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Department of English, Literature, and Languages Faculty
Professor Dale K. Brown
Chair of the Department, Associate Professor
dale.brown@newberry.edu
Director, Communication Across the Curriculum
Link to CACP Program
Office: McClurg 105
Office Telephone: 803-321-5191
Joined Newberry College: 1991
Degrees: B.A. in English, Newberry College
M.A. in English Education, Western Carolina
University
Specialty: Department of English Liaison to Newberry
College Department of Education
Credentials: Trained as an ADEPT Observer/Evaluator of Student Interns, Assessment of Performance in Teaching (APT) Observer, Program for Effective Teaching (PET) Observer; certified as Teacher of Secondary English and Mathematics by South Carolina Department of Education
Honors: Carolina Association of Departments of English (Current President), Alpha Delta Kappa, International Honor Society in Education (Past President); American Association of University Women (Past Treasurer); Bachman Honor Society (Past President); Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education; Newberry College Employee of the Month (November 2003); Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society (Advisor)
Bio: After twenty-three years of teaching in South Carolina public schools, Dale returned to her alma mater in fall 1991. Since that time she has been active campus wide: she advised the literary journal Kinnikinnick for nine years, served on the committee that structured the College’s Summerland Honors Program and taught in that program for three years; she has directed the Communication Across the Curriculum Program (CACP) since 1998 and chaired the Department of English since fall 2001. She also advises Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, and serves as chair of Faculty Council and Faculty Marshal.
Dr. Rhonda Armstrong
Assistant Professor of English
rhonda.armstrong@newberry.edu
Link to Dr. R. Armstrong's Homepage
Office: McClurg 103
Office Telephone: 803-321-5196
Joined Newberry College: 2007
Degrees: B.A. in English, Western Kentucky University
M.A. in American Studies, Saint Louis
University
Ph.D. in American Studies, Saint Louis
University
Specialty: 20th Century American and Multicultural
Literature
Honors: Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta
Publications: “Affrilachian Poetry and the Evolution of a Regional Identity.” Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change. Ed. Hanna Wallinger. American Studies in Austria Series. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2006. 211-224.
Bio: A native Kentuckian, Rhonda Armstrong studied English and history at Western Kentucky University before pursuing a Ph. D. in American Studies at Saint Louis University. There she focused on the literatures of women, the South, and rural America. She has taught in departments of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at Saint Louis University, St. Louis Community College, The Pennsylvania State University, and the College of St. Benedict | St. John’s University in Minnesota. She joined the faculty at Newberry College in fall 2007.
Dr. Armstrong lives in Newberry with her husband and daughter.
Professor John Carenen
Assistant Professor of English
john.carenen@newberry.edu
Director of the Writing Center
Link to The Writing Center
Office: Wright Hall
Office Telephone: 803-321-5216
Joined Newberry College: 2006
Degrees: B.A. in English, University of Iowa
M.F.A., Iowa Writers Workshop, University
of Iowa
M.A. in Special Education, Appalachian State
University
Specialty: Remedial Writing to Advanced Writing
Classes and American Literature
Honors: Sigma Tau Delta
Publications: Popular magazine articles in Reader’s Digest (several, including a “First Person Award”), McCall’s, THE SIGN, Dynamic Years, Inside Health, etc.; publications in literary magazines including The Reedy River Review and Mountain Laurel; featured columnist in The Clinton Chronicle and formerly The Morganton (N.C.) News Herald. Novel, Son-up, Son-down published; currently working on a novel and a non-fiction book, plus several short stories.
Bio: An Iowa native, I have traveled in forty-three states and twenty-three countries; I have lived in Israel and Turkey and served in the USAF in the Republic of the Philippines and Massachusetts. I’ve been married for decades to a very patient woman and have two grown daughters. I also provide food and lodging for two cats, and a dog, Roxie, a Zimbabwean Cattle Retriever – Crested (mutt). My dream job is to play left field for the Boston Red Sox. I await their call. I like to travel, hike in the mountains, and avoid whiners.
Dr. Steven Gilbert
Assistant Professor of English
steven.gilbert@newberry.edu
Office: McClurg 112
Office Telephone: 803-321-5200
Joined Newberry College: 2007
Degrees: B.S. in Accounting, Bob Jones University
M.A. in English, Bob Jones University
Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina
Specialty: Romantic women writers and Victorian novelists
Honors: Graduate School and English Department travel grants (2004 and 2006); Major, Minor, and Oral Comprehensive Exams passed with distinction; Romanticism Search Committee graduate representative (2005)
Currently reading: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins and Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Favorite writers: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Johnson, Mary Robinson, Jane Austen, George Eliot
Bio: Dr. Gilbert grew up on a five-generation farm in Western New York. He completed a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting in 1996 at Bob Jones University and worked outside academia for two years. In 1998, he returned to Bob Jones, where he completed a Master's in English while teaching in the Freshman English Program. He earned a Ph. D. in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he worked with Dr. Paula Feldman.
