Curricula Vitae in BFT English, Theatre, & Liberal Studies

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Mollie Barnes Associate Professor	Nineteenth-century American literature, Victorian literature, Transatlantic studies	Mollie Barnes is an Assistant Professor of English at University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Dr. Lauren Nicole Hoffer Dept Chair/Associate Professor	Victorian Literature and Culture, The British Novel	Dr. Hoffer specializes in Victorian Literature and Culture and the British Novel; at USCB, she teaches courses on Gothic Literature, Romanticism, the Victorian Period, 20th century British Literature, Women Writers, and Composition. Her other teaching interests include Women’s and Gender Studies, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Contemporary Fiction.
Dr. Robert Kilgore Associate Professor	Medieval and early modern literature and composition, literature, history, and religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries	Dr. Kilgore specializes in the literature, history, and religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but often creeps toward the medieval. Writers of interest include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Chris Marlowe, Philip Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, King James, George Herbert, Abraham Cowley, John Milton, and Aphra Behn.
Amy E Leaphart Instructor		Amy E Leaphart is an Instructor in the Department of English, Theatre, & Liberal Studies, University of SC Beaufort.
Patricia Ellen Malphrus Professor		Dr. Malphrus' research interests are varied--from William Eastlake (whose work was the subject of her dissertation) to the notion of "rootedness" and restlessness in American fiction to various Southern writers.
Jeffrey P Mcquillen Instructor		Jeffrey P Mcquillen, MA is an Instructor in the Department of English, Theatre, & Liberal Studies, University of SC Beaufort.
Stuart (Sam) Allen Morris Assistant Professor		Dr. Morris's areas of specialization are English education, young adult literature (YAL), and literacy. As the program coordinator for secondary English education at USCB, he is concerned with promoting secondary English Language Arts (ELA) pedagogy that supports students' ability to transition successfully to the literacy demands of life beyond high school.
Ms. Elizabeth Ann Ricardo Associate Professor	Theatre	Libby Ricardo is an Adjunct Faculty in Theatre at University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Sarah Catherine Swofford Associate Professor		Dr. Swofford specializes in composition and rhetoric, which some people call "writing studies." This means that she gets to join with other people in her discipline who ask big questions about how people learn to write, what kinds of writing are used in all kinds of different contexts (in and out of school), and how our identities as people shape our experiences as writers.