{"id":456,"date":"2021-10-06T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/faculty-staff\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:11:17","slug":"faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"English Faculty &amp; Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg-primary-block alignfull\" >\n\t<div class=\"container grid-default wysiwyg__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"sidebar-menu \" aria-label=\"Site Menu\" id=\"page-nav\">\n\t\t<div class=\"sidebar-menu__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<header class=\"sidebar-menu__header\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sidebar-menu__headerLabel\">English Menu<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sidebar-menu__mobileToggle\" title=\"Toggle Menu\" :aria-expanded=\"mobileOpen\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"sidebar-menu__list\" v-show=\"mobileOpen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/arts-sciences\/english\/program-tracks\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Program Tracks<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/internships\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Internships <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/faculty-staff\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Faculty &#038; 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Staff<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"link-list layout-links\" >\n    <div class=\"link-list__container link-list__grid-default\">\n                        <div class=\"list-list__linkWrapper link-list__grid-default\">\n                                <ul class=\"wysiwyg__ctaLinks\">\n                                                        <li>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/faculty-publications\/\" class=\"button-link-right button-link-right--color-blue-bright\" >Faculty Publications<\/a>\n                                <\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                                \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><section id=\"block_directory_69e723e59442e\" class=\"directory vertical\"><header class=\"directory__heading\"style=\"justify-content: space-between;\"><h2>Department Chair<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"directory-cards directory-cards-vertical\"><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Jason Goldsmith <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/jngoldsm-hdo0OwYTNT0DIAs__F_Re-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Jason Goldsmith' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Professor of English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9547'>317-940-9547<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:jngoldsm@butler.edu'>jngoldsm@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>Jordan Hall 308C<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-jngoldsm'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-jngoldsm'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Jason Goldsmith\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-jngoldsm' role='region' aria-labledby='person-jngoldsm' hidden><p><p>Jason Goldsmith is a writer, artist, and educator whose work traces the vexed relationship between art and place from the19th-century Picturesque tradition through today\u2019s twinned unravelling of ecological and social networks. He has published numerous scholarly articles on place-based writing, and his creative nonfiction and art have appeared in <em>River Teeth<\/em>, <em>Humana Obscura<\/em>,<em> Grasmere<\/em>, <em>Indiana<\/em> <em>Waterways:The Art of Conservation<\/em>, and on the cover of publications from the University of Iowa Press.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>His sense of place sharpened by figures such as Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, James Baldwin, and Ross Gay, Goldsmith introduces students to a range of diverse voices to interrogate the limits inherent in literary traditions and to cultivate an inclusive and equitable classroom. He teaches courses on art, literature, and the environment, from Romanticism to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1FK9CdDDNFcyJlRyny6upHUndx-ySUGrh\/view?usp=sharing\">19th-Century British Women Writers<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SoX7FLmnHVggDAAlD100SQ18g0G8ovgJ\/view?usp=sharing\">Jane Austen<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1xaOFyko_ylJOW5tL_fg37Z7MmUViCtur\/view?usp=sharing\">Video Game Narrative<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/193LEGqkJ-AlFbCIsyltfG79sf3qEGl_e\/view?usp=sharing\">Contemporary Writers<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Ve3S4p4tOUyJLrDYgL5KFWbZd2nFWVst\/view?usp=sharing\">Creative Non-Fiction<\/a>, and from Urban Sketching to Wilderness Literature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>When not teaching, he enjoys hiking, sitting by a river while sketching, and spending time outdoors with his wife and children.<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-jngoldsm --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><\/div> <!-- .directory-cards --><\/section>\n\n<section id=\"block_directory_69e723e5b402b\" class=\"directory vertical\"><header class=\"directory__heading\"style=\"justify-content: space-between;\"><h2>Department Admin<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"directory-cards directory-cards-vertical\"><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Bianca Pagano <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/bpagano-3Qe6rXRREvMypm_3EW9BX-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Bianca Pagano' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Student Retention Coordinator and Administrative Specialist<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9293'>317-940-9293<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:bpagano@butler.edu'>bpagano@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH 308D<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-bpagano'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-bpagano'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Bianca Pagano\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-bpagano' role='region' aria-labledby='person-bpagano' hidden><p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bianca has her BS in Rehabilitation Studies with minors in Addictions and Behavior Analysis. She worked for years as a Caseworker with adjudicated juveniles before transitioning to the public school system in nearby Washington Township working primarily with special education students. Bianca came to Butler as an Administrative Specialist because of a real passion for helping others and organization.&nbsp;Recently she was named the LAS Student Retention Coordinator. In this role she will continue to advocate for at-risk student populations: commuters, first-generation, and transfer students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bianca believes being student focused should be a priority and has tried to alter the landscape of the English department to make sure students realize we genuinely care about them.&nbsp; She has created an environment in the English office that reflects this by clearing out all the clutter, adding comfy chairs, music, a lending library and free coffee\/tea for her majors and minors. Her efforts were even chronicled in the Butler Collegian as one of the unique spaces on campus in the Butler Burrows segment.