English Faculty and Staff
Dr. Patrick S. Allen
Assistant Professor of English Literature
allenp@etown.edu
Patrick Allen teaches courses in American literatures and cultures. He specializes in African American literatures, multiethnic American literatures, critical race studies, Black feminisms, medical and health humanities, and graphic medicine. He has published on nineteenth-century Black medical women’s writing as well as forced sterilization in the context of Toni Morrison’s novel Home. Dr. Allen currently serves as Vice President of Organizational Matters for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. He holds a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.
Erica M. Dolson
Lecturer in English
Director of the English Creative Writing Program
dolsone@etown.edu | 717-361-1231
Erica M. Dolson teaches courses in first-year writing, professional writing, and writing about illness and disability. She also teaches a First-Year Seminar on creative nonfiction. She earned her M.F.A in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction) from George Mason University and her B.A. from Villanova University. Prior to entering her graduate program, she worked as a newspaper reporter in Central Pennsylvania. Her creative nonfiction has been published on Culinate.com and in Full-Stop, Critical Read, and borrowed solace.
Dr. Tara Moore
Associate Professor of English
Director of the English Professional Writing and First Year Writing Program
mooret@etown.edu | 717-361-1250
Tara Moore teaches courses on technical writing, web writing, Young Adult literature, and composition. Her research interests currently include representations of girls and dystopian young adult novels. She has published two books about the culture of Christmas, both past and present. Dr. Moore received her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.
Dr. Suzanne E. Webster
Professor of English
Director of the English Literature Program
websterse@etown.edu | 717-361-1235
Professor Webster holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sheffield, and an MPhil and DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. Most of her research focusses upon British Romantic literature (1770–1835), especially the private notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, upon which she has published a monograph, a book chapter, and several articles. Her other research interests include poetics and ecocritical theory.
Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty
Richard Fellinger
Fellow in The Writing Wing
fellingerr@etown.edu
Richard Fellinger is an award-winning author, former journalist, and fellow in The Writing Wing at Elizabethtown. His latest novel, *Summer of '85*, won the Novel Excerpt Contest at Seven Hills Review and was a finalist for the American Fiction Award.
Jill Coste
Adjunct Faculty
costej@etown.edu
Jill Coste has been teaching first-year writing since 2012, when she worked as an instructor at San Diego State University while completing her MA in English. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida, where she taught numerous classes in composition and literature. Her research focuses on children's and young adult literature, with particular analysis of adolescent agency in dystopian fiction and fairy tale retellings (which has left her with more opinions about Sleeping Beauty than she ever imagined). Dr. Coste brings that same attention to agency to her writing courses, encouraging students to recognize the power and potential of their own words.
Suzanne Biever-Grodzinski
Adjunct Faculty
bievergrodzinskis@etown.edu
Suzanne Biever-Grodzinski received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. She is currently working on her dissertation for her English Ph.D. through Temple University. Her interests include the Long 18th Century of British Literature and the medical humanities, especially women’s health in late medieval through Renaissance periods.
Dr. John Rohrkemper
Distinguished Professor of English
rohrkemj@etown.edu | 717-361-1229
John Rohrkemper teaches American and modern literature and writing with particular interest in the writing of Mark Twain, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Toni Morrison. He also teaches playwriting, has written and produced several plays, and often acts in local theatre productions.
Curtis Smith
Assistant Director of Academic Advising
smithcurtis@etown.edu
Curtis Smith teaches sections of first-year composition, first-year seminar, and creative writing. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Vermont College. Before coming to Elizabethtown, he taught in a local high school for thirty-three years. His published work includes over one hundred stories and essays, with citations in *The Best American Short Stories* and other notable collections.
Jesse Waters
Director of the Bowers Writers House
watersj@etown.edu | 717-361-3762
Jesse Waters has been runner-up for the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and a finalist in several other literary contests. He is the author of *Human Resources* and teaches both Technical and Creative Writing classes. He is the director of the Bowers Writers House.
