Anthony Adah

Instructor
Ph.D., Film and Drama
University of Toronto
aadah@nmu.edu

Dr. Anthony Adah is replacing Jaspal Singh this year while she is on sabbatical.  He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Drama Centre, University of Toronto in August of 2007. His dissertation concentrated on body and identity in Aboriginal cinemas from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. His teaching and research interests are comparative post-colonial cinemas and literatures. He has taught world literatures and media arts at College level in Nigeria, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Canada. An accomplished actor/director for the stage, Anthony has also published articles on postcolonial drama and film.

Carol Ann Bays

Professor
Ph.D., Comparative Literature
Wayne State University
cbays@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

- World Literature: Non-Western, Japanese
- 19th and 20th Century American  Literature
- Modernism
- Critical Thinking

Dr. Carol Ann Bays (Candy) began teaching at NMU in 1976. Having spent several years as an undergraduate in Tokyo, Japan, she then majored in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Michigan (BA), English at North Texas State University (MA), and Comparative Literature at Wayne State University (PhD). Her interests have always been global: looking for connections among cultures, in particular between East and West. In recent years her research has focused on pedagogy; she has presented several papers on the role of world literature in the undergraduate curriculum (ACLA, MMLA) and has experimented here at NMU with interdisciplinary course models. After serving the NMU/AAUP Chapter as grievance officer and chief negotiator in the 80's, followed by several terms on the Marquette County Board in the early 90's, she now serves as an Arbitrator on the Panel of the American Arbitration Association and regularly hears cases involving labor-management disputes.

David Boe

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Linguistics
Indiana University
dboe@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

- Applied Linguistics
- Descriptive English Grammar
- History of The English Language

Professor Boe has been teaching at Northern Michigan University since 2001. Prior to joining the NMU faculty, he was a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics at the University of Nevada at Reno (1999-2001), and before that he was a Fulbright lecturer in linguistics at Vilnius University in Lithuania (1996-1998). He completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1996, with a concentration in syntax and second language acquisition. He currently serves as the Secretary/Newsletter Editor of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), and is a regular presenter at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). At NMU, he serves as the Director of the Program in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and is an English Department representative on the university's Academic Senate. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, skiing (both downhill and cross-country), and playing the piano.

Stephen Burn

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Durham (UK)
sburn@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

- European Modernism
- American Literature
- The Contemporary Novel

Stephen Burn completed a PhD at the University of Durham in 2001, concentrating on the encyclopedic novel. He is the author of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2003), Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism (Continuum, 2008), and co-editor of Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008).

Sandra Burr

Associate Professor
Ph.D., College of William and Mary;
M.A., College of William and Mary; B.A., University of Oregon
sburr@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

- American Studies
- American Literature
- African-American Literature

Professor Burr has completed her dissertation in American Studies at the College of William and Mary, from which she also received her M.A. Her B.A. is from the University of Oregon. An experienced teacher of American literature, she has also served in editorial positions for Eighteenth-Century Life and Private Libraries in Renaissance England. Her publications include the widely acclaimed anthology Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century, which she co-edited with Adam Potkay, as well as several on-line and print journal publications.

Peter H. Goodrich

Professor and Assistant Head
M.A., Ph.D., University of
Michigan
B.A. Dartmouth College
pgoodric@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

- Medieval British Literature
- Modernist British and American Literature
- Irish literature
- Arthurian Literature, Mythology, Fantasy
- Technical Communication and Rhetoric

Peter Goodrich came to Northern Michigan University in 1984 as a literary generalist and technical writing instructor. Before joining the NMU faculty he studied Anglo-Irish literature at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; taught at the German universities of Mainz, Marburg, and Kassel, at Quinebaug Community College in Connecticut, and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His scholarship has primarily explored the figure of Merlin in Arthurian legend through all literary periods and genres. In addition to individual published essays and conference presentations on Arthurian literature and related subjects such as New Age cultism, mad scientists, young adult and heroic fantasy, he has edited and published The Romance of Merlin (Garland, 1991) and is editor of Merlin: A Casebook (Garland, forthcoming). He has also contributed articles on masque to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia (Garland, 1991) and on Merlin to Medieval Folklore: an Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs (ABC-CLIO, 2000), and coedits Nuntia, the newsletter of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, with Zacharias Thundy. Peter caught the hifi bug as an undergraduate and moonlighted as a sales associate in Boston area and Ann Arbor hifi stores before coming to Marquette and eventually founding his own high performance audio-video retail business, Sound Surroundings. When not occupied with academic matters, business, family, walking his dog and keeping up a Victorian home, he may be caught dreaming of travel to exotic places.