Faculty

Dr. Lorena Andueza

Associate Professor of Spanish
Program Director of International Studies

Olmsted Hall, Room 360
812-488-2174
pa55@evansville.edu

P. Lorena Andueza has a PhD and a MA degree in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University. She also earned a bachelor's degree in Hispanic philology in University of Deusto (Spain) and a master's degree from the University of Antonio Nebrija (Spain) in teaching Spanish as a second language. Her research centers on Hispanic Pragmatics, Semantics, and Syntax. She teaches Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics courses in the foreign languages department, and courses in Language Acquisition and Methodology in the department of education. She is also program director of International Studies.

Dr. Robert Baines

(he/him/his)

Associate Professor/English

Room 327, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2976
rb211@evansville.edu

Robert Baines earned his BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and his M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish Literature and his PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. He specializes in twentieth-century British and Irish literature, and his research focuses on James Joyce. He has published articles and reviews in such journals as the Dublin James Joyce Journal, European Joyce Studies, the Irish Literary Supplement, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently working on a monograph on the role of philosophy in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. He teaches twentieth-century literature, the second and third British literature surveys, Shakespeare, and Critical Theory.

Dr. Edward Bujak

Associate Professor of Modern British History

eb131@evansville.edu

Edward is a University of Evansville Global Scholar (2022/3). He joined the British faculty team at Harlaxton in 2001 and has taught courses on modern British and international history alongside the British Studies course. Edward has a PhD from the University of East Anglia, is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2008), and a Qualified Facilitator of the AFS Global Competence Certificate (2022). In 2006, Edward received the University of Evansville’s Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award.

Dr. Daniel Byrne

(he/him/his)

Professor/History

Room 344, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2798
db89@evansville.edu

Dr. Daniel Byrne received his Bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Notre Dame and his Doctorate from Georgetown University. His dissertation and subsequent research focused on the United States foreign policy surrounding the Algerian War of Independence and the decolonization of French Africa. Before joining the faculty at the University of Evansville in 2005, he taught at Georgetown, the United States Naval Academy, Francis Marion University, the University of Notre Dame, and Bradley University. Since arriving at the University of Evansville, Dr. Byrne has taught courses on the history of United States foreign policy, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, America between the Wars, Cold War America, the Decolonization of Africa, the rise of Modern China and Japan, and first year seminars on American Social Welfare policy.

Dr. Mark Cirino

Professor and Department Chair / Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature

Room 325, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2233
mc171@evansville.edu

Mark Cirino received his PhD at the Graduate Center-CUNY. Of his eight books about American literature as writer or editor, his most recent is One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art (2022), with Michael Von Cannon. He serves as the General Editor for Kent State University Press's “Reading Hemingway” series, for which he wrote the volume on Across the River and into the Trees (2016) and co-edited Reading Winner Take Nothing (2021) with former UE student Susan Vandagriff. Dr. Cirino is the host of the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored podcast, One True Podcast.

Dr. Cindy Crowe

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Room 352, Olmsted Hall
812-488-1029
cc109@evansville.edu

Cindy Crowe, a native of Evansville, received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UE. She additionally holds a doctorate degree as well as a professional, life license in Spanish. Previously she taught English at a state business college in Mexico and worked as a language trainer for global businesses. Her research and teaching interests include the individual and societal advantages of foreign language learning, factors that influence students’ choice of major, Mexican immigration and Chicano influence in the US, community engagement pedagogies, and servant leadership. She serves on the board of directors for two nonprofits and is the local coordinator for the national Wreaths Across America project to honor veterans.

Dr. David Green

Senior Lecturer in British Studies and History

dg110@evansville.edu

Dr Green teaches courses in British Studies and medieval history at Harlaxton College. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has published widely on subjects such as kingship, chivalry, early colonialism, and concepts of national identity during the period of the Hundred Years War. He is a great advocate of both overseas study and studying the past as a way to better understand our own world. Before coming to Harlaxton in 2007, Dr Green lived and worked in England, Scotland, and Ireland, teaching at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Ms. Kristina Groves

Assistant Professor/English
Writing Center Director
Director of First Year Seminar

University Libraries, Room 253
kg76@evansville.edu

Kristina Groves earned her MA in English from the University of Louisville. Her composition and rhetoric studies focused on identity disruptions with an emphasis on gender, identity, and otherness in film. She has taught ELL courses for the Intensive English Center, as well as composition courses for international students, public speaking, and writing intensive first year seminar courses.

Dr. Kristina Hochwender

Professor/English

Room 330, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2898
kh125@evansville.edu

Kristina L. Hochwender received her BA from Cornell College, and her MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2007, she has taught literature at the University of Evansville. Alongside her interest in literature for children, her research centers on the Victorian clerical novel, and particularly the ways in which the clergyman--in the words of Samuel Butler, "a kind of human Sunday"--mediates national and religious identities and crises in novels that captured the Victorian imagination throughout the latter 19^th century. She has published work in the Journal of Victorian Literature Online, The Victorian Web, and Religion and Literature. Dr Hochwender teaches courses in Children's and Young Adult literature, as well as courses in the British Novel, the novels of Jane Austen, Eighteenth Century literature, and Victorian literature. She received the Dean's Teaching Award in 2017.