&nbsp;Her office is also full of snacks because she believes students can&#8217;t make good choices when they&#8217;re hungry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bianca likes to repurpose items and loves to adopt discarded vinyl and melt them into flowers and bowls. Feel free to stop by her office to see some of her work. Additionally, Bianca likes to find the humor in the day-to-day and you will often see silly displays in the English hallway of Jordan Hall. She loves a pun and isn&#8217;t afraid to laugh at most dad jokes. Bianca once tore down a, albeit small, tree with one hand while holding a newborn in the other. Sadly, this unexpected super-power rarely comes in handy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In her spare time Bianca enjoys reading, horror movies, and sunshine. She has one senior cat, three pandemic cats &#8211; because that was the perfect time to add a kitten, or three, and one cat found in a Starbucks dumpster as a newborn November 2024. It&#8217;s name is officially Lady Dolce Trash Cat. &nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-bpagano --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><\/div> <!-- .directory-cards --><\/section><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><section id=\"block_directory_69e723e5e69bf\" class=\"directory vertical\"><header class=\"directory__heading\"style=\"justify-content: space-between;\"><h2>Faculty and Staff<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"directory-cards directory-cards-vertical\"><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Mira Assaf <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/mkafantaris-PHsdHQmcG53sV6WvQqobR-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Mira Assaf' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Associate Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-6812'>317-940-6812<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:massaf@butler.edu'>massaf@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>Jordan Hall 314B<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-massaf'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-massaf'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Mira Assaf\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-massaf' role='region' aria-labledby='person-massaf' hidden><p><p>Mira Zoubeida &#8216;Assaf \u0645\u064a\u0631\u0627 \u0632\u0628\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0639\u0633\u0627\u0641 &nbsp;is an Assistant Professor of English and Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University, specializing in Premodern Critical Race Studies, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Culture.&nbsp;She earned her Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University, her&nbsp;M.A.&nbsp;in English from the American University of Beirut, and her B.A. in English Literature and Language from the Lebanese University.&nbsp;Her trans-historical and cross-disciplinary research explores the intersections of race-making with the politics of royal marriage, foreign queens, and border-crossing in the early modern period and in our current historical moment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Assaf is completing her first open-access manuscript, titled&nbsp;<em>Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens, and Constructions of Race in Early Modern England<\/em>, which is&nbsp;under contract with&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acmrs.asu.edu\/\">Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies<\/a>&nbsp;Press and will be published in 2026. She was a 2023-2024 Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term fellow.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>With Sonja Drimmer and Treva B. Lindsey, she co-edited an open-access&nbsp;special issue of the Barnard Center for Research on Women\u2019s journal,&nbsp;<em>The Scholar and Feminist Online<\/em>, titled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfonline.barnard.edu\/race-ing-queens\/\">\u201cRace-ing Queens<\/a>.\u201d Her book chapters have appeared in&nbsp;<em>Race and\/as Affect<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare\u2019s Queens<\/em>; and&nbsp;<em>The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson<\/em>&nbsp;(with Richard Dutton).&nbsp;&nbsp;A new commissioned article on the mobility of racialized foreign queens is forthcoming in<em>&nbsp;The Oxford Handbook of Travel, Identity, and Race in Early Modern England,<\/em>&nbsp;edited by Nandini Das. Her current work includes an open-access edited collection (with Urvashi Chakravarty) on early modern queenship, premodern critical race studies, and queer theory, <em>Race\/Queer\/Queens<\/em>.&nbsp;The volume will be published in 2026 by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acmrs.asu.edu\/\" title=\"&lt;span data-offset-key=&quot;dpmed-1-0&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span data-text=&quot;true&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit;&quot;&gt;Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;\">Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies<\/a>&nbsp;Press&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>For the&nbsp;<em>Oxford World Series, <\/em>she is&nbsp;writing the critical introduction to&nbsp;<em>Antony and Cleopatra.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Her public humanities essays have appeared in several online publications, including the Folger Shakespeare Library&#8217;s <a 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href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fwww.the-platform.org.uk*2F2021*2F03*2F19*2Foprah-optics-and-oppression-what-meghan-markles-interview-tells-us-about-the-iconography-of-black-liberation*2F&amp;data=04*7C01*7Cmmor*40kcl.ac.uk*7Cce8668ec0a524d743b2208d9cc75ce88*7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356*7C0*7C0*7C637765629985143700*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C2000&amp;sdata=6MMm4fRjrxLQC1M2YljUE*2B3V9h5Mnw*2B3oARNlC3ogE0*3D&amp;reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!NuAq3lKL!8L09K2byTodYvS2HRu9ZjPLAcb5Pr7MtAnD3BImo2Opju0WWfNoNknj9AA0X-pgA96_u$\"><em>The Platform<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Assaf currently serves as Early Modern Section Editor for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-sundial-acmrs\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sundial<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; In 2023-2024, she served on the Program Committee for the Shakespeare Association of America. Her work has been supported by generous grants and fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America,&nbsp;The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS),&nbsp;The Renaissance Society of America, Butler Awards Committee Faculty Research Grant, The Women\u2019s Place at The Ohio State University, The Muslim Studies Endowment (Butler), and&nbsp;NEH\/Frederic M.&nbsp;Ayres&nbsp;Fund&nbsp;(Butler).<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>At Butler, &#8216;Assaf teaches courses on Shakespeare, early British literature, premodern critical race studies, women, gender, sexuality and trans* studies, and in the Core Curriculum. She regularly and enthusiastically mentors graduate and honors students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Past Awards:<\/p>\n<p>2021-22: Folger Shakespeare Library and Society for the Study of Early Women and Gender Margaret Hannay Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>2021: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Short-Term Fellow.