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Academic Advisors in English are regularly assigned to new majors.
Kristen Over, Graduate Program Literature Track Advisor: (773) 442-5833; k-over@neiu.edu
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Virtual Creative Writing advising hours: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Wednesdays by appointment
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Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986
“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class.” Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.
“Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy.” College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.
Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2002.
“Reading ‘Whiteness’ in English Studies.” College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.
Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.
Room LWH 2016 or B 147
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
5-6 p.m. Monday at El Centro
6-7 p.m. Tuesday at Main Campus
12-2 p.m. Thursday at Main Campus
Please email appointment requests and messages at least 24 hours in advance to t-barnett1@neiu.edu.

Ph.D. English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois
M.A. TESL/Linguistics, Ohio University
B.A. Antioch College
Buell, Marcia Z. "Negotiating Rich Response Networks and Textual Ownership in Dissertation Writing" Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers, Eds. Badenhorst, Cecile and Cally Guerin. Brill Online Books and Journals. 2015. 221-237.
Buell, Marcia Z. “The Place of Basic Writing at Wedonwan U: A Simulation for Graduate Level Seminars" Journal of Basic Writing E-Journal (2013-2014).
Buell, Marcia Z. “Negotiaitng Textual Authority: Response Cycles for a Personal Statement of a Latina Undergraduate.” Journal of Basic Writing 31(2) 5-28, (2012).
Buell, Marcia, and Park, So Jin. “Positioning expertise: The shared journey of a South Korean and a North American doctoral student.” In Christine Casanave and XiaoMing Li (Eds.), Learning to do graduate school: Perspectives on academic enculturation, literacy practices, and identity. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press. 2008.
Buell, Marcia. “Code-switching and second language writing: How multiple codes are combined in a text.” In Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior (Eds.), What writing does and how it does it (97-122). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004.
Room LWH 2019
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
12-1:30 p.m. Tuesday at El Centro or Online
6-6:45 p.m. Thursday in person or via Zoom
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B.A. in English and Sociology, Towson State University, 1983
M.A. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1985
Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1993
Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2009.
Instructor's Resource Manual for The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. Also, Second Edition, 2000.
Vicki Byard joined the NEIU faculty in 1991. Some of the highlights of her career at NEIU have been serving as the Chair of the Task Force for Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ and Women Students (2012), receiving the Martha Thompson Outstanding Faculty Award from the Women's and Gender Studies Program (2017), serving as Chair of the Faculty Senate (2018-2020), serving as Faculty Fellow in the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs (2018-2020), and teaching intensive thesis-writing course to International Relations students at the University of Warsaw (2019). In her personal life, she has raised two children, volunteered for social justice initiatives, and performed stories she has written for live literature events.
LWH 2017
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
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M.Ed. Secondary English Education, Loyola Chicago, 1998
B.A. Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, 1996
Post-Master's, Education Leadership and Research, University of Illinois, Chicago
Room LWH 2009
Northeastern Illinois University
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Virtual student hours:
12:30 -1:00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday via phone
Contact via email/online at e-cantor@neiu.edu
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MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Current project: Interro-porn
Poetry collection, Louise and Louise and Louise (2016)
Poems from Middle Mansion, Deluge Vol 1, 11-14
Writing on contemporary poetry
Poetry collection, Skin Horse (2012)
Room LWH 2100
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
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9 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday: General questions and advising
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Wednesday and Friday: Questions about the Creative Writing Minor
All student hours are online via Zoom, Google Meet, Google Chat, by request. Please email 24 hours in advance at o-cronk@neiu.edu.
