 |
Associate Professor of English. Education: B.A., Biola University; M.A., California State Polytechnic University; Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles Office: PAC A-15, x5312 E-mail: jnetland@uu.edu Professor John T. Netland earned his M.A. from the California State Polytechnic University and his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. A Victorianist, Dr. Netland has recently published “Of Philistines and Puritans: Matthew Arnold’s Construction of Puritanism” in Puritanism and its Discontents (University of Delaware Press, 2003). Dr. Netland has also presented and published on twentieth-century Japanese author Endō Shūsaku. His essay, “From Resistance to Kenosis: Reconciling Cultural Difference in the Fiction of Endō Shūsaku” appeared in a special issue of Christianity & Literature devoted to the author. His most recent publication is “Who Is My Neighbor? Reading World Literature Through the Hermeneutics of Love” in the Journal of Education and Christian Belief, autumn 2007. Dr. Netland joins Union University as Chair of the Department of English after years of distinguished service at Calvin College. |
 |
Janna Smartt Chance
Prof. Chance completed her Ph.D. from Rice University in Spring 2008. Her dissertation, "Obeying God Rather than Men: Protestant Individualism and the Empowerment of the Victorian Heroine," won this year's Chair's Dissertation Prize, the Rice University English department's annual award for the most outstanding dissertation. |
|
|
Gene Fant
Dr. Gene Fant, former Chair of the English
Department and current Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences,
received degrees from James Madison University, Old Dominion University,
the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and the University of
Southern Mississippi. He was Union’s 2005 Newell Innovative Teaching
award recipient and has been named several times to Who’s Who Among
America’s Teachers and Who’s Who in America. His scholarly interests
include Renaissance literature, William Faulkner, Faith& Literature (he
serves on the national steering committee of the Literature of the Bible
subgroup of the Evangelical Theological Society), biography (he
contributed to Oxford University Press's mammoth American National
Biography), and higher education (he writes frequently for The
Chronicle of Higher Education). Along with his wife Lisa, Dr. Fant
wrote a devotional memoir: Expectant Moments (Zondervan/Harper
Collins). He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, essays
(including a 2003 Amy Foundation Award), and literary criticism
(including the Daub-Mayer Prize from the Southeastern Conference on
Christianity and Literature). Additionally, he is a curriculum
consultant for IMPACT 360, a worldview academy sponsored by a Chik-fil-A
foundation, and serves as the Writer-in-Residence at the Edgar Allan Poe
Museum in Richmond, VA. |
|
|
Patricia Hamilton
Dr. Patricia Hamilton earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, where she won the first Dianne C. Davison Scholar Award. Her teaching specialties include Restoration and 18th-century British literature, contemporary American ethnic writers, and creative writing. In 2006 she won Union’s Newell Innovative Teaching Award and received Honorable Mention in 2003 and 2004. She was also named to the 2004 and 2005 editions of Who’s Who in American Teachers. Her article “Monkey Business: Lord Orville and the Limits of Politeness in Frances Burney’s Evelina” was published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction in August 2007. Other scholarly publications include “Timeless Advice: Daniel Defoe and Small Business Management,” co-authored with R. H. Hamilton and published in Management Decision, “Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club,” published in MELUS, and a chapter in Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900 entitled “Beyond ‘Great Crowds’ and ‘Minor Triumphs’: Teaching Students to Evaluate Critical Pronouncements.” Her poetry has appeared in Negative Capability, Mobius, Small Brushes, The Laughing Dog, Ibbetson Street, Pegasus, Wavelength, Miller’s Pond, and Big Muddy. Her forthcoming poem “Rhapsody in Blue” has been nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. Dr. Hamilton is on research leave for the 2007-08 academic year. She will be engaging in research projects on Charlotte Lennox, Frances Brooke, and Lord Chesterfield and completing her second novel.
