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Tel: 1-707-965-6609
Email: llgill@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall
Email: llgill@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall
FAA Accomplishments:
“Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Narrative, Empowerment, Gender and Religion.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal. 5.3 (2014). Ed. Dr. Anna Faktorovich. Tucson: Anamorpha-Pennsylvania Literary Press. 36-57. Print.
“The Sermon and the Victorian Novel” in The Oxford Handbook of The British Sermon 1689-1901. Eds. Keith A. Francis and William Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
“The Sermon and the Victorian Novel.” The Oxford Handbook of the Modern British Sermon 1689-1901. Ed. Keith R. Francis. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
“Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Narrative Empowerment, Gender and Religion.” Presentation at Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media. March, 2012.
The Princess in the Tower: Gender and Art in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." Victorian Institute Journal.35 (2007): 109-136. Print.
Harry's Great Expectations or the Great Expectations of Harry Potter?: Self-fashioning or Destiny in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2005.
"The Snake Problem: Adolescence, Masculinity and Power in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Presentation at Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, 2004.
"Women Beware ! The Appropriation of Women in Hollywood's Revisioning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures 24 (Fall and Winter 2001): 93-98.
Linda Gill, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 1993
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
Emily Logan, M.F.A
Faculty Since 2023
Assistant Professor of English
Emily Logan specializes in creative writing with an emphasis on prose. She is particularly interested in short story, flash fiction, and personal essay forms. Her stories and essays appear in The Roadrunner Review, Reflex Fiction, Watershed Review, and elsewhere, and her work has received support from AWP's Writer to Writer Mentorship Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She teaches courses in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Degrees
B.A. Walla Walla University
2017
M.A. California State University Chico
2019
M.F.A. University of Washington
2021
Jennifer Peñaflorida, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 2021
Assistant Professor of Education
Jennifer Oliverio Peñaflorida is an assistant professor in the Department of Education and the Department of English. She is a teacher educator with a focus on literacy learning.
Dr. Peñaflorida is also a teacher consultant for the Northwest Arkansas Writing Project and a researcher for the National Writing Project. Peñaflorida’s research interests include writing process pedagogy, writing instruction and new teacher coaching. She has been published in the English Journal, Oklahoma English Journal and the International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies. She has presented in numerous national and state conferences.
Degrees
PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, Literacy- University of Arkansas
2021
MA in Rhetoric & Composition, Writing- California State University San Bernardino
2011
MA in Rhetoric & Composition, Literature- California State University San Bernardino
2011
BA in English Literature- La Sierra University
2001
Email: ctetz@puc.edu
Office: Stauffer Hall 101
Office: Stauffer Hall 101
Catherine Tetz, Ph.D. - Chair
Faculty Since 2019
Associate 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.