FACULTY PROFILES
Full Time Faculty:
 Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Assistant Professor- Office: FOB 122; Office phone: 724-836-7195
E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu
Degrees and Schools: BA, English,
Washington
and
Jefferson
College
(1993); MA, English,
Penn
State
University
(1995); PhD, English,
Penn
State
University
(2003).
- * Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009.
- * Courses regularly taught are Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Pre-Twentieth-Century American Literature, Social Literature, Fantasy and Romance, and Science Fiction.
*
Selected from a national applicant pool to participate in a six-week
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for
College Teachers, "Genre, Dialogue, and Community in British
Romanticism" at the University of Nebraska, 2005.
- * Publications include articles on the British Romantic poet Robert Southey in Philological Quarterly and The Wordsworth Circle and book reviews on topics related to British Romanticism. Her article on Pacific Island romance poems by Mary Russell Mitford and Lord Byron is forthcoming in ELH: English Literary History, and her article on automata in Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer is forthcoming in Genre. She is completing a book manuscript entitled “Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism” on epic poetry by and about women in the early nineteenth century. She maintains this website.
- Richard Blevins, Associate Professor
- Office: FOB 204; Office phone: 724-836-9932
E-mail: rblevins@pitt.edu
Degrees and Schools: BGS, Kent State University; MA, University of Oregon; PhD, University of Pittsburgh
- * Chancellor's
Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999. Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished
Teaching Award, 1994. Kent State University houses his literary archive.
* Courses regularly taught are The Modernist Tradition, Formative
Masterpieces, Literature of the American West, and The Poetry Workshop.
* Author of three collections of poems and nine chapbooks. Fogbow Bridge: Selected Poems published by Pavement Saw Press, 2000. Scholarly articles in DLB, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Encyclopedia of World Literature, and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Editor of George F. Butterick's Complete Poems (SUNY), and two volumes of Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence (Black Sparrow). Edited Zelot Press, 1981-1989.
Sayre Greenfield
,
Professor- Office: FOB 207; Office phone: 724-836-7125
- E-mail: sng6@pitt.edu
Degrees and Schools: AB,
Cornell
University
(1978); AM, English,
University
of
Pennsylvania
(1979); PhD, English, University of
Pennsylvania
(1985)
- * Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Teaching Award, 1998. Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Professional Development Award, 2004. Outstanding Faculty Award, Pitt-Greensburg Alumni Association, 2004.
- * Courses regularly taught include Shakespeare, the Renaissance in
England
, History of the English Language, the Dramatic Imagination, Satire, and Jane Austen: Books and Films.
- * Publications include Jane Austen in Hollywood, co-edited with Linda V. Troost (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998), 2nd, revised edition 2001; and The Ends of Allegory (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998); articles on allegory in the journals Criticism and Genre, an article on Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene in Philological Quarterly, and an article in Modern Philology on the seventeenth-century habits of quoting Hamlet.
- * Past president of the Pitt-Greensburg Faculty Senate and the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
 Lori Jakiela, Associate Professor- Office: FOB 208; Office phone: 724-836-7481
- E-mail: loj@pitt.edu
- Degrees and Schools: BA, Gannon University; MFA, University of Pittsburgh
- * Courses
regularly taught include Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Writing;
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction; Magazine Writing;
Newspaper/Feature Writing; English Writing Capstone; Introduction to
Journalism; Topics in
Creative Nonfiction; English Writing/Journalism Internships.
- * Lori Jakiela's first memoir, Miss New York Has Everything, was published by Warner Books in 2006. Her second memoir, Call Your Mother, is forthcoming. Her essays and columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pittsburgh City Paper, and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction appears in textbooks and anthologies, including most recently Keep It Real: Everything You Need To Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2008) and The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction (Longman, 2006). She is also the author of a poetry collection, The Regulars,
published by Liquid Paper Press in 2001. Her essays and poems have
received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared in
literary journals in the U.S. and the U.K., including River Styx, DoubleTake, Tears in the Fence, Chiron Review, The Chicago Review, 5 AM, Slipstream, Nerve Cowboy, and elsewhere.
- * In
addition to her work in creative nonfiction and poetry, she has written
a screenplay and is currently at work on a novel. She travels regularly
throughout Pennsylvania as an appointed speaker for The Pennsylvania
Humanities Council.
