Congratulations to our teaching faculty members who were recently promoted.
Andrew Bode-Lang is a Teaching Professor of English and an accomplished fiction writer. He earned his MFA from the University of Arizona. His chapbook, Field Trips with Exceptional People, is available from Red Bird Chapbooks. His short stories and poems have appeared in journals including Beloit Fiction Journal, Epoch, The Greensboro Review, New Letters, Ninth Letter, Poetry East, and Rattle.
Anthony Franklin is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English. He earned his MA in Literature and a Certificate in the Teaching of Writing from the University of Toledo in 2016. He has been teaching at Penn State since 2019, and has published a critical essay, “Half Lives of the Nuclear Family: Representations of Mid-Century American Family Structure,” in the collection Stranger Things: Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence.
Teresa Hamilton is an Associate Teaching Professor of English. She regularly teaches the two-semester Rhetoric and Civic Life sequence and has served on the English Department’s Anti-Racism and Equity Committee. Teresa is also the course director of the Upward Bound Programs and the Writing Advisor for the Graduate School; she is active as well in the Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs and the Millenium Scholars Program. Off campus, Teresa’s contributions to Ridgelines Language Arts and State of the Story help to bring the arts of literacy to the wider community of Centre County.
Bradley Markle is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English and the faculty advisor to Kalliope, the English department’s undergraduate literary journal. His scholarly interests include Southern Gothic literature, African American literature, and more recently, Digital Humanities. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he is composing his dissertation on the pedagogical uses of video games.
Elizabeth Parfitt is a Teaching Professor of English and a creative writer. She earned her MFA from Emerson College in 2005 and her BA in English from Penn State in 2003. Beth is also a Scholar in Residence for Writing and Communication, The Writing Center @ Penn State Learning, and serves as the Program Assistant to the Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
Daniel Tripp is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English. Dan specializes in digital media and rhetoric, distance education, and postmodern American prose. His research interests include the future of writing in an expanding media ecology, the survivalist rhetoric of literary innovation in the late age of print, and the visualization and virtualization of English studies. He is the English department’s digital specialist, serving as the Associate Director of Digital Education and the Associate Director of the Penn State Digital English Studio.
Rachael Wiley is a Teaching Professor of English and a poet with interests in contemporary American and Austrian poetry. She earned her MFA from George Mason University. Her chapbook, The Normal Heart and How It Works (2011), won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award and was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her most recent translation, a full-length collection of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner, in collaboration with the author, ein Baum voll perlgrauer Tauben (a tree full of pearl gray doves) was published in 2018.