English Faculty

Andrea K. Frankwitz
Department Chair
Associate Professor
English

B.A. Evangel College
M.A. University of Northern Iowa
Ph.D. Oklahoma State University

Dr. Frankwitz's teaching interests span from Colonial American Literature through Modern American Literature. Her current areas of research include nineteenth-century American slave narratives and Christological imagery in American poetry. In her free time, Dr. Frankwitz enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to museums and the theatre, and taking groups of students (and others) on cultural tours of Europe.

Graeme D. Bird
Assistant Professor
English

e: graeme.birdgordon.edu

B.A., M.A. Auckland University
B.D. London University
B.M. Berklee College of Music
M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

Graeme is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Classical and early English literature, particularly Homer, Virgil, Beowulf, and Chaucer. In addition he specializes in linguistics, grammar, poetics, the history of the English language, and Greek and Latin. He oversees the new minor in Classics, and enjoys jazz improvisation.

Paul C. Borgman
Professor
English

e: paul.borgmangordon.edu
web: www.paulborgman.net

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A. Southern Illinois University
Ph.D. University of Chicago

Paul Borgman has been at Gordon since 1981, teaching world and American literatures along with biblical literatures. Writing has emerged from his teaching: book-length literary studies of the David story (Oxford, March 2008); Luke-Acts (Eerdmans, 2006); and Genesis (IVPress, 2001). Borgman's interest in such orally based, story-telling ancient biblical literatures and contemporary television and cinema led to a book on television (1979). Borgman's love for teaching stems from his insistence on students' critical thinking regarding the literary text, in class. From such "live" dialogue, Borgman has gleaned much of what has gone into his research and writing. Win-win.

Ann D. Ferguson
Professor
English

e: ann.fergusongordon.edu

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., Ph.D. Boston University

Janis D. Flint-Ferguson
Professor
English

e: janis.flint-fergusongordon.edu

B.A. North Central College
M.S., D.A. Illinois State University

Both a composition and English education specialist, Dr. Flint-Ferguson began teaching at Gordon in 1990. Her additional areas of interest and scholarship include adolescent literature, women's literature, literacy, and rhetorical theory. Dr. Flint-Ferguson is a widely sought after educational consultant. She is also the editor of The Journal of the New England League of Middle Schools, a refereed publication focusing on strategies and issues in education as well as on current educational research. An avid sports fan, Dr. Flint-Ferguson regularly participates in the Gordon faculty/staff Monday Night Football gatherings (Go Bears!) and annually attends the Indianapolis 500 auto race.

Andrew Logemann
Assistant Professor
English

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Indiana University
 
Professor Logemann's research and teaching focus broadly on literary history and the long twentieth century in British literature, with particular emphases on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century novel, postcolonial studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and modernism. His most recent research explores the interplay between physics and literature during the modernist period, in which he finds a striking confluence of ideas that invites a reconsideration of the relationship between scientists, artists, writers and the culturally mediated work they produce. 

Lynn Marcotte
Assistant Professor
English
Writing Center, Director
Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator

e: lynn.marcottegordon.edu

B.A. Ohio State University
M.A. Salem State College

Professor Lynn Marcotte teaches courses in Writing and Rhetoric and Creative Nonfiction. In addition, she trains and oversees the peer writing tutors who work in Gordon's Writing Center. Her personal goal is to get students excited about writing and to help them find their own voice. As an essayist, she is currently working on a series of stories about her upbringing in her Syrian-Lebanese family in Cleveland, Ohio, and her recent travels through Syria and Lebanon.

Lori Ambacher
Adjunct Professor
English

e: lori.ambacherhotmail.com

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A. S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton

Anne H. Blackwill
Adjunct Professor
English

e: anne.blackwillgordon.edu

B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University

Matthew Bolinder
Part-Time Instructor
English

e: matthew.bolindergordon.edu

B.A. Gordon College
M.A. Illinois State University
Ph.D. Boston College

Jonathan Busch
Part-Time Instructor
English

e: jonathan.buschgordon.edu

B.A. Gordon College
M.F.A. Boston University

Cory Grewell
Part-Time Instructor
English

e: cory.grewellgordon.edu

B.A. Masters College
M.A. California State University - Bakersfield
Ph.D. Candidate Northeastern University

Agnes Howard
Adjunct Professor
History

e: agnes.howardgordon.edu  

B.A. Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia

Stephen Leonard
Adjunct Professor
English

e: stephen.leonardgordon.edu

B.A. Gordon College
M.F.A. Goddard College

Stella Price
Part-Time Instructor
English

e: stella.pricegordon.edu

B.A. Gordon College
M.S. University of New Hampshire