<\/p>\n<p>2013-2014: Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-massaf --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Dan Barden <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/dbarden-3E2UOYm1811JJbydRvNHc-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Dan Barden' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:dbarden@butler.edu'>dbarden@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-308B<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-dbarden'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-dbarden'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Dan Barden\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-dbarden' role='region' aria-labledby='person-dbarden' hidden><p><p>Dan Barden is the author of <em>The Next Right Thing<\/em> (2012, Dial Press) and <em>John Wayne: A Novel<\/em> (Doubleday, 1997).&nbsp;He teaches all levels of creative writing in fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic writing.<\/p>\n<p>He has an unruly dog named Hope and a ridiculously cool son. Dan&#8217;s fields of expertise are Westerns, crime novels, and coffee shops.<br>\n<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-dbarden --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Bryce Berkowitz <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/bberkowitz-FVPRSsFvcub45ubD-FWxV-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Bryce Berkowitz' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Lecturer English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:bberkowitz@butler.edu'>bberkowitz@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH312D<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-bberkowitz'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-bberkowitz'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Bryce Berkowitz\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-bberkowitz' role='region' aria-labledby='person-bberkowitz' hidden><p><p>Bryce Berkowitz is a poet and screenwriter based in Indianapolis via Montana, West Virginia, L.A., Chicago, and southern Illinois. He dropped out of college at 19 to book touring hip hop acts until career shifts took him from restaurant worker to film\/tv industry professional to professor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Bryce has participated in Butler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/inclusion-advocate-program\/\">Inclusion Advocate program<\/a> and served as program coordinator for Butler&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/english\/visiting-writers\/\">Visiting Writers\u2019 Series<\/a>. In addition to creating Butler&#8217;s screenwriting minor, he serves as Co-Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/arts-sciences\/master-fine-arts\/\">MFA Creative Writing Program<\/a> and is the recipient of Butler University&#8217;s Outstanding Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. His course topics range from Writing for Sustainability to Arts-Based Social Justice to the TV Writers\u2019 Room to Brain Candy, and his professional development interests include working with students who have ADHD, as well as innovative and inclusive assignment design that reflect pragmatic applications to the work world. His current community engagement focus is prison writing workshops.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>He thinks of the classroom as a practice field where students can figure out who they are and what matters to them, where perfection is an illusion that gets in the way of learning, where mistakes are not failures but are instead part of a greater learning process in the journey toward self-discovery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>As a screenwriter, Bryce is the recipient of the Austin Film Festival AMC TV Pilot Award, the writersXwriters fellowship, the Roadmap Writer&#8217;s Jumpstart Competition, and a two-time NBC TV Writers Program finalist. As a poet, his work has appeared twice in <em>Best New Poets, <\/em>and he\u2019s the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bermuda-Ferris-Wheel-Bryce-Berkowitz\/dp\/1732851115\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=281LJ4ASH8FU8&amp;keywords=bermuda+ferris+wheel+bryce+berkowitz&amp;qid=1697812300&amp;sprefix=bermuda+ferris+wheel+bryce+berkowitz%2Caps%2C87&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Bermuda Ferris Wheel<\/em><\/a>, recipient of the 42 Miles | Indiana University Press Poetry Award. Currently, he&#8217;s working on a second poetry collection, a crime novel, and multiple feature-length screenplays.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>When not teaching, Bryce enjoys watching movies at <a href=\"https:\/\/kankanindy.com\/films-events\/\">Kan-Kan<\/a>, picking up produce from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madfarmersindy.com\/\">Mad Farmers Collective<\/a>, attending <a href=\"https:\/\/do317.com\/firstfriday\">First Friday<\/a> art shows, growing his two side hustle businesses (power tools x investment properties), walking his dog Millie (she&#8217;s an Australian Cattle Dog + Australian Shephard mix), and supporting Indy\u2019s many great lit hubs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dear.mom.indy\/?hl=en\">Dear Mom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tomorrowbookstore\/?hl=en\">Tomorrow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/loudmouthindy\/?hl=en\">Loudmouth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goldenhourbooksindy\/?hl=en\">Golden Hour<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thewhisperingshelf\/?hl=en\">Whispering Shelf<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/indyreadsorg\/?hl=en\">Indy Reads<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>At the time of this writing, his two favorite restaurants in Indianapolis are <a href=\"https:\/\/bluebeardindy.com\/\">Bluebeard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/julieta_tacoshop\/?hl=en\">Julietta&#8217;s Tacos<\/a> .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about him at <a href=\"https:\/\/bryceberkowitz.com\/\" title=\"&lt;span data-offset-key=&quot;9lspo-1-0&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span data-text=&quot;true&quot; style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit;&quot;&gt;bryceberkowitz.com&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;\">bryceberkowitz.com<\/a><br>\n<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-bberkowitz --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Barbara Campbell <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/bjcampbe-V1FczSZHl.jpg' alt='Headshot of Barbara Campbell' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-8532'>317-940-8532<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:bjcampbe@butler.edu'>bjcampbe@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-302C<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-bjcampbe'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-bjcampbe'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Barbara Campbell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-bjcampbe' role='region' aria-labledby='person-bjcampbe' hidden><p><p>Barbara Campbell received her Ph.D. in English and a certificate in Women\u2019s Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2010. She also holds certificates in labor organizing and grievance handling through the AFL-CIO. Her areas of expertise include American literature and culture with an emphasis on US proletarian fiction and modernism, rhetorical theory and composition, and disability studies. Writing creative nonfiction and memoir are recent additions to her repertoire. During her time at Butler, she has taught courses in medical humanities and bioethics, disability studies, and American Literature.