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Sister Agnes Fleck is an Instructor in English. She received her B.A. from The College of St. Scholastica and her M.A. from the University of Minnesota. She has been at St. Scholastica since 1970. She teaches and does research in areas related to Shakespeare, organizes trips to the Guthrie, and travels the world. She taught in China for the 2002-03 school year.
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Dr. Patricia Hagen is a Professor of English. Her education includes a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, an M.A. from Western Illinois University and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
Pat has taught at the University of Kansas, Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, University of Wisconsin-Superior, and University of Minnesota-Duluth. She has been at The College of St. Scholastica since 1990. She teaches a variety of courses, such as Introduction to Art, graduate level management writing courses, Management Communications, Irish literature, honors courses, and Computer Graphic Design.
Pat has served the College in a variety of roles. Currently she directs the College's first year program, Dignitas. In 1995, Pat published Metaphor's Way of Knowing: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence (Peter Lang), and in 2003, she published with co-author Tom Zelman Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary (Mannsel).
Pat is also an accomplished artist. For more information and a sample of her art work, go to http://www.css.edu/users/phagen/home.htm.
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Dr. William Hodapp is an Associate Professor of English. He has worked at The College of St. Scholastica since fall quarter, 1994, teaching a range of writing and literature courses. Since 1997, he has also coordinated the College's minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In 2001, he was awarded the Tassie McNamara Award for service to students. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English from Mankato State University, and a B.A. in Humanities from St. Mary's College. In 2001-2002, he was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Bill currently chairs the English Department.
Bill's research centers largely on high to late medieval culture. Currently, he is working on two booklength projects: the first dealing with the appearance of classical figures in medieval poetry; the second dealing with connections between liturgy and medieval drama (especially Latin drama).
When not working, he spends time with his wife Lori, and their four children. He likes to read, travel, attend live theatre, view films, listen to live and recorded music, cross-country ski, row/scull, canoe, camp, and study languages.
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Dr. George Killough is a Professor of English. He received his B.A. in English from the College of Wooster in Ohio and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio University. Prior to coming the The College of St. Scholastica in 1981, he taught high school English in Arizona and Colombia, South America and was a part-time instructor and an Assistant Professor in both Ohio and Pennsylvania.
George teaches many courses including Introduction to Poetry, British Literature, Chaucer, and English Language and Linguistics. In 1981, he was awarded the Max H. Levine Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2000, he was awarded the St. Scholastica Inspiration Award from the Alumni Association, an award given to a teacher or staff member who has had significant influence on student's lives.
He has received numerous scholarships that have allowed him to research two writers, Geoffrey Chaucer and Sinclair Lewis. He has appeared at several conferences and written magazine essays and newspaper articles on these and other literary topics. In 2000 he published an edition of Lewis' 1940s diary. The book is entitled, Sinclair Lewis, Minnesota Diary, 1942-46 (U of Idaho P).
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Dr. John Schifsky is a Professor of English. He received his B.A. from St. John's University in Collegeville, his M.A. from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
John's areas of interest are classical rhetorical theory, stylistics and composition. He regularly teaches the Integrated Communications/English (ICE) course which involves working with a group of eighty first year students and three other faculty members. In addition he teaches American literature and management communications classes, and chairs the Humanities Division. He has been teaching at St. Scholastica since 1969.
In recent summers John co-directed seven humanities institutes for elementary teachers from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Twenty-five to forty teachers spent several weeks in residence reading, writing and talking about selected works of American literature. A principal aim of the institutes has been to encourage and nurture interest in literature on the part of teachers. John is currently the department's Rose Warner Professor.
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Dr. Suzanne Yunis is an Associate Professor of English. She received her B.A. and M.L.S. from Indiana University, her M.A. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She has been at The College of St. Scholastica since 1988. She teaches courses in writing and literature.
Suzanne is interested in process writing and historical inquiry, and has conducted research and is writing a screenplay on a historical character who went to the Belgian Congo in the early 1900s. In 2004-2005, she took a leave from teaching to conduct research in Mexico.
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Dr. Thomas Zelman is a Professor of English. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Tom was a Fulbright Scholar at the Karelian State Pedagogical University in 1996. He was nominated for the Burlington Northern Award in 1992. He served as Editorial assistant for The Faulkner Journal from 1984-1987. He has published works on Robert Frost, Irish literature and American culture. From 1998-2003, Tom served the College as Director of General Education. In 2003, he published Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary (Mannsel) with co-author Pat Hagen.
Having worked at the College since1988, Tom teaches courses in Italian film, Irish Drama, American literature, modern fiction, composition, and management writing.
For more information go to http://faculty.css.edu/tzelman/home.htm
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