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

Specializes in : Early Modern lyric and narrative poetry. Research interests include poetry of the English Recusancy, as well as the prolific and various uses of alcohol in the works of William Shakespeare. Can  discuss poetry, language use, higher education trends, Catholic higher education, and public rhetoric.

Other: Executive vice president of Saint Anselm College, 1998 to 2003; worked with accreditation at Saint Anselm and other institutions. Organizes the college’s annual Shakespeare's Birthday Festival.
Hear him discuss "Grammar, Writing and the Evolution of the English Language."

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Jeanne M. Carvelos
M.F.A., American University
Lecturer

Can discuss:  Science fiction, horror and fantasy; latest scientific discoveries, technological innovations and possible future scientific developments. She is working on Fatal Spiral, a thriller about genetic manipulation and cloning.

Other: A science fiction author, astrophysicist and mathematician; worked in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center; was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell. Won the World Fantasy Award and developed the Cutting Edge imprint of literary fiction; directs Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop for six weeks every summer.

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Elona Lucas
Ph.D., Ohio University
Professor

Specializes in:  Medieval literature, history of the English language, and Jane Austen. Can discuss grammar and language, in general, history of the English language, medieval literature, including Chaucer and Arthurian literature; Willa Cather’s and Jane Austen’s works, and literary theory. Publications include "Poustinia and the 'Worldly' Spirituality of Margery Kempe," Studia Mystica, Fall 1991.

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Ann Norton
Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor

Specializes in : 20th-century British, women's and Romantic and Victorian literature. An expert on journalist/novelist Rebecca West. Wrote  Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West , and has published articles on Edna O’Brien, Virginia Woolf, Mary Lavin, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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