Members of the Liberal Studies Faculty are selected from the College's academic departments based upon their interest in topics of interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry. In addition to teaching Liberal Studies courses, they may, during their term of appointment, advise students, supervise independent study courses and theses, and serve on program committees. A rewarding aspect of the program is the close interaction in small classroom discussions between faculty and students.
Raúl BuenoProfessor of Spanish and Portuguese, received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of San Agustín (Peru) and made post-graduate studies in semiotics in Paris, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He specializes in 19th and 20th century Spanish American literature, culture and literary theory. He published the following books: Metodología del Análisis Semiótico (with D. Blanco, Lima, 1980), Poesía Hispanoamericana de Vanguardia (Lima, 1985), and Escribir en Hispanoamérica (Lima/Pittsburgh, 1992) and Antonio Cornejo Polar y los Avatares de la Cultura Latinoamericana (Lima, San Marcos, 2004). His book El Patio Trasero de la Modernidad (the backyard of modernity) is currently in press by the Universidad of Las Americas (Puebla, Mexico). He is the editor of Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, now hosted by Dartmouth College.
George J. Demko is the former Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth and currently Professor Emeritus of Geography, Adjunct Professor of Community and Family medicine, and AdjunctProfessor of Geography at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Previously, he was the Director ofthe Office of The Geographer of the U.S. State Department, Program Director of Geography and Regional Science at the National Science Foundation, and Executive Director of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.He has authored or edited 15 books and has published over 90 scholarly articles. Recent publications include: Why in theWorld: Adventures in Geography (Anchor/Doubleday, 1990); Reordering the World: Geopolitics for the 21st Century (Westview Press, 1999); Population Under Duress: The Geodemography of Contemporary Russia (Westview Press); “Infant Death Risk in theCzech Republic: An Analysis of Linked Data? (Journal of European Demography, Spring, 2002); “Modern Maritime Piracy?( The International Atlas of Crime, Oryx Press, 2000). He also writes and teaches on the geography of mystery fiction and writes articles on international mysteries for a number of journals.
Ronald Edsforth, Visiting Professor of History and Chair of the Globalization Studies Concentration received his Ph.D. in History from Michigan State University. For nearly two decades his scholarship focused on the political and cultural implications of the development of America's automobile-centered mass consumer economy. His books on this subject include Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus (1987) and The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression (2000); and two co-edited essay collections, Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America (1991) and Autowork (1995). He was also the chief historian for the PBS series, “America on Wheels" (1996). Several years ago, Professor Edsforth shifted the focus of his scholarly work and much of his teaching to humanity’s responses to modern warfare. He is currently working on a booklength history of the global politics of peace since the Hague Conference of 1899, and authoring articles on related subjects that appear in Salmagundi magazine.
Carl B. Estabrook is an Associate Professor of History. He holds a PhD from Brown University, and has published on urban-rural social and cultural interation in 17th and 18th-c England. More recently, he has published work on lay-clerical relations in 17th-century English cathedral cities. His next major project will investigate cultural and social horizons of English coastal communities in the context of the emerging Atlantic world between 1550 and 1750. Estabrook is an active contributor to the international Conference on British Studies and its associated journals.
Harvey Frommer received his Ph.D. from NYU. Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor nominee, and recipient of the "Salute to Scholars Award" at CUNY where he taught writing for many years, he was cited in the Congressional Record and by the NYS Legislature as a sports historian and journalist. His many sports books include: New York City Baseball: 1947-1957, Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, the New York Yankee Encyclopedia, and autobiographies of sports legends Nolan Ryan, Red Holzman and Tony Dorsett. He is currently at work on A Yankee Century: the Hundredth Anniversary Book. Together with Myrna Katz Frommer, he has written the oral histories: It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing up Jewish in America, and It Happened on Broadway and the forthcoming It Happened in Manhattan.
Myrna Katz Frommer received her Ph.D. from New York University. She has taught courses in media, public speaking and rhetoric at CUNY, NYU, Fordham,and St. John's. Her articles on Sephardic history and the current resurgence of Jewish life in Spain and Portugal have appeared in The Forward, Midstream, and Ha'aretz. She has also published in the New York Times, Etc.: The Journal of General Semantics, and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Together with Harvey Frommer, she has written the oral histories: It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing up Jewish in America, and It Happened on Broadway and the forthcoming It Happened in Manhattan and lectured on oral/cultural history throughout the United States.
Andrew Garrod received his Ed.D. from Harvard University and is Associate Professor and currently Chair of the Education Department. His special interests in teaching and research are adolescent development and moral education. He has written and lectured extensively and has been awarded fellowships and grants to pursue research in education and curriculum development. His latest co-edited books are First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (with Colleen Larimore), Crossing Customs: International Students Write on College Life and Culture (with Jay Davis), and Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black (with Ward, Robinson, and Kilkenny).
Jay G. Hulll received his Ph.D. from Duke University where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. Before coming to Dartmouth, he held an NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sociology at Indiana University and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. His long-standing scholarly interests are in the areas of self-knowledge and self-regulation. In addition to publishing theoretical and basic research articles on these topics, he has also published applied research on self-regulative dysfunctions associated with alcohol use and depression. His most recent publications include: "Modeling the structure of self-knowledge and the dynamics of self-regulation" (To appear in Psychological Perspectives on the Self, American Psychological Association, 2001), "Social support and treatment response in older depressed primary care patients (with Thomas Oxman, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, in press) and The Social Psychology of Stigma (with Heatherton, Kleck, & Hebl; Guilford Press, 2000).
