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Douglas N. Archibald Professor Emeritus Editor of Colby Quarterly dnarchib@colby.edu Doug Archibald 18th- and 20th-century British literature and culture, Irish studies, especially modern and contemporary. The authors in whom he is most interested include Swift, Burke, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, MacNiece, Trevor, Heaney, Boland, and Longley.
	Charles Walker Bassett Emeritus cwbasset@colby.edu Born in South Dakota, Charles Bassett American literature and culture, particularly the short story, and the works of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Much of his recent writing has focused on the fiction of John O'Hara. The Charles W. Bassett Colby Senior Teaching Award is named in his honor.
Jenny Boylan is a widely praised novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. She has published seven novels, including The Planets (1991) and Getting In (1997), as well as a collection of short stories, Remind Me to Murder You Later (1988). Her ninth book, a memoir, entitled She's Not There, will be published by Doubleday/Broadway in August of 2003. Her 1998 novel, Getting In, won the American Library Association's "Alex Award." Before coming to Colby College in 1988 she worked with the original cast of Saturday Night Live as managing editor of American Bystander magazine, and also served on the editorial staffs at Penguin Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton Inc. She was the Charles Walker Bassett "Professor of the Year" at Colby in 2000-01. Her academic concerns include fiction writing, American literature, composition, and gender studies.	Jennifer Finney Boylan Professor Department Co-Chair jfboylan@colby.edu personal page
Patrick Brancaccio Emeritus pbranca@colby.edu Patrick Brancaccio 19th-century American literature, modern American drama, detective fiction, and Italian fiction and film. He has published essays on American literature, African literature, and translations from the Italian. He was one of the founders of the African-American Studies Program at Colby, was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Madagascar, and was Resident Director of the Colby in London Theater Program. personal page
Cedric Gael Bryant Lee Family Professor of English and American Literature cgbryant@colby.edu	Cedric Gael Bryant's specializations include African American Literature, Southern Literature, race, gender, and sexuality. Teaching is an unapologetic passion and inextricably bound up with his scholarship, which has been published in The Southern Review, MELUS (The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Modern Fiction Studies, The African American Review, and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. In 1996, the Carnegie Center for the Advancement of Teaching named Cedric "Professor of the Year" for the state of Maine. And, in 1994, he was honored with the "Senior Class Outstanding Teaching Award" given annually by Colby College's seniors. Away from teaching and research, his other passions include growing roses and cooking. He lives with his wife, Gail Bryant -- a systems analyst, green-thumbed gardener, and avid reader.
Michael Burke has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been at Colby since 1987, and has taught courses in Composition, American Literature, and Historical Contexts, as well as an Integrated Semester cluster on Environments. His interests are in Creative Nonfiction, Environmental Literature, and African-American Literature, and he has published nonfiction in such forums as Outside, Yankee, Islands, The New York Times, Down East, The Boston Globe, and New England Monthly. His book Me and Sid: Journeys by River is represented by Witherspoon & Associates in New York, and he is currently at work on another project, concerning maple sugaring.	Michael D. Burke Associate Professor mdburke@colby.edu Visit his home page at http://www.colby.edu/~mdburke
	Judy Daviau Administrative Secretary jmdaviau@colby.edu Judy Daviau holds a B.S. from Thomas College. She has been the department's administrative secretary since 1989. Here is her granddaughter Aubrey Samantha.
Robert Gillespie Associate Professor College Editor ragilles@colby.edu
Natalie Harris Associate Professor nbharris@colby.edu	Natalie Harris received her Ph.D. from Indiana University and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, creative nonfiction writing, and composition. Work of hers has appeared in The Southern Review, The Centennial Review, American Poetry, Dickinson Studies, Paideuma, The Christian Science Monitor, The Larcom Review, The Laurel Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her current interest is writing short stories and personal essays.
Peter Harris John Zacamy Professor of English Department Co-Chair pbharris@colby.edu	Peter Harris received a B.A from Middlebury, a Ph.D. from Indiana, and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson. He teaches English Composition with a service-learning component which involves students in local public schools, 19th-century American Literature and Contemporary American Poetry. He also leads workshops in his current main interest, writing poetry. He has published poetry and essays in, among other places, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He has published a chapbook of poems entitled Blue Hallelujahs.
