Faculty
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| Associate Professor Tom Bailey earned his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has published two books on writing the short story, a collection of short stories, and a novel. He teaches fiction and creative nonfiction writing. |
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| Associate Professor Susan Bowers department head, earned her Ph. D. at the University of Oregon. A former journalist, she serves on the University board of directors. Her courses include women's literature, Native American literature, and modern British and American literature. |
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| Professor Gary Fincke holds a Ph.D. from Kent State University. A prolific and award-winning author of poetry and prose, he teaches creative writing courses in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and directs the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. |  |
| Visiting Assistant Professor Michael Hardin holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He is the author of Playing the Reader (2000) and Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker (2004) as well as many essays on contemporary literature, popular culture, and masculinity. He has also published poetry in North American Review, Seneca Review, Connecticut Review, Gargoyle, and others. | 
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| Assistant Professor Drew Hubbell is an expert on Nineteenth Century British literature and culture. He completed his doctoral work in 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park. He teaches classes in Romanticism, Victorianism, writing, and British Literature since 1789. |  |
| Assistant Professor Karla Kelsey holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. She teaches creative writing and her work has been published in The Boston Review, Verse, 26 and other journals. . |
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| Associate Professor Karen Mura holds a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and is a former assistant editor of the Middle English Dictionary. The department's medievalist and paleographer, she also teaches courses in the history of the English language and the Honors Program. She is co-director of the Honors Program. |
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Glen Retief earned his Ph.D. in English from Florida State University as well as degrees in English and African Studies from his native South Africa. Dr. Retief joins us from Eastern Kentucky University, where he taught introductory writing and English courses and creative nonfiction. Building upon his publications of short stories, essays, and articles, Dr. Retief is developing a memoir from The Chameleon’s Home Country, a collection of personal essays about art, literature, politics, apartheid, and sexuality. |
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| Randy Robertson
earned his Ph.D. from Washington University. He specializes in the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His interests include censorship, copyright, book history, and skepticism. Dr. Robertson’s first book, The subtle art of division: Censorship and conflict in seventeenth-century England, is forthcoming from Penn State Press. |
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| Associate Professor Laurence Roth holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the editor of Modern Language Studies and teaches American literature and popular culture, American-Jewish literature, Jewish cultural studies, and literary theory. He is the coordinator of the Susquehanna University Jewish Studies Program. |
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| Assistant Professor Rachana Sachdev earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses on issues of race, gender, sexuality and immigration in 20th-century American, 17th-century British and American, and ethnic literatures. She is director SU Press. |
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| Assistant Professor Amy Winans earned her Ph.D. from Penn State University. The department's expert on American literature before the 20th century, she teaches courses in American and ethnic literatures. |  | |
