SBC English Faculty

Email Curriculum Vitae	Carrie Brown Associate Professor of English, Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence B.A., Brown University M.F.A., University of Virginia Carrie Brown teaches workshops and special topics courses on writing fiction. She is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is twice the recipient of the Library of Virginia Book Award. Her most recent novel, The Rope Walk, was published by Pantheon in the spring of 2007.
Email Curriculum Vitae	John Gregory Brown Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing B.A., Tulane University M.A., Louisiana State University M.A., The Writer Seminars, Johns Hopkins University Professor Brown is the director of the Creative Writing Program and teaches workshops on writing fiction. He is the author of the novels Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur, and Audubon's Watch. He has received a Lyndhurst Prize, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Steinbeck Award.
Email Curriculum Vitae	John Casteen Visiting Assistant Professor B.A., University of Virginia M.F.A., University of Iowa John Casteen teaches writing at Sweet Briar College and at the University of Virginia. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared recently in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines; his nonfiction has appeared in Slate Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. Free Union, his first book of poems, will be released by the University of Georgia Press in 2009.
Email Curriculum Vitae	David Griffith Assistant Professor of English B.A., University of Notre Dame M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh Dave Griffith teaches creative writing courses. He is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the Utne Reader, Image, and Killing the Buddha, among other publications. During the summer, he is chair of the Creative Writing Department at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Cheryl Mares Professor of English B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University Professor Mares teaches modern and contemporary fiction and poetry, including post-colonial literature. Her research interests involve connections between literature, history, and politics in contemporary fiction and in works by modernist writers, especially Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, on whom she has published a number of articles.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Elisabeth Muhlenfeld President of the College and Professor of English B.A., Goucher College M.A., University of Texas at Arlington Ph.D.,University of South Carolina at Columbia Dr. Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, the ninth president of Sweet Briar College, is the author of a biography of Mary Boykin Chesnut, a work on Chesnut's novels, and an edition of Chesnut's original diaries, co-edited with historian C.Vann Woodward. Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography was nominated for various prizes, among them the Pulitzer. Dr. Muhlenfeld also has edited a critical work on William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Lee Piepho Professor of English Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of English B. A., Kenyon College M.A., Columbia University Ph.D., University of Virginia Professor Piepho, who retired in the the spring of 2005, taught courses in Renaissance literature and culture. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a senior research fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, he is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books, most recently Holofernes’ Mantuan, a study of Renaissance humanism in England, published in 2001. At present he is at work on a series of studies of transnational cultural links between Germany and early modern Britain. At Sweet Briar Professor Piepho twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Government Association, in 1991 and 2000.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Marcia Robertson Associate Professor of English B.A., Augustana College M.A., Ph.D, Washington University Professor Robertson teaches American literature, including African-American and Native American writers. She also teaches courses in autobiography, nature writing, and, most recently, speculative fiction. Her research interests are in regional literature, especially the literature of the South. She writes extensively for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Eleanor Salotto Professor of English, Chair of the Department, and Director of the Film Studies Program B.A., M.A., Temple University Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College Professor Salotto teaches 19th-Century British and European Literature and Film Studies. Her research interests are in women's narratives and identity, film noir, film theory, and literary theory. Her book, Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock, was recently published by Palgrave. She wrote the iintroduction for the Barnes and Noble Classic Series edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise and has published articles on that novel as well as on Frankenstein, Bleak House, and Villette. Currently, she is working on book project linking Victorian multiplot novels to Hitchcock's use of suspense.
Email Curriculum Vitae	Karl Tamburr Professor of English B.A., Princeton University M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia Professor Tamburr teaches courses ranging from "Chaucer" to the "History of the English Language." His recently completed book,The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, was published in 2007 by Boydell & Brewer. He has also published articles on medieval drama and mysticism. Professor Tamburr received the 1993 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Government Association.