* At Pitt-Greensburg, she founded and
directs the campus' annual writing festival, as well as the monthly
Written/Spoken reading series. For more information, visit www.lorijakiela.com or the authors section at www.defioreandco.com.
 Martha Koehler, Associate Professor - Office: PH 129; Office phone: 724-836- 9993
- E-mail: mjk7@pitt.edu
- Degrees and Schools: BA, University of Rochester; MA/PhD University of Washington
- *
Courses regularly taught focus on eighteenth-century literature, the
development of the novel, narrative literature, women and literature,
and composition. Professor Koehler received the Pitt-Greensburg
Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.
* Publications include articles on Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney, and the book Models of Reading: Paragons and Parasites in Richardson, Burney, and Laclos (Bucknell University Press, 2005). Models of Reading
was nominated for the Louis Gottschalk Prize for excellence in a
critical or historical study of the eighteenth century. Professor
Koehler's research field is the eighteenth-century novel.
- Shu-Jiang (Susan) Lu, Associate Professor
- Office: FOB 102; Office phone: 724-836-7147
E-mail: shl32@pitt.edu
Degrees and Schools: MA and PhD in English from
University of Western
Ontario
of
Canada
* Lu teaches different levels of English Composition and also African/Asian American women literature.
* She has published on Ezra Pound and Chinese Poetry, English
Composition Studies, and Asian American women writers. Her articles
have appeared in several journals, including The English Record, Kansas English, Composition Forum and Paideuma. One of her essays is forthcoming in the CAALS volume entitled Transnational, National, Communal, and Personal Voices: New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers. She also translated into Chinese Alice
Walker
's novel The Color Purple. Her memoir about growing up in China's Cultural Revolution, When Huai Flowers Bloom: Stories of the Cultural Revolution has been published by SUNY Press.
* Lu's
teaching and research interests center on Composition and Rhetoric
Studies, Contemporary Minority Women's Literature, and Creative
Non-fiction. Lu received the Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Teaching
Award in 2006 and is listed in Who’s Who Among America’ Teachers (8th and 9th editions).
- Gary Lutz, Assistant Professor
- Office: FOB 133; Office phone: 724-836-9918
- E-mail: gll5@pitt.edu
- Degrees and Schools: BA, Kutztown University; MA, Ohio University
- * Gary Lutz is the author of three short-story collections: Stories in the Worst Way
(Knopf, 1996; 3rd bed, 2002, 2003, 2006; Calamari Press, forthcoming in
2009) was included in a list of thirty-five “new classics” in GQ magazine (May 2007). I Looked Alive (Black Square Editions/Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004) was one of twelve books featured in
New York
magazine’s “The Future Canon” (4 June 2007). Partial List of People to Bleach (Future Tense Press, 2007), a tiny collection, was honored in the magazine Time Out New York
(27 Dec. 2007) as one of the ten best books of 2007. Lutz’s work has
appeared in many literary journals and magazines, including Conjunctions,
NOON, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Fence, Columbia: A Journal of
Literature and Art, Denver Quarterly, StoryQuarterly, Slate.com, and The Quarterly, as well as in anthologies, including The
Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, A Best of Fence: The First
Nine Years, Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction: An Anthology, Fetish: An
Anthology, The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, and The Apocalypse Reader. He
is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance
Arts. He was the visiting writer at
Syracuse
University
for the spring 2003 semester and at the
University
of
Kansas
for the spring 2007 semester.
Kelli Maloy, Assistant Professor- Office: FOB 127; Office phone: 724-836-7760
- E-mail: kem25@pitt.edu
- Degrees
and Schools: BA, Saint Vincent College;
MA, West Virginia University; PhD, West Virginia
University
* Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008.
- * Courses regularly taught include Composition 1, 2, and 3, and Irish Literature.
* Publications include articles on contemporary Irish women’s
literature and popular culture, and forthcoming publications include
articles on composition instruction and the prevention of plagiarism.
- Stephen Murabito, Associate Professor
- Office: FOB 209; Office phone: 724-836-9986
E-mail: stm13@pitt.edu
Degrees and Schools: BA, Writing, SUNY
Oswego
; MFA, Writing, University of Pittsburgh
* Steve Murabito describes himself as “a teaching writer and a
writing teacher who helps students sophisticate their thinking,
reading, and writing capabilities in composition, fiction, and poetry.”