M.A. Northeastern Illinois University
M.F.A. Murray State University
B.G.S. University of Michigan
Muse, Um. Finishing Line Press (2022)
Frequently Asked Questions. Salmon Poetry (2022)
Activities of Daily Living. Salmon Poetry (2017)
Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Salmon Poetry (2016)
Language Lessons, Vol 1. Third Man Books (2014)
Brief Nudity. Salmon Poetry (2013)
Basic Cable Couplets. Silkworms Ink (2012)
abbrev. Beard of Bees (2011)
About the Author. Mindmade Books (2011)
I Am Spam. Fractal Edge Press (2004)
Identity Theft for Dummies. Zenith Beast Books (2003)
AWP, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago Poetry Festival, Chicago Poetry Invasion, Poets Against the War, Poetry Cram, Midwest Literary Festival, Printers Row Lit Fest, Looptopia, Pilcrow Lit Fest, Creative Writing Institute, Series A, Orange Alert Reading Series, Writers Block, Wordeater, Revolving Door, Ipsento Reading Series, Chicago Book Expo, Excited Utterance, GCHS Writers Week, Wit Rabbit and Poetry Foundation
Room LWH 2018
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
10:30-11:30 a.m. or 2:15-3:15p.m. Monday and Wednesday
Or by Zoom appointment. Email the day before to schedule at l-dean@neiu.edu.
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A.H. Louisiana State University
B.A. Tulane University
Greeks in Chicago. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.
“The Maze: A Historical Novel.” Review of The Maze. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“A Greek Stylist: History Contests with Progress and Loses.” Review of Little Infamies. By Panos Karnezis. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“A Sense of Sacred Space.” Review of Ecclesia: Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis. By Panos Fiorentinos. The National Herald. 15 February 2009.
“Loss and Transformation on the Road in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Don DeLillo’s Underworld.” The Image of the Road in Literature, Media and Society. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, Co: The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. August 2005. 148-153.
Room LWH 2009
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
12:30-12:50 p.m., 2:15-4:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, in person
9:00-10:40 a.m., 12:10-1:10 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, in person
12-2 p.m. Friday, Zoom by appointment
Email the day before to schedule Zoom meetings at m-davros@neiu.edu or mgvld2@sbcglobal.net.
Ph.D. English/Philosophy, Purdue University, 2003
MFA Fiction, Purdue University, 2003
M.A. Comparative Literature/German, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 1996
M.A. Catholic Theology, Leopold Franzens University, Austria, 1989
B.A. Philosophy (magna cum laude), St. Joseph’s Seminary, Nigeria, 1984
Books
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature - Feminist Empathy New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), 2011.
The Dilemma of Ethnic Identity: Alain Locke’s Vision of Transcultural Societies. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
Articles
"Decolonisation and its Discontents: Thoughs on the Postcolonial African Moral Self" Journal of South African Philosophy, Vol 34. Issue 4 (2015): 408-418.
“Rethinking African Culture and Identity: The Afropolitan Model.” Journal of African Cultural Studies. 26. 2. (2014): 234-247.
“The Open Wounds of Being: The Poetics of Testimony in the Works of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. Vol. 16, No.2 (Fall 2014): 282-306.
“Death, Here I Am: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying.” Journal of Narrative Theory, 43.1. (Spring 2013): 87-107.
“Nelson Mandela and the Politics of Empathy: Reflections on the Moral Conditions for Conflict Resolutions in Africa.” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review. Volume 2, Number 1, (Spring 2012): 122-135.
“Ambits of Moral Judgement: Of Pain, Empathy and Redemption in J.M.Coetzee's Age of Iron,” Journal of Literary Studies, 27:4, (2011):17-35.
“African Feminism: Resistance or Resentment." Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy XX, 1-2, (2008): 97-117.
“The Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness.” Philosophia Africana 10. 1 (March 2007): 37-47.
“Cosmopolitan Solidarity: Negotiating Transculturality in Contemporary Nigerian Novels.” English in Africa. (Spring 2005):99-112.
“Resentment and the African Condition: An Inquiry.” Gefame: Journal of African Studies. 2, no. 1, 2005.
Creative Works
The Trial of Mugabe (Novella) Chicago, Okri Books, 2009.
Survival Kit (Poems) New York: Akachic Books, 2016.
Room LWH 2084
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
12-2 p.m. Monday and Wednesday
4:30-5:30 p.m. Monday
3-5 p.m. Tuesday - Online
Or by appointment. Please email c-eze@neiu.edu in advance to arrange.
Ph.D., English, University of Florida
“Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition Cambridge University Press, 2021.