<br\/><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-bjcampbe --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Natalie Carter <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/ncarter-ceFfc1ZcJFBbAnKrY5jo1-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Natalie Carter' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-8784'>317-940-8784<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:ncarter@butler.edu'>ncarter@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH 310A<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-ncarter'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-ncarter'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Natalie Carter\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-ncarter' role='region' aria-labledby='person-ncarter' hidden><p><p>Natalie Carter holds a&nbsp;Ph.D. in English with a concentration in American Literature and Culture from George Washington University. &nbsp;Her&nbsp;research&nbsp;and pedagogical&nbsp;interests&nbsp;include trauma theory, gender and&nbsp;sexuality&nbsp;studies, and the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and violence in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century literary and cultural artifacts. &nbsp;Scholarship includes publications on Dorothy Allison, Julia Alvarez, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as works addressing violence against women and race-related trauma in American society.&nbsp; She&nbsp;teaches American Literature and Culture in addition to courses in the Honors and First-Year Seminar Programs, and&nbsp;is Affiliate Faculty in the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RGSS) program.<\/p>\n<p>Carter is the Faculty Director of the Butler University Honors Program (more information about which may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/honors\/\">here<\/a>), and an Innovation Fellow in BU&#8217;s Transformation Lab. &nbsp;She serves on President Danko&#8217;s Faculty Advisory Group; the evaluation committee for Prestigious Scholarships &amp; Fellowships; and the steering committee for BU&#8217;s Undergraduate Research Conference. &nbsp;She has been named Butler University&#8217;s Woman of Distinction (2019), and received the&nbsp;College of Liberal Arts &amp; Sciences&#8217; Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-ncarter --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Michael Dahlie <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/mdahlie-EtublsvL2lKCk2WZiCWpx-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Michael Dahlie' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Associate Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:mdahlie@butler.edu'>mdahlie@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH 325A<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-mdahlie'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-mdahlie'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Michael Dahlie\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-mdahlie' role='region' aria-labledby='person-mdahlie' hidden><p><p>Professional Bio<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dahlie teaches in Butler University\u2019s English Department and MFA program. He&#8217;s the author of two novels with W.W. Norton<em>&nbsp;<\/em>and his short fiction has been published in journals and magazines including <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ploughshares, <\/em>and&nbsp;<em>The Yale Review.&nbsp; <\/em>He&#8217;s received the PEN\/Hemingway Award and&nbsp;a Whiting Award, and he was a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2020.<br>\n<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Teaching Goals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy role as a creative writing teacher is to help students say the things they want to say, write about the subjects they think are important, and to do it in a way they value.&nbsp;I assign a wide variety of published work, and my courses emphasize the fact that first-rate narrative comes from a diverse set of sources and in a broad range of forms. Most important, I work hard to ensure my classes give students a sense of belonging, camaraderie, and a feeling of common purpose, all while making sure each person has resources and encouragement to develop and refine their own unique literary vision.\u201d<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-mdahlie --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Mindy Dunn <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/mdunn1-Nk-UAUNMs.jpg' alt='Headshot of Mindy Dunn' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Academic Program Manager<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-8733'>317-940-8733<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:mdunn1@butler.edu'>mdunn1@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>Efroymson Center for Creative Writing, 2nd floor<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-mdunn1'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-mdunn1'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Mindy Dunn\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-mdunn1' role='region' aria-labledby='person-mdunn1' hidden><p><p><strong>Mindy Dunn (&#8217;05)<\/strong> has a B.A. in English from Butler University and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Purdue University, with a specialty in poetry. Mindy is Academic Program Manager for the MFA program and has taught at Butler in the English, First Year Seminar, and Honors departments.<br\/><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-mdunn1 --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Chris Forhan <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/cforhan-EyjSR0ImF05voUfKxwrDh-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Chris Forhan' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9865'>317-940-9865<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:cforhan@butler.edu'>cforhan@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>Jordan 302B<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-cforhan'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-cforhan'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Chris Forhan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-cforhan' role='region' aria-labledby='person-cforhan' hidden><p><p>Chris Forhan is the author of four books of poetry: <em>Black Leapt In<\/em>; <em>The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars<\/em>; <em>Forgive Us Our Happiness<\/em>; and the forthcoming <em>The Ghost Won&#8217;t Go<\/em>. He has also written two books of nonfiction: <em>My Father Before Me: A Memoir<\/em> and <em>A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song<\/em>. He has published three chapbooks, <em>Ransack and Dance<\/em>, <em>x<\/em>, and <em>Crumbs of Bread<\/em>, and his poems have appeared in <em>Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Parnassus, Georgia Review, Field, <\/em>and other magazines, as well as in <em>The Best American Poetry<\/em>. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes and has earned a &#8220;Discover Great New Writers&#8221; selection from Barnes and Noble. He was born and raised in Seattle and has taught at Butler since 2007. &nbsp;More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisforhan.com\">http:\/\/www.chrisforhan.