The Department of English

Margaret Duncan, Ph.D. in English, Howard University.

Professor of Shakespeare, Functional Grammar, Romantic and Victorian literature, Literary Genres and the Senior Seminar in English.

Dr. Duncan has been the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Andrew Mellon, Jessie Ball DuPont Humanities Excellence Teaching Award and the B-CC Teacher-of-the-Year Award. She is also listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers.

Phone # (386) 481-2723

E-mail: duncanm@cookman.edu

Edmondson O. Asgill, Ph.D., University of South Florida and M.A. in African Literature from the University of Ghana.

Professor of literature, including Black-American and contemporary literature, Advanced Composition and Technical Communication.

Dr. Asgill has been a recipient of the School of Arts & Humanities Excellence-in-teaching Award, an NEH grant, and a participant in Caribbean Writers’ and Technical Communication workshops. Publications include areas of composition, literature and social & political issues of Africa.

Phone# (386) 481-2729

E-mail: asgill@cookman.edu

Lois Fennelly, Ph.D. , Professor of English and Reading, was educated in the public schools of New York; the University of Miami, Ph. D. (in reading and related learning disabilities); Arizona State University, M. A. (in English); and Queens College of the University of the City of New York, B. A. (in English); and Cambridge University, Great Britain, Shakespearean Studies, Summer 1999; and Seminar in American Studies as a Salzburg Fellow, Austria, April 2003. Since arriving at Bethune-Cookman College in l967, Dr. Fennelly has served as Dean of the School of General Studies(1990-2006); the founder, editor, and current sponsor of the literary magazine--Pure Pleasure with Poetry and Prose; and English Area Advisor and Director of Freshman English (1971-72. 1976-77,1987-1990). Among her honors are the 1979 Student Government Association Award for Teacher of the Year, the 1980 Faculty Award for Teacher of the Year, and the 2005 Freshman Year Experience National Advocacy Award. A selection of her publications includes I Leave You Love: The Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune (a drama which has been well received in various venues), Renewing Ethical Values in the College Community (a textbook/syllabus published biannually for use in Freshman Seminar 110); Effects of Composition Strategies upon the Response of College Students to a Short Story [Alice Walker's "Roselily") (June 1990 Doctoral Dissertation); Ambiguity of Innocence in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" (1963 Master's Thesis); and poetry readings--most notably "Transfiguring Wives," "Remembering Street People," and "Soft Wings."

Phone# (386) 481-2303

E-mail: fennelll@cookman.edu

Warren Ashby, Ph.D., University of Miami and M.A. in Germanic Language and Literature from George Washington University.

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages (French, German, and Spanish) and English (Advanced English Composition and Survey of English Literature since the Renaissance)

Dr. Ashby is Coordinator of Alpha Mu Gamma, the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honorary Society.

Dr. Ashby has held several teaching fellowships in German and English and was a Dana Fellow at Dartmouth College. At present, he is Editor of the Undergraduate Research Journal.

Phone# (386) 481-2734

E-mail: ashbyw@cookman.edu

Mary Corliss, M.A. in English, Florida State University and M.A. in Teaching with emphasis in literature from Stetson University.

Mrs. Corliss teaches Advanced Composition and African-American Literature in the Freshman Global Studies Program.

Mrs. Corliss has co-produced a video documentary, Zora Neale Hurston: Church, Community, and Culture along with a companion teaching booklet. She also co-authored a booklet, Freemanville, a small community in Volusia County that was settled by former slaves after the Civil War. She is a recipient of B-CC Research and George Washington Research Awards.

Phone# (386) 481-2362

E-mail: corlissm@cookman.edu