“Interdependence and Interlingualism in Santiago Puglia’s El desengaño del hombre (1794)” Early American Literature 53:3 (October 2018) p. 745 – 772.
“On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelfia.” Latino/a Studies and Nineteenth-Century America.” Ed. Jesse Alemán and Rodrigo Lazo. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 71-88.
“Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge’s Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature.” Literature in the Early American Republic 3 (April 2011) p. 145 – 171
“‘The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind’: American Universalism and Exceptionalism in the Early Nation.” American Exceptionalisms, Ed. Sylvia Söderlind and Jamey Carson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. p. 51 – 70.
“Roundtable: Critical Keywords in Early American Studies,” Co-edited and Introduction with Duncan Faherty. Early American Literature 46:3 (Fall 2011) pp. 601-602; pp. 603-632.
Northeastern Illinois University
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MFA Fiction Writing, Washington University in St. Louis
"I Take Cars Everywhere," echoverse, May 2020
Hard Mouth: a novel, Counterpoint Press, 2019.
"A Regular-Looking Man, Alone," Puerto del Sol, May 2019.
"Night Fun," FENCE, Winter/Spring 2018
"The Final Defeat of My Colonialist Body," DIAGRAM, 17.5
"Ha! I Said Quietly," NOON, 2017
"Softly, Whispery, Feathery," Fanzine
"The Era of Good Feelings," The Southern Review (audio sample)
"Person-Character," Hobart
"Paris," The Collagist
Catalpa: This is Not True, chapbook, The Cupboard Pamphlet
Room LWH 2099
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday
And by appointment: a-goldblatt@neiu.edu
M.A. English, Northeastern Illinois University, 1987
B.A. Filmmaking, Columbia College, 1981
Oakton Community College
Textbook: I Can Do That, Bedford/Custom Textbook
Room LWH 2025
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday
12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday
Or by appointment: Email for details at t-graf@neiu.edu or contact by text at (847) 345-2812

PhD English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2001
MA Political Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1991
BA Political Science, Purdue University, 1988
Books
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, a novel. Sandstone Press, UK, June 2014.
A Quail Is a Pretty Bird. Manuscript of a book of short fiction, under consideration at various journals/reviews/magazines.
Articles/Book Chapters
“Michael Bogdanov: An International Director’s The Winter’s Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action To the Word, ed. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos, Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.
“Sack Drama: The Return of Falstaff in Henry V.” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller, Fordham University Press, 2009. Pages 45-57.
The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, entries on Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, King John, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, General Introduction to The History Plays. Global Book Publishing, Sydney, Australia, 2009. Pages 62-83, 116-119.
“‘O for a muse of fire’: Henry V and Plotted Self-Exculpation.” Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 36, 2008), 182-206.
“T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation.” Criticism 49.2 (Spring 2008), 215-239.
“’the double variacioun of wordly blisse and transmutacioun’: Shakespeare’s Return to Ovid in Troilus and Cressida.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (Third Series, Vol. 5, May 2008), 293-312.
“Romancing the Chronicles: 1 Henry IV and the Rewriting of Medieval History.” Quidditas (Vol. 27, 2006), 34-50. Published as the 2005 Allen D. Breck Award Winner.
Book Reviews
Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 38, 2011). Jennifer Summit, Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Journal of British Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2010). Stewart Mottram, Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 59, No. 2, Summer 2006). William M. Hamlin, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England. London and New York: Palgrave, 2005.
The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter 2006). Ken MacMillan and Jennifer Abeles, Eds. John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire. New York: Praeger, 2005.
The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Summer 2006). Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare’s History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Arthuriana (Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 2004). Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Arthuriana (Vol. 13 No. 3, Fall 2003). Frances A. Underhill, For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Short Fiction
“The Confectioner.” First Intensity, #19, Fall 2004.
“Insurance.” The Cimarron Review, Spring 2004, issue 147.
“Two Brothers.” South Dakota Review, Winter 2003 (Vol. 41 #4).
Poetry
“Cauthard.” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2004 (Vol. 54 #4), 35-45.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Room LWH 2008
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
1:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday
Or by appointment, email b-greenburg@neiu.edu to arrange.
