Our Department of English offers the three major programs listed above, as well as a minor in the field of journalism. It is staffed with five full-time faculty members:
Professor Robert J. Garrity
B.A., LaSalle University;M.A., LaSalle University; University of Pittsburgh; University of Georgia; M.A., Duquesne University; Ph.D., Duquesne University; M.A., Purdue University; University of Kansas; University of Wisconsin.
e-mail [rjg@saintjoe.edu]
Professor John D. Groppe
B.S., City College of New York; M.A., Columbia University; University of Notre Dame; N.E.H. Fellowship, Dartmouth College.
e-mail [johng@saintjoe.edu]
Professor Charles M. Kerlin
B.S., Purdue University; M.S., Purdue University; Ph.D., University of Colorado; N.E.H. Fellowships in African-American Literature (1969, -71, -72, -74, -84).
e-mail [kerlin@saintjoe.edu]
Assistant Professor William Mottolese
BA, College of the Holy Cross MA, Fordham University PhD, Fordham University
e-mail [wmottolese@saintjoe.edu]
Instructor Maia Kingman
BA, Ball State University MA, Ohio University
e-mail [maia@saintjoe.edu]
Classes in English are offered in periods of British and American literature; introductions to poetry, fiction, drama; the novel; Shakespeare; history of the English language; literary criticism; works in major writers, and special studies.
Creative Writing classes include composition, poetry, fiction, drama, essays, features.
Classes for the Teaching Certification program include (with some of those listed above), advanced writing, grammar, plus additional courses through the education department.
Classes in the journalism minor include newspaper writing, basic design, mass media, newspaper management and editorial work, and photography. Journalistic law is offered in conjunction with the political science department. Two part-time faculty members work in the journalism program (William Oates and Louisa Monfort).
Graduates of the English programs include writers Norbert Krapf (Somewhere in Indiana: Poems of Midwestern Origin; Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany), Philip Deaver (Silent Retreats; winner of 1988 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction), Norbert Gray (journalist in Arizona), Raymond Leliaert (business editor, South Bend Tribune), Terry Scroggin (Encyclopedia Britannica), Laura DeYoung (Windrose Consulting), Joseph Jungblut (several awards for excellence in high school teaching), Professor Robert Blackwood (Wright College), Dorothy Colgan (Hallmark Cards), Krista McLeish and Elizabeth McGinnity (attorneys-at-law), Robert Hausladen and Henry Ahrens and others in doctoral work, and many teachers.