Andrea Barrett with Dr. Donna Murasko, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Abioseh Porter, English and Philosophy Department Head, at the Academic Bistro for dinner

Drawing upon my lifelong passion for word and image, I have striven to work with our teachers and students to make the pleasures of philosophical and literary study and writing our department's daily goal. As the department head, I see our mission as teaching students to write analytically, read wisely, and to think imaginatively and sensitively about the wide range of subjects in the disciplines of English and Philosophy, and as performing scholarly work that models and informs our teaching mission.

Our primary goals can be summarized as follows:

• Engaging students in critical thinking, good reading and writing endeavors that help them to enhance these skills.
• Providing cultural, historical and social contexts for the study of literature and its applications.
• Developing critical and analytical skills in philosophical thought and in the application of such thought
• Offering a variety of courses that integrate science and technology with the humanities and stresses Drexel's interdisciplinary focus.
• Preparing students for jobs that require strong analytical, communication, technological and writing skills.
• Preparing students for graduate work in the humanities, law, teaching, professional writing, and various other fields by providing them with the necessary literary, technological, and writing skills, and with a sound background in philosophical thought and its practical application.

Because I believe that the disciplines that embody our department-English and Philosophy-perhaps more than most other academic fields of study-train students to shape their ideas with a real sense of human consequences, I see our department as having the following objectives as complementary aspects of our primary mission:

• Enhancing the creative potential of individuals (students as well as faculty)
• Creating an environment where teaching and scholarship complement each other at all levels
• Again, educating our students to conceptualize and express ideas analytically and creatively, and to reason critically.

In order to achieve our goals, we have been engaged in many scholarly and student-centered activities. For example, we have developed a program of visiting scholars and Master classes that have brought world-renowned writers and scholars to the department; such visits have attracted city-wide attendance and revitalized student interest in our programs. Please consult our "News and Events" link on the department's website for more information on these events.

In reorganizing our curriculum, we have introduced new programs to enhance the educational life of a broad range of students:

• Drexel's first Certificate in Writing and Publishing enables our department to engage in the university's mission of connecting work and education. This program, like the other certificate program listed below, is open to all students of the university, and should allow students employment prospects
• The Certificate Program in Humanities, Health Sciences, and Society allows students focused on the health sciences to expand the horizons of their interests to a broader range of exploration This program represents a genuine partnership and collaboration with the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and is completely in line with Drexel's strategic goals of synergy among its various units.

Because all of our faculty consider themselves to be teacher-scholars, we in the department have continued to be fully engaged in scholarly and other professional activities. Through the efforts of my colleagues and me, we continue to bring national and international recognition to the department and university through our service to the profession and our academic publications. Listed below is a sample of our recent published scholarly activity:

Ake, Stacey Elizabeth, Ph. D (Biology), Ph. D (Philosophy), Assistant Professor of Philosophy: Ake, Stacey E. (in press). Apuleius: Direct and Indirect influences on the Thought of Kierkegaard IN Kierkegaard and the Roman World, Volume 3 in the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception, and Resources, Ashgate Publishing, Ed. Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard Research Center, Copenhagen, DK

Ake, Stacey E. 2003. Un clon, o como se le llame, es un ser humano. IN Ciencia y religion hoy: Dialogos en torno a la naturaleza, Editorial UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico.

Ake, Stacey E. & Adrian M. Wyard. 2003. Science and Religion in Public Communication. IN Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 Volumes, (ed. Wentzel van Huyssteen) MacMillan Reference, New York City.

Amato, Peter Ph.D. (Instructor of Philosophy) "Crisis, Terror, & Tyranny: On the Anti-Democratic Logic of Empire," in Philosophical Perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism,' edited by Gail Presbey, Rodopi, 2007
"Marxist Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics: Outlines of a Hermeneutical-Historical Materialism," in Radical Philosophy Today, Volume 4: Philosophy Against Empire, edited by Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006
"A Sphere's Progress: Flatland as a Social-Ethical Space," in Space And Time In Management And Social Analysis: Emerging Concepts and Working Models, edited by Edward Roger Churnside, Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigacion y Capacitation en Administracion Publica, 2004

Arms, Valarie M. Ph.D. (Professor of English and Associate Director of Freshman Writing)
Humanities for the Engineering Curriculum 3rd ed. With selected chapters from Olsen/Huckin: Technical Writing and Professional Communication, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Primis Custom Publishing, 2002.

