Faculty- Iona College Department of English


	Department of English Faculty
English Department Home Mission Faculty Major Requirements Minor Requirements Graduate Programs Film Minor Internships and Assistantships Contact Us	Faculty Helen Pike Bauer, PhD Professor of English BA, MA: Hunter College PhD: City University of New York, 1974 Phone: (914) 633-2161 Teaching interests: Victorian Novel, Chaucer, composition and rhetoric hbauer@iona.edu Miles C. Beckwith, PhD Assistant Professor of English BA: St. John's College, PhD: Yale University, 1996 Phone: (914) 637-2725 Teaching interests: Linguistics, Classical Mythology mbeckwith@iona.edu Christina Carlson, PhD Assistant Professor of English MA, Drew University MA, University of Wales, Lampeter PhD: Fordham University, 2004 Phone: (914) 633-2157 Teaching interests: Chaucer, Middle English hagiography and romance cmcarlson@iona.edu Peter N. Chetta, MA Associate Professor of English BA, Iona College MA, Loyola University Certificate in Chinese Civilization, USEF in China, 1961 Phone: (914) 633-2058 Teaching interests: Asian Literature in Translation; Drama pchetta@iona.edu Scott Cleary, Ph.D. B.A. St. Francis Xavier University, 2000 M.A. New York University, 2002 Ph.D. New York University, 2005 Phone: (914) 633-2055 Teaching interests: 18th-Century British literature, print & scribal culture, and poetry. scleary@iona.edu Dean Defino, PhD Assistant Professor of Englsh BA, MA, PhD, Binghamton University,1999 Phone: (914) 633-2160 Teaching interests: Film Studies, Twentieth-century American literature ddefino@iona.edu Edward Dramin, PhD Associate Professor of Englsh BA, Amherst College MA, PhD, Columbia University, 1972 Phone: (914) 633-2052 Teaching Interests: British Romanticism; Victorian Poetry and Prose edramin@iona.edu John W. Mahon, PhD Professor of English Co-editor, Shakespeare Newsletter BA, Fordham University MA, PhD, Columbia University, 1980 Phone: (914) 633-2060 Teaching interests: Shakespeare, Irish Literature jmahon@iona.edu Eileen Panetta, PhD Associate Professor of English BA, Marymount College MA, PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1980 Phone: (914) 633-2157 Teaching interests: Modern British Novel; Nineteenth-century American literature epanetta@iona.edu Thomas A. Pendleton, PhD Professor of English Co-editor, Shakespeare Newsletter BA, St. Michael’s College; University of Toronto MA, PhD, Fordham University, 1973 Phone: (914) 633-2156 Teaching interests: Shakespeare tpendleton@iona.edu Aaron Rosenfeld, PhD Assistant Professor of English BA, Brandeis University MA, PhD, New York University, 2000 Phone: (914) 633-2055 Teaching interests: Modern British Novel arosenfeld@iona.edu Laura Shea, PhD Associate Professor of English BA, Barnard College MA, PhD, Boston University, 1984 Phone: (914) 637-2723 Teaching interests: Drama lshea@iona.edu Hugh Short, PhD Associate Professor of English Department Chair BA, Manhattan College MA, PhD, Fordham University, 1994 Phone: (914) 637-7725 Teaching interests: Twentieth-century American literature, Faulkner, Greek and Modern Drama hshort@iona.edu Barbara Solomon, PhD Professor of English Director of Writing BA, Brooklyn College MA, University of Kansas PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1968 Phone: (914) 633-2054 Teaching interests: Twentieth-century American literature, women’s studies; theory of composition bsolomon@iona.edu Amy Stackhouse, PhD Assistant Professor of English AB, The College of William and Mary MA, Boston College PhD, University of Maryland, 1998 Phone: (914) 637-2723 Teaching interests: Milton, Seventeenth Century British Literature. astackhouse@iona.edu Deborah Lindsay Williams, PhD Associate Professor of English Director of Honors Program BA, Wheaton College MA, PhD, New York University, 1995 Phone: (914) 633 2056 Teaching interests: Twentieth-century American literature, feminist theory, writing pedagogy dwilliams@iona.edu Back to Top