 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY
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Dr. Richard Goode, McMahon
Professor of English, received his B.A. in English from Washington &
Lee University and his M.A. and Ph.D in English from the University of
Texas. Dr. Goode joined the Queens faculty in 1978 as a Professor of medieval and renaissance
literature. Dr. Goode also teaches film and television. He has
received the Queens Teaching Award, the Grier Professor of
the Year Award, the Sears Teacher of the Year Award, and in 1994 was
selected as North Carolina Professor of the year by the Carnegie Institute
for the Advancement of Learning. Dr. Goode teaches the Survey of British
Literature to 1660, the Seventeenth
Century, Shakespeare, Chaucer,
Literature and Film,
History
of Film, History of
Television, Film Studies, and Mass
Communication.
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Dr. Charles Hadley, Dana
Professor of English & Drama, received his B.A from Davidson College,
the M.A. from North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D from the
University of Georgia. A member of the Queens faculty since 1952, Dr.
Hadley is a scholar of classical literature, drama history, comparative
literature, and linguistics. He is well known as a student of southern
dialects and has coached many Hollywood stars in their dialects when
performing southern roles in film. Most recently he has produced a
documentary film on the nationally famous Appalachian story teller, Ray
Hicks, which has been aired on Public Television. Dr. Hadley is the
recipient of the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award, the Grier
professor of the Year Award, and in 1999 was named the North Carolina
Professor of the year. Among the courses Dr. Hadley teaches are
Introduction to Literature, Sounds of American English, Survey of World
Drama, Tennessee Williams, Comedy, and Tragedy. |
 Dr. Michael Kobre
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Dr.
Michael Kobre joined the Queens faculty in 1989 as a professor of modern
literature. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in English from Ohio
University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from The University of
Iowa. Dr. Kobre is the author of Walker Percy’s Voices
(University of Georgia Press, 2000) and has published essays, reviews,
and fiction in such magazines as The Georgia Review, The New Orleans
Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Critique, and West Branch. Dr.
Kobre received The Queens Teaching Award in 1994. In addition to his
duties in the English department, he also serves as On-Campus Director
of the college’s low-residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. An
ardent student of popular culture, he has read more comic books than
anyone should. Dr. Kobre teaches courses in Modern American Literature, Modern English Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Literary Criticism. |
 Dr. Emily Seelbinder |
Emily Seelbinder, Associate Professor of English, has twice won the Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. A graduate of Salem Academy, Hollins College (B.A., English '76) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A., '80, Ph.D., '87), Dr. Seelbinder has taught at UNC, Duke, and Wake Forest before coming to Queens in 1989. In addition to her teaching duties, she works for hot dogs as the announcer for the Queens College women's basketball games and has performed with the Queens Chamber Singers. Two years ago she played Domina in a music department production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She has also served as Faculty President and as Director of the Honors Program. She is a frequent speaker for the North Carolina Humanities Council on such subjects as "Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Faith," and "Wrestling with Angels: Women Writers on Writing." Dr. Seelbinder teaches American Literature Survey, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Creative Non-Fiction Writing, and African-American Literature. |
 Dr. Dorothy McGavran |
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 Dr. Lynn Morton |
Dr. Lynn Morton earned her PhD in Renaissance and Medieval English Literature in 1994 from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She earned her MA in English from the University of Nevada, Reno and her BA with a double major in English and History with secondary teacher certification from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Dr. Morton teaches Renaissance and Medieval literature, Freshman Writing, and in the Core Program. She is the Director of the Freshman Writing Program. |
 Prof. Cathy Bowers |
Cathy Smith Bowers has been a member of the Queens College English Department since 1983. She received BA and MAT degrees from Winthrop College in 1972 and 1976 and completed Oxford University's International Summer School in 1984. Her poems and short stories have appeared widely in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and Poetry. Her first book of poems, The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, won the first Texas Tech University Press first- book series competition. It was published in 1992 and reprinted by Iris Press in 1998. Her second book, Traveling in Time of Danger, was published in 1999 by Iris Press. She has also traveled widely with Queens' International Study Tour program. Prof Bowers teaches Non-Fiction Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Writing of Poetry, Fiction Writing. |
 Prof. Deborah Campbell |
 Andrea McCrary |
 Charles Israel |
Charles Israel joined the Queens College faculty in 2000, having taught at Elon College, Western Michigan University, and Kalamazoo College. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. in fiction from Western Michigan University. He has had poems and short stories published in The Quarterly, Red Cedar Review, and Southern Poetry Review and has written book and magazine indexes for National Geographic Magazine. Mr. Israel teaches Composition, Non-Fiction Writing, and Creative Writing. |