Ph.D. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1995
M.A. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1989
B.A. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1988
Edited Books:
Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (Editor), 2014
Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story (Editor), 2005
Selected Significant Articles:
“Sabrina . . . or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Spectre of Milton in Sabrina (1995),” in Milton and Popular Culture, edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Semenza (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 151-162.
“The Lady’s Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton’s Comus,” in Milton Studies (35), 1997, pp. 1-20.
Room LWH 2002
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday
Virtual office/advising hours (via Zoom), by appointment:
Email 24 hours in advance to schedule: j-kim6@neiu.edu

PhD English, University of Michigan, 1995
MA English, University of Michigan, 1991
BA English summa cum laude, Cornell University, 1989
Books
The Making of U.S. Warking-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press).
Articles and Chapters
"A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle" in Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, ed. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, University Press of America, 2016.
"Dis-Alienating the Neighborhood: The Representation of Work and Community in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," in Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2016.
"Beyond the Innocence of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity of Carlos Bulosan's Anti-Imperialist Imagination." Kritika Kultura, no. 23 (Summer 2014). On-line.
"'Verticality is such a risky enterprise': Class Epistemologies and the Critique of Upward Movility in Colson Whitehead's The Intiutisionist," in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Julie H. Kim. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014, pp. 201-224.
"'A Broader and Wiser Revolution': Refiguring Chicago Nationalist Politics in Latin Amercan Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature" in Imagined Transnationalism: Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity, eds. Francisco Lomelí, Marc Priewe, and Kevin Concannon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-155.
"Modernism and Politics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 176-180.
LWH 2012
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
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Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Book Article. “Warrior Ideal or Sinful Beast? Ambiguous Sovereignty in Culhwch ac Olwen.” In The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors. Arlen House Press 2013. Examines the sovereign power of God and Arthur in an early Welsh Arthurian tale.
Book Article. “Hybridity Reconsidered: Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc.” In Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and Wolfram R. Keller, editors. Winter, Heidelberg, 2011. Examines a Welsh version of the Perceval tale in the context of distinct insular identities.
Book. Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance. Routledge Press, 2005. A study of vernacular literature, medieval colonialisms, and state formation focusing on the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and three thirteenth-century Welsh tales.
Book Article. “Transcultural Change: Romance to Rhamant.” In Medieval Celtic Literature and Society. Helen Fulton, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005. Assessment of the genres of romance/rhamant from a postcolonial perspective.
Room LWH 2006
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
3-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays (in person)
Or by Zoom appointment. Email k-over@neiu.edu the day before to schedule.

Ph.D. English with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis, 2009
Ryan is also a staff writer at PopMatters.
Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
“The Rising Tide of Neoliberalism: Attica Locke’s Black Water Rising and the Segregated Geographies of Globalization” in Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (McFarland & Company, 2014)
“The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon” in Blue Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore (Praeger, 2012)
"Can One Get Out? The Aesthetics of Afro-Pessimism," Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association, Special Issue: "Arts and Activism" (Fall 2019)
"Neoliberal Heroes:Clint Eastwood's Sully and the Haunting of History." The Journal of Popular Culture, Special Edition: Neoliberalism and Popular Culture," (April 2018)
"Lynn Nottage's Theatre of Genocide: Ruined, Rape, and Afropessimism." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.1 (2020): 81-105.
Room LWH 2024
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Monday: 12-12:45 p.m.
Wednesday: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
and gladly by appointment.
Email at least 24 hours before to schedule at r-poll@neiu.edu.

Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University
The Selected Works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, edited and annotated, with an introduction, 3 vols (forthcoming, Mercer Press, 2023-2024)
2020 section editor and author, “Elizabeth Oakes Smith 1806-1893—American novelist essayist, lecturer, poet and short-story writer,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol 387, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC: 95-177.
2020 “Poe, Pandemic and Underlying Conditions,” PopMatters, May 26, 2020: https://www.popmatters.com/poe-pandemic-and-underlying-conditions- 2646000879.html
2017 “Eluding the Authorities: Tom Waits in Postmodern Context,” PopMatters, January 9, 2017: http://www.popmatters.com/feature/tom-waits-eluding-the-authorities/
1993 "The Authority Effect: Poe and the Politics of Reputation in the Pre-Industry of American Publishing," Arizona Quarterly 49/3 (Fall 1993): 1-21.
