English Faculty
Department Chair
Gordon A. Grant III
Associate Professor of English and Director of Rhetoric & Composition; B.A., Dickinson College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Phone: (704) 637-4203
E-mail: gagrant@catawba.edu
Dr. Gordon Grant grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, then spent a long time in
Texas and a short time in West Virginia, before coming to the Carolina Piedmont
to teach at Catawba in 2003. His main scholarly work is in rhetoric and
composition, and he also studies and teaches literary theory and 20 th Century
British literature. He is particularly interested in the institutionalization of
literature as an object of study and interpretation and in the philosophy of
aesthetics. He is an avid student of popular culture as well — just ask his students.
Professors
 Laurel B. Eason
Leona Fleming Herman Professor of English
B.A., Emory and Henry College; M.A., University of Arkansas;
M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.
Phone: (704) 637-4433
E-mail: leason@catawba.edu
Dr. Laurel Eason is a professor with experience on the high school and college levels, having taught at such varied institutions as Montgomery Bell Academy (of DEAD POET'S SOCIETY fame), the Universities of Tennessee and Arkansas, Battle Ground Academy, and Vanderbilt University, as well as The University of Tuebingen in Germany. An eclectic, perpetual reader, when Dr. Eason is not reading, she is thinking about reading or playing with her grandchildren. In other words, literature feeds life!
 Janice M. Fuller
Writer-in-Residence;
B.A., Duke University;
M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Phone: (704) 637-4351
E-mail: jfuller@catawba.edu
Janice Fuller's academic interests are creative writing and twentieth-century
American and British literature with specialties in contemporary poetry, Welsh
literature, and Native American literature. In addition to teaching creative
writing, first-year composition, and literature classes, she has designed and
taught numerous interdisciplinary honors courses at Catawba, including Southern
Women Writers on Film, Native American Religions and Literature, the Beat
Generation, Travel and Travel Writing, the Biogeography and Literature of
Islands, and Birds in Evolution and the Imagination. In conjunction with these
courses, she has traveled with students to Ireland, Jamaica, and the Galápagos islands.
 Carl A. Girelli
Professor of English and Vice President of Student Academic Development ; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
Phone: (704) 637-4353
E-mail: cgirelli@catawba.edu
Carl Girelli holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Connecticut and has served on Catawba's English faculty for 19 years. He has participated consistently in the First Year Experience during his tenure at Catawba College, while continuing to have special interests in grammar instruction and theory of language. Dr. Girelli currently has a primary administrative assignment as Vice President for Enrollment, but teaches in the English Department every semester. Additionally, Girelli has conducted a month-long Spanish study trip to Costa Rica for each of the past ten summers.
 Bethany S. Sinnott
B.A. Duke University; M.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Phone: (704) 637-4452
E-mail: bsinnott@catawba.edu
Dr. Sinnott's major passion is Shakespeare. She has studied and taught
Shakespeare and related topics throughout her 37 years at Catawba and regularly
lectures at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Students in her classes
engage in lively discussions, oral reading of passages and optional scene
presentations. She also enjoys teaching a survey course from Chaucer through
Johnson and upper level courses in Medieval Literature (which features a
home-cooked medieval banquet) and 17 th-Century Literature. When she isn't
teaching, Dr. Sinnott enjoys foreign travel and cross-country tent-camping
trips.
Assistant Professors
 Julia G. Hayes
B.A., Catawba College; M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Phone: (704) 637-4419
E-mail: jhayes@catawba.edu
Professor Hayes has taught at her alma mater for over twenty years. She enjoys
teaching composition and is particularly delighted when she sees her former
freshmen in her literature classes. In addition to composition and introductory
level literature courses, Professor Hayes has taught courses in American
literature, including African American Literature. She was the first director of
Catawba's writing center and is pleased that it continues to serve students at
all levels of their writing process. Professor Hayes enjoys writing poetry and
attending Arrowhead readings, which showcases the talents of Catawba's student
poets.
 David A. Schroeder
B.A. with English Honors, Oberlin College;
M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.
Phone: (704) 645-4504
E-mail: daschroe@catawba.edu
Dr. David Schroeder earned his BA in English at Oberlin College, and his MA and PhD at Indiana University in Bloomington. His courses center on Romantic and Victorian British literature, science fiction, and gothic fiction; his theoretical interests include gender criticism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and the interplay between literature and science. Some of his favorite texts include William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. Dr. Schroeder also lectures occasionally on science fiction for a reading program sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Margaret Stahr
Director of the Writing Center
B.A. DePauw University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
Office: ADM 215
Phone: (704) 637-4355
E-mail: mlstahr@catawba.edu
Dr. Stahr joined Catawba's English faculty in 2008 after she earned her PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh. She is new to North Carolina, having grown up in Wisconsin and lived mostly in the Midwest. In addition to teaching courses in composition and advanced writing, Dr. Stahr enjoys teaching introductory and interdisciplinary literature courses. Her scholarship explores the interactions between first-year college students and writing center peer tutors. When she's not busy with school work, Dr. Stahr enjoys reading, cooking with her husband, and taking her dog for long walks.
School of Evening and Graduate Studies
Aaron B. Butler
Assistant Professor;
B.A. Wayne State College;
M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Phone: (704) 637-4390
E-mail: abbutler@catawba.edu
Dr. Butler received his Ph.D. in English in 2000 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Teaching Fellow for five years in the English Department and a tutor for the UNC-CH Writing Center for two years. After receiving his doctorate, he served as a Lecturer in the UNC-CH English Department in 2000-2001. He began teaching at Catawba College in the fall semester of 2001 and directed the Writing Center from 2002 to 2008. Dr. Butler's main research interests concern Shakespeare's works on stage and screen, connections between literature, science, and art in the Early Modern period, and the influence of 21st century popular culture on public opinion.
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