Faculty
Lynn Bey
adjunct professor
Professor Bey has taught WRT 100 at Niagara since 2007. Education: B.A., Theater, Florida Atlantic University M.A., English, Florida State University Awards: Robert O. Lawton Teaching Award, English Department, Florida State SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, through Niagara County Community College
Dr. Jamie Carr
Professor and Chair of the English Department
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8544
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 320
I have long been intrigued by what Sven Birkerts, in his book The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994), says about what we experience when we are immersed in a good story: that we "hand over our groundedness in the here and now in order...
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Dr. Philip D. Collington
Professor of English
- Phone:
- 716.286.8635
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 354
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I am a professor in the Department of English, and I have taught at NU since 2000. My courses include: ENG 110 (Literary Perspectives: Topic - Teen Shakespeare on Film); ENG 202 (Studies in British Commonwealth Literature: Topic - Hybridity in Literature from before 1800); ENG 303 (English Renaissance Literature);...
Professor Diane S. Halm
Faculty Fellow
An adjunct member of the English Department since 2001, Professor Halm was appointed as a Faculty Fellow in 2015. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, and her dissertation focuses on the relationship between writing, cognition, and student success. While she has taught over 60 sections of Writing...
Dr. Erin Karper
Associate Professor of English
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8631
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 350
- Office Hours:
- MWF 9-10 a.m.
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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, Methods of Writing Studies, and other writing courses. Educational Background BA, Writing/Spanish, Loyola University Maryland; MA and PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University Focus...
Dr. Paula Kot
Associate Professor
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- 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 BackgroundPh.D. in English, The University of Connecticut M.A....
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Dr. Joseph Little
Associate Professor of English / Director of Writing
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- Phone:
- 716-286-8187
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall 351
I'm an English professor here at Niagara, where I teach a variety of undergraduate courses, including: Writing 100, Writing and Rhetoric English 343, Writing and Well-Being English 348, Ethnography and Travel Writing (paired with the California Wonder Walk) English 350, Style As Director of Writing, I oversee the university's first-year composition...
Dr. Ajitpaul Mangat
Faculty Fellow
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- Phone:
- 716-286-8134
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 323
Dr. Ajitpaul Mangat is a Faculty Fellow in the English department where he teaches courses on writing (Writing 100: Writing and Rhetoric) and literature (English 110: Literary Perspectives). *Teaching* Dr. Mangat’s work focuses on the body, specifically the politicized body (the body’s relation to identity), the disabled body (the body’s relation to...
Dr. Daniel Pinti
Professor of English
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8629
- Office Location:
- Dunleavy Hall, Room 363
Dr. Pinti is a full professor of English. 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 also an Episcopal priest, serving as Priest-in-Charge at St. Peter's Episcopal...
David M. Schoen
Instructor
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- Phone:
- 716.286.8001
- Office Location:
- Library
David Schoen is the Library Director at Niagara University. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a bachelor's degree in History and a master's degree in Library Science. He has taught part-time at Niagara University since 2007 and received an Adjunct Faculty Teaching...
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Matthew Tremblay, APR
Lecturer
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- Office Location:
- Dunleavy 344
Matthew Tremblay has been an instructor of Business Communication for the English Department since 2013. He holds a Masters of Science in Public Relations Management from the State University of New York College at Buffalo (2006), and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications from Franciscan University of Steubenville (2003). In addition...