Phyllis Katz, senior lecturer in the Classics and Women Studies Departments, received her Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University. She focuses her teaching and writing in Classics and Women Studies on the transitions of young girls from adolescence to adulthood. She also teaches and writes poetry. She has published numerous articles and reviews and is the co-author with Charbra A. Jestin of Ovid: Metamorphoses and Amores. She has a chapter on "Io in the Prometheus Bound" in Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society, in the Bucknell Review, Fall, 1999.
Barbara Kreiger, is adjunct associate professor and chair of the creative writing concentration in MALS, as well as a senior lecturer in the English Department. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University and is the author of The Dead Sea: Myth, History and Politics, and Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. She has written introductions for new editions of travel classics, and her work has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times and The Boston Globe. She was the recipient of a Fulbright award in Rome in 2004-05, and has since been invited back to the University of Rome as visiting professor.
Sydney Lea is widely know in several genres of creative writing and poetry. He founded the New England Review in 1977 and edited it until 1989. His 2000 volume of poems, Pursuit of a Wound, was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. The preceding volume, To the Bone: New and Selected Poems, was co-winner of the 1998 Poets' Prize. His 1998 novel, A Place in Mind, is still available from Story Line Press; while his 1994 collection of naturalist essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home, was re-issued by Lyons Press in 2003. Syd Lea has been described as "a man in the woods with his head full of books, and a man in books with his head full of woods." He has an avid affection for story derived in no small measure from men and women elders in New England, and his lifelong passion for the natural world informs almost his every utterance.
Alan Lelchuk received his BA from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. He has been a professor and Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and Visiting Writer at Amherst College, C.C.N.Y, and The University of Rome. He has won Guggenheim and Fulbright Awards. In 1999-2000 he held the Otto Salgo Chair in American Literature at Eotvos Lorand Univ. in Budapest. Since 2005, he has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist, teaching at Moscow State and University of Napoli, and in 2009 at the Free University in Berlin. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines, and his novels include American Mischief, Miriam at Thirty-Four, Shrinking, Miriam in Her Forties, Brooklyn Boy, Playing the Game and Ziff: A Life? He is also co-founder of the Steerforth Press.
Patricia McKee is a Professor of English and focuses in her teaching and writing on two fields: the British novel of the nineteenth century and U.S. fiction of the twentieth century. She is the author of Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James; Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878); and Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison. She holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
Misagh Parsa received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is Chair of Sociology at Dartmouth. His research interests include the study of economic and political development in the Third World. He is the author of The Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution, named by the American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature as one of the three most significant books on the Iranian Revolution. He has published articles in Theory and Society, Sociological Forum, Political Power and Social Theory, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. His current research is a comparative analysis of the Russian, Iranian, and Nicaraguan revolutions as well as conflicts in the Philippines.
Donald E. Pease is Professor of English and the Avalon Foundation chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College. The author or editor of eight books, his Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writing in Cultural Context received the Mark Ingraham prize for the best book in the humanities in 1987. The recipient of Guggenheim, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation and NEH Fellowships, Don Pease serves as Chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. In 2002, he delivered the Drue-Heinz Lectures in American Literature and serve as a Lord Rothermere visiting scholar at Oxford University.
Bill Phillips, a Visiting Associate Professor of Film, holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. Professor Phillips teaches screenwriting and film adaptation at Dartmouth College and writes for most of the major studios, networks and cable companies. He has writing credits in comedy, drama, horror, romance, western, and police drama, and he wrote and directed the Paramount feature "There Goes the Neighborhood." He has done both original screenplays and adaptations, including John Carpenter's "Christine "by Stephen King, "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" by Carolyn Chute and "In a Child's Name" by Peter Maas. His work has been nominated for the Edgar, the Emmy, and he has won the Cable Ace Award for Best Screenplay for "El Diablo." His first major credit was "Summer Solstice," shot on Cape Cod by Boston's WCVB-TV, starring Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy.
Diederik Vandewalle, Assistant Professor of Government
Keith L. Walker, Professor of French and Italian, received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. He specializes in 19th and 20th century French Literature, Francophone Studies, and poetry. His publications include articles on the poet Aimé Césaire , co-authorship of La Religion dans Eugénie Grandet, and translations. He is the author of La Cohésion poétique do l'oeuvre césairienne, and Counter Modernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot. He is co-editor of Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers.
Christopher Wren graduated from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and, earned a master’s degree with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He learned Russian at Dartmouth and at the University of Edinburgh; and Chinese at Stanford and Cambridge Universities. He taught at Princeton University, as Ferris Professor of Journalism in 1997, and as Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in 2001. He worked for The New York Times for nearly 29 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He headed Times news bureaus in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg, and later covered the United Nations. He has reported from throughout the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and Canada. He also worked as an editor at Look and Newsweek magazines and the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He has written five books and co-authored three others. The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China was chosen as a notable book of 1990 by The New York Times. The Cat Who Covered the World became a national bestseller in 2001. Walking to Vermont was published in 2004.