Bingham, Ken. M.A. (Instructor of English)
Produced & Performed the following plays, among others: The Exonerated; Hearts & Soles; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Mr. Marmelade; Fortune Cookies (2007)

Brebach, Raymond, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of English and Director of English Programs) Assistant Editor. 'Twixt Land and Sea, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge University Press (In proofs).

Cohen, Paula Marantz, Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor of English)
Jane Austen in Scarsdale, or Love, Death, and the SATS (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004)
George Eliot, Literary Genius: Reflections on Twenty-Five Great English and American Writers, ed. Joseph Epstein (Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2007).
"The Dynamo, the Salesman, and the Playwright," New Essays on Death of a Salesman (Rodopi Books, forthcoming).
"New Books on Hitchcock," Times Literary Supplement (forthcoming).
"The Moral Life and the Novel," Michigan Quarterly Review (spring 2007): 365-372.
"The Elusive Aesthetics of Vernon Lee," The Yale Review 95,1 (January 2007): 21-30.
"Why Read George Eliot?" The American Scholar (spring 2006):129-132.
"Women, Gender, and Enlightenment" (review essay), The Times Literary Supplement Feb 3, 2006.
"Henry James: The Master of Suspense," The Yale Review 94,1 (January 2006): 102-111.

DeLancey, F. Elaine, Ph. D. (Associate Professor of English)
"Sonia Sanchez, Connector" in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Foreign Literature Studies Journal. Fall 2006
"Passion, Pathology, & Pathogens:Sonia Sanchez's Does Your House Have Lions?" BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review 10.2 Spring 2005

Fox, Valerie, Ph.D. (Instructor of English)
The Rorschach Factory. Philadelphia, PA. Straw Gate Books. 2006.
"This is not my cousin" in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Penn State University Press. 2005.
"Beyond the Voice" (fiction, with Arlene Ang) Defenestration V:4 (April 2007).
"Nature Hates a Vacuum" (fiction, with Arlene Ang). Edifice Wrecked (15 August 2006).
"Heaven," "Books I'll Never Read on My Shelves," and "What to do next." Sonaweb 4 (March 2006).
"Twelve." The Adroitly Placed Word (JohnVick.com) (Jan-March 2006).
"Where to Start When..." Poems Niederngasse (Feb. 2006).

Kotzin, Miriam N. Ph.D. (Associate Professor of English & Director, Certificate Program in Writing & Publishing)
Poems:"Beach House," Alehouse Review, Fall, 2006.
"Being Packed," "Sweat Rice," Poems Niederngasse, erotic supplement, February 2006.
"Drought in Madras," "Still Life," "Mystery Lovers," "Seafood," "Two Ways to Get to the Same Place," "Whimsies," BLAST, December 20, 2005
"Morning Office," "Trevlac," "Elevated Risk," Vocabula Review, December 2005.
"Cossack," "Safety Zone," "Ghost Crabs," "Impressionism on the Beach," Southern Hum, December 2005.
"Hair," "Floraphilia," Twenty1Lashes, Winter, 2005.
"Like This," "Perpetual Care," "Weights and Measures," Boulevard, Spring 2006.
"Acapulco Holiday," "Cliff Divers," "Taxco," Blowbackmagazine, June 2005.
"Alliance Cemetery, Norma, NJ," Poetry Superhighway, May 9, 2005.
"In Memoriam," Rose & Thorn, Spring 2005.
"Columbus," Mid-South Review, April 2005.
"J'ai Baise Ta Bouche," Salome, forthcoming Monday, March 7, 2005.
"The Wise Scimitar," Mad Hatters Review, March 2005.
Short Stories: "Undertow," Rumble, Spring 2007.
"Pornography" and "Brood," Ghoti, Spring 2007.
"Civil Ceremonies," Literary Mama, March 1, 2007.
"Silver Queen," Offcourse, February 2007.
"Nature Lesson," Salome, October 30, 2006.
"Devotional," Absinthe Literary Review, October 2006.
"Souvenir," The Pedestal, August 2006.

Mandell, Stephen, Ph.D. (Professor of English)
Foundations First: Sentences to Paragraphs (coauthor). 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 2008.
Writing First: Paragraphs to Essays (coauthor). 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 2006.
Patterns for College Writing (coauthor). New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 10th ed. 2007.
Focus on Writing (coauthor). New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008.
The Blair Reader (coauthor). 6th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2008.
The Wadsworth Handbook (coauthor). 8th ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2008.
The Brief Wadsworth Handbook (coauthor). 4rd ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2006.
The Concise Wadsworth Handbook (coauthor). 2nd ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2008.
The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook (coauthor). 2nd ed. Boston: Wadsworth, 2006.