|
 |
Pam Sutton Lewis
Dr. Pamela Casey Sutton Lewis received her doctorate from Texas A&M –Commerce. Her area of expertise is Written Discourse: Theory and Practice. Paper presentations include the Conference on College Composition and Communication, South Central Modern Language Association, and Conference on Christianity and Literature. She teaches written composition, sophomore world literature, advanced composition, and literature and film. In addition to teaching in the English Department, she also assists the Education Department by teaching the methods course for English education majors and supervising student teaching experiences, and she appears in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Drawing on her years of parenting two sons, she is a regular contributor for the Parenting Column in the local Jackson Sun, as well as The Florida Baptist Witness. In May 2002, she was a English Language Institute of China Visiting Professor at Qufu Teachers University in the Shandong Province. She has also directed two study abroad trips to Italy. During the fall of 2006, she was on research leave and attended the Los Angeles Film Studies Center to study screen writing, resulting in a new course for the English Department. |
 |
David MaloneDr. David Malone has written poetry, short stories, literary criticism, news and feature articles, creative nonfiction, and a novel. He has worked as a reporter for a daily paper in DeKalb, Illinois, and a staff writer for Mission to the Americas in Wheaton, Illinois; he has also worked as a ghostwriter, a writing tutor, and a writing teacher. His most recent publication is the essay "Updike 2020: Fantasy, Mythology, and Faith in Toward the End of Time," which appeared in the collection John Updike and Religion. He holds a master's degree in creative writing from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with novelists Larry Woiwode and John Vernon. He recently presented "The 'Predictable Employment of Racially Informed and Determined Chains': Morrison, O’Connor, and the Question of Race" at "Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: An Academic Conference on Violence and Grace," Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids. Dr. Malone will be leading a study tour of Italy and France in January 2008.
|
 |
Barbara Childers McMillinDr. Barbara McMillin, former Chair of the English Department, serves as the Associate Provost and Dean of Instruction at Union University. Dr. McMillin continues to teach courses in the department, and was named Union University's Faculty Member of the Year for 1999. Dr. McMillin joined the Union faculty in 1992. Before coming to Union, she taught at Northeast Mississippi Community College, Blue Mountain College, and the University of Mississippi. Dr. McMillin graduated from Union with a Bachelor of Arts in English and received her Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts in English from the University of Mississippi. She recently published "Christian Worldview and Literature" in Shaping a Christian Worldview.
|
|
Gavin
Richardson
Dr. Gavin Richardson received his B.A. in English and Classics from Vanderbilt University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. At Union he has taught seminars on Beowulf, Dante, Arthurian literature, Shakespeare, and Literary Theory, among many other courses. In 2007 he received the Howard Newell Innovative Teaching Award for a project entitled "Practical Paleography in the Chaucer Classroom." Dr. Richardson has presented papers at conferences sponsored by the International Congress of Medieval Studies, the Illinois Medieval Association, the Medieval Association of the Midwest, and the Southeastern Medievalist Association. He has contributed articles to Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, as well as Sources for Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. An article on the portrayal of Mary Magdalene in the 14th century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman appeared in volume 14 of the Yearbook of Langland Studies. His most recent long essay is "Sex and Secrecy in Medieval Antifeminist Proverbs," appearing in Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, vol. 22 (2005). In 2005 he was granted tenure and was awarded a grant to study late imperial numismatic iconography, and currently has work forthcoming in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. He will be on research leave in Fall 2008.
|
 |
Bobby Rogers
Bobby Rogers studied creative
writing as a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia where
he worked with Charles Wright, Greg Orr, George Garrett, and John
Casey. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The
Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, and
numerous other magazines. His published criticism includes
essay/chapters on the work of Denise Levertov and May Sarton. He won
The Greensboro Review Literary Prize in Poetry for 2002 and
has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2005, he had poems
in River City, The Greensboro Review, Image,
Meridian, The Southern Review, Epoch, The
Literary Review, and Southern Humanities Review. New work
is forthcoming in New Millennium Writings. He is
faculty sponsor of The Torch, Union’s award-winning
literary-arts magazine. |
 |
Roger S. StanleyRoger Stanley has published short fiction in The Cold Mountain Review, poetry in Laughing Dog, and non-fiction in Literature and Belief and in Gulf South Historical and Humanities Review. He has been editor of The Journal of the Union Faculty Forum since 1995 and sponsor of the English honor organization Sigma Tau Delta since 1993. Among the poets he has workshopped with are Kate Daniels and Miller Williams. In addition to teaching upper division courses in Southern lit. and creative writing at Union, he hosted for three years a monthly Open Mic Poetry Night at the now defunct Davis-Kidd Booksellers of Jackson.
|
