Bradley Greenburg
Bradley
Greenburg
English Department Chair, Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5467
Expertise
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Film, Creative Writing
Courses Taught
ENGL 221 British Literature: Beginnings to 1750
ENGL 330 Shakespeare Comedies and Romances
ENGL 331 Shakespeare Tragedies
ENGL 364 Reading Film
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 365 Caribbean Literature
ENGL 418 Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 420 Teaching Shakespeare
ENGL 421 The Metaphysical Poets
ENGL 441 Seminar in 16th Century Literature
ENGL 469 Seminar in Southern Literature
Research Interests
Shakespeare; British literature, 16th and 17th centuries; British historiography; 20th-century poetry; Literary and critical theory; psychoanalytic theory; Modernist poetics
Education

Ph.D. English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2001
M.A. Political Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1991
B.A. Political Science, Purdue University, 1988

Selected Publications

Books

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, a novel. Sandstone Press, UK,  June 2014.

A Quail Is a Pretty Bird. Manuscript of a book of short fiction, under consideration at various journals/reviews/magazines.

Articles/Book Chapters

“Michael Bogdanov: An International Director’s The Winter’s Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action To the Word, ed. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos, Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.

“Sack Drama: The Return of Falstaff in Henry V.” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller, Fordham University Press, 2009. Pages 45-57.

The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, entries on Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, King John, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, General Introduction to The History Plays. Global Book Publishing, Sydney, Australia, 2009. Pages 62-83, 116-119.

“‘O for a muse of fire’: Henry V and Plotted Self-Exculpation.” Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 36, 2008), 182-206.

“T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation.” Criticism 49.2 (Spring 2008), 215-239.

“’the double variacioun of wordly blisse and transmutacioun’: Shakespeare’s Return to Ovid in Troilus and Cressida.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (Third Series, Vol. 5, May 2008), 293-312.

“Romancing the Chronicles: 1 Henry IV and the Rewriting of Medieval History.” Quidditas (Vol. 27, 2006), 34-50. Published as the 2005 Allen D. Breck Award Winner.

Book Reviews

Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 38, 2011). Jennifer Summit, Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Journal of British Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2010). Stewart Mottram, Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2008.

Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 59, No. 2, Summer 2006). William M. Hamlin, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England. London and New York: Palgrave, 2005.

The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter 2006). Ken MacMillan and Jennifer Abeles, Eds. John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire. New York: Praeger, 2005.

The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Summer 2006). Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare’s History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Arthuriana (Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 2004). Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Arthuriana (Vol. 13 No. 3, Fall 2003). Frances A. Underhill, For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Short Fiction

“The Confectioner.” First Intensity, #19, Fall 2004.

ԲܰԳ.” The Cimarron Review, Spring 2004, issue 147.

“Two Brothers.” South Dakota Review, Winter 2003 (Vol. 41 #4).

Poetry

“Cܳٳ󲹰.” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2004 (Vol. 54 #4), 35-45.   
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Room LWH 2008
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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5467
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 p.m. via Zoom

Email b-greenburg@neiu.edu to arrange an appointment.
Main Campus
Timothy Barnett
Timothy
P.
Barnett
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-6030
Expertise
Composition history and pedagogy, critical literacy, LGBTQ literature and theory
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 200 Writing in Context
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 335 Written Communication for Business
ENGL 375 The Essentials of Tutoring Writing
ENGL 376 Advanced Composition
ENGL 377 Argumentative Prose
ENGL 433 Seminar in Composition Theory
ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing
WGS 210 Into to LGBTQ Studies
WGS 360 Queer Theory
Research Interests
History of Composition, Composition Pedagogy, Critical Literacy, LGBTQ Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies
Education

Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986

Selected Publications

“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class.” Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.

“Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy.” College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.

Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2002.

“Reading ‘Whiteness’ in English Studies.” College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.

Background

Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.

