English Faculty

Bob Barrie
completed the Ph.D. in English at The University of North Carolina, with a specialization in renaissance literature and a minor in medieval literature. The focus of his most recent scholarship and upper level teaching has been in the area of Elizabethan drama. He also has an interest in personal essay and fiction writing, and he regularly teaches workshop courses in this area also.

Carol Daeley
is a University of California (Riverside) Ph.D. She specializes in British literature of the 18th and early 19th centuries but frequently also works with East Asian, African, and post-colonial literature. "Human beings in all times and places try to find ways of making stories and images out of their experiences. William Blake, Wole Soyinka, Lady Murasaki, Steven Spielberg, or a storyteller by a fireside—all are trying to make sense of human life by making poems, tales, plays, and films."

Alex Garganigo
Having received his Ph.D. from Washington University and taught for a few years at Wake Forest University, Alex is excited about specializing in British Renaissance and Enlightenment literature at AC. His scholarly work has concentrated on images of the human body and the elegy genre in early modern literature. When he has time, he likes to swim and play the flute; but with a daughter on the way, he may have to curtail these activities.

Jim Gray
who exhausted the possibilities of mathematics at Michigan State, completed his doctorate in English at Indiana University, with specialization in late 19th century American literature. His responsibilities at Austin College include all American literature to 1920, and his interests include critical theory and American cultural studies. His goal is to empower students to be resistant readers and producers of their own literary experience rather than mere consumers, though occasionally he consumes as well.  Jim Gray also serves as the Director of American Studies

Jack Jernigan (Emeritus)

Jerry Lincecum
completed the Ph.D. at Duke University with a specialization in the English novel. He also teaches courses in Irish literature, American cinema, and Faulkner. "Whether I’m teaching a Faulkner seminar or an introductory course, the emphasis will be on literature’s social and cultural contexts and on the careful reading of texts."

Peter Lucchesi (Emeritus)

Madhuparna Mitra (Adjunct)
got her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to teaching her field of specialization -- the Renaissance -- she has taught many courses in postcolonial literature with particular emphasis on Indian writing in English. You can contact Dr. Mitra by email: mmitra@austincollege.edu.

Bill Moore (Emeritus)
(Ph.D. from Harvard) was trained in English Renaissance drama, poetry, and historical literature; developed interests in earlier medieval literature; and is most strongly interested in explaining relationships between reading experience and religious experience. "I seem increasingly drawn to the longest works around, by Fielding, Milton, Chaucer, Dante, Tolkien, or (who’s this?) Michael Drayton."   Dr. Moore has moved to a retirement home in North Carolina but may still be reached by email: srwhmoore@citcom.net.

Roger Platizky
received his doctorate at Rutgers University where he specialized in Victorian Literature. In addition to teaching in his areas of specialization, he regularly teaches Modern British poetry, Heritage 55, Writing, Women's Literature and AIDS and Literature. He is especially interested in psychoanalytic criticism, feminist criticism, and gay studies. He agrees with the adage that self-literacy is as important as academic wisdom; in fact, one is rarely successful without the other.

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