Faculty
Dr. Jamie Carr
Assistant Professor
- Email:
- jcarr@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8544
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 320
Dr. Carr joined the English department in 2007. Her doctoral work on the Anglo-American modernist writer Christopher Isherwood, Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood’s Modernity, was published in Routledge’s Major Literary Authors Series in 2006. Her current research interests take up modernist literature’s theorizations and representations of fascism as these relate to conceptions of historical development and national identity. Dr....
Dr. Philip D. Collington
Associate Professor of English
- Email:
- pdc@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8635
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 354
Dr. Collington is an assistant professor who specializes in Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Drama and Popular Culture. He received his B.A. and, M.A. from McMaster University (1991 and 1992) , his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (1998), and then was a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1999-2000). Dr. Collington has...
Dr. Erin Karper
Associate Professor of English
- Email:
- ekarper@niagara.edu
- Website:
- http://purple.niagara.edu/ekarper
- Phone:
- 716.286.8631
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 350
- Office Hours:
- MWF 9-10 a.m.
Dr. Karper has been a member of the English Department since 2004 and acts as the coordinator of the Writing Studies minor. She teaches Thinking and Writing, Business Communication, Visual Rhetoric, Special Topics in Web Writing, and other writing courses.
Dr. Paula Kot
Associate Professor
- Email:
- pkot@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8625
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 367
Dr. Kot is an associate professor in English who specializes in early and nineteenth-century American Literature. She teaches upper-level courses on American women writers, the American gothic, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Native American Literature. Current Research 19th Century American Women Writers, especially Harriet Prescott Spofford Educational Background Ph.D. in English, The University of Connecticut M.A. in English, The University...
Dr. Jeanne Laurel
Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department
- Email:
- jlaurel@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8628
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 352
Her research interests include: African-American and multicultural literatures 20th and 21st Century American literature and criticism Gay and lesbian literature and culture Service learning components in literature courses. She received her B.A. in English from SUNY Albany (N.Y.) in 1982 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) where she also minored in Philosophy, and her...
Dr. Joseph Little
Associate Professor of English
- Email:
- jlittle@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716-286-8187
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 351
Dr. Little teaches writing and directs the first-year writing program at NU. On sabbatical leave until September 2013, he is at work on three projects: a spiritual memoir that explores mountain hiking, mysticism, and the limits of discursive language; empirical research on the functions of free writing; and, in collaboration with Dr. James Wynn of Carnegie...
Dr. William Martin
Director of Freshman English
- Email:
- wmartin@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8626
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 360
Appointed to the faculty in September 1979, Dr. Martin has served as director of freshman English and assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has won several awards for excellence in teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences (1986, 1992, 2001), and was named Niagara University's Teacher of the Year in...
Chad Parmenter
Assistant Professor
- Email:
- cparmenter@niagara.edu
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy 365
- Office Hours:
- MWTh 2:40-4:40
Chad Parmenter has just joined the faculty in fall 2012. He has had poems published in Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, and Kenyon Review. His paper, "Rereading the Yeatsian in 'Four Quartets'," won the T.S. Eliot Society's Fathman Award.
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Professor of English
- Email:
- dpinti@niagara.edu
- Phone:
- 716.286.8629
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 363
Dr. Pinti is a full professor of English. His research interests include Chaucer, Dante and the history of Dante reception, and literature and theology, He received his B.A. from Kent State University (1986), his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University (1988, 1992), and his M.Div. from Christ the King Seminary (2011). He is...