Room LWH 2016 or Room B 147
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-6030
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Please email appointment requests and messages at least 24 hours in advance to t-barnett1@neiu.edu.
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William
Green
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5810
Expertise
Composition and Literature
Courses Taught
ENGL 101, 102, 201, 202, 203
Research Interests
Creative Writing
Education

BA Taylor University, MA Miami University, MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago

5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
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(773) 442-5810
Office Hours
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Main Campus
Olivia Cronk
Olivia
E.
Cronk
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5958
Expertise
College writing, contemporary poetry, Creative Writing constraints, Hybrid-form writing
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 304A Literary Editing
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 340A Elements of Style
ENGL 346 Critical Writing for Creative Writers
ENGL 374A Hybrid Form Writing
ENGL 384/385 Creative Writing: Poetry I & II
ENGL 389 Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 397 Summer Creative Writing Institute
ENGL 398A Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 416 Ekphrastic Practice
HUM 192 Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Contemporary poetry, hybrid forms, hybrid pedagogies, constraint- and game-based writing modes
Education

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Publications

Critical Writing

on Madison McCartha's Freakophone World

"Vision as palimpsest: on Johannes Göransson’s translations of Ann Jäderlund"

on Andra Rotaru's Lemur

"I Cannot Resist the Terror"

Poetry Collections

Womonster, 2020, Tarpaulin Sky

Louise and Louise and Louise, 2016, The Lettered Streets Press

Skin Horse, 2012, Action Books

Room LWH 2100
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5958
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours

Monday: 10:00-11:00 a.m. /1:00-2:00 p.m. (drop in)
Tuesday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. (email appt.), 6:00-7:00 p.m. (drop in)
Wednesday: 1:00-2:00 p.m. (by email appt.)
Thursday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. (by email appt.)
Friday: 1:00-3:00 p.m. via Zoom (email for appointment)

Please email 24 hours in advance for Zoom or in-person appointments at
o-cronk@neiu.edu.
Main Campus
Katy Smith
Katy
Smith
Ph.D.
Professor; Department Chair
Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
English
College of Education
(773) 442-5329
Expertise
Secondary education, curriculum theory and classroom practice, English language arts education and writing pedagogy, interdisciplinary curriculum
Courses Taught
Methods of Teaching English
Reflection and Assessment of Student Learning
School Curriculum
Research Interests
Teacher and student identity around literacy teaching and learning; disciplinary and interdisciplinary literacies; curriculum history, theory, and design; arts education
Education

Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory and Research
University of Wisconsin - Madison

M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Studies
National-Louis University

B.A. in English
Indiana University - Bloomington

Selected Publications

Zemelman, S., and Smith, K. (2016). Growing L2P 2.0 into a project that can have impact beyond the
classroom. Letters to the Next President 2.0, Date Published: June 3, 2016.

Smith, K., and Dover, A. G. (2015). [Review of the book Educating about social issues in the 20th
and 21st centuries: Critical pedagogues and their pedagogical theories, volume 4.] Teachers College
Record, Date Published: October 22, 2015  ID Number: 18185, Date
Accessed: 1/12/2016 11:40:01 AM

Dover, A. G., Schultz, B. D., Smith, K., & Duggan, T. J. (2015). Embracing the controversy: edTPA,
corporate influence, and the cooptation of teacher education. Teachers College Record, Date
Published: September 14, 2015.  ID Number: 18109, Date Accessed:
9/15/2015 6:43:02 AM

Dover, A. G., Schultz, B. D., Smith, K., & Duggan, T. J. (2015). Who’s preparing our candidates?
edTPA, localized knowledge and the outsourcing of teacher evaluation. The Teachers College
Record, Date Published: March 30, 2015.  ID Number: 17914, Date
Accessed: 1/12/2016 11:06:42 AM

Smith, K., and McKnight, K. (2009). Remembering to laugh and explore: Improvisational activities
for literacy teaching in urban classrooms. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 10(12).
Retrieved April 27, 2010 from .

Smith, K. (2008). Becoming an "honours student": The interplay of literacies and identities in a high-track
class. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 40 (4), 481-507.

Background

A 20-year veteran of high school teaching, Dr. Smith taught English, as well as history and German, before coming to NEIU in 2003. In addition to her work at the university, she is a dancer and choreographer who has been nominated for a Broadway World choreography award for regional non-equity theater.

 

   HONORS

 - Recipient of two NEIU Faculty Excellence Awards, 2018 and 2016

 - Federal Education, Innovation, and Research Grant Award, 2018

 - National Writing Project SEED College, Career and Community-Ready Writers Grant Awards 2017 and 2018 

Additional Information

- Director, Illinois Writing Project and active in the National Writing Project Network

- NEIU Travel Grant Award Winner

- Illinois State Board of Education “Those Who Excel: Award of Merit” (as a member of the Freshman Studies Team)

- American Federation of Teachers Robert G. Porter Scholar

- Pi Lambda Theta Graduate Student Scholar

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(773) 442-5329
Office Hours
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Main Campus