Northrup 344A, x7574
1981: 1993
Professor
and Chair, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
H. G. Barnard Faculty Fellow, recipient of Z. T. Fellowship for
excellence in teaching and advising and the Minnie Stevens Piper Award
for Excellence in Teaching. American Jewish literature and culture;
Holocaust studies. Books: A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and
Identity in American Jewish Fiction (CHOICE Award for Outstanding
Academic Title, 1996) and What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the
Covenant in American Jewish Fiction (CHOICE Award for Outstanding
Academic Title, 2005). Essays in such scholarly journals as Contemporary
Literature, Modern Jewish Studies, Shofar, Studies
in American Jewish Literature, Jewish Quarterly Review,
Xavier Review, Literature and Belief, as well as Holocaust
Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work.
Northrup 342, x7579
1974: 1976
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas
Linguistics: former Fulbright lecturer and NEH Fellow; author of books, articles and papers in applied linguistics—especially on grave marker language.
Northrup 382, x7519
1988
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Modern and contemporary American literature and modern British literature. Author of books and articles on twentieth-century literature, with special emphasis on the work of D. H. Lawrence; articles on university administration and department strategy. Author of D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination and D. H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm, and co editor of D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration. His essays have been published in Papers on Language Literature, Studies in the Novel, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, the D. H. Lawrence Review, The Hemingway Review, English Literature in Transition, Innovative Higher Education, National Issues in Higher Education, Academic Leader, and in numerous collections and anthologies. Former panelist for Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities and currently Associate Editor of Planning for Higher Education. English Department Chair at Trinity, 1988-2004.
Northrup 440, x8401
President of the University, Ph.D. Yale
John R. Brazil became the 17th president of Trinity University in June 1999. Drawing on a distinguished academic and administrative career, he has charted an ambitious course for the University, where his leadership has inspired a number of special initiatives that build on Trinity’s considerable strengths and achievements.
Dr. Brazil’s oft stated vision is to move Trinity from its position of eminence to preeminence and propel it into the front ranks of America’s finest smaller colleges and universities. Progress toward this goal includes the hiring of numerous new faculty members, a redesigned common curriculum, a re-conceptualization of student life, implementation of an Academic Honor Code, the “internationalization” of both the faculty and student body, and dramatic increases in the number, quality, and diversity of applicants for admissions. Major new facilities added to the Trinity campus include the Robert A.M. Stern-designed administrative and academic building, Northrup Hall; the Dicke Art and Smith Music buildings; an information commons in the Coates library; and a renovated Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. The Trinity University Press has been re-established and to date has 25 volumes in print. An historic $200 million capital campaign, Dream Inspire, Achieve., launched in September 2005 is nearing completion and will serve to sustain and secure a variety of forward thinking academic initiatives as well ensure access to the nation’s best and brightest students.
Prior to coming to Trinity, Dr. Brazil served as president of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Prior to Bradley, he was president and chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. Dr. Brazil received his A.B. degree in history from Stanford University in 1968. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he earned the Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society in business administration and an honorary member of Gold Key and Delta Mu Delta national honor society in business administration.
Prior to beginning his career in higher education administration, Dr. Brazil taught at Yale and San Jose State University, reaching the rank of professor. His scholarly publications have appeared in American Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, American Literary Realism, and the Mississippi Quarterly. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sydney in 1980 and a delegate in U.S. Department of Education and American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ mission to the Soviet Union in 1989. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Samara State Aerospace University in Russia in 1997. He is currently writing two books, Murder and Twenties America and The Twenties on Trial.
Dr. Brazil currently is active with the following academic organizations: the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), Independent Colleges and Universities (ICUT), the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU), and the Higher Education Council of San Antonio (HECSA). Additionally, he is a commissioner of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association on Colleges and Schools.
Outside academia, he is active in numerous professional and civic organizations, currently serving on the boards of Caterpillar, Inc., San Antonio Medical Foundation, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, Southwest Research Institute, and the World Affairs Council of San Antonio.
Dr. Brazil is married to the former Janice Hosking, and they have two grown children.
Northrup 376, x7567
2007
Assistant Professor, M.F.A., University of Texas
A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, she currently teaches creative writing at Trinity University and lives with her family in downtown San Antonio. She is the author of The Second Reason (University of Tampa Press, 2007), At Once (UT Press, 2003) and the chapbook, Glass (Pecan Grove, 2000). She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood (Wings Press, 2005).
Northrup 353, x7527
1993: 1999
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. Author of several articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture, with special emphasis on Dryden's poetry and drama.
