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
Associate 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
Associate Professor of English
BA, 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 Chapin, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
BA, Franklin & Marshall College
MA, New York University
PhD, New York University, 2003
Teaching interests: 19C British and American Literature, literary theory, and the novel.
pchapin@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.
Associate Professor of English
B.A. St. Francis Xavier University, 2000
M.A. New York University, 2002
Ph.D. New York University, 2005
Phone: (914) 633-2056
Teaching interests: 18th-Century British literature, print & scribal culture, and poetry.
scleary@iona.edu

Dean Defino, PhD
Associate 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
Associate 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
Professor of English
Department Chair
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
Assistant Chair, Department of English
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
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
Associate Professor of English
Assistant Chair, Department of English
Director of Writing
AB, The College of William and Mary
MA, Boston College
PhD, University of Maryland, 1998
Phone: (914) 633-2058
Teaching interests: Milton, Seventeenth Century British Literature.
astackhouse@iona.edu


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