Susan Kenney holds a Ph. D. from Cornell University. She is the author of three Roz Howard mysteries, Garden of Malice, Graves in Academe, and One Fell Sloop, as well as the novels In Another Country and Sailing. Her short story "Facing Front" was chosen for first place in the l982 Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and In Another Country won the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award in l985. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Epoch, The Hudson Review, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, and Family Circle, as well as several anthologies. She is presently working on The Ghost of the Barbizon, a sequel to In Another Country and Sailing. Other work in progress includes three Roz Howard mystery novels. Her most recent publication in this field is a Roz Howard short story entitled "Aunt Agatha Leaving" published in the anthology series, Malice Domestic 8.	Susan McIlvaine Kenney Dana Professor of Creative Writing smkenney@colby.edu Visit her home page at http://www.colby.edu/~smkenney.
Phyllis Mannocchi Professor pfmannoc@colby.edu
David Horton Mills Adjunct Assistant Professor of English for Speech and Debate dhmills@colby.edu
Elisa Narin van Court teaches medieval literature and the occasional George Eliot seminar. Narin van Court received her B.A. and Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley, then taught at Stanford University for two years as an Andrew P. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow before joining the English Department at Colby. She specializes in narrative expressions of medieval anti-Judaisms and has published numerous articles in this field, including "The Hermeneutics of Supersession: The Revision of the Jews from the B to the C text of Piers Plowman," Yearbook in Langland Studies 10(1996), and the recent "Socially Marginal, Culturally Central: Representing Jews in Late Medieval English Literature," Exemplaria Vol.XII no.2 (Fall 2000). Narin van Court also specializes in medieval romance, Chaucer, and the Alliterative Revival. When in California, Narin van Court works with injured hawks; in Maine, she has a parakeet. She has recently fallen into writing and publishing poetry.	Elisa Narin van Court Assistant Professor emnarinv@colby.edu
When Pat Onion isn't staking out the space in Miller 216 with Jean Sanborn, she teaches American literature, with an emphasis on American Indian literature. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard, has published articles on Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, and written a program on American Indian literature for the Maine Humanities Council. She helped develop and currently directs the Indigenous Peoples of America Minor. Her particular area of interest is American Indian drama.	Pat Onion Professor paonion@colby.edu
Laurie Ennis Osborne Associate Professor leosborn@colby.edu Personal Page	Laurie Osborneteaches Shakespeare, film theory, literary theory, and, with particular glee and wild abandon, composition. After completing her book, The Trick of Singularity: Twelfth Night and Performance Editions, Osborne vowed never to publish again. She has been unable to keep that promise due to extravagant and desperate commitments made to various colleagues in the Shakespeare community. Her most recent work could be loosely linked under "Shakespeare and Popular Culture." Romance novels, young adult fiction, and, yes, Shakespeare on film are all victims of her pen. She has developed a website devoted to one of these unlikely topics entitled Romancing the Bard, and is beginning a second site on Shakespearean theatrical engravings. Her favorite color is teal, her favorite song is Brahms' 2nd piano concerto, her favorite junk book is The Ice King, and her most treasured achievement is the first CWB Colby Senior Teaching Award given to a female professor.
Anindyo Roy Associate Professor aroy@colby.edu Anindyo Roy teaches critical and postcolonial theory, postcolonial African, Caribbean, and South Asian literatures as well as early twentieth-century "modern" British literature. His essays have appeared in journals such as Boundary 2, Criticism, SEL, Women: A Cultural Review, Colby Quarterly, Mediations and Journal X. His forthcoming book entitled Civility and Empire (Routledge, U..K.) is a literary exploration of the culture of civility operating in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British colonial society. The book examines the manner in which civility came to define the ethos of the modern colonial state and emerged as a key discursive idea around which questions about education, citizenship, gender, race, labor, and bureaucratic and civil authority were negotiated.
