Associate Professor, English
College of Arts and Science
E-mail: xnicholas@mytu.tuskege.edu
Xavier_nicholas@att.net
Office Phone: 334 727 8288
Office Address: 70-300 John A. Kenney Hall
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Xavier Nicholas received his B.A. degree in English from Tuskegee University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the editor of The Poetry of Soul and Woke Up This Mornin’: Poetry of the Blues. His poems have been published in Black World, Callaloo, and Chelsea, as well as other journals. Currently he is working on a biography entitled Ralph Ellison Remembered.
Representative publications:
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Xavier Nicholas, “Robert Hayden: Some Introductory Notes,” in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 301-4.
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Xavier Nicholas, “A Conversation with Reginald McKnight,” in Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2006.
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Xavier Nicholas, “Ralph Ellison Remembered: An Interview with Albert Murray,” in Callaloo, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter 2011.
English
OLSON
Research Fields:
Mary Olson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: mcolson@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8776
Office Address: John A. Kenney Hall
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Mary Olson received her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. Her current research projects focus on grammatical gender studies in Old English and medieval material culture. Her work in text and image theory developed an innovative model for demonstrating the relationship between coded and particularized graphic images.
Representative Publications:
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Fair and Varied Forms: Visual Textuality in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts. Medieval History and Culture 15. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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“Speaking Walls: Ekphrasis in Chaucer’s House of Fame.” Enarratio 14 (2007). 118 – 138 (copyright date 2010)
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“Wielding the Power of Popular Sentiment:: Women’s Agency in courtship and the Love Letters of Anna Todd” Women’s Studies 37.7 (October-November 2008)
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“Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality: The Ellesmere Manuscript.” Chaucer Illustrated: The Canterbury tales in Pictures through Six Centuries. Ed. Joseph Rosenburg. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2003.
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“Is Relevance Relevant? Teaching the Middle Ages at an HBCU.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (Spring 2013).
English
Márquez-Serrano
Research Fields:
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Writing Fiction: Short Stories and Novels
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Spanish as a Foreign Language
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Latin American Literature
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Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar Works
Collaboration:
Department of English
Tuskegee University
Department of English
Tuskegee University
College of Business and
Information Science
Tuskegee University
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Tuskegee University
Carolina Marquez-Serrano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Spanish
Department of English & Foreign Languages
College of Arts and Science
E-mail: marquzc@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-727-8046
Office Address: 70-304 John A. Kenney Hall
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Professor Carolina Marquez-Serrano, received her doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Spanish Language and Literature. She now teaches at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama. She has written several short stories and completed her first novel, “La noche del Jaguar.” Currently, she is working in her second novel, “El libro de las transformaciones.” She has incorporated in her teaching the use of drama and technology to create literary work in English and Spanish. Dr. Marquez has also done extensive translation from Spanish, Portuguese, and German into the English language for different disciplines.
Original Plays:
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"Es su esencia" Bioethics Auditorium Kenney Hall, April 2012 Tuskegee University
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"Zara's Bedtime Stories"Auditorium Kellogg Conference Center, February 2008 Tuskegee University
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"The Next Dream"Auditorium Kellogg Conference Center, February 2006 Tuskegee University
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"A Long Night"Auditorium Kellogg Conference Center, February 2005 Tuskegee University
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