Dr. Kristi Pope Key
Assistant Professor of English
kristi.key@newberry.edu
Office: McClurg 110
Office Telephone: 803-321-5189
Joined Newberry College: 2007
Degrees: B.A. in English, John Brown University
M.A. in English, University of Tulsa
Ph.D. in English, University of Louisiana at
Lafayette
Specialty: American Literature, Southern Literature,
and Popular Culture Studies
Memberships: Sigma Tau Delta, Louisiana Folklore Society, College English Association, Arkansas Philological Association, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Modern Language Association, Southwest/Texas American Popular Culture Association, Popular Culture Association of the South
Honors: “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” (1994); Graduate of Honors Program, John Brown University (1994); Zonta Internationals/Mary Dichmann Scholarship Award (2001); Campus Representative (RPCC) to Asheville Institute on Higher Education (2003); National Humanities Center, Jessie Ball Dupont Summer Seminar Fellowship (2006); “Who’s Who Among Professors in American Universities and Colleges” (2007)
Bio: Originally from Kellyville, Oklahoma, Kristi comes to Newberry College with experience teaching in small liberal arts colleges, a large state university, and a small rural community college. Her teaching specialties include Southern Literature, American Literature, and she claims to have once taught a course dedicated entirely to Archetypal Images in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her research interests include Southern Literature, Women’s Studies, and the use of Popular Culture in the classroom.
Dr. Warren S. Moore, III
Assistant Professor of English
warren.moore@newberry.edu
Link to Dr. Moore’s Homepage
Office: McClurg 122
Office Telephone: 803-321-5191
Joined Newberry College: 2004
Degrees: B.A. in English, Excelsior College
M.A. in English, University of Kentucky
Ph.D. in English, Ball State University
Specialty: Medieval studies, film, and the study of evil in literature
Credentials: Newberry College Faculty Athletics Representative
Honors: University Graduate Fellow, Ball State U (1999-2001); Novus Award, Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies (2001); Newberry College Professor of the Year (2006)
Publications: Dr. Moore is currently working on a scholarly book, tentatively called Priests of Evil: The Seven Deadly Sins in Early English Morality Plays; he has also published articles in magazines and newspapers ranging from CREEM Close-Up: METAL to the (Toronto) Globe and Mail, and has published fiction and poetry in such magazines as Collage and Low Orbit.
Dr. Moore is also a regular contributor to the annual Chaucer bibliography, published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer by the New Chaucer Society.
Bio: Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Warren Moore grew up there and in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Literature in English from the Regents External Degrees Program of the University of the State of New York (now Excelsior College) in 1987, and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Kentucky in 1992. After a tour of duty in the trade publishing industry, he returned to college and earned his Ph.D. from Ball State University in 2002. Along the way, he has been a drummer, disc jockey, stand-up comic, copy writer, voiceover talent, journalist, critic, customer service representative, and tire and battery salesman.
Dr. Moore lives in Newberry with his wife Debbie, an elementary teacher, and their daughter Emily, a student.
Dr. Brian Armstrong
Instructor of English
brian.armstrong@newberry.edu
Link to Dr. B. Armstrong’s Homepage
Office: McClurg 108
Office Telephone: 803-321-5218
Joined Newberry College: 2007
Degrees: B.A. in Philosophy/Russian, University of
Kansas
M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of
Oregon
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Pennsylvania State
University
Specialty: Wittgenstein, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature, Business Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, and Ancient Philosophy
Honors: National Merit Scholar, Weiss Fellowship from Penn State University (1999-2000 and 2002-2003), Fulbright Grant from the U.S. Government (2004-2005), Founder’s Award from the Society for Business Ethics (2006)
Publications: “Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly Bottle, by Severin Schroeder.” (Book Review) Grazer Philosophische Studien – Internationale Zeitschrift für Analytische Philosphie. (2006)
“World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein’s Early Thought, by Martin Stokhof.” (Book Review with Edgar Morscher) European Journal of Philosophy. (2007)
Bio: Dr. Armstrong was born in a Chicago suburb to a chemical engineer and a Montessori school teacher. He was raised in a suburb of Kansas City. He attended Rockhurst High School in Kansas City and then the University of Kansas for his B.A. in Philosophy and Russian. Dr. Armstrong then attended the University of Oregon for his M.A. in Comparative Literature. He then spent two years working for Wired magazine in San Francisco. After a brief stint in St. Louis, where he met his wife, he headed to Pennsylvania State University for his Ph.D. in Philosophy. During his graduate studies, he and his wife lived for a year in Salzburg, Austria. Last year he taught at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Central Minnesota. Dr. Armstrong is also an avid bibliophile and cineaste, partial to literature and film with existential and ethical themes that bear upon the dilemmas and challenges of contemporary life.
Mr. John Matthews
Instructor of English
john.matthews@newberry.edu
Office: McClurg 108
Office Telephone: 803-321-5218
Joined Newberry College: 2007
Degrees: B.A., Baptist College at Charleston
M.A., University of South Carolina
Bio: I reflect the values of family, with a strange mix of both parents. From my father a love of growing things and making things—my dad was a carpenter, and from my mom, reading and literature. I’m proud to have held a SC Horticultural Certificate in Pesticide Application for a few years, and keep my hand in maintenance, the care and planting of trees, and continue to enjoy that work alone and with a few good friend made and maintained over the years.
I enjoy Appalachian literature, particularly Wilma Dykeman Stokely, Thomas Wolfe, Jesse Stuart, and Wendell Berry.
I have enjoyed teaching here at Newberry College, and have taught over ten years at Midlands Technical College.
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