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p><u>Teaching Goals<\/u>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy courses emphasize that writing is not merely about communicating clearly what you think. It is about discovering what you think, then questioning it, complicating it, and discovering in it a truth worth communicating, even if that truth is beautifully messy and ambiguous. That\u2019s okay: life is beautifully messy and ambiguous. This focus on the process of writing and thinking informs the way I teach almost everything, from courses in the Core Curriculum to classes in creative writing. In my poetry courses, we consider how poems enchant, delight, and unsettle us by being intensely attentive to all the characteristics of language, including its sounds, rhythms, and capacity to enact wild, associative leaps. When students pay attention to these things in their own experiments with words, they have the means to discover what lurks in the shadowy corners of their interior and to let it sing.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-cforhan --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Bryan Furuness <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/bfurunes-4yBuTWERq.jpeg' alt='Headshot of Bryan Furuness' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9862'>317-940-9862<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:bfurunes@butler.edu'>bfurunes@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH312<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-bfurunes'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-bfurunes'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Bryan Furuness\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-bfurunes' role='region' aria-labledby='person-bfurunes' hidden><p><p>Author of a couple of novels,\u00a0 <i>The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson <\/i>and <i>Do Not Go On<\/i>. Co-author (with Sarah Layden) of <i>The Invisible Art of Literary Editing.\u00a0<\/i>Editor of a few anthologies, <i>My Name was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Reanimated\u00a0<\/i>and <i>An Indiana Christmas. C<\/i>o-editor (with Michael Martone) of the anthology, <i>Winesburg, Indiana<\/i>. Stories have appeared in <i>Ninth Letter<\/i>, <i>Sycamore Review<\/i>, <i>Southeast Review<\/i>, and elsewhere, including <i>New Stories from the Midwest <\/i>and <i>Best American Nonrequired Reading<\/i>. Wishes he was a hawk, believes that breakfast burritos are the perfect food.\u00a0<br\/><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-bfurunes --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Lee Garver <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/lgarver-4RIrq-edmTLIFce5VAthP-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Lee Garver' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Associate Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9859'>317-940-9859<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:lgarver@butler.edu'>lgarver@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-309<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-lgarver'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-lgarver'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Lee Garver\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-lgarver' role='region' aria-labledby='person-lgarver' hidden><p><p>Lee Garver teaches in Butler University\u2019s English Department and Global and Historical Studies program. He is the author of introductions to Volumes 8 and 19 of the Modernist Journals Project online edition of the early twentieth-century magazine <em>The New Age<\/em> and has published articles on modernist literature and politics in such journals as <em>Modernism\/Modernity,<\/em> <em>The Journal of Modern Literature<\/em>, and <em>The Journal of Modern Periodical Literature<\/em> as well as such collections as <em>Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s<\/em> and <em>T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism<\/em>. A co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions Grant, Garver has served as English Chair, Global and Historical Studies Director, and Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Director, and he has taught study abroad courses for Butler in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><br><\/p>\n<p>Teaching Goals<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who passionately loves literature, film, and the arts, especially work that is formally challenging or unconventional in subject matter, I make it a priority to assist students in appreciating the wonders of language, storytelling, and cinema through lively classroom discussion and friendly debate. As someone deeply invested in global historical inquiry, whether of global modernisms, colonialism and the transatlantic slave system, or international art cinema, I seek to situate texts and films in their original historical contexts and awaken students to their deeper social and political meanings. Finally, as someone with a strong commitment to social justice, diversity, and free and open dialogue, I make it my mission to call attention to inequity, explore the social experiences of marginalized communities, and foster a classroom climate of mutual respect and support.\u201d<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-lgarver --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Angela Hofstetter <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/ahofstet-oyJVAxC7N9a1ZbBm1bMNB-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Angela Hofstetter' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:ahofstet@butler.edu'>ahofstet@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-312<\/div><\/div><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Adriana Jones <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/amjones9-VJz7ICGAq.jpeg' alt='Headshot of Adriana Jones' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>LAS Event Coordinator<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9861'>317-940-9861<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:amjones9@butler.edu'>amjones9@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH 302<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-amjones9'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-amjones9'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Adriana Jones\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-amjones9' role='region' aria-labledby='person-amjones9' hidden><p><p>Adriana Jones coordinates several LAS programs including the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, the J. James Woods Lecture Series, and the Creative Writing Camp that takes place during the summer, &nbsp;while also providing administrative support to the English Department\u2019s Peer Tutoring Studio and the undergraduate literary magazine,&nbsp;<em>Manuscripts.&nbsp;<\/em>She earned her bachelor\u2019s degrees from Indiana University in English, Telecommunications, and French. Adriana\u2019s previous employment includes editorial work at Houghton Mifflin Co. (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) in Boston; editorial work at magazine subscription marketer American Family Enterprises in Jersey City, NJ; marketing management and event planning at software manufacturer Made2Manage Systems (later Consona Corp.) of Indianapolis; and admissions assistance at Indiana University.<br>\n<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-amjones9 --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Andrew Levy <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/alevy-EkT8QuFNx.jpg' alt='Headshot of Andrew Levy' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Edna Cooper Chair in English Professor<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9803'>317-940-9803<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:alevy@butler.edu'>alevy@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-308A<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-alevy'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-alevy'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Andrew Levy\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-alevy' role='region' aria-labledby='person-alevy' hidden><p><p>Author, Huck Finn&#8217;s America (2014),&nbsp; A Brain Wider Than The Sky (2009), The First Emancipator (2005), The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (1992), and co-editor of Creating Fiction (1994) and Postmodern American Fiction:&nbsp; A Norton Anthology (1997).