John W. Alverson
Chair: Theology Department
Associate Dean and Director of the Humanities Division
PhD: Duquesne University

Professional Interests: Religion and Science, Post-Modernity, Spirituality, and Theological Methods

Phone: 412-578-6078
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Louis J. Boyle
Professor, English
PhD: Duquesne University

Professional Interests: King Arthur and Grail Literature, Technical Writing, and Member of the International Arthurian Society, Victorian Literature, World Literature
Author:  T. H. White’s Reinterpretation of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur

Phone: 412-578-6316
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James Carmine
Associate Professor, Philosophy
PhD: University of New York at Stony Brook

Professional Interests: Social and Political Justice Issues, Existentialism, and Moral Reasoning and Children (book underway)

Phone: 412-578-6062
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Maureen Crossen
Associate Professor, Theology
PhD: Duquesne University

Professional Interests: Religion and Myth; Women in the Church; Sacramental Theology; and Hermeneutics

Phone: 412-578-8879
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William DeBernardi
Specialization: Drawing, Painting, Design, Printmaking
Assistant Professor
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Member
Professional Artist
MFA Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

Professional Interests: Drawing and Painting

Featured Honors: Carnegie Museum of Art Juror's Award and Samuel Rosenberg Award

Phone: 412-578-6574
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Roberta N. Foizey
Coordinator of Undergraduate Composition
Instructor, English Department
MS: Carlow University

Professional Interests: Understanding the needs of the nontraditional first-year writer; Writing across the curriculum; Linguistics.

Phone: 412-578-6161
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Katie Hogan
Chair: Women's Studies Program
Professor, English
PhD: Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Professional Interests: Criticism and Theory of Academic Labor; Illness Narratives and Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality; Environmental Justice Theory and Literature. Member of National Women's Studies Association and the Modern Language Association

Author: Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS
Editor: Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS

Phone: 412-578-6391
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Dale Huffman
Chair: Art Department
Associate Professor, Art
Specialization: Ceramics, Computer Art, Sculpture
Professional Artist
Advisor: The Critical Point
MFA: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Professional Interests: Wood Fired Ceramics and Computer Art

Featured Honors: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts "Service to the Arts Award." One of only Two American Award Winners in the Mashiko International Ceramics Contest in Japan

Phone: 412-578-6033
Web site: dalehuffman.net
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Sigrid King
Professor, English
PhD Louisiana State University
Chair: English Department

Professional Interests: Shakespeare, Early Modern British literature and culture, Early Modern female dramatists, women writers and censorship, Global women writers.

Editor: Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts

Author: articles on Aphra Behn, Zora Neale Hurston, Boccaccio, Chaucer, global women writers, lyric poetry, and dramatic censorship.

Phone: 412-578-8721
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Irene Lietz
Associate Professor, English
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
MA.: University of Detroit
PhD: Union Institute and University

Professional Interests: Grants and Proposal Writing; First-Year Writing; Writing across the Curriculum; Domestic/Gender Violence; Race, Racism and White Privilege; Social Justice Advocacy

Phone: 412-578-8839
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Anne Rashid
Assistant Professor, English
MA Binghamton University (SUNY)
PhD: Binghamton University (SUNY)
Advisor: The Critical Point and Sigma Tau Delta

Professional Interests: Women’s literature, Twentieth-Century Poetry, Literature of Environmental Justice, African American Literature

Phone: 412-578-6359
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Sue Rumbaugh
Assistant Professor, English
MPM.: Carnegie Mellon University
MFA.: Carlow University

Professional Interests: Creative Nonfiction, Writing as a Career, Publishing

Phone: 412-578-6177
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William Stewart
Chair: Philosophy Department
Instructor, Philosophy
PhD: Duquesne University

Phone: 412-578-6032
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Csaba Toth
Professor, History
PhD University of Minnesota

Professional Interests: U.S. Utopian Studies, Japanese Popular Culture, Politics of Sound Art/Media, Lecture Tour of Australia

Phone: 412-578-6076
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Joel Woller
Instructor, History
PhD candidate: Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Interests: American Social/Cultural History, Public History, Popular Memory, and Working Class Stories

Phone: 412-578-6336
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Eleanor Wymard
Director: Master of Fine Arts Program
Professor, English
PhD: University of Pittsburgh

Author: Conversations with Uncommon Women, Men on Divorce, and Divorced Women, New Lives

Professional Interests: American Literature, and Founder: Marie Torre Lecture Series.

Phone: 412-578-6597
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