The members of the Mount’s English department are distinguished by their commitment to academic excellence, their unusual breadth of scholarly interests, and the close academic and personal relationships they develop with students. Strongly committed to active learning, the English faculty use a variety of creative classroom strategies to share with students their passion for literature and to foster the kinds of intellectual inquiry and independent thought associated with advanced study. Having been trained at some of the best graduate institutions in the United States, department faculty are among the university’s best and most productive scholars, and they communicate their deep knowledge and sophisticated skills in small classes with interactive assignments. Mount English professors approach literature as purposeful expression, designed to communicate the mystery and beauty of human life, but also to affect the world it addresses. 

Peter A. Dorsey, Chair Professor of English — dorsey@msmary.edu

• B.A. St. Joseph’s University; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
• Areas of Interest: Early American literature, including the literature of the American Revolution, African-American literature, the American Renaissance and American autobiography

Thomas Bligh, Assistant Professor of English — bligh@msmary.edu

• B.A. Mount St. Mary's University; M.A. Miami University; Ph.D. Florida State University
• Areas of Interest: creative writing, twentieth-century American literature, creative non-fiction, post-modern British novel

Robert E. Ducharme, Professor of English — ducharme@msmary.edu

• B.A., M.A. University of Notre Dame; M.A. John Carroll University; M.A. New York University; Ph.D. University of Notre Dame
• Areas of Interest: film study, English Romanticism, Russian Fiction, Japanese Literature and Culture, and Latin American fiction

Mary F. Hamel, Professor of English — hamel@msmary.edu

• B.A. University of Washington (Seattle); Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University
• Areas of Interest: ancient and medieval European literature, Chaucer, King Arthur, and the English Language

William R. Heath, Professor of English — heath@msmary.edu

• B.A. Hiram College; Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
• Areas of Interest: poetry, American and European literature and creative writing

Carol L. Hinds, University Professor, 1995 — hinds@msmary.edu

• B.A. Saint Mary College; M.A. (English) University of Kansas; M.A. (Liberal Studies) St. John's College; Ph.D. University of Virginia; IEM Harvard University
• Areas of Interest: Eighteenth-Century British Literature, The Catholic Imagination, Victorian Literature

Roberta LePage McFadden, Assistant Professor of English — mcfadden@msmary.edu

• B.A. St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. Fordham University
• Areas of Interest: seventeenth-century British prose and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry

Indrani Mitra, Associate Professor of English — mitra@msmary.edu

• B.A. Presidency College (India); M.A. University of Calcutta; Ph.D. Kent State University
• Areas of Interest: postcolonial literature from Africa, India, and the Caribbean countries; non-Western women writers; gender and cultural studies

Sarah Scott, Assistant Professor of English — sscott@msmary.edu

• B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• Areas of Interest: Shakespeare and early modern drama, 16th- and 17th-century English literature, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

David Z. Wehner, Assistant Professor of English — wehner@msmary.edu

• B.A. Williams College; M.A. University of Colorado; Ph.D. University of Minnesota
• Areas of Interest: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, history and theory of secularization