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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.
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John Gregory Brown
Julia Jackson Nichols Professor of English
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.
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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.
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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.
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Anthony Wayne Lilly II
Assistant Professor of English
A.A., B.A., Simon's Rock College
M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University
Professor Lilly teaches 16th- and 17th-Century British Literature, including Shakespeare. His research interests include religion and sexuality in Early Modern English literature and the construction of the modern gendered subject through language. His dissertation examined the influence of confession on gender and subjectivity in English Renaissance prose and drama. His current book project is titled The Queen of Proofs: Subjectivity, Gender, and Confession in Early Modern England.
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Cheryl Mares
Sara Shallenberger Brown 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.
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Lee Piepho
Sara Shallenberger Brown Research Professor of English
B. A., Kenyon College
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professor Piepho, who retired from teaching in the spring of 2005, taught courses in Renaissance literature and culture. The recipient of several 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.
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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.
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Eleanor Salotto
Professor of English
Chair of the Department
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.
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