Creative Writing and English Faculty Profiles
William Baer, PhD
Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair in English Literature
William Baer is the author of 15 books, including Borges and Other Sonnets; Luis de Camões: Selected Sonnets; Classic American Films; and Writing Metrical Poetry. A graduate of Rutgers, New York University, and the University of South Carolina, he also has degrees from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California School of Cinema. A former Fulbright (Portugal) and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA Creative Writing Grant, he is currently the director of the Southwell Institute; the poetry editor at Crisis; and the director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series.
Paul Bone, MFA
Assistant Professor and Department Chair
Paul Bone is the author of Momentary Vision of the Assistant Meteorologist, which won the 2004 Uccelli Poetry Chapbook Award. He earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 1999. He teaches writing, literature, and world cultures; is co-editor of Measure; and has published poems in the Iron Horse Literary Review, The Raintown Review, First Things, The Cimarron Review, and other journals.
Arthur Brown, PhD
Professor
Arthur Brown has a PhD in English from the University of California, Davis and an MA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. His poetry collection, The Mackerel at St. Ives, was published in 2008 by David Robert Books. He has published poems in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Malahat Review, AGNI, and other journals. His poems have won the 2005 Morton Marr Poetry Prize and the 2007 Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Sonnet-Writing Contest. He has published literary essays in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Studies in Short Fiction, Colby Quarterly, and other journals, and his one-act play, Augustina, won the Arts & Letters Drama Prize. He received the Dean's Teaching Award in 2008.
Larry Caldwell, PhD
Professor
Larry Caldwell earned a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He was named a University of Evansville Outstanding Teacher of the Year and has published a number of articles on utopian literature. Professor Caldwell teaches linguistics, literature, composition, and world cultures.
Mark Cirino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mark Cirino earned a PhD at the Graduate Center — CUNY. He taught creative writing and literature at New York University for eight years and is the author of two novels: Name the Baby and Arizona Blues. His fiction has been published in Drunken Boat, and he has written articles for the Hemingway Review and Voices in Italian Americana. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of essays analyzing the works of Ernest Hemingway. He teaches creative writing and American literature.
Rob Griffith, MFA
Associate Professor
Rob Griffith earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He is the author of three poetry collections: A Matinee in Plato's Cave, which won Indiana's Best Book of 2009 Award; Poisoning Caesar; and Necessary Alchemy, which won the 1999 Tennessee Chapbook Award. His work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Oxford American, and the Connecticut Review, among many others. He is one of the founding editors of the internationally renowned journal Measure and the associate director of the UE Press. He was awarded the University's Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in 2005.
Bill Hemminger, PhD
Professor
Bill Hemminger earned a BA from Columbia University and a PhD in literature from Ohio University. He studied piano at Juilliard and French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, and was a Fulbright professor in Madagascar and Cameroon. He received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 1993 and a Dean's Teaching Award in 2000. A winner of the Syndicated Fiction Project competition, he writes poems and nonfiction in addition to scholarly essays and translations.
Kristina Hochwender, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kristina Hochwender earned a BA from Cornell College and a PhD from Washington University. Her research centers on the origins and cultural functions of the Victorian clerical novel. She teaches literature, composition, and world cultures; directs the Writers in the Schools program; and is active in the greater Evansville One Book One Community program.
Margaret McMullan, MFA
Professor
Margaret McMullan is the author of six award-winning novels, including In My Mother's House, How I Found the Strong, When I Crossed No-Bob, Cashay, and Sources of Light. Her work has appeared in Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, Southern Accents, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Ploughshares, the Sun, National Geographic for Kids, and Christmas Stories for the South's Best Writers. A recipient of the Sydney and Sadelle Berger Award for Scholarly Activity and the Dean's Teaching Award, she has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the NEA, and the Fulbright Program.
