English Writing Faculty

English/Writing Program

Faculty

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David Axelrod, Professor of English/Writing

Cori L. Brewster, Assistant Professor of English/Writing

April Curtis, Professor of Theatre and Speech

Linda Elegant, Instructor of English/Writing

Sandra (Fischer) Ellston, Professor of English/Writing

Marilyn M. Ewing, Professor of English/Writing

Neil Gustafson, Associate Professor of Media Arts/Journalism

Nancy Knowles, Associate Professor of English/Writing and Director of the Oregon Writing Project at Eastern

Matt Schumacher, Instructor of English/Writing

Mark Shadle, Professor of English/Writing

Jodi Varon, Professor of English/Writing

Susan Whitelock, Senior Instructor of English/Writing and Writing Lab Director

Donald Wolff, Professor of English/Writing and Director of the Oregon Writing Project at Eastern

Distance and Credit-Overlay Instructors

Marion E. Cornell

Richard Daniels

Elizabeth Henry

Thomas Hofheinz

Ben Morgan

Eric Ottem

Retired Faculty

Lois Barry

Tom Madden

Gerry McNamee

George Venn

Recent Faculty Publications and Presentations

Axelrod, David. The Cartographer’s Melancholy. Eastern Washington UP, 2005. Finalist for the 2006 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry presented by the Oregon Book Awards.

Brewster, Cori. “Trading on the Exploited: Fanny Fern and the Marketplace Rhetoric of Social Justice.” Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Earl Yarington and Mary DeJong. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Ellston, Sandra. “Heritage Tree.” (poem) The Oregonian. 14 Jan. 2007 and "Hearing Ophelia: Gender and Tragic Discourse in Hamlet," Renaissance & Reformation, n.s. 14 (Feb. 1990): 1-10. Consistently reprinted in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, ed. Michael Meyer and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, ed. Michael Meyer, most recently in the 8th edition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008) as "Ophelia's Mad Speeches."

Ewing, Marilyn M. “’Gotta Dance!’ Structure, Corruption, and Syphilis in Singin’ in the Rain.” Journal of Popular Film and Television. 34.1 (Spring 2006): 12-23.

Gustafson, Neil. “Willa Cather and Hamlin Garland: Early Parallel Lives.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Summer 2005.

Knowles, Nancy. "Collaboration through Technology: Integrating Computer Resources into 'Literature and Composition.'" With M. Wendy Hennequin. Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options. Eds. James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Schumacher, Matt. “A Brief Correspondence Between Halloween and the Aurora Borealis.” The Eleventh Muse. 2005. Awarded the 2005 Hayna Prize and nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize.

Shadle, Mark F. Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures. With Robert L. Davis. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2007.

Varon, Jodi. Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father. U of Missouri P, 2006.

Whitelock, Susan. “Composing Bridges: University/High School Writing Connection.” Continuums of Service Conference, Portland, OR. Spring 2004.

Wolff, Donald. Some Days. (poetry chapbook) Brandenburg P, 2004.

Recent Retired Faculty Publications

Madden, Tom. Lessons for Custer. La Grande, OR: Wordcraft, 2007. Finalist for the 2007 Spur Award.