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Florence Amamoto Associate Professor

I love teaching the sweep of American literature from traditional Native American creation stories to contemporary novels although I am particularly interested in American women writers and ethnic American literature. I am also the director of Curriculum II, Gustavus' integrated alternative general education program, and am interested in its interdisciplinary…   (continue reading)

Elizabeth Baer Professor (Chair)

During summer, 2008, I spent two weeks in South Africa studying Apartheid and the post-Apartheid democracy in that country. I sought the opportunity to compare systems of oppression there with those in Nazi Germany. I learned of the many challenges South Africa faces: a 40% unemployment rate among some groups, a 25% HIV infection rate, and a current…   (continue reading)

Philip Bryant ’73 Professor

I'm interested in poetry and American culture, Mexican music, jazz and blues, regional (midwest Minnesota writers) literature, African-American, Native American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American poetry literature. I have published two books of poetry.

Sean Cobb Assistant Professor Film Studies

I'm new to Gustavus and will be teaching a variety of film and literature courses.  I'm particularly interested in the intersection between literature and film, and how visual culture shapes literature.  I recently completed my PhD at the University of Arizona in Tucson and wrote my dissertation on the historical deployment of paranoia around fears…   (continue reading)

Deborah Downs-Miers Associate Professor

Eric Eliason Professor

I am a student of early British Literature and Language, particularly the fourteenth-century Alliterative Revival and Piers Plowman. Much of my recent scholarship has been devoted to the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. My teaching ranges from introductory literature courses to more advanced courses in "older" British Literature, and…   (continue reading)

Rebecca Fremo Associate Professor/Writing Center Director

I teach a variety of courses, including Academic Writing, Writing Creative Nonfiction, First Term, Seminar, Art of Interpretation, and Adolescent Literature and Literacy.  Writing is an integral, dynamic part of all of my courses, and I try to help my students pay attention to the ways that our identities shape our reading and writing practices. I'm…   (continue reading)

Robert Kendrick Visiting Assistant Professor

Baker Lawley Assistant Professor

I teach a variety of courses, from FTS to American Literature to creative writing; my main area of interest, in scholarly, teaching, and personal ways, is Fiction Writing. I love to listen to stories, to how they are told, to consider the importance of stories in our social structures, our cultural heritage, and our daily lives. I also love to write…   (continue reading)

Sun Hee Lee Assistant Professor

So Young Park Assistant Professor

I teach courses in nineteenth-century British literature, especially Victorian literature and culture.  My teaching interests include women novelists (Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Woolf), the culture of the 1890s, narrative theory, and Modernism.  Currently, my research centers on Victorian novels and their representation of consciousness…   (continue reading)

Donald Scheese Professor

As an American Studies professor and scholar, I teach all periods of American literature. I'm especially interested in the relationship between people and place—how a given environment shapes and is shaped by individuals, groups, society—and how this relationship plays out in literature, painting, photography and other aspects of American culture. I've…   (continue reading)

Joyce Sutphen Professor

I teach a range of courses in British Literature and Creative Writing. Though I began as a Shakespearean and continue to write essays on the sonnets and aspects of memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems, I love teaching the Victorian Age and Modern Poetry. Over the last years, I have become very interested in Irish Literature and the London poetry…   (continue reading)

Jennifer Tollefson Administrative Assistant