Gary Bouchard
Ph.D. 1988, Loyola University of Chicago

Though I specialize in the poetry of 16th and 17th century England, I delight in literature of all periods and take joy in helping students to discover passages that open up their imaginations to a lifelong love of literature. I am also committed to good writing and rhetorical presentation and do all I can to help students develop as writers. And every April 23rd I gather together people from far and near to read all 154 of Shakespere's sonnets into the spring New Hampshire air.

Meoghan Cronin
Ph.D. 1993, University of Delaware 

Dr. Cronin specializes in Romantic and Victorian literature. She teaches survey courses in these areas, as well as courses that focus on individual nineteenth-century British writers such as Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, and Charlotte Bronte, as well as advanced composition.

Fr. Jerome Day, O.S.B.

Fr. Jerome teaches communication-related courses.

Edward Gleason, Ph.D.

Dr. Gleason's teaching emphases are nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, twentieth century Irish literature, and creative writing (poetry and fiction).

Jonathan D. Lupo, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Dr. Lupo teaches in the Communication major. He specializes in film and television studies, as well as questions of media aesthetics and taste cultures.

Landis Magnuson, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Landis K. Magnuson specializes in theatre direction, acting for the stage, and American theatre history. He has served of the director of the Anselmian Abbey Players since fall of 1988. In this capacity he annually directs the fall production and produces the remaining four theatre productions presented by the Abbey Players during the school year. 

Bindu Malieckal, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Baylor University

Dr. Bindu Malieckal specializes in Early Modern literature, with a focus on the representation of Indians, Jews, Muslims, and women in 15th to early 18th century texts. She has additional interests in genocide studies, Postcolonial literature from India, and African American literature. 

 Chani Marchiselli, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Dr. Marchiselli teaches courses in media studies, rhetoric and human communication. Her research interests include media history and theory, gender, and cultural studies. Her current research focuses on early twentieth century music and sound culture.

Ann Norton (chair)
Ph.D. 1992, Columbia University, English

I teach nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature, as well as introductory and special topics courses in English. My research focuses on twentieth-century women writers from several countries, and I am currently exploring film adaptations of their literature.

Sherry Shepler
Ph.D. 2002, Wayne State University, Communication

Dr. Shepler received her Ph.D. in Communication from Wayne State University in Detroit where she specialized in rhetorical theory and criticism and developed a particular interest in studying the intersection of community conflict, ethnicity and communication. Her current research includes both historical and contemporary projects related to this topic.

Jennifer Thorn
Ph.D. 1994, Columbia University, English 

I work in the area of transatlantic eighteenth century studies, with special interest in race, reproduction, and time.

Keith Williams
Ph.D., Cornell University

Dr. Williams teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century African American Literature and American Literature. In addition to general survey courses in these areas, he teaches specialized topics on such areas as the U.S. Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance.