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English Department |
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Dr.
Todd M Lidh (2000) Dr.
Darien Andreu (1987) Dr.
Carl Horner (1989) Dr.
Vincent Puma (1973) Dr.
Constantine Santas (1971;
retired 2002) Connie
Marie St. Clair-Andrews (2002) Dr.
Beth Ellen Torgerson (2002) Dr.
James M. Wilson (2002) Dr.
Tamara Wilson (2000)
FACULTY BIOS Darien Andreu, Assistant Professor, specializes in literature of the South and creative writing (fiction). A former director of the Flagler College Composition Program, Dr. Andreu has been honored as Phi Alpha Omega Woman of the Year (1994) and Flagler College Student Government Association Teacher of the Year (1995). She has also published "In Your Dreams" and "Fever Dreams" in the Princeton Arts Review (1999); "The Outside Threat," a short story, in Apalachee Quarterly (1985); and, "10 K," an original short story in Cultures, published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in 1996.
Professor Carl S. Horner teaches nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, host the Colloquium in English Studies, teaches poetry writing, directs the creative writing program, including Writers-in-Residence, and edits The Flagler Review. Dr. Horner has published The Boy Inside the American Businessman, a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American novel and drama, as well as articles, reviews, and poetry in national journals, including War, Literature, and the Arts; American Literature; Paintbrush; Apalachee Quarterly; and Mid-American Review. His poetry has also appeared in the anthology North of Wakulla.
Dr. Todd M Lidh, Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department starting with the fall 2002 semester, came to Flagler after completing his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Lidh has written and researched in the areas of drama, Shakespeare, Renaissance theatre as well as modern drama and composition instruction. He serves on the editorial board for SHAKSPER – an international electronic conference for Shakespearean researchers, instructors, students – and has acted in such diverse productions as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Alchemist, The Misanthrope, Waiting for Godot and The Wizard of Oz.
Dr.
Vincent
Puma,
Professor,
has
been
teaching
at
Flagler
since
1973.
He
received
his
B.A.
and
M.A.
degrees
in
Liberal
Arts
and
English
from
SUNY-Oswego
and,
in
1986,
his
Ph.D.
in
Rhetoric
and
Linguistics
from
the
Indiana
University
of
Pennsylvania.
Having
served
as
Director
of
the
Composition
Program
until
1994,
he
centers
his
teaching
and
research
Dr. Constantine Santas, Professor, came to Flagler College in 1971 after having taught at Milwaukee-Downer College and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Dr. Santas served as chair of the English Department throughout his tenure at Flagler and has taught courses ranging from Basic Writing to Literature into Film. He has published articles on Greek authors and themes, translated a number of Greek poems and works, translated and/or adapated plays by Euripides and Sophocles and has recently completed work on Responding to Film, a textbook for university-level classes on film. Dr. Santas has also written a novel and a number of original poems and is an Advisory Council Member for the Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida.
MS. CONNIE MARIE ST. CLAIR-ANDREWS Connie St. Clair-Andrews, Instructor, first came to Flagler College as a student, where she received her B.A. in Secondary English Education. She went on to receive her M.A. at the University of North Florida, before coming back to Flagler in 1996 as an adjunct instructor. In addition to teaching in St. Johns County secondary schools, she has also taught as an adjunct at the University of North Florida and as a full-time teacher at St. Johns River Community College. Composition is her specialty, and she is a member of several professional and writer’s organizations. She is a United States Air Force veteran and a multi-year winner of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
Dr. Beth Torgerson, Assistant Professor, joined the faculty at Flagler College in the fall of 2002. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2001). She participated in the Victorian Studies program at King's College London as an affiliated research student during her degree program at UNL. Her M.A. degree is from the University of New Mexico (1991). She received two B.A. degrees, English and French, from Montana State University (1986). She has published several scholarly articles as well as her book, Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Her poetry has been published in The Texas Review, Plains Song Review, and several anthologies. At Flagler College, she teaches Romantic/Victorian Literature, Twentieth-Century British Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, and Literary Criticism in addition to composition classes. She directed the study abroad program, The Brontės England, in the summer of 2004.
Dr. Jim Wilson came to Flagler as a visiting instructor and was hired as a full-time faculty member in January 2002. He serves as Coordinator of the First-Year Composition Program and Director of the Flagler College Writing Center. He completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1997. He has had six short stories in various publications, including two in the Southwestern Review. He is a member of the Modern Languages Association, the Associated Writing Programs, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta.
Dr. Tamara Wilson, Assistant Professor, received her PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1999. Her other areas of academic study include folklore, women's literature, science fiction/fantasy, American Indian literature, and film studies. Prior to Lafayette, Dr. Wilson worked in the business community of San Jose, CA,while pursuing her MA at San Jose State. Since coming to Flagler College, Dr. Wilson has presented several papers for the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts and the Popular Culture Conference on a range of topics from director commentaries on DVDs to classroom response to feminist utopias. Dr. Wilson also dabbles in the theater Arts. In the Fall of 2000, she worked with the cast of Flagler College's Twelfth Night.
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