Penn State Expert Database
Arts & Humanities
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Children's Literature
Film/Video Studies
Literature, African
Literature: British
Literature: U.S.
Literature: U.S. Contemporary
Literature: World
Music: Classical
Music: Instrumental
Music: Jazz/Gospel
Music: Popular
Publishing
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Children's Literature

Daniel Hade Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Education, Currculum & Instruction, College of Education

Expertise

Study of children's literature; how children and teachers interpret literature; the world of children's publishing

Contact Information

Email: ddh2@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-2215

Website: http://www.ed.psu.edu/education/default.asp?which=111

Steven L Herb

Director, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Education/Behavioral Sciences,

Expertise

Books and reading, storytelling, children's literature, family literacy, libraries and new technologies, libraries and literacy learning

Contact Information

Email: slh18@psu.edu

Phone: 814-863-2141

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Film/Video Studies

Kenneth Womack Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, Arts & Humanities, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

19th and 20th century British fiction, Shakespeare, book collecting, film, popular culture, and the Beatles

Contact Information

Email: kaw16@psu.edu

Phone: 814-949-5000

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/kaw16/

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Literature, African

Thomas Hale Ph.D.

Liberal Arts Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature, French, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise

African literature particularly Francophonie and Africa, griots and the African American tradition, and women griots from West Africa

Contact Information

Email: tah@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-1492

Website: http://french.la.psu.edu/people/bios/hale.html

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Literature: British

Peter Dendle Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English, Penn State Mont Alto

Expertise

Early medieval demonology, folklore, and medicine; zombie movies and literature

Contact Information

Email: pjd11@psu.edu

Phone:

Jeanne Krochalis Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise

Medieval manuscripts from Western Europe i.e. Geoffrey Chaucer; literature by and about Chaucer's England; history of the English language; literature of pilgrimage

Contact Information

Email: jek4@psu.edu

Phone: 724-334-6756

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jek4/

Kenneth Womack Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, Arts & Humanities, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

19th and 20th century British fiction, Shakespeare, book collecting, film, popular culture, and the Beatles

Contact Information

Email: kaw16@psu.edu

Phone: 814-949-5000

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/kaw16/

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Literature: U.S.

Richard Kopley Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English,

Expertise

19th Century American literature and authors, particularly Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Contact Information

Email: rxk3@psu.edu

Phone: 814-375-4743

Website: http://www.ds.psu.edu/AcademicAffairs/FacultyInforma...

Sandra Petrulionis Ph.D.

Professor of English and American Studies, Arts & Humanities, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

19th-century American literature and history, especially Henry Thoreau, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott and other women writers, Transcendentalism, the literature of slavery and abolition, and Concord, Mass., history and literature

Contact Information

Email: shp2@psu.edu

Phone: (814) 949-5000

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/shp2/

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Literature: U.S. Contemporary

James Smith Ph.D.

Professor of English and American Studies, English, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise

Modern American literature and popular culture and music, particularly 1950s and 1960s; gambling and society

Contact Information

Email: jfs6@psu.edu

Phone: 215-881-7530

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Literature: World

Thomas Hale Ph.D.

Liberal Arts Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature, French, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise

African literature particularly Francophonie and Africa, griots and the African American tradition, and women griots from West Africa

Contact Information

Email: tah@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-1492

Website: http://french.la.psu.edu/people/bios/hale.html

Jeanne Krochalis Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English, College of Liberal Arts

Expertise

Medieval manuscripts from Western Europe i.e. Geoffrey Chaucer; literature by and about Chaucer's England; history of the English language; literature of pilgrimage

Contact Information

Email: jek4@psu.edu

Phone: 724-334-6756

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jek4/

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Music: Classical

Kim Cook M.M.

Professor of Cello, School of Music, College of Arts & Architecture

Expertise

Cello performance and cello music particularly music of Dvorak, Haydn, Kodaly, Crumb and Hindemith

Contact Information

Email: kdc3@psu.edu

Phone:

Website: http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/cook.html

Michael Broyles Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, School of Music, College of Arts & Architecture

Expertise

American music history and composers; also the classical music era particularly Beethoven

Contact Information

Email: broyles@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-7036

Website: http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/broylesbf.html

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Music: Instrumental

Valerie Stratton Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology, Education, Human Development , & Social Sciences, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

Effect of music on moods and emotions; music imagery; emotional responses to music; role of music in people's lives

Contact Information

Email: vns@psu.edu

Phone: 814 949 5289

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/vns/

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Music: Jazz/Gospel

Jerry Zolten Ph.D.

Associate professor, Communications Arts and Sciences & American studies, Arts & Humanities, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

Blues, gospel and jazz as the cultural roots of American rock 'n roll; a cultural history of American stand-up comedy; African American entertainers

Contact Information

Email: jjz1@psu.edu

Phone: 814-949-5113

Website: http://www.aa.psu.edu/fpages/jjz1/jjz1.htm

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Music: Popular

Richard Aquila Ph.D.

Professor, History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Penn State Erie

Expertise

U.S. social and cultural history, with emphasis on recent pop culture/music i.e. rock and roll; American West and Native American ethnohistory

Contact Information

Email: raquila@psu.edu

Phone: 814-898-6152

Kenneth Womack Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English, Arts & Humanities, Penn State Altoona

Expertise

19th and 20th century British fiction, Shakespeare, book collecting, film, popular culture, and the Beatles

Contact Information

Email: kaw16@psu.edu

Phone: 814-949-5000

Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/kaw16/

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Publishing

Sanford Thatcher Ph.D.

Director, Penn State Press, VP, Research/Dean, Graduate School, Administration

Expertise

Scholarly and academic publishing i.e. copyright issues, university presses and electronic publishing

Contact Information

Email: sgt3@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-1327

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