor

Composition and Literary Experience

DEBBIE A. HANSON: 
Professor

 M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois

American literature, especially fiction and drama; folklore; Native American literature; western/midwestern American literature.

Essays in Southern Folklore, Midwestern Folklore, Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature

Editor of  Willa Cather Yearbook, vol. 1

PATRICK HICKS:
Assistant Professor
M.A., DePaul University

M.A., Queens University (Belfast)

Ph.D., University of Sussex 

Modern English literature, Irish literature, creative writing, post-colonial literature, gender studies.

  Poetry, fiction and criticism in Nua, New Hibernia Review, Studies in Canadian Literature, Irish University Review, and Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.

  Author of Traveling through History (2005),

Draglines (2006), and

 The Kiss that Saved My Life (2006).

ARTHUR R. HUSEBOE: 
Professor, Director of the Center for Western Studies

M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University

Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature; western American literature.

Author of Sir John Vanbrugh (1976) and Sir George Etheridge (1985).

  Editor of An Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota (1989).

CHERYL JACKSON:
 Composition, Developmental Writing

SANDRA LOONEY:
Professor
M.A., Ph.A., University of Arkansas

 British and American drama; Shakespeare; Russian and Indian literature

JEFFREY MILLER: 
Associate Professor, Department Chair

M.A., University of Iowa

Ph.D., Michigan State University

Television studies; film studies; journalism history; twentieth-century American literature.

Author of Something Completely Different:  British Television and American Culture (2000)

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