Undergraduate
- Residential College for Women
- Leadership Gateways
- Adult Degree Program (ADP)
- Majors & Minors
- Senior Projects
Graduate
- Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
- Master of Education (MEd)
- The Master of Letters/Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance (MLitt/MFA)
Five-Year Programs
- BA/Master of Arts in Teaching
- BA/Master of Letters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance (BA/MLitt)
Pre-Professional Programs
Additional Opportunities
Faculty
Susan Green
Dr. Susan Blair Green is professor of English in ADP. She is director of the MBC Charlottesville Regional Center, located at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and teaches and advises for the ADP program. Her original field of specialty is English Renaissance drama, and she teaches ADP courses in Intro to Shakespeare and Tudor Stuart Drama as well as Chaucer and Milton and the Metaphysicals. She is also interested in literature by women and teaches Women and the Novel.
Dr. Green and her husband have made a number of trips through the American West since 1996. As a result of this travel, she has studied the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition and has made a number of presentations on the explorers and their journals during the bicentennial years of the Corps of Discovery, 2003-2006. She and her husband spent a week in Window Rock, Arizona, in June 2006 as part of an MBC multicultural course focusing on the Navajo and the Hopi. As an outgrowth of the reading done for that trip, Dr. Green is planning a sabbatical to continue her reading in literature by and about Native Americans and hopes to generate a new course for ADP in Native American literature.
Sarah Kennedy
Sarah Kennedy holds an MFA from Vermont College and a PhD from Purdue University. She is the author of six books of poems, including Consider the Lilies (David Robert Books 2004), Double Exposure (Cleveland State University Press Open Competition Winner 2003), and Flow Blue (Elixir Press Prize in Poetry Winner 2002). Sarah Kennedy has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a contributing editor for Shenandoah and West Branch.
Molly Petty
Molly Petty directs the MBC Writing Center and teaches composition, short stories, and literature for children and youth. She has an abiding interest in coming-of-age fiction, translated works for children, and folk tales. In addition to teaching class, advising freshmen, working with students who tutor in the Writing Center, and helping out with Miscellany, she enjoys reading her students’ fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults.
Rick Plant
Rick Plant, professor of English, holds degrees from Oklahoma State University and Washington University, St. Louis. Prof. Plant’s research interests are in short fiction, modern American fiction, autobiography, and creative writing. He has published short fiction, personal essays, poems, and reviews in a variety of national magazines and anthologies. His national writing awards include an O. Henry Prize for short fiction, a “Novella Breakthrough” award (with publication by Texas Review Press), and a “Notable Essay” designation in the Best American Essays anthology. His manuscript story collection The Misery of Music was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award (University of Georgia Press) and the Spokane Prize in Fiction (Eastern Washington University Press).
Katherine Turner
Dr. Katherine Turner, assistant professor of English, teaches courses in Composition, and in British Literature. She previously taught at the University of Oxford in England, where she worked within the university as well for a number of American JYA programs (Butler, NCSU, Sarah Lawrence, Williams).
Dr Turner holds several degrees (BA, MPhil and PhD) from the University of Oxford. Her main areas of academic interest are the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and she has worked particularly on travel writing, women’s writing, and eighteenth-century poetry. She is interested in the ways in which literary texts intersect with other cultural forms (like the visual arts and journalism) so as to intervene in issues of public controversy such as poverty, women’s education, marriage and divorce, and the slave trade.
Chief publications: The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited volume of essays, with Francis O’Gorman (Ashgate, 2004); British Travel Writers in Europe 1750–1800: Authorship, Gender and National Identity (Ashgate, 2001); Selected Poems: Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill, William Cowper, ed. with notes and introduction (Penguin, 1998), as well as many articles and reviews on eighteenth-century literature.
Dr Turner is married to a historian, Matthew Poteat, who teaches at CVCC Lynchburg, and they have two children.