People - Faculty and Staff

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Full-time Faculty

Roy Anker
B.A., Hope College (1966); M.A., University of Illinois (1968); Ph.D., Michigan State University (1973).

Writing, American Literature, Film, Religion and Film; Popular Religion and American Culture.

FAC 201-H; 616-526-6530;

Chad Engbers
B.A. Calvin College (1993); M.A. and Ph.D. Catholic University of America (1995, 2003).

World Literature, British Literature, Russian Literature, Religion and Literature in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century England.

FAC 201-L; 616-526-8516

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Susan Felch

M.B.E. and M.A., Wheaton College; Ph.D. Catholic University of America

Sixteenth-century British Literature; Contemporary Literary Theory; Mikhail Bakhtin.

FAC 201-B; 616-526-6591

Gerard "Jerry" Fondse, Jr.
B.A., Calvin College (1969); M.A., Michigan State University (1978)

Secondary Education English Instruction, Written Rhetoric, American Literature

FAC 120-D; 616-526-7186

Donald Hettinga
B.A., Calvin College (1976), M.A., Univ. of Chicago (1977); Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago (1983)

Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature; Journalism; American Literature (18th and 19th century); Folk Tales. Journalism, elementary education, general English majors advising.

FAC 201-C; 616-526-6520

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Jennifer Holberg
B.A., New Mexico State University (1990); M.A., University of Washington (1991); Ph.D., University of Washington (1997)

British literature, esp. Victorian Literature and Culture and Modernism; the Novel; Women's Literature; Pedagogy and Theoretical Approaches to Teaching

FAC 201-A; 616-526-6598

Nancy Hull
B.A., Huntington College (1974); M.A., Michigan State University (1986)

Written Rhetoric, Business Writing, Children's Literature; Research/Scholarship in children's writing, particularly young adult literature.

FAC 201E; 616-526-6728

Brian Ingraffia
B.A., University of Texas at Austin (1984); M.A. University of California, Irvine (1986); Ph.D., University of California, Irvine (1993)

American Literature: Postmodern American Fiction, African-American Literature, American Literature and Religion; Literary Theory: History of Critical Theory, Contemporary Literary Theory, Hermeneutics, Philosophy and Literature, Religious Approaches to Literature

FAC 120-D; 616-526-8595

Lew Klatt
B.A., Wittenberg University (1984); M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1991); M.A.L.A., St. John’s College (1998); Ph.D., University of Georgia (2003)

FAC 201-Q; 616-526-7530 e-mail

American Literature, World Literature, Postmodern American Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing (Poetry)

Linda Naranjo-Huebl
B.A., Univ. of Colorado at Denver (1992); M.A., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (1994); Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (2001)

American Literature; Women’s Literature; American Ethnic Literature (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American); Sentimentalism; Psychological and Psychoanalytic Theory; Feminist Theory

FAC 120-E; 616-526-8682

John Netland
B.A., Biola University (1981); M.A., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (1984); Ph.D., UCLA (1989)

British Romanticism; Victorian Literature; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Victorian Religious Discourses; Shusaku Endo; Christianity and Global Cultures; Hermeneutics

FAC 201-D; 616-526-6570

Debra Rienstra
B.A., Univ. of Michigan (1987); M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers (1991, 1995)

Early Modern British literature, Creative Writing (poetry), Shakespeare; Mary Sidney and Early Modern Women Poets, Religious Lyric.

FAC 201-M; 616-526-8526

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Karen Saupe
B.A., Wittenberg University; M.A., Wright State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester

Medieval English Literature (Chaucer, lyric Poetry, the Virgin Mary); Renaissance English Literature (Shakespeare, drama, lyric poetry); Editorial Theory; Lucy Boston

FAC 201-P; 616-526-6467

Website

Gary Schmidt

M.A. and Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1981, 1985)Children's Literature, Medieval Literature

FAC 201-F; 616-526-6540

John H. Timmerman

B.A., Calvin College (1968); M.A., Ohio University (1971); Ph.D., Ohio University (1973) American Literature, Modern Poetry

FAC 201-J; 616-526-6560

David V. Urban

B.A., Northwestern University (1990); M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago (1994); M.Div. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1998); Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago (2001)John Milton, British Literature, Religious Studies

FAC 200-A; 616-526-8646

William Vande Kopple

B.A., Calvin College (1972); M.A., University of Chicago (1973); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1980) Functional Sentence Perspective, Metadiscourse (particularly hedges), Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language and Ethics, Stylistics, The Style of Scientific Discourse, Language Play

FAC 201-N; 526-6465

James Vanden Bosch (CHAIR)

B.A., Calvin College (1970); M.A. (English), Ohio University (1972); M.A. (Religion and Literature), The Divinity School of the University of Chicago (1975). World Literature; British Literature; English Grammar; Linguistics; ESL; History of the English Language.

FAC 201-K; 616-526-6592

Elizabeth VanderLei

Elizabeth Vander Lei

B.A., Calvin College (1985); M.A. in TESOL Arizona State University (1987); Ph.D. in English/Rhetoric and Composition Arizona State University (1995)Introductory and advanced writing courses; Linguistics; Faith and Writing; Rhetoric and Christian Tradition; Rhetorical analysis of the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

FAC 201-G; 616-526-6434

Dean Ward (Academic Dean)

B.S., Wheaton College (1972); Ph.D., University of Virginia (1987) Teaching of Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines, Academic and Professional Writing, Writing Center Theory and Practice, African-American Literature, Literature and Science, Victorian Fiction.

Spoelhof 383C; 616-526-6203

Jennifer Williams

B.A., University of California, Irvine (1995); M.A., University of California, Irvine (1997); Ph. D., University of California, Irvine (2004)

British Modernism, Twentieth-Century Culture and Materiality, Literary Theory, Ethics and Literature, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, Philosophy and Literature, ReligioN and Literature, Rhetoric, Soren Kierkegaard, Mixed-Media Arts.

FAC 201-O; 616-526-8515; email jhwilliams at calvin.edu;

website: www.questionsconcerningreligion.org

Jane Zwart

B.A., Calvin College (2000); M.A., Boston University (2002); Ph.D., Boston University (in progress)

Twentieth Century Fiction in English, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Canadian Literature, Literary Theory, History of the Alphabet in Literature, Creative Writing
(Poetry)

FAC 201-B, 616-526-8606; email jcz3 at calvin.edu