English Faculty

Andrea Frankwitz

Associate Professor of English

Professor Frankwitz's teaching interests span from Colonial American Literature through Modern American Literature. Her current areas of research include nineteenth-century American slave narratives and Christological imagery in American poetry. In her free time, Dr. Frankwitz enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to museums and the theatre, and taking groups of students (and others) on cultural tours of Europe.

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Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger

Associate Professor of English

Professor Harkaway-Krieger teaches early English literature (medieval and Renaissance) in the department. Her training is in both English and Religious Studies, and her research focuses on medieval spirituality, Christian mysticism, and the use of metaphor in our devotional language. She particularly loves talking with students about how it is that we can and do talk about God!

Dr. Harkaway-Krieger also directs The Great Conversation ... more ➔

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Nora Kirkham

Instructor of English

Nora Kirkham is interested in the relationships between place, religious beliefs and creative practice. She is enthusiastic about teaching contemporary literature and nature writing through an interdisciplinary and global lens. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Aberdeen. Her other research interests include post-secularism in contemporary Irish women's writing, as well as Japanese literature and reading in translation ... more ➔

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Megan Hartman Lease

Instructor of English
Director of First-Year Writing

Megan’s research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature and religion, with a particular focus on the novel and non-fiction prose. She is especially interested in Victorians’ interpretive practices and discussions about the potentially transformative power of reading literature. She has published book reviews in Religion & Literature and Religion and the Arts. ... more ➔

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Alexander Miller

Lecturer of English

Alex Miller is a graduate of Covenant College and the University of Edinburgh whose studies have emphasized Modern and Postmodern poetry, Post-colonialism, and contemporary interactions with the western canon. He is a staff writer for The Curator, where he has published more than twenty pieces of cultural and literary criticism and is also a published poet. His book A Bow From My Shadow (where his poetry interacts ... more ➔

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Luke Redington

Assistant Professor of English
Director of the Tupper Writing Center

Professor Redington’s teaching and research interests are motivated by one question: How do arguments work? Although he is interested in the history of how different thinkers in the Western tradition have answered this question, Professor Redington focuses on the current difficulties that arise in arguments between technical experts and those who are not. In his teaching, Professor Redington helps students use writing to navigate a world ... more ➔

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Mark Stevick

Professor of English

Professor Mark Wacome Stevick, who studied at Boston University with poets Derek Walcott and Robert Pinsky, oversees Gordon’s creative writing program and directs the Princemere Visiting Writers Series. He writes fiction and essays, makes films and documentaries, and has authored a collection of poetry, A Stadium Full of Bears (forthcoming), and a chapbook, “Local Habitations.” His interactive, history-based ... more ➔

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