Dr. Terry Barr
Department Chair
Professor of English
B.A., University of Montevallo
M.A., Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Professional Interests: Comic Book Culture; Alternative Graphic Novels; Independent Film; any novel by Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Phillip Roth; Live Music (Wilco, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Neil Young); Writing; Jewish Culture; Cooking (Cajun especially!!!); The now-defunct Six Feet Under and The X-Files (still love it); my wife, daughters, and 2 cats
Courses: Modern British/American Novel, Modern British/American Poetry, American Literature and Ethnic Identity, Film and American Culture, Media and Society, The Holocaust, Intro to Southern Studies
864-833-8373
gtbarr@presby.edu
Mr. Jerry Alexander
Instructor of English
B.A., M.A., Clemson University
Courses: Composition, Composition and World Literature I and II, Survey of English Literature II, Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose, Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Period, The Victorian Age, The English Novel to 1900
864-833-8365
jjalexan@presby.edu
Dr. Justin Brent
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Furman University
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Professional Interests: Old and Middle English Literature, History and Structure of the English Language, Medieval Latin Prose and Poetry, History of Rhetoric, History of Writing Technology, Computer-Assisted Instruction
Courses: Composition, Composition and World Literature I and II, Survey of English Literature I, Studies in Linguistics, Chaucer, Topics in Medieval Literature, Advanced Writing
864-833-8989
jbrent@presby.edu
Mrs. Jill Frey
Coordinator, The Writing Center
B.A., Goshen College
M.A., University of Virginia
Professional Interests: Writing Center theory and practice, Peer Tutoring, Communication Across the Curriculum, English Grammar and Composition
Courses: Composition, Writing Tutor Practicum, Practicum in the Writing Center, Internship in the Writing Center
864-833-8372
jmfrey@presby.edu
Dr. Lynne Simpson
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Washington and Jefferson College
M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts
Courses: Composition and World Literature I and II, Survey of English Literature I and II, Shakespeare, Renaissance Poetry and Drama, Modern and Contemporary Drama
864-833-8996
lsimpson@presby.edu
Mr. Robert Stutts
Instructor of English
B.A., Francis Marion College
M.A., Clemson University
Professional Interests: Composition, Creative Writing, Fairy Tales, Fantasy/Magic Realism, Film, Gender Studies, Mythology, Pop Culture
Courses: Composition, Composition and World Literature I and II, Creative Writing: Poetry, Creative Writing: Fiction, Adolescent Literature, Teaching of Composition
864-833-8366
rstutts@presby.edu
Dr. Dean Thompson
Mary H. and de Saussure D. Edmunds Professor of English
B.A., Wofford College
M.A., University of South Carolina
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Professional Interests: Composition; Southern Literature, Culture, and Music; Transcendentalism; Silent Film
Courses: Composition, Composition and World Literature I and II, American Literature I, American Renaissance, Southern Literature
864-833-8445
hdthomp@presby.edu
Dr. Ronald Miller
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Presbyterian College
M.A., Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Professional Interests: The English Renaissance, Metaphysical Prose and Poetry, Theology and Religious Studies, Ethics/Law and Literature, Composition and Pedagogy, Rhetoric
Courses: Composition, Composition and World Literature I and II
864-833-8368
remiller@presby.edu
Karen S. Kingsbury
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies
B.A., Whitman College
M.A., M. Phil., Ph. D., Columbia University
864-833-8368
kskings@presby.edu
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