Chairperson:

SHIRLEY A. PETERSON, Associate Professor of English, Department Chair; B.A., M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Delaware.

Faculty:

ROBERT A. MORACE, Professor of English, B.A., M.S., SUNY College at Cortland; Ph.D., University of South Carolina.

PETER A. SIEDLECKI, Professor of English; B.A., M.A., Niagara University; Ph.D., University at Buffalo.

NANCY ANNE MARCK, Associate Professor of English; B.A., University of Maine; A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  

KARL J. TERRYBERRY, Associate Professor of English; B.A., Houghton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of South Carolina.

GAYLE F. NASON, Assistant Professor of English; B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Peter A. Siedlecki, Professor

psiedlec@daemen.edu

World Literature, American Literature, Contemporary Poetry
Dr. Siedlecki has been at Daemen College for more than thirty years. In 1982 through 1984 he was named Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature in Krakow, Poland, and again in 1988-89 was the first Fullbright lecturer to serve in the former German Democratic Republic (since the GDR terminated in 1989, he was also the last, but takes no credit for the destruction of the Berlin Wall). His areas of specialization are World literature, American literature, and contemporary poetry. Dr. Siedlecki also teaches a liberal arts colloquium for first year students, titled "The Romantic Impulse." He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and the Directory of Poets and Writers. His poetry has been published in numerous journals.

During the fall of 1997, Dr. Siedlecki was awarded a sabbatical to complete work on a book dealing with the function of storytelling in the determination of the self. He and English major Beth Seilberger recently presented a collaborative paper, "The Nature of Jack Kerouac's Journey: Two Perspectives," at the fall conference of the New York College English Association. In addition, Dr. Siedlecki is an avid racquetball player, a grammar-school baseball coach, and a semi-competent folksinger.

Karl Terryberry

 kterrybe@daemen.edu

Dr. Terryberry has taught literature and writing at several colleges in New York and spent several years writing professionally before coming to Daemen. He worked as a writer and editor for Adelphia Communications and as a writer, editor, and web content administrator for a research arm of the State University of New York and New York State. In 1998, he returned to academia by teaching writing, American literature, and children's literature at the University of North Carolina, and he continues to work as an editorial consultant to a financial management firm. He teaches courses in technical and business writing and writing for the sciences. His most recent research explores the impact of technology on learning styles and on the teaching of writing.

Shirley Peterson,
Associate Professor, Chair

 speterso@daemen.edu

Shirley Peterson joined the Daemen English program in 1990. She is the co-editor of a collection of critical essays, Unmanning Modernism:Gendered ReReadings (University of Tennessee Press, 1997). She has published articles on British authors Rebecca West, Angela Carter, and Fay Weldon as well as on contemporary film. Topics of interest to both her research and teaching include narratives about the British women's suffrage movement, novels about freaks, women and film, and the Irish Literary Renaissance. In 1992, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities award to study female contributions to modernism at Indiana University, Bloomington, with Professor Susan Gubar. In 1999, she presented her work on the Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen at University College Dublin as part of the Women's Education Research and Resource Centre Annual Conference. She recently spent a sabbatical leave working on Bowen and other Irish women writers including Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Kate O'Brien, and Edna O'Brien. Dr. Peterson's current research project involves Irish women novelists and issues of postcoloniality, particularly as their works depict the tensions of Anglo-Irish relationships. She also teaches courses in British Literature, Modernism, and Gender and Literature. She will introduce a new course in the Fall 2000

Gayle Nason, Assistant Professor

gnason@daemen.edu

 Communications, Literature of the Supernatural, Fantasy Literature
Professor Nason teaches communications courses and advises public relations students. Her scholarly interests include the literature of the fantastic, especially J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and she teaches courses in fantasy, science fiction, and the supernatural. She is a Board Member of (and sings alto in) the Buffalo Choral Arts Society and spends her free time singing in and choreographing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, most recently Iolanthe. She will appear in The Pirates of Penzance this spring at the Lancaster Opera House.

Robert A. Morace, Professor

  rmorace@daemen.edu

 American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Film
Dr. Morace is the author of the books The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge (1989) and John Gardner: An Annotated Secondary Bibliography (1984) and co-editor (with Kathryn VanSpanckeren) of John Gardner: Critical Perspectives (1982). In addition to numerous book reviews and articles in standard reference series such as Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Novelists, he has published essays in various scholarly journals and in recent collections devoted to John Cheever, Louis Erdrich, postmodernism, and American Puritanism. Morace is currently completing an essay on the restaurant-critic-turned-novelist John Lanchester and a book on Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, to be published next year by Continuum Books. A great believer in the necessary relationship between scholarship and teaching, he is also working on a larger study of the whole Irvine Welsh phenomenon. Morace has also taught in Warsaw, Poland, lectured in India, and won the 1996 Amy and Eric Burger Prize for best theater essay, on the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman's play, Death.

Professor Robert Morace's new book, Irvine Welsh, a study of the Scottish novelist and author of Trainspotting published this summer in the UK, will be released this month in the U.S. by Palgrave MacMillan Press.