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Kristin King
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of English
B.A., College of William and Mary, M.A., Ph.D., Boston Univ.

Kristin King teaches literature and writing, oversees academic programs, and advises the English major. She specializes in the 19th Century, Shakespeare, and the novel. Her research carries her into textual analyses of all sorts, from slave narratives to sacred texts. Lately she is absorbed by gardens - literal and literary.

"Much is published, but little printed.... No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert." (Thoreau)

Suzanne V. Bernhardt
Assistant Professor of Humanities
B.S., Bryn Athyn Coll., M.A., Villanova Univ.

Prof. Bernhardt has been teaching literature and theater arts for 30 years in all educational settings - elementary,  high school and college,  including abroad.  Her primary passion is "Theater as Spiritual Practice,"  a practice she has been evolving for fourteen years while at Bryn Athyn College.  Her sabbatical in the coming year will take her to Southeast Asia to study ancient ritual theater forms.

Thane Glenn
Instructor in English
B.A., Washington Coll., M.A., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., TempleUniversity

Thane Glenn specializes in the fields of rhetoric and composition, and late medieval / early modern literature.  He is particularly interested in the effect of the intangible elements of language in communication—the spirit within the words we read, write, and speak.

Amanda Rogers-Petro
Instructor in English
B.A., Macalester Coll., M.F.A., Univ. of Michigan

In addition to teaching poetry and creative writing, Amanda Rogers-Petro has been the director or assistant director for many of the college theatrical productions. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in various magazines and literary journals.

Ray J. Silverman
Assistant Professor of Religion
B.A., St. Lawrence Univ., M. Div., A.N.C. Theological School, M.A.T., Wesleyan Univ., Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan

Ray Silverman serves as College Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion. He is the editor/reviser of Helen Keller's Light in My Darkness (1994, 2000), and has co-authored with his wife, Star, Rise Above It: Spiritual Development through the Ten Commandments (2000, 2005). In addition, he has published over twenty articles including a study of James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and The Anti-Sectarianism of Henry James, Sr. Ray is a Fellow in the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (University of Delaware).