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Tel: 1-707-965-6609
Email: llgill@puc.edu
Linda Gill, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Linda Gill specializes in Victorian England, development of the novel, literary theory and dramatic performance. Gill has written articles for Dickens World, The Journal of Popular culture and Victorian Institute. She has also presented papers on Victorian authors such as Bronte, Dickens and Kipling, in addition to papers on the Harry Potter novels at Popular Culture conferences. She is particularly interested in investigating identity construction, meaning making and power in narratives. In addition to teaching courses in Romantic and Victorian literature, Gill teaches courses in Acting and performs regularly in DAS productions.
Degrees
B.A., Andrews University
1984
M.A., La Sierra University
1986
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
1992


Tel: 1-707-965-6616
Email: skakazu@puc.edu
Sara Kakazu, Ph.D. - Chair
Professor of English
Sara Kakazu has presented research at the College English Association, NeMLA, and the International Conference on Narrative. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, early American literature, and African American literature, with particular focus on women's, captivity, slave, encounter, and travel narratives. She also teaches creative nonfiction and poetry.
Degrees
B.A., Walla Walla College
2002
M.A., Western Washington University
2004
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, New York
2012


Tel: 1-707-965-6612
Email: lmorton@puc.edu
Lindsay Morton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Lindsay’s primary research area lies at the intersection of ethics and epistemology in literary journalism, with secondary interests in the areas of Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She has authored or co-authored over 16 publications ranging from truth claims in narrative journalism to the representation of agency in YA dystopian worlds. Her additional teaching fields include Renaissance Literature and Postcolonial fiction. Lindsay is on the Board of Advisors for the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies and is currently the Research Chair for the Association.
Degrees
B.A., Deakins University
2002
M.A., Deakin University
2009
Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington
2013


Tel: 1-707-965-
Email: ctetz@puc.edu
Catherine Tetz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Catherine Tetz specializes in transatlantic literature with an emphasis on women and gender studies. Her work focuses primarily on women writers in the early twentieth century, and she is particularly interested in how künstlerroman and roman á clef genres were reappropriated by women writers at the height of literary modernism. She has presented work at the Modernist Studies Association’s annual conference, as well as the International Virginia Woolf conference. She teaches classes in poetry, fiction, and both American and English modernism.