He is a former NEA Fellow in Poetry, and he is listed in Contemporary Writers (Volume 198) and Who's Who Among America's Teachers
(8th Edition). A winner of the 2004 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching
Award, Steve teaches a wide variety of composition and writing courses.
He is the author and editor of the composition textbook Connections, Contexts, and Possibilities (Prentice Hall).
- * His short stories have appeared in places like North American Review, Antietam Review, Sou'wester, and Paper Street. His poetry has appeared in places like Beloit Poetry Journal, Mississippi Review, 5 AM, and Minnesota Review. His poetry has also been anthologized in Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets, and The Autumn House Anthology of American Poems and Prayers. He is the author of the poetry chapbook A Little Dinner Music (Parallel Press), the book-length poem The Oswego Fugues (Star Cloud Press), and the poetry collection Communion of Asiago (Star Cloud Press). The Hollins Critic featured Steve on the cover of its June 2005 issue.
- Lou Ann Sears, Director of the Learning Resources Center, Assistant Professor
- Office: FOB 105; Office phone: 724-836-7098
E-mail: los3@pitt.edu
Degrees
and Schools: BS, Secondary Education English, Slippery Rock University;
MA, English, Slippery Rock University; PhD, Reading Education,
University of Pittsburgh.
- * Pitt-Greensburg Distinguished Service Award, 2009.
- * Sears
teaches English Composition 0010, English Composition 0030 (Written
Professional), and Literature for Adolescents. Before coming to
UPG in 1995 as an adjunct instructor of English, Sears taught high
school and community college students. In 1997, she established
Pitt-Greensburg’s Learning Center that includes the writing center,
disability services, tutoring, and study skills. On occasion, she has
taught graduate education courses on Pitt’s Oakland Campus. Her
teaching career spans twenty-four years.
* Her publications include articles for the Journal of Content Area Reading and The Journal of College Literacy and Learning,
a chapter in a forthcoming text from the International Reading
Association, and four e-books pertaining to the history of literacy. In
addition, she recently co-authored a history of the International
Reading Association.
* Sears describes herself as an instructor who “starts at the beginning.”
 Joanne Viano, Assistant Professor of English and French- Office: FOB 205; Office phone: 724-836-9878
E-mail: viano@pitt.edu
- Degrees
and Schools: BA, University of Pittsburgh; MA, University of Wisconsin;
Certificate, Università di Firenze, Italy; Certificates (English
Literature, Medieval Studies), Cambridge University, England.
- * Recipient
of Pitt-Greensburg's Distinguished Teaching Award (1997) and the
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2000), * Joanne J.
Viano has taught a broad range of humanities courses in French,
English, and Comparative Literature. According to Chancellor Mark
Nordenberg, after over 30 years of teaching, Viano still communicates
to her students a “passion for learning” as she “accommodates various
learning styles and encourages students to strive for excellence.”
Viano’s most recent scholarly efforts have been in her translations of
Anglo-Saxon and Old French poetry.
- Judith Vollmer, Professor
- Office: FOB 201; Office phone: 724- 836-9894
E-mail: jvollmer@pitt.edu
- Degrees and Schools: BA, University of Pittsburgh; MFA, University of Pittsburgh
- * Judith
Vollmer teaches introductory, intermediate, and advanced poetry writing
classes at Pitt-Greensburg. She also teaches the nonfiction
course "Writing About the Natural World" and team-teaches the English
Literature course "American Poetry" with Richard Blevins. Vollmer is a
1992 recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award of the
University of Pittsburgh.
- * Vollmer’s most recent book of poetry, Reactor, was published in 2004 by the
University
of
Wisconsin Press
, was featured in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and was a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include The Door Open to the Fire, which was awarded the Cleveland State Poetry Prize in 1997 and finalist honors for the Paterson Prize in 1999; Black Butterfly (limited edition, awarded the Center for Book Arts chapbook prize in 1997); and Level Green, which won the Brittingham Prize of the University of Wisconsin Press in 1990. Vollmer
has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies from the
Corporation of Yaddo and the
American
Academy
in
Rome
. Her essay on Baudelaire, “The Stroll and Preparation for Departure” appears in the newly published Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire published the the Cambridge University Press. Vollmer also co-edits the national poetry magazine 5 AM.
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