Professor Rhonda Collier holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University. Additionally, she has a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial and Health Systems Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Georgia Tech, respectively. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. She is committed to the Macon County community as well as the exchange of ideas with countries that are in the Global “South.” Her interdisciplinary approach considers community outreach, health disparities, women’s history, and social action.
Representative Publications:
Collier, Rhonda. “From Hip Hop to Hip Hope: Art and Public Theology.” Walking Together: Christian Thinking and Public Life in South Africa. Ed. Joel Carpenter. Abilene Christian University Press. 2012.
Collier, Rhonda.“’Over the Rainbow’: Finding Home in Cleage’s West End Atlanta.” Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Work. Ed. Aisha Francis and T. Foster-Singletary. McFarland. 2012.
Collier, Rhonda. Las Consecuencias de la Obesidad en la Salud [The Health Consequences of Obesity]. Tuskegee Area Health Education Center, Inc and Central Alabama Veterans Health Care Systems. June 2012.
Collier, Rhonda. Guest Editor.ObsidianJournal:Literature of the African Diaspora. Vol. 13. No 1. Spring/Summer 2012. ISSN 0888-4412.http://obsidian.chass.ncsu.edu/ojs/index.php/obsidian/index.
Professor Edwards received a multi-disciplinary Doctor of Fine Arts in Theatre, Art, Music and Philosophy with a concentration in Arts Management and Screen/Playwriting from Texas Tech University. He received his M.A. in Speech & Dramatic Arts from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and a B.A. in English & Speech from Texas Wesleyan University. Dr. Edwards has co-authored several original plays, screenplays, and musicals and is also a professional actor
and director. He holds memberships in the Screen Actors’ Guild, Actors’ Equity Association, and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, the unions of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. He made his New York stage debut in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and was the “Sheriff of Lanview” on ABC’s One life to Live. He was principal on-camera spokesperson in national and international commercials for such products as Xerox, Polaroid, A & W Root Beer, Hanes, Coast Soap and Godiva Chocolates. He is also a member of The Society of American Fight Directors and the Dramatists Guild.
His independent film company (Ed-Man Productions) in NY presented projects at the Cannes International Film Festival, and received two Silver Awards for producing two Japanese Music Videos at the Houston International Film & Video Festival
Representative works and awards:
Best Director Award (Hughie, Eugene O’Neill’s last play) Belfast Festival Fringe, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hughie) Belfast Festival Fringe, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Co-author of the screenplay A Circle on the Cross.
Co-producer of the film, A Circle on the Cross.
Co-author of Wordsmith for the Goliard Musical Ensemble, NYC.
Co-author of the musical The Adventures of Maid Marian.
Co-author of the musical A Christmas Dance.
English
EVANS
Research Fields:
Classical Greek and Latin literatures
Medieval literature
Literary theory
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Richard Evans obtained his B.A. in Latin from the University of South Carolina, the M.A. and M. Phil. in Classics from Columbia University and the Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina.
“Greek, Too,” Laetaberis: The Journal of the California Classical Association, New Series No. XIV, 2000-2005.
“Chrysoloras’ Greek: The Pedagogy of Cultural Transformation.” American Classical League Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 2, Winter 2003. On-line posting. Internet. January 2003. http://txclassics.org/greek.htm.
“Greek, Too, A Presentation to the California Classical Association—South.” On-line posting. Internet. February 2002. http://www.txclassics.org/greek.htm.
“Greek, Too: The Recovery of Greek in American Schools,” Classics Technology Center on the Web. On-line posting. Internet. November 2001. http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/evans1.html.
“A Call for Greek in School: Recovery of a Renaissance Tradition,” Texas Classics in Action Winter 2000.
Reprintedin The American Classical League Newsletter, Vol. 22, No.3, Spring 2000.
Reprinted in Athenaze Newsletter, Spring 2000.
National Committee for Latin and Greek, American Classical League. On-line posting. Internet. January 6, 2000. http://www.promotelatin.org.
“Ennius” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin Writers. Ed.Ward Briggs. Vol. 211, 1999.
“Xenophon” in The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Greek Writers. Ed.Ward Briggs. Vol. 176, 1997.
English
FISHKINResearch Fields:
19th Century British Literature
Henry James and Problems Involving the Post Civil War Family
Memory in the Literature of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson
Anglophone Cameroon Literature in the Age of Globalization
Collaborations:
Dr. Festus Ndeh
Department of English
Troy University
Dr. Bill F. Indi
Department of English
Tuskegee University
Dr. A. Ankumah
Benjamin Hart Fishkin Ph.D. Assistant Professor, English
College of Arts and Science
E-mail: fishkinb@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8931
Office Address: Room 70-308
John A. Kenney Hall
Tuskegee University Tuskegee, AL 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Benjamin Hart Fishkin received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in May of 2009. He now teaches at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama. His current research focuses on British Literature in the nineteenth century. Dr. Fishkin is currently exploring memory and the issue of psychological trauma in literature. This topic involves how characters grapple with unpleasant occurrences and what they must do to be free of them.
Representative publications:
The Undependable Bonds of Blood: The Unanticipated Problems of Parenthood in the Novels of Henry James, Saarbrucken, Germany, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011.
Stephen Wilhoit’s A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings: An Anthology, (Book Review) Pearson, 2010.
“Romantic Warrior, by Frank Akenten.“ (Book Review) Artistry Employs, 2009.