William Baer
Professor, Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair in English Literature
Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting
M.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D.
William Baer, the author of sixteen books, has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright in Portugal, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. A graduate of Rutgers (B.A.), New York University (M.A.), and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (M.A.), he also studied at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema (M.A.) and received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, under the direction of James Dickey. Dr. Baer was the founding editor of The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry (1990-2004), and his various plays have been produced in New York City, Chicago, and many other parts of the country, having won The James K. Wilson Playwriting Award and the New Works of Merit National Playwriting Competition. His published books include: The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize); "Borges" and Other Sonnets (recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Prize); Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters; Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets; Writing Metrical Poetry; Elia Kazan: Interviews, and Conversations with Derek Walcott.
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Paul Bone
Department Chair, Assistant Professor
Poetry, Editing
M.F.A.
Paul Bone is the author of Momentary Vision of the Assistant Meteorologist, which won the 2004 Uccelli Chapbook Prize. His poems, reviews, creative nonfiction, and radio essays have been published in The Cream City Review, The Cimarron Review, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Evansville Review, Tupelo Press, Catalyst Books, and National Public Radio. Professor Bone received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. After receiving his M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas, he taught English in Tokyo, Japan. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of English at the University of Evansville and is one of the founding editors of Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry. |
Rob Griffith
Associate Professor
Poetry, Editing
M.F.A.
Rob Griffith is the author of three collections of poetry: A Matinee in Plato's Cave, winner of the 2009 Best Book of Indiana Award; Poisoning Caesar; and Necessary Alchemy, winner of Middle Tennessee University's Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in magazines and journals such as Poetry, First Things, River Styx, The North American Review, The Sewanee Theological Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Oxford American, among many others. He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and has received numerous awards, including the ACM Literary Award for Poetry, The University of the South's Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Poetry, Colgate University's Chenango Valley Scholarship for Poetry, the Felix Christopher McKean Award for Poetry, and the Lily Peter Fellowship for Poetry. Professor Griffith received his B.A. from the University of Tennessee and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, and in 2005, Professor Griffith was awarded the University of Evansville's Outstanding Professor Award. He is the Associate Director of the University of Evansville Press, the Director of the Harlaxton Summer Writing Program, and one of the founding co-editors of Measure: An Annual Review of Formal Poetry. He teaches creative writing, world literature, world cultures, and American literature. |
Margaret McMullan
Professor
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
M.F.A.
A recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship in literature, Professor McMullan is the author of six novels for adults and young adults including In My Mother's House, Sources of Light, Cashay, (both Chicago Public Library Teen Book Selections) and When I Crossed No-Bob, a 2008 Parents' Choice Silver Honor, a 2007 School Library Journal Best Book, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, and a Booklist 2009 Best Book For Young Adults. Both When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong won the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Best Fiction (in 2004 and 2008) and the Indiana Best Young Adult Book (in 2005 and 2008). Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, National Geographic for Kids, Southern Accents, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, The Southern California Anthology, Mississippi Magazine, Other Voices, Boulevard, Ploughshares, and The Sun among several other journals and anthologies such as Christmas Stories from the South's Best Writers. Professor McMullan received her B.A. in English and Religious Studies from Grinnell College and her M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. She has been an editor for Glamour magazine and a contributing editor for several fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies. She has taught at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference in Southampton, New York and at Eastern Kentucky University's Low-Residency MFA Program. She was the 2007 Eudora Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and a 2010 Fulbright professor of English at the University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary. |