Manion, Mark, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Philosophy)
Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters (2006). (Chinese translation) (in press)
Terrorism or Civil Disobedience: Toward a Hacktivst Ethic," Internet Security, Counterhacking, and Society, Himma, Kenneth, Ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006.

McMahon, Deirdre, Ph.D. (Instructor of English)
"'My own dear sons': Discursive Maternity and Proper British Bodies in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands." Claudia Klaver and Ellen B. Rosenman, eds. Other Mothers: Maternity in the Nineteenth Century. Forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press.

Nielson, Christopher, Ph.D. (instructor of English)
"Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee." By Celia R. Daileader. ALA Bulletin 31.2 (2006).

Piety-Foley, Marilyn, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Philosophy)
"The Epistemology of the Postscript," A Guidebook to the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Ed. Gordon Marino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).
"Kierkegaard's Reasons," Kierkegaard and Frankfurt on the Reasons of Love. Eds. Soren Lankildehus and Myron Penner. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (in press).
"Some Ethical Issues in Scholarly Publishing," Journal of Information Ethics (in press).
"The Dangers of Indirection." Kierkegaard Confronts Philosophy. Ed. Edward Mooney. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007

Porter, Abioseh Michael, Ph.D. (Professor of English & Head of Department)
"Creativity, Multi-Media, and New Writing from Sierra Leone," in Knowledge is more than mere words.Wey Dehn Sey? Dehn Sey Kapu Sehns Nor Kapu Word: A Critical Introduction to Sierra Leonean Literature (co-edited with Eustace Palmer) (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008)
"Fictional Worlds, Symbolism and Struggles of (Under-)Development: Kolawole Omotoso's 'The Combat,'" West African Worlds Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development Harlow, UK: Pearson,/Prentice Hall, 2005, 87-108.

Riggs, Donald, Ph.D. (Instructor of English)
"My Life in Poetry" (regular column in ASK/Arts & Sciences Knowledge) 2006-present.
"Postmodern Neoprimitivism: Anthropological Text and Horror Vacui in Count Zero" in The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Critical and Interpretive Essays. Carol Robinson and Carl Yoke, eds. Mellen Press: 2007. Announcement of publication with my essay as chapter 13: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7178&pc=9

Saar, Doreen Alvarez, Ph.D. (Professor of English)
Review Essay of Julie H. Kim, ed, Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story and Gillian Mary Hanson, City and Shore: the Function of Setting in the British Mystery for the Journal of Modern Literature.
Review of Marsha Urban's Seventeenth-Century Mother's Advice Books for Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature.

Stein, Scott, M.A., MFA (Instructor of English and Acting Director of Certificate Program in Writing & Publishing)
Mean Martin Manning, a novel. ENC Press. Hoboken, NJ. February 2007.
"The Failed Playwright of Virginia Tech," essay in Liberty. July 2007.
"Losing My Religion Over 'Handy Manny'" essay in Liberty. April 2007.

Thury, Eva M. Ph.D. (Associate Professor of English)
Instructor's Manual for Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths. With Margaret K. Devinney. 2006: Oxford University Press.
Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths. With Margaret K. Devinney. 2005: Oxford University Press.
Review of Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds). Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ALA Bulletin Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2, 2005.

Warnock, Scott, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of English & Director of Freshman Writing)
"And Then There Were Two: The Growing Pains of an Online Writing Course Faculty Training Initiative." Proceedings of the Distance Learning Administration 2007 Conference. June 2007.
With Michael Kahn. "Expressive/Exploratory Technical Writing (XTW) in Engineering: Shifting the Technical Writing Curriculum." The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 37.1 (2007): 39-59.
"'Awesome job!'-Or was it? The 'many eyes' of Asynchronous Writing Environments and the Implications on Plagiarism." Plagiary. 1.12 (2006): 1-14.
"Could Trump U Help E-learning Advocates?" Academic Exchange Extra. August 2006. http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/2006/8/index.html.
"The Optometrist's Rise to Power in the Health Care Market, or 'It's Optometric Physician, to You.'" Science Communication. 27.1 (September 2005): 100-26.

We would welcome queries, suggestions, and proposals on matters pertaining to our department. Please don't hesitate to contact us at engphil@drexel.edu.

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