1992 "Translating From Memory: Patrick Modiano in Postmodern Context," Studies inTwentieth-Century Literature 16/2 (summer 1992): 289-303.
Scherman is the founder and current President of The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society (501(c)3).
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday
Or online by appointment. Email the day before to schedule at t-scherman@neiu.edu.

Ph.D. with distinction in English from the University of Louisiana (1999)
M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (1994)
B.A. with honors in English from Southern Illinois University (1992)
Books
Schroeder, Christopher. 2011. Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• recipient of 2012 CCCC Research Impact Award
Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. 2002. ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
• reprinted by Heinemann in 2004
• college best-seller for Heinemann in 2002
Schroeder, Christopher. 2001. ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• reviewed in College English
• nominated for the 2002 David H. Russell Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English
Articles, Chapters, and Essays
Schroeder, Christopher. 2016. “Continuity and Community in a Cosmopolitan World: Code Switching and Its Effects on Community Identity.” In Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines Across America, ed. Barbara Couture and Patricia Wojahn, 43-59. Boulder, Colo.: Utah State University Press.
---. 2010. “Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise.” In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications, ed. Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk, 95-113. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, Inc.
---. 2009. “English Teachers We Have Known.” In Transforming English Studies: New Voices from an Emerging Genre, ed. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, 212-228. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press.
---. 2007. “Notes Toward a Dynamic Theory of Literacy.” In Locations of Composition, ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, 267-287. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2006. “The Limits of Institutionalized Literacies: Minority Bilinguals at One U.S. University.” Community Literacy Journal 1: 67-82.
---. 2005. “Natural Diversity: A Response to David Quammen.” In Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature, ed. Sidney Dobrin and Chris Keller, 99-107. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2004a. Review of Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James Slevin. Composition Studies 32: 143-146.
---. 2004b. “The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies.” In Ethnography Unbound: From Shock Theory to Critical Praxis, ed. Stephen Brown and Sidney Dobrin. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
---. 2002. “From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending).” In ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, 178-190. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
---. 2002. “Rereading the Literacy Crisis in Colleges and Universities in the United States.” In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick J. Anczak, Cinda Goggins, and Geoffery D. Klinger, 187-192. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
---. 2001. “Academic Literacies, Legitimacy Crises, and Electronic Cultures.” The Journal of Literacy and Technology, http://www.literacyandtechnology.org.
---. 1999. “Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature (and Other) Classrooms.” In Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum, ed. Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, 297-311. New York: Garland Press.
---. 1998. “Writing, Reading, and Resistant Meanings: Teaching Students to Fish.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 17: 61-72. (all footnotes were omitted without permission)
---. 1997. “Knowledge and Power, Logic and Rhetoric, and Other Reflections in the Toulminian Mirror: A Critical Consideration of Toulmin’s Contributions to Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17: 95-107.
Room LWH 2023
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
12:05-1:35 p.m. and 3-4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday
Other times by appointment via Google Meet
Email at c-schroeder2@neiu.edu

MFA Goddard College
"Weaning," Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Healthcare in America? Penultimate Press Inc.
"(A)Vocation," matchbook
"Bedazzled," Paper Darts
"The Beginning of the End," "A Rest," "Cardiac Arrest," "St. Philomena," FRiGG
"Catalog of Dreams," Natural Bridge
AWP, Tuesday Funk, Essay Fiesta, Story Club, That's All She Wrote, Women and Children First, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Loose Chicks, Annoyance Theater
Room LWH 2050
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesdays in person
Otherwise by Zoom appointment. Email to arrange at c-simokaitis@neiu.edu.
M.A. English Northeastern University
B.A. English, The University of Iowa
Room LWH 2025
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
1:30-2:20 p.m. Monday
3-4 p.m. Tuesday/Thursday
Or by appointment. Please email instructor for an appointment at b-white@neiu.edu.