&nbsp; Essays and reviews have appeared in Harper&#8217;s, American Scholar, Missouri Review, Best American Essays, and elsewhere.&nbsp; Winner of Slatten award for Biography (2005), reviews of work and public appearances include Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered and This American Life, Spin, Sports Illustrated, C-Span, Salon, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and other places.&nbsp; Teaches US literature and culture, speculative fiction and creative writing.<br>\n<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-alevy --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Natalie Lima <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/nalima-1ViXc5fxQrOfnoub3oAee-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Natalie Lima' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Assistant Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:nalima@butler.edu'>nalima@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-325A<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-nalima'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-nalima'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Natalie Lima\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-nalima' role='region' aria-labledby='person-nalima' hidden><p><p>Natalie Lima is a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer, raised in Las Vegas, NV and Hialeah, FL. She is a first-generation college graduate of Northwestern University and a graduate of the MFA program in creative nonfiction writing at the University of Arizona. Her essays and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>Guernica, Longreads, Brevity,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>The Offing<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Catapult<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Sex and the Single Woman&nbsp;<\/em>(Harper Perennial, 2022)<em>, Body Language<\/em>&nbsp;(Catapult, 2022), and elsewhere. Lima\u2019s writing has been honored in&nbsp;<em>Best Small Fictions<\/em>, The Offing 10-Year Anniversary Anthology, and noted twice in&nbsp;<em>Best American Essays<\/em>. Her work has received support from PEN America Emerging Voices, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, Tin House Workshops, the VONA\/Voices Workshop, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Mellon Foundation, and the Hedgebrook Writers\u2019 Residency.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching Goals:<\/p>\n<p>As the first in my family to graduate from high school, the world opened up to me in college. I prioritize introducing students to diverse voices, particularly writers from underrepresented communities. &nbsp;I believe that bringing in contemporary work from established and emerging writers, from all backgrounds, better reflects the world we live in today\u2014and celebrates it, too. Having once been a new writer myself, I want to guide my students as they find their own voice without being discouraged or feeling isolated from the literary establishment.<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-nalima --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Alessandra Lynch <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/ajlynch1-41Zp1E709.JPG' alt='Headshot of Alessandra Lynch' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer &#8211; English &#038; Poet-in-Residence<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9500'>317-940-9500<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:ajlynch1@butler.edu'>ajlynch1@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH316<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-ajlynch1'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-ajlynch1'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Alessandra Lynch\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-ajlynch1' role='region' aria-labledby='person-ajlynch1' hidden><p><p><br\/><\/p><p><span class=\"a2\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Alessandra Lynch, Senior Lecturer\/Poet-in-Residence at Butler University, is the author<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\"><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"a2\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">of four collections of poems,\u00a0<u>Sails the Wind Left Behind<\/u>\u00a0(Alice James Books)<i>,\u00a0<u>It was a<\/u><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\"><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"a2\"><i><u><span style=\"color: #555555;\">terrible cloud at twilight\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/span><span class=\"a2\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">(LSU Press, winner<i>\u00a0<\/i>of the Lena Miles-Wever Todd Award)<i>,<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\"><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"a2\"><u><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/span><span class=\"a2\"><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">(<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #555555;\">finalist for the UNT Rilke Prize and the\u00a0<i>LA<\/i><\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0Poetry Book Prize, winner of the\u00a02017<\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Balcones Prize in Poetry, one of\u00a0<i>The<\/i>\u00a0<i>New<\/i><\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">York Times\u2019<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">ten Best Poetry Books of 2017) and\u00a0<u>Pretty Tripwire<\/u>\u00a0(Alice James Books).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Her work has<\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">appeared in the\u00a0<i>American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The<\/i><\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Kenyon Review,<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Ploughshares<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0and other literary journals. In 2015,\u00a0Alessandra received<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">a Creative Renewal Fellowship, from the Indianapolis Council for the Arts.\u00a0\u00a0She was<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">also one of the three poets involved in the\u00a0<i>Stream \/ Lines: Reconnecting to Our<\/i><\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Waterways<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #555555;\">\u00a0project, funded by the National Science Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0Alessandra has received <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">fellowships from the Vermont\u00a0Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, and Yaddo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-ajlynch1 --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Carol Reeves <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/creeves-c-_XUkHUZqbrgBJ30kd2I-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Carol Reeves' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9858'>317-940-9858<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:creeves@butler.edu'>creeves@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-302-D<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-creeves'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-creeves'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Carol Reeves\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-creeves' role='region' aria-labledby='person-creeves' hidden><p><p>Carol Reeves, Rebecca Clifton Reade Professor of English, came to Butler from Texas in 1989 after receiving her Ph.D. from Texas Christian University.