Donald Samson Professor Samson earned his PhD and MA in Shakespeare at the University of North Carolina, and his BA at Cornell University. His teaching interests include technical writing and editing, and surveys of British and American Literature. Originally from upstate New York, Dr. Samson enjoys travel and fishing. Jeff Saperstein Professor Saperstein has a PhD from the University of New Hampshire, an MA from Northeastern University, and a BA from the State University of New York at Albany. His teaching interests include composition, American literature, Shakespeare, and film.
Student responses to an assigned text become part of the text.
I try to structure my literature classes according to that basic reader response principle. Donald Secreast Professor Secreast's PhD is from the University of Iowa, in Creative Fiction Writing and Modern British Literature, 1914-1945. Many of his stories revolve around a furniture factory in Lenoir, North Carolina. He is currently working with a screenwriter from the North Carolina School of the Arts Film School to turn some of his stories into a film. Warren Self Professor Self earned his BA in English from Virginia Military Institute and his MA in English from the University of Virginia.