Dr. James MacLeod

Department Chair/History

Room 346, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2599
jm224@evansville.edu

Dr James MacLeod was educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving an MA in 1988 and a PhD in 1993. He taught history and British Studies at Harlaxton from 1994-1999, and since 1999 he has been a member of the History Department at UE, where he teaches courses in European History and the two World Wars. Dr MacLeod is the author of Evansville in World War Two [2015], and The Cartoons of Evansville's Karl Kae Knecht [ 2017]. In 2016 he wrote and co-produced a 2-part documentary on Evansville in World War II for WNIN PBS titled Evansville at War. In 2000, he published a book on 19th-century British religion, The Second Disruption, and has also written over 30 other scholarly publications. He has delivered hundreds of public lectures, has won many awards for his teaching and scholarship, and was UE's Outstanding Teacher in 2009. MacLeod is an active local historian, and serves on the Boards of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, and the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science.

Mrs. Katie Mullins

(she/her/hers)

Associate Professor/Creative Writing

Room 416C, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2768
kd60@evansville.edu

Katie Darby Mullins has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net twice. She is the associate editor of metrical poetry journal Measure, and she's been published or has work forthcoming in journals like The Rumpus, Hawaii Pacific Review, BOAAT Press, Harpur Palate, Prime Number, Big Lucks, Pithead Chapel, and she was a semifinalist in the Ropewalk Press Fiction Chapbook competition and in the Casey Shay Press poetry chapbook competition.

Dr. Lesley Pleasant

Professor of German

Room 355, Olmsted Hall
812-488-2967
lp84@evansville.edu

Lesley C. Pleasant received her BA in German Studies from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in German Literature from the University of Virginia. She teaches all levels of German language, literature, and culture, as well as International Film, First Year Seminar, and the senior capstone course for language majors. Her research interests include 19th - 21st century German theater/drama (Büchner, Heiner Müller, Franz Castorf), the divided Germany (Sarah Kirsch, Christa Wolf, Wende texts and films), film (especially diasporic cinema), the image of the US in German literature and film, as well as Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities.

Dr. Diana Rodríguez Quevedo

(she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of the Eykamp Center for Teaching Excellence

Schroeder School of Business Building, Room 58
812-488-2457
dr130@evansville.edu

Diana Rodríguez Quevedo received her PhD in Spanish – Latin American Literature from the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to the University of Evansville, she taught at the University of Toronto and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for one year. She has taught a wide variety of courses that include elementary to advanced Spanish, Latin American culture and civilization, Spanish conversation, business Spanish, and Latin America literature. Her research focuses on non-canonical texts of Latin America, such as testimonio narratives and songs. Her dissertation examined texts dealing with the phenomenon of forced internal displacement in the 20th and 21st centuries in Colombia.

Dr. Valerie Stein

Professor of Religious Studies / Program Director, Ethics & Social Change / Program Director, Race & Ethnicity Studies

Olmsted Hall, Room 341
812-488-1103
vs9@evansville.edu

Professor of Religious Studies, is the Program Director of the Ethics & Social Change program and Race & Ethnicity Studies. Dr. Stein has been at the University of Evansville since 2002. She teaches a wide range of courses situated at the intersection of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and social change. Dr. Stein earned her ThD in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from Harvard University. Her research centers on the use, influence, and impact of religion on issues of gender, sexuality, colonialism, and race.| Stein's book, Anti-cultic Theology in Christian Biblical Interpretation: A Study of Isaiah 66:1-4 and Its Reception grounded the discussion of Christian anti-Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the analysis of a particular passage. She shows that the widely held Christian interpretation of Isaiah 66:1-4 as an indictment against the Jerusalem temple and cult - and thereby God's rejection of Judaism - is motivated by a theology of substitution that sees the Church as the new Israel. Stein has also presented and published on how interpretations of biblical women reflect social attitudes and beliefs with respect to gender (see, for example, her articles “Know*Be*Do: Using the Bible to Teach Ethics to Children” and “Gender Components in Dramatic Retellings of Judith”). Her current research (see “Privileging God the Father: The Neoliberal Theology of the Evangelical Orphan Care Movement” in The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism) uses postcolonial and feminist methods of biblical criticism to show how evangelical Christian theology interprets the Bible to align the adoptive parents with God and thus effectively to allow for the dismissal of ethical concerns associated with adoption and foster care. In the case of international adoption, this “Gospel-centered” adoption takes advantage of Western privilege to victimize women in developing nations as a form of Christian neocolonialism. She problematizes the role of transracial adoption in the Evangelical orphan care movement as a visual evangelism.

Ms. Clara Strong

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Room 328, Olmsted Hall
812-488-1125
cs566@evansville.edu

Clara Strong was born in Virginia, and grew up primarily in rural New Hampshire. She received her BA from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, and received an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2020. She is currently working to finish her first collection of poems, and her work has appeared in Rascal, Cutleaf, and Bloodroot Literary Magazine. She has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poet twice. Clara lives in Evansville with her husband and their two children.

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