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Reeves investigates how language and rhetoric shape our knowledge and understanding of our world, ourselves, and others.&nbsp; In particular, she examines how language both enables and limits the growth of knowledge and consensus surrounding scientific claims, both inside science and in the public.&nbsp; Her publications on the AIDS epidemic, MadCow Disease or Prion Disease, agricultural chemicals, addiction, and climate change all demonstrate the tenuous relation between \u201creality\u201d and the language we use to represent that reality.&nbsp; Bias, context, and limited data inevitably lead to imperfect definitions, descriptions, labels, and visual &nbsp;representations that can easily come to\u201cstand in\u201d for an unexplored or unknown totality.&nbsp; She also explores the struggles scientists face when they attempt to describe and establish new phenomena, engage in cross-disciplinary debates over the nature of a phenomenon, when they are entrenched in high stakes disagreements over threats to the environment and human health, when they need to communicate risk to the general public, and when they want to change perceptions of stigmatized conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Reeves\u2019s &nbsp;courses combine Literary study with other fields, such as Medicine, Social Science, and History. &nbsp;Topics include Doctor Writers and Addiction. &nbsp;She &nbsp;also teaches courses in Medical Humanities and Rhetoric. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Reeves has also made contributions to several organizations in Indianapolis and Indiana that have provided opportunities for her students.&nbsp; Working with CAFO Watch,Indiana to increase regulatory oversight for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Reeves has brought many students into the organization as interns who learn about the legislative process and environmental policymaking.&nbsp; She and students worked with the Riley Hospital Ryan White Pediatric Infectious Disease department to plan a campaign to create awareness of pre- and peri-natal HIV transmission and the importanceof testing.&nbsp; She and her students also work with Women for Change Indianapolis and Planned Parenthood to help build opportunities for women to access educational opportunities and healthcare and to combat discrimination.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-creeves --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Sunny Romack <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/sromack-RAL8EECze6d84SgZx7x9L-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Sunny Romack' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-6892'>317-940-6892<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:sromack@butler.edu'>sromack@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH304A<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-sromack'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-sromack'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Sunny Romack\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-sromack' role='region' aria-labledby='person-sromack' hidden><p><p>Dr. Sunny (as Dr. Romack prefers to be known) holds a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing; a M.A. in English-Literature; and a PhD in English-Rhetoric and Composition. Before coming to Butler, she served as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, where she also established the River Bend National Writing Project Site, and at Texas A&amp;M University-Kingsville, where she directed the university-wide writing center and the Quality Enhancement Plan to Improve Student Writing. Her areas of scholarship include gender studies, horror film, and composition pedagogy. At Butler, Dr. Sunny directs the Writers&#8217; Studio and teaches courses in English and the Core Curriculum. Her application of Deleuzian schizoanalysis to gender in horror film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/deleuze-and-the-gynesis-of-horror-9781501358449\/\"><em>The Gynesis of Horror: From Monstrous Births to the Birth of the Monster<\/em><\/a>, was published in 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic Press.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sunny has recently taught courses on Film as Philosophy, Women&#8217;s Rights and Resistance, Curiosity and Creativity, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, and Leading Lives that Matter in the Twenty-First Century. She is also a 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher and a certified meditation teacher through Duke University&#8217;s Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults. &nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-sromack --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Ania Spyra <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/aspyra-lOKbU0RYg-LGa5m7U-dWL-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Ania Spyra' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Professor English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:aspyra@butler.edu'>aspyra@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-302E<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-aspyra'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-aspyra'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Ania Spyra\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-aspyra' role='region' aria-labledby='person-aspyra' hidden><p><p>Ania Spyra grew up in a German and Polish speaking home in Upper Silesia in Southern Poland. She received her MA in Literature and Linguistics from the University of Silesia, and her PhD in English from the University of Iowa. Dr. Spyra\u2019s research looks at the influence of migration on the language of literature. She has published articles on feminist contestations of cosmopolitanism, multilingualism and transnationalism, most recently in <em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>, <em>Contemporary Literature<\/em> and <em>Comparative Literature<\/em>. Dr. Spyra teaches a wide range of courses in Transnational and Postcolonial Literature, Translation and Creative Writing. In her commitment to Global Education, she twice directed Butler University\u2019s Global Adventures in Liberal Arts (GALA) as well as taught short term study abroad courses in Cuba, Ireland, Scotland and Australia.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-aspyra --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Robert Stapleton <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn-dev.butler.edu\/rstaplet-icuGLPppcqgSYlGuBNdKT-photo.jpg' alt='Headshot of Robert Stapleton' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Senior Lecturer<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:rstaplet@butler.edu'>rstaplet@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-312C<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-rstaplet'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-rstaplet'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Robert Stapleton\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-rstaplet' role='region' aria-labledby='person-rstaplet' hidden><p><p>Robert Stapleton is a proud product of California public schools. He earned his MFA from Long Beach State and has taught at Butler since 2003. He teaches in the MFA program as well as courses in creative writing, graphic novels, and the First-Year Seminar. He is the founder and editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/booth.butler.edu\/\">Booth<\/a>, and his writing has appeared in various publications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br>\nTeaching Goals: I am a first-generation college student from a working-class family. As a student, I learned to love being in the classroom &nbsp;from teachers who invited thinking and writing on non-traditional subjects in innovative ways. A a teacher, I work to frame my courses &nbsp;with contemporary texts that offer a wide spectrum of voices and class representations while centering student expression in discussions and activities. My classes offer many opportunities for students seeking to integrate their own passions into creative exercises and assignments.