MALS & MFA Adjunct Faculty:

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a writing instructor and spiritual director living in Minneapolis. She is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate, Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir, and On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness, a collection of personal essays. > More

Kristina Deffenbacher is an associate professor in the department of English, Hamline College of Liberal Arts. > More

John Fenn is a playwright, screenwriter, production stage manager, film and video production manager, teacher and educator whose eighteen plays have had over 400 performances in 16 states. His local productions as resident playwright with the History Theatre routinely played to sold-out audiences. > More

Margot Fortunato Galt grew up a Yankee in South Carolina during the 1950s. Her memoir poetry and prose often return to this period, or to her Italian/American background. She has published seven books, including The Story in History: Writing Your Way into the American Experience (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1993); Up to the Plate: The All American Girls Professional Baseball League (Lerner, 1994); a fine-press chapbook > More

Georgia Greeley is an artist and writer who lives and works in Saint Paul.  She writes poetry and children's literature; she is a book artist who delights in working through each step of the process; conception, design, illustration, printing and binding. A passion for image and word permeates her life. > More

Pamela Carter Joern is the author of two books, The Plain Sense of Things (Bison Books, 2008) and The Floor of the Sky (Bison Books, 2006).  The Plain Sense of Things was a Midwestern Booksellers Association Connections Pick. The Floor of the Sky was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers holiday selection, received an Alex Award and the Nebraska Book Award for fiction. > More

Patricia Kirkpatrick has published a poetry book, Century's Road (Holy Cow! Press), two letterpress chapbooks, Orioles and Learning to Read, and books for young readers, including Plowie: A Story from the Prairie (Harcourt), illustrated by her sister, artist Joey Kirkpatrick. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies What Have You Lost? (Simon and Schuster), The Writing Path (University of Iowa), Minnesota Writes: Poetry (Milkweed), and > More

Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg is professor and chair of the women's studies program, where she also holds the Hamline University Endowed Chair in the Humanities. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, and her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century women's history, literature, and culture; women of the trans-Mississippi West; and nineteenth-century women's rights movements and organizations. > More

Anna Martignacco received a B.A. in English with a Creative Writing minor from St. Cloud State University (1999). She received her MFA from Hamline University (2004). Her thesis Moving Along the Dream Gate earned her the 2004 Outstanding Poetry Thesis award. Since 2002 she has been teaching writing, literature, and communications courses at Minnesota School of Business (MSB) in Richfield where she is a fulltime faculty member. > More

Justin Maxwell is currently a TCG Affiliated Writer and will have several essays appear in the journal American Theatre over the course of the next year. In the past, Justin’s prose has appeared everywhere from Minnesota History, to Rain Taxi review of books, to The Onion. His plays have been performed in both Minneapolis and NYC, > More

Jim Moore is the author of six collections of poetry, including Lightning at Dinner (Graywolf Press, 2005), winner of a Minnesota Book Award; Writing With Tagore Above the Flamina (The Press at Colorado College, 2003); The Long Experience of Love (Milkweed Editions, 1995) and The Freedom of History (Milkweed, 1988), also Minnesota Book Award winners. > More

Su Smallen is the author of Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective, 2004) and Snow (seeking its publisher). Her poems and essays have appeared in Bellingham Review, Bloom, Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, The Normal School, Smartish Pace, three candles, Water~Stone Review, and several anthologies. She received the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize in 2005. > More

Roslye B. Ultan, Art Historian, 20th century, teaches in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Hamline University and the MLS Program at the University of Minnesota. She is an independent curator/scholar and serves as the Artistic Community Advisor for the Nina Bliese Gallery in Minneapolis. Ultan earned undergraduate and graduate degrees > More

Katrina Vandenberg is the author of Atlas: Poems (Milkweed Editions), a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, and with Todd Boss, co- author of the chapbook On Marriage (Red Dragonfly Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Orion, The Iowa  Review, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poets and Writers, > More

Rebecca Weaver received her MFA from Hamline in 2001 and is a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches American Literature and writing. Her dissertation, The Urgency of Community: Early Poetic Communities at The Loft and the Poetics School at Naropa in the 1970s, > More

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Graduate School of Liberal Studies Staff:

Dean
Mary François Rockcastle
651/523-2901
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Assistant Dean
Kelly Krebs
651/523-2902
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Programs Administrator
Christine Rousu
651/523-2465
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Programs Coordinator
Anika Eide
651/523-2476
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Graduate Liberal Studies Office: 651/523-2047
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1500 Engelwood Ave
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