Curricula Vitae in AK Dept of English

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
David Bruzina Senior Instructor	English	David Bruzina joined the USCA English department in 2009. He completed his PHD in American Literature and Creative Writing at Ohio University in 2005, an MA in Philosophy from Virginia Tech in 2002, an MFA in Poetry from UNC Greensboro in 1998, and a BA in Philosophy, English and Sociology from Macalester College in 1995. Bruzina is a certified ESOL instructor and mostly teaches courses in composition and ESOL.
Dr. Eric Carlson Associate Professor	English	Dr. Carlson's academic and teaching interests are diverse. While his general area of endeavor is medieval Germanic literature, he also has great interest in military studies, the psychology of violence, Girardian mimetic theory, monster studies (focusing particularly on the role of the ogre as a literary device), historical linguistics, and cultural anthropology. Current research involves how the Beowulf poet uses particular words as cultural markers to reinforce the martial ideologies.
Andrew B. Geyer Department Chair/Professor	Creative Writing, American Literature, Editing	I am primarily an author and editor of fiction. My book-length works include two novels, two story cycles, and an edited anthology. I have published more than three dozen individual short stories. I have served as fiction editor and/or editor-in-chief for four literary magazines.
Dr. Todd Hagstette Associate Professor	English	Dr. Todd Hagstette is an Assistant Professor for the Department of English at University of South Carolina Aiken.
Professor Jill Brady Hampton, PhD Associate Professor	Writing, Literature	Currently, her scholarly work focuses on Irish-American and Irish Literature, particularly 19th-century Irish Women Writers working outside the margins of the Irish Cultural Revival. She is also interested in the questions concerning how American landscapes inform both Ethnic and Anglo-American literary identities. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening and equestrian activities of all kinds.
Douglas Higbee Professor	British Literature, World War I	In addition to presenting several papers at academic conferences in the recent past, Dr. Higbee has co-authored an essay in Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction, recently published by MLA Press. In addition, he has an essay on the British First World War writer Siegfried Sassoon forthcoming from the Air Force Academy journal War, Literature, and the Arts and an essay on British First World War veterans' organizations forthcoming in a volume from Brill Press.
Matthew L. Miller Professor	American literature, Graphic novels, Transationalism	My main area of scholarship presently is on the development of transnational consciousness in modern American literature and in contemporary American literature. I am looking at the pioneers of this perspective and how and why transnationalism emerged throughout the 20th century. To offer a more strenuous argument, I link these pioneers to a set of contemporary ethnic writers who develop the desire to return to their homelands (through literature).
Zeke Paul Miller Instructor		Zeke Miller has a MEd, Curriculum and Instruction from Augusta University, 2015
Loren (Skye) Roberson Assistant Professor		Skye Roberson, PhD is Writing Center Director and Instructor in the Department of English, USC Aiken.
Roy Seeger Senior Instructor	Poetry	Roy Seeger earned an MA in Poetry from Ohio University in 2000 and his MFA at Western Michigan University in 2005, where he was Poetry Editor for the award-winning literary journal Third Coast. He has taught numerous classes at both institutions as well as Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Currently, he teaches composition as well as poetry courses at USCA where he is the Faculty Advisor for Broken Ink, the Universities student arts journal.
Dr. Kathleen Kalpin Smith Professor		Dr. Kathleen Kalpin Smith specializes in the English early modern period, with particular interest in drama and cultural studies. Her current research projects investigate representations of women’s speech in dramatic and non-dramatic texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Julie M. Wise Associate Professor		Dr. Julie Wise earned her PhD and her MA from Indiana University, where she focused on Victorian studies, and her BA from the University of Michigan. Before arriving at USC Aiken, she had taught at USC Columbia and Allen University. Dr. Wise’s research and teaching interests focus on Victorian poetry, poetics, aesthetics, gender, and culture. She has published several articles on Victorian women’s poetry and is currently developing a book project on late-Victorian women’s poetry.