&nbsp;<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-rstaplet --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Brynnar Swenson <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/images\/logos\/bulldog_4cp_1-4w.png' alt='' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Associate Professor &#8211; English<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:bswenson@butler.edu'>bswenson@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH-339B<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-bswenson'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-bswenson'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Brynnar Swenson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-bswenson' role='region' aria-labledby='person-bswenson' hidden><p><p>Brynnar Swenson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society (2008). He is Associate Professor and the Director of the M.A. in English. He teaches American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies and his research focuses on literature, continental philosophy, and the history of capitalism. He is the editor of <em>Literature and the Encounter with Immanence<\/em>&nbsp;(Brill \/ Rodopi, 2017), and his essays have appeared in <em>Cultural Critique, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, New American Notes Online <\/em>(<em>NANO<\/em>)<em>, Letterature d&#8217;America<\/em>, and <em>The Baltic Journal of Law and Politics.<\/em><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-bswenson --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><\/div> <!-- .directory-cards --><\/section>\n\n<section id=\"block_directory_69e723e614ae5\" class=\"directory vertical\"><header class=\"directory__heading\"style=\"justify-content: space-between;\"><h2>Emeritus Faculty<\/h2><\/header><div class=\"directory-cards directory-cards-vertical\"><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Hilene Flanzbaum <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/images\/logos\/bulldog_4cp_1-4w.png' alt='' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Visiting Faculty\/ Faculty Emeritus<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:hflanzba@butler.edu'>hflanzba@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH308c or the Efroymson Center<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-hflanzba'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-hflanzba'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Hilene Flanzbaum\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-hflanzba' role='region' aria-labledby='person-hflanzba' hidden><p><p><br\/><\/p><p>Hilene Flanzbaum is a Professor of English and the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. \u00a0She also holds the Allegra Stewart Chair in Modern Literature. \u00a0Her specialties include Modern and American Poetry, Jewish-American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature and creative writing. \u00a0See attached cv for details.<\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-hflanzba --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>James Keating <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/jkeating-Vk4G23REx.jpg' alt='Headshot of James Keating' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Emeritus Faculty<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:'><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:jkeating@butler.edu'>jkeating@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH 206 A<\/div><\/div><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>Susan Neville <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/api-profiles\/sneville-Ny2BrcDwg.jpg' alt='Headshot of Susan Neville' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Emeritus Faculty<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9293'>317-940-9293<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:sneville@butler.edu'>sneville@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH<\/div><\/div><div id='accordion-group' class='accordion'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button id='person-sneville'\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype='button' class='button-link-right directory__cardMoreButton accordion-trigger'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-controls='acc-sneville'\n\t\t\t\t\t\taria-expanded='false' >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore About Susan Neville\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardBio accordion-panel' id='acc-sneville' role='region' aria-labledby='person-sneville' hidden><p><p>Susan Neville is the author of six works of creative nonfiction: <i>Indiana Winter<\/i>; <i>Fabrication: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning<\/i>; <i>Twilight in Arcadia<\/i>; <i>Iconography: A Writer&#8217;s Meditation<\/i>; <i>Light,\u00a0<\/i>and <i>Sailing the Inland Sea<\/i>. Her collections of short fiction include <i>The Town of Whispering Dolls, <\/i>winner of the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction;\u00a0<i>In the House of Blue Lights,<\/i> winner of the Richard Sullivan prize; and <i>Invention of Flight,<\/i> winner of the Flannery O&#8217;Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology and in anthologies including Extreme Fiction (Longman) and The Story Behind the Story (Norton.) Her story &#34;Here&#34; won the 2015 McGinnis-Ritchie Award from the <i>Southwest Review, <\/i>and recent stories and essays have appeared or will appear in <i>Ploughshares, Image,<\/i>\u00a0<i>North American Review, The Collagist, The Missouri Review, Diagram, <\/i>and other magazines.\u00a0She teaches creative writing, a seminar in Willa Cather, and courses in Butler&#8217;s First Year Seminar program.<br\/><\/p><\/p><\/div> <!-- #acc-sneville --><\/div> <!-- #accordion-group --><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><div class='directory__card'><div class='directory__cardName'>William Watts <\/div><div class='directory__cardImage'><img class='directory__cardImg' src='https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/images\/logos\/bulldog_4cp_1-4w.png' alt='' \/><\/div><div class=\"directory__cardContent\"><div class=\"directory__cardTitle\"><strong>Emeritus Faculty<\/strong><\/div><div class='directory__cardPhone'><a href='tel:317-940-9675'>317-940-9675<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='directory__cardEmail'><a href='mailto:wwatts@butler.edu'>wwatts@butler.edu<\/a><\/div><div class=directory__cardLocation>JH<\/div><\/div><\/div> <!-- .directory__card --><\/div> <!-- .directory-cards --><\/section><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":371,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"revision_note":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>English Faculty &amp; 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