Curricula Vitae in UPS Lang, Literature & Comp.

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Daniel Adams Senior Instructor		Dan Adams ’83, president and CEO of The Capital Corporation, was elected as a board member. Adams co-founded The Capital Corporation in 1991 as an investment banking firm focusing on mergers and acquisitions to the middle market. Since the firm’s founding, he has led The Capital Corporation to become one of the largest and most influential merger and acquisition boutiques in the Southeast. Adams has over 30 years of experience in finance and has directed over 200 merger transactions.
Margaret Burton Senior Instructor	Spanish	Margaret holds an International Master in Business Administration from USC's Moore School of Business, as well as a master’s in Spanish, also from USC Columbia. She has worked as an instructor at the University of South Carolina Upstate since 2006. Her concentrations are Spanish for business and language acquisition through video.
Catherine G. Canino Professor	Shakespeare	Dr. Canino teaches English. Her area of concentration, and scholarly passion, is Shakespeare and the English Renaissance. She is the author of many articles and presentations in the field of Renaissance literature and English history. She has recently published a book on genealogical influences in Shakespeare's history plays.
Dr. Peter Caster Professor	US film, black masculinity in US history and literature, prison studies	Peter Caster is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. He is the author of "Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twintieth-Century US Literature and Film" as well as articles published in English Language Notes, The Drama Review, and other journals. He is currently editing "Black Masculinity in US History and Culture, 1790-1945".
Gabrielle Drake Senior Instructor	Spanish	Gabrielle Drake is a Senior Instructor, Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literature and Composition, University of SC Upstate.
Dr. Esther L. Godfrey Professor		Dr. Esther Godfrey has been teaching at the university level since 1998 and joined the University of South Carolina Upstate faculty in 2008. She teaches classes in 19th-century British literature, women's literature, and women's and gender studies. She earned a Ph.D. in British literature at the University of Tennessee in 2006, and her first book, The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009.
Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche Professor	French Language and Literature, Existentialism, Immigration	Araceli Hernandez-Laroche is a Professor of Modern Languages in the Division of Languages, Literature and Composition, University of SC Upstate.
Melinda Keefauver Senior Instructor	Languages, Literature, Composition	Dr. Beth Keefauver earned her Ph.D. in English and creative writing at the University of Tennessee, where she specialized in contemporary literature, environmental literature, and women’s studies. Her fiction has appeared in Bluestem Magazine, The Citron Review, Pisgah Review, Stirring, Blue Lotus Review, Press 53 Blog, and the anthology, Not Somewhere Else but Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress, 2014).
Alexander Lorenz Assistant Professor		Dr. Alexander Lorenz is an assistant professor of German at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Master of Arts in Modern Languages and Bachelor of Science in Education. Having an interest in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, he likes to incorporate new pedagogical approaches in his German language classes.
Dr. David Marlow Professor		David Marlow's primary research interests involve classroom pedagogy and the rhetoric of technical communication in digital environments.
Maria Monteso Senior Instructor	Spanish	Maria is a Spanish instructor at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She graduated from Universitat Jaume I, Spain, and earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in translation and interpreting studies in Spanish, Catalan, English and German. She has more than six years of experience teaching Spanish and intro to translation and interpreting. She is a Ph.D. candidate and her research interests center on educational interpreting and pedagogy in translation and interpreting studies.
Richard T. Murphy Associate Professor		Richard T. Murphy is an Associatet Professor, English in the Department of Languages, Literature and Composition, University of SC Upstate.
Dr. Colleen C. O'Brien Professor	Languages, Literature and Composition
Shannon M. Polchow Professor	Spanish, works of Miguel de Cervantes and other writers from early modern Spain	Dr. Shannon Polchow graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a Ph.D. in Spanish. She teaches a wide array of classes at the University of South Carolina Upstate, including introductory Spanish language, Spanish literature and civilization of Spain. Her research interests include the works of Miguel de Cervantes and other writers from early modern Spain. Her most recent publications can be found in Hispania and the MIFLC Review.
Wayne Robbins Senior Instructor	English	Wayne Robbins is a Senior Instructor, English in the Department of Languages, Literature and Composition, University of SC Upstate.
Monika Shehi Herr Associate Professor	English	A native of Albania, Dr. Monika Shehi Herr is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Dr. Shehi Herr graduated from Toccoa Falls College with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in history. She received a master's degree in American Literature and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. Her scholarship focuses on discourse analysis, stylistic registers, and intercultural studies.
Tasha Thomas Senior Instructor	Languages, Literature and Composition
Dr. George Homer Williams Associate Professor	Eighteenth-Century British Literature & Culture, Literary Theory, Composition & Rhetoric	With a background in the study of orality and literacy in eighteenth-century Britain, and experience in helping to coordinate digital humanities projects, Dr. Williams serves as Project Director and manages the development of the content for the web site as well as the accessibility tools for the user interface.