Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.
Her nanoparticle research has many applications
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Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D. Her nanoparticle research has many applications |
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Introducing new
faculty members
The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Wolfram Schmidgen, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a master's degree in comparative literature from the State University of New York, Binghamton, a master's degree in American studies from the Free University of Berlin, and a doctorate in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. His interdisciplinary research concentrates on locating the work of literary texts in socio-cultural fields of production, including the family, law, aesthetics and property. In his next book, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property, he argues that the possessive association of persons and things in the early novel explores the limits of social and political communities. Joseph Thompson, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in English from the University of Delaware, a master of arts and master of philosophy from Yale University in African-American Studies and English and a doctorate from Yale. His research focuses on the representation of education in African-American literature. Exploring the invol-vement of educational institutions and practices in the perpetuation of racial ideology, he examines how schools shaped African-American writers' fictional accounts of racial consciousness in the first half of the 20th century. Kellie Wells, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Kansas, a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana, a master of fine arts in creative writing-fiction from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate from Western Michigan University. Formerly assistant professor in the creative writing program at Georgia College and State University, her teaching interests include experimental writing by women and the figure of the female grotesque. William Layher, Ph.D., joins the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and a doctorate degree from Harvard University. He also studied for a year at the University of Heidelberg as an undergraduate and spent a year at Gteborg Universitet in Sweden. His specialty is medieval literature and culture of the Baltic region, cultural transfer, Low German, Middle High German, Old Norse, and Swedish. His publications are on real and imagined German poets in 13th-century Denmark, origins of the Old Swedish epic Hertig Fredrik af Normandie, Nordic medieval ballads and Nordic artifacts. He is working on a monograph on Hertig Fredrik af Normandie and a facing-page English translation on the same, as well as projects on warrior-women in the Old Norse sagas and Ibsen's Peer Gynt. |
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