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Faculty


Eric Caldwell
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
B.A., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Carter Hailey
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

Prof. LillyTony Lilly
Assistant Professor of English
A.A., B.A., Simon's Rock College
M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University
alilly@sbc.edu

Professor Lilly teaches 16th- and 17th-century British literature, including Shakespeare. His research interests include religion and sexuality in Early Modern English literature and the construction of the modern gendered subject through language. His dissertation examined the influence of confession on gender and subjectivity in English Renaissance prose and drama.  He is currently working on psychoanalytical approaches to Renaissance drama.

Prof. MaresCheryl Mares
Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of English
B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
mares@sbc.edu

Professor Mares teaches modern and contemporary fiction and poetry, including post-colonial literature. Her research interests involve connections between literature, history and politics in contemporary fiction and in works by modernist writers, especially Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, on whom she has published a number of articles. 

Prof. PiephoLee Piepho
Sara Shallenberger Brown Research Professor of English
B. A., Kenyon College
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Professor Piepho, who retired from teaching in the spring of 2005, taught courses in Renaissance literature and culture. The recipient of several awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a senior research fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, he is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books, most recently Holofernes' Mantuan, a study of Renaissance humanism in England, published in 2001. At present he is at work on a series of studies of transnational cultural links between Germany and early modern Britain. At Sweet Briar, Professor Piepho twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Student Government Association, in 1991 and 2000.

Prof. RobertsonMarcia Robertson
Associate Professor of English
Chair of the Department
B.A., Augustana College
M.A., Ph.D, Washington University
robertson@sbc.edu

Professor Robertson teaches American literature, including African-American and Native American writers. She also teaches courses in autobiography, nature writing and, most recently, speculative fiction. Her research interests are in regional literature, especially the literature of the South. She writes extensively for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.