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Dr. Brendan J. Balint, Assistant Professor of English
PhD Loyola University Chicago, 2007
Dr. Balint's teaching and research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and world literature, critical theory, and contemporary ethics. His current research examines various modes of linguistic fragility and literary failure as strategies for fashioning a viable notion of responsibility in the 21st century.
Dr. Gina Camodeca,
Associate Professor of English
PhD in English, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Dr. Camodeca did her doctoral work at the State University
of New York at Buffalo, and her areas of specialization are American
literature and 19th and early 20th century American culture. Her
primary research has been on the intertextuality between medical
descriptions of female character, both professional and lay descriptions,
and related methods of literary characterization in popular fiction.
Her more recent work has been on shared tropes of “character
development” in 19th century literature and contemporary
children's film. She recently published an article on emancipation
literature and media images in the journal Studies in American
Culture. And she has just finished a submission to a volume of
essays on the work of Edith Wharton, in which she contextualizes
historically Wharton's method of establishing moral suasion
in her characters via their refusal to eat. Dr. Camodeca has given
numerous papers at conferences in recent years, including international
conferences at Oxford and in Malta. Additionally, she is the director
for DYC's College Wide Writing Program, overseeing the administration
of the program's offerings, and faculty development in all
participating programs at the college.
Dr. Margaret G. McGeachy,
Associate Professor of English
PhD in English, University of Toronto, 1999
Dr. McGeachy's teaching and research interests include Old English and Middle English literature, oral poetry and narrative, and Renaissance poetry. Her publications include Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African American Blues Song (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Dr. Marta L. Werner,
Associate Professor of English
PhD in English, University at Buffalo (SUNY), 1993
Dr. Werner's teaching and research interests include American literature, literary theory, textual scholarship, and poetics. She is the author of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (U of Michigan P, 1995), Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts (U of Michigan P, 1999/CDRH at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2007), and Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne (American Philosophical Society, 2006) as well as numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literature. Werner received the Fredson Bowers Prize and the JoAnn Boydson Prize for her scholarship; she also received the 2001 D’Youville College Faculty-Scholar Award. She is currently the faculty advisor of Sketch, the College’s literary journal.