Ira Sadoff Dana Professor of Poetry isadoff@colby.edu	Ira Sadoff is the author of six collections of poetry (most recently Grazing, U. of Illinois), a novel, O.Henry prize-winning short stories, and The Ira Sadoff Reader (a collection of stories, poems, and essays about contemporary poetry). He is the recipient of a Creative Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Fellowship from the Guggenheim foundation. He has recently published critical articles about postmodern American poetry and is interested in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Poetry. personal page
Elizabeth Harris Sagaser (B.A. Brown U. , Ph.D. Brandeis U.) teaches, writes, and writes about a wide range of poetry. Her original specialty is 16th- and 17th-century English poetry, and she always offers courses on lyric and narrative poetry from Wyatt to Behn. But she also teaches various cross-century poetry and poetic theory courses. She has published essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets (ELH) , Spenser (Spenser Studies), and Daniel (Exemplaria). Her most recent essay, "Flirting With Eternity: Teaching Form and Meter in a Renaissance Poetry Class," elaborates on ways she explores the performative and social dimensions of early modern lyric with her students and the philosophical and psychological ideas that inform her teaching and writing. Currently she is working on apostrophe and elegiac address in Mary Sidney Herbert and others. She has also published poems, book reviews, and a personal essay. When she can, she teaches poetry in local public elementary and middle schools and at conferences for girls. The underlying concern of much of her scholarship, teaching and poetry is how people have used, and do use, poetry to cope with their knowledge of human fragility.	Elizabeth Harris Sagaser Associate Professor ehsagase@colby.edu
Jean Donovan Sanborn Professor Emeritus jmsanbor@colby.edu	Jean Donovan Sanborn also served as Director of the Farnham Writers' Center which she founded in 1984. Her primary interest is the essay, both the academic essay and creative non-fiction. Research on the history of the academic essay has led to a manuscript entitled Weaving Writing, which seeks to validate forms of academic writing other than the thesis/argument essay. Related interests are feminist rhetoric, Bakhtinian theory, multiple intelligences, and the history of the essay genre rooted in Montaigne. She has twice served as Director of Colby in Cork and enjoys talking about Ireland.
Debra Spark received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She teaches fiction writing, and is the author of the novels Coconuts for the Saint and The Ghost of Bridgetown. Her essays, reviews and short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Yankee and The New England Review, among other places. Personal Page	Debra Spark Associate Professor Director of Creative Writing daspark@colby.edu
Katherine Stubbs received her Ph.D. from Duke University, and teaches 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American literature. She has written an introduction for a recent reprint of Anzia Yezierska's 1927 novel, Arrogant Beggar, and her essays have appeared in differences, MELUS, and the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Forthcoming articles in book collections include an analysis of the practice of class passing, and an exploration of telegraphy and the female body. She is currently finishing a book entitled Fantasies of Fluidity: Women and Class Passing in the American Text.	Katherine Stubbs Associate Professor kmstubbs@colby.edu
David Suchoff Associate Professor dbsuchof@colby.edu personal page	David Suchoff teaches 19th-century British Literature, Critical Theory, American literature, and Yiddish and Hebrew literature in translation. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley emphasized English, French, and German literatures. His book, Critical Theory and the Novel (1994), examined mass culture and cultural criticism in Dickens, Melville and Kafka. He is a translator from the French and author of the Introduction to Alain Finkielkraut's The Imaginary Jew, (Nebraska 1994) The Wisdom of Love (1997) (on Levinas), co-edited The Seductions of Biography (Routledge, 1995), has published essays on Henry David Thoreau, Cold War Containment and American Culture, Irving Howe, Yiddish writing from Auschwitz, the German-Jewish intellectuals Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt, Kafka and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, and is working on a book on Yiddish writing from Warsaw and Lodz during WWII, Listen and Believe: The Ghetto Reportage of Josef Zelkowicz and Peretz Opoczynski.
John Sweney Emeritus NEH Class of '40 Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities jrsweney@colby.edu

Linda Tatelbaum came to Colby in 1982. She holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University, and teaches first-year writing, critical theory, and environmental literature/philosophy. She is also actively involved in community teaching through various projects of the Maine Humanities Council. Linda and her husband came to live in Burkettville (Appleton) in 1977, where they built a solar-powered house on a back road. Their garden produces the family food supply. Linda’s first book, Carrying Water as a Way of Life: A Homesteader’s History (About Time Press, 1997), describes how and why she lives this way. Her second book, Writer on the Rocks–Moving the Impossible (About Time, 2000), explores how physical labor can help us move metaphysical obstacles like writer’s block.	Linda Tatelbaum Associate Professor ltatelb@colby.edu Personal page
W. Arnold Yasinski Professor Administrative Vice President wayasins@colby.edu

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