John W. Alverson
Associate Dean and Director of the Humanities Division
Professor, Theology
Ph.D.: Duquesne University

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

Phone: 412-578-6078
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Louis J. Boyle
Chair: English Department
Professor, English
Ph.D.: Duquesne University

Professional Interests:
King Arthur and Grail Literature, Technical Writing, and Member of the International Arthurian Society, Victorian Literature, World Literature

Phone: 412-578-6316
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James Carmine
Chair: Philosophy Department
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D.: 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
Chair: Philosophy and Theology Departments
Associate Professor, Theology
Ph.D.: 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
M.F.A.: 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
Ph.D.: 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
M.F.A.: 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
Ph.D.: Louisiana State University

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

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, lyric poetry, and dramatic censorship.

Phone: 412-578-8721
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Irene Lietz
Instructor, English
M.A.: University of Detroit
Ph.D. candidate: 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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John L. Nesgoda
Chair: Spanish Department
Director: International Student Center
Associate Professor, Languages
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh

Professional Interests:
Applied Linguistics, Latin American Studies, and International Student Affairs

Phone: 412-578-6010
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Sue Rumbaugh
Instructor, English
Coordinator: Professional Writing Program
Advisor: The Critical Point
M.P.M.: Carnegie Mellon University
M.F.A. candidate: Carlow University

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

Phone: 412-578-6177
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William Stewart
Instructor, Philosophy
Ph.D.: Duquesne University

Phone: 412-578-6032
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Csaba Toth
Professor, History
Ph.D: 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
Ph.D. 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
Ph.D.: 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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