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Karen Hamer
Assistant Professor of English and Writing Specialist/Department Coordinator
E-mail: hamerk@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone:
207-768-9459
Mail box: 260
Location: 215 South Hall
Education: B.A., College of Mount St. Joseph; M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri at Columbia.
 Richard Asam
Professor of Communication
E-mail: asam@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone: 207-768-9466
Mail box: 227
Location: 217 South Hall
Fax: 768-9553
Education: B.F.A., Ithaca College; M.S., Syracuse University; Ph.D., University of Georgia.
Academic and professional interests: Dr. Asam is interested in audio and video production methods, computer-based
editing, and performance methods..
Areas of Research: Analysis of mass media
content.
Publications: Audio production for Old Women's Wisdom audio tape; published Aroostook Area Agency
on Aging.
 Hood Frazier
Assistant Professor of English/Education
E-mail: frazierh@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone:
207-768-9522
Mail box: 254
Location: 209 South Hall
Fax: 768-9553
Education: B.A., M.A., West Virginia University; M.S., Longwood College; Ph.D., University of
Virginia.
Academic and professional interests: Dr. Frazier's academic interests include poetry writing, conflict
resolution/meditation, curriculum theory and development, cultural diversity, and "at risk" students. .
Areas of
Research: Dr. Frazier is involved in teacher education research, and has also researched teaching poetry and English
education.
Publications: "The Scored Discussion," English Journal.; Poetry published in The Hampden-Sydney
Poetry Review, English Journal, and College English.
"The way in is the way out: Poetry writing in the classroom." Voices from the middle.
Home address:
58
Third Street
Presque Isle, ME 04769
207-764-4577
 Tara
Penry
Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: penryt@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Personal web site: http://bliss.umpi.maine.edu/~penryt
Phone: 207-768-9609
Mail box: 269
Location: 216 South Hall
Fax: 768-9553
Education: (All degrees in English): BA, Gonzaga University; MA, Fordham University; PhD,
Fordham University.
Academic and professional interests: American regional literature & history
The American "West"
Nineteenth-century periodicals (US)
Literary sentimentalism, romanticism, realism
American women writers
Memberships:
Modern Language Association
Western Literature Association
American Studies Association
Oregon Historical Society
American Association of University Women
.
Publications: "Sentimental and Romantic Masculinities in Melville's *Moby-Dick* and *Pierre*," in Mary
Chapman and Glenn Hendler, eds, *Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture* (Berkeley: U of
California Press, forthcoming in Spring 1999).
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 Ken Petress
Professor of Communication
E-mail: petress@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Personal web site: http://bliss.umpi.maine.edu/~petress/index.html
Phone:
207-768-9463
Mail box: 268
Location: 307 South Hall
Fax: 768-9463
Education: B.S.Ed., M.A., C.A.S., Northern Illinois University; Ph.D., Louisiana State
University.
Academic and professional interests: Dr. Petress's academic interests include gender issues; family communication
issues; the role of propaganda in institution; and organizational persuasive strategies. .
Areas of Research:
Organizational persuasive strategies; Chinese culture and politics.
Home address:
407 Main
Street
Apt 3
Presque Isle, ME 04769
207-764-6179
Raymond Rice
Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: ricer@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone: 207-768-9416
Mail box: 289
Location: 404 Normal Hall
Fax: 768-9433
Education: B.A., English and Latin, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; M.A., English, University of
Connecticut; Ph.D., English, University of Connecticut, (defending in December1997).
Academic and professional interests: specialization in English Renaissance Drama
(with other areas in Rhetoric and Composition Theory; Literary
Theory; Eighteenth Century Drama).
 Stanley Scott
Professor of English and Philosophy
E-mail: scotts@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone: 207-768-9491
Mail box: 242
Location: 314 Normal Hall
Fax: 768-9553
Education: A.B., English and Philosophy, Stanford University; M.A., English,
University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., American
Literature and Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles.
Academic and professional interests: philosophy, religion, literature, environmental ethics, educational philosophy,
writing and thinking.
Areas of Research: work in progress: The Practice of Freedom: Using Creativity and
Judgment in the Writing Process.
Publications: "Hidden Things" (poem) The Maine Scholar, 1998;
Frontiers of Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Studies in American Philosophy and Poetry (New York: Fordham University
Press, 1991, 1994).
Home address:
21 Dudley Street
Presque Isle, ME 04769
207-762-7761
Kenneth Lee Taylor
Professor of English
E-mail: taylor@polaris.umpi.maine.edu
Phone: 207-768-9429
Mail box: 243
Location: 207 Normal Hall
Fax: 768-9433
Education: A.B., Gordon College; A.M., Ph.D., Boston University.
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