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B.A. Southwest Texas State University
M.A. University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. University of Iowa

Doug Anderson earned his M.A. at the University of Texas, Austin and later attended the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D.  He has been a member of the Caldwell English Department since the fall of 2011, teaching courses such as Literature and Diversity, Work and Working-Class Life in Literature, Poking Fun:  Irony and Satire in Literature, and Contemporary Fiction; he also facilitates the University’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program.  His research interests include gender, race and class in twentieth-century and contemporary American fiction; utopian and dystopian fiction; and environmental issues in literature.

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Dr. Katie Kornacki is an Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department. She earned a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut and her MA in American and New England Studies from the University of Southern Maine. Professor Kornacki teaches a variety of courses, including: American Literature; African American Literature; Women in Literature; Literature and the Environment; American Images in Literature; Literature of the Romantic Movement; The American Novel; and Coming of Age Literature.

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B.A., University of Maine
M.A.T., University of Maine
M.A., University of Southern Maine
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

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B. A. University of Dallas
M.A. University of Dallas
Ph. D. The Catholic University of America

Dr. Mary Ann (Buddenberg) Miller is professor of English at Caldwell University in Caldwell, New Jersey. She is editor of St. Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (Ave Maria Press, 2014), a collection of over 100 poems, written by 70 poets from across the USA, and founding editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, an international professional print publication, appearing annually. She frequently teaches an Introduction to Poetry course in which she offers her students the opportunity to host public readings for local published poets, as well as a Journal Editing course each fall, in which students participate in the process of reading poems submitted for consideration in Presence and writing book reviews of small collections of poems by individual authors, excerpts of which are posted on the journal’s website. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.

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Dr. Tara Harney-Mahajan received her B.A. from Le Moyne College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish and South Asian literature with a focus on women writers and feminist postcolonial theory. Dr. Harney-Mahajan currently teaches College Writing, Global Literature, Foundations of Western Literature, Contemporary South Asian Literature, The Irish Novel, and Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as Women’s Studies, New Hibernia Review, and the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2021, with Dr. Claire Bracken (Union College), she co-edited a collection of essays entitled Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings, published by Routledge. In 2022, in Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture), she published a chapter on representations of Ireland’s architecture of containment in recent films. She is currently working on a collection on Tramp Press with Dr. Mary Burke (University of Connecticut).

Dr. Harney-Mahajan also serves as co-editor of the literary and cultural studies journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory which publishes four issues a year: 2 general issues and 2 special issues (with guest editors).

M.A., Caldwell University, 2015
B.A., Caldwell University, 2011