Northrup 410F, x8201
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Dr. Michael Fischer has been Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty and professor of English at Trinity University since July 1, 2000. Dr. Michael Fischer directs Trinity University’s academic programs as well as oversees intercollegiate athletics, international programs, Trinity University Press, and admissions and financial aid.
Prior to joining the Trinity administration, Dr. Fischer was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Dr. Fischer graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from Princeton University. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. An authority on modern literary criticism and critical theory, Dr. Fischer has published five books, 21 articles, 15 book chapters, and numerous reviews.
Northrup 372, x7570
1986: 2004
Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana
Nineteenth-century British studies, specializing in prose fiction, relations between the verbal and visual, and textual studies. Author of Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade’ of Authorship (Ashgate, 2002), William Makepeace Thackeray. Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007 as well as numerous articles and book chapters on British Medievalism, fiction, drama, and illustrated periodical. Forthcoming is a scholarly edition of Thackeray’s last complete novel, The Adventures of Philip, and she is currently at work on ‘The Empire of the Tea-Table, a Literary History of Tea, 1660-1900.'
2008
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Northrup 385, x7467
1958: 1975
Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas
As Professor of
English, Dr. Grissom teaches courses in contemporary fiction, writing
workshop, and first year seminar (functions of humor in literature) for
entering students. She also teaches literary courses in Boerne and at
Gemini Ink for “older” students interested in challenging reading and
dialogue.
Among her many awards and titles, the Trinity University Alumni
Association honored her in 2004 with a resolution naming her the first
“honorary alumna” of that institution. In January, 2006, she was
nominated as one of the “50 Most Influential Educators in San Antonio”
by Scene of San Antonio Magazine. In the spring of 2007 she was the
Autograph Series speaker for Gemini Ink’s celebration of writers and
readers. Compiling and editing her many speeches delivered over the past
five decades is Coleen’s latest challenge with plans to publish the
collection through the Trinity University Press in the fall, 2008.
After 17+ years of living in one of Trinity University’s residences on
Oakmont Court, Coleen moved in December, 1999 to the boonies. She
resides there with not only 3 self-assured felines but also a veritable
herd of tiny poodles gamboling under the live oaks in the shadow of the
windmill, secured by cedar posts and hog wire fence! Life is good.
Northrup 349, x8254
2003
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Early American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, circum-Atlantic studies. Special interests in literature and cultural memory, and literatures of cultural exchange. Winner of Richard Beale Davis Prize for essay on literature of the American Revolution.
Northrup 343, x8568
2004
Assistant Professor, M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Creative Writing/Fiction. Author of The Theory of Light and Matter (forthcoming 2008), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction. Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2004 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a James Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, a Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, the Glenna Luschei Award and a Pushcart Prize. Stories in various anthologies and journals, including One Story, Epoch, The Ontario Review, The Threepenny Review, The Antioch Review, Story Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. For more information visit www.andrewporterwriter.com
Northrup 374, x8923
2006
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Twentieth-century British and American literature, history, and culture; media studies. Current book projects on modernism & news and modernism & archive. Recent articles on James Joyce and Neutral Milk Hotel. Current articles projects on George Saunders, Thomas Pynchon, and Online Music File Sharing. For more information visit www.trinity.edu/drando
Northrup 384, x7556
1983: 1989
Associate
Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Early modern British literature and culture; theory, especially
psychoanalysis; literature and philosophy. Chair, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies.
Northrup 379-A, x7548
1983
O.R. and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor in Literature, Ph.D., University of Singapore
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author of Conrad's Eastern World (Cambridge UP, 1966), Conrad's Western World (Cambridge UP, 1971), The Life of Graham Greene (volumes I, II and III) and works on Jane Austen and the Brontes, contemporary fiction, and continental novels.
Northrup 347, x7561
1999: 2005
Associate Professor, Ph. D., Harvard University
Twentieth-century American literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies. Author of The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature (2004), winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for Outstanding Study of American Literature, and Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature (forthcoming). Essays in American Quarterly, Hemingway Review, Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance (2000), Literature on the Move (2002), MELUS, Sites of Ethnicity (2004), and elsewhere. Director of the McNair Scholars Program.
Northrup 351, x7833
2001:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Nineteenth-century American literature with special interests in American literary history and the late nineteenth century. Former Tom and Mary Turner Faculty Fellow and William Dean Howells Fellow of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History 1875-1910 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and articles on nineteenth-century American literature. Co-editor with Michael A. Elliott of American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader (New York University Press, 2003). Co-director of Women's and Gender Studies.
Northrup 373, x8253
2005
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Virginia
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