Alabama's Public Liberal Arts University

English Department

English Faculty and Staff

Chair

Jim Murphy
Chair, (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati)
Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

 

Office Manager

Tonja Battle
Office Manager
          tel: (205) 665-6420
fax: (205) 665-6422
          email: battletl@montevallo.edu

 

Faculty

Stephanie L. Batkie
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Medieval Languages and Literature

 

Bryn Chancellor
(M.F.A., Vanderbilt University)
Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction

 

Glenda Conway,
Coordinator, Harbert Writing Center
(Ph.D., University of Louisville)
Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetoric of Law

 

Nicholas Crawford
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
    Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Drama and Dramatic Theory,
    20th Century Literature, Playwriting

 

Stefan Forrester
(MFA, Southern Illinois University)
Creative Writing, Contemporary American Poetry, British Romantic Poetry

 

Elizabeth C. (Betsy) Inglesby
(Ph.D., University of Georgia)
 British Modernism

 

Kathryn R. King
(Ph.D., Emory)
18th Century Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality

 

Paul Mahaffey
(Ph.D., University of Alabama)
African American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Theory

 

Lee Rozelle
(Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi)
Ecocriticism, American Literature, Cultural Studies

 

Glenda B. Weathers
(Ph.D., University of Alabama)
Early American Literature, Sophomore Literature

 

Samantha Webb
(Ph.D., Temple)
British Romanticism, Children's Literature, Adolescent Literature

 

Philosophy and Religion Program

Michael F. Patton, Jr.  (Ph.D., Syracuse)
     Analytic Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy

Stefan Forrester  (Ph.D., University of Rochester)
     Philosophy of Art, Kant's Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind

 

Emeritus Faculty

Charlotte Blackmon, M.A., Associate Professor of English and
                                   International-Intercultural Studies

Loretta Cobb, M.A., Director of Harbert Writing Center

William Cobb, M.F.A., Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence

Joseph DiOrio, A.M., Associate Professor of Foreign Language

Milton J. Foley, Ph.D., Professor of English

Cynthia Gravlee, Ph.D., Professor of English

Dorothy G. Grimes, Ph.D., Professor of English

Elaine W. Hughes, Ph.D., Professor of English

Sandra W. Lott, M.A., Professor of English

Milton Ray Mayfield, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish and
                                    Director of Continuing Education

Norman McMillan, Ph.D., Professor of English

Sarah G. Palmer, M.S., Associate Professor of English

Elizabeth Rodgers, Ph.D., Professor of English

Richard W. Thames, Ph.D., Professor of German

Mercedes Turón, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish

Hendrik Van Tuyll, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Sidney J. Vance, Ph.D., Professor of English