Necrology: Deceased Faculty, Full-Time and Emeritus

Joseph S. G. Bolton, Ph.D., Yale—Milton—Author of “The Authentic Text of Titus Andronicus” and “A Plea for Three Rejected Shakespearian Lines”; Editor of Melanthe: A Latin Pastoral of the Early Seventeenth Century; Co-Editor of Progressive Readings in Prose.

Frederick O. Bissell, Ph.D., Cornell—Eighteenth Century—Author of Fielding’s Theory of the Novel.

William A. Fahey, Ph.D., N.Y.U.—Modern Poetry and Prose, especially Anglo-Irish Literature__Author of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, Fruit and Vegetable Suite, Body Parts, “Joyce’s ‘The Sisters,’” and “The Early Poems of Yeats”; Editor of West Hills Review.

Jane Knox Fenyo, Ph.D., CUNY—Business Writing—Editor of Journal of American Marketing Research; Co-Editor of Strategic Design of Store Interiors.

Richard Griffith, Ph.D., Ohio State—Medieval; Linguistics—Author of “Bertilak’s Lady: The French Background of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Authorship Question Reconsidered: A Case for Sir Thomas Malory of Papworth St. Agnes, Cambridgeshire,” and “The Early Years of William Caxton.”

Herbert L. Kleinfield, Ph.D., Harvard—American Civilization—General Editor of The Complete Works of Washington Irving (thirty volumes).

Fei-pei Liu, Ph.D., —Victorian.

Ruth Norton, a.b.d. Yale—American Literature.

Winthrop Palmer, Litt.D., (Hon.) Long Island University—Creative Writing, Modern Literature—Author of Theatrical Dancing in America; Author of The Other Side of the Picture and other poetry; Author of the plays American, The Man from Midian for Two Pianos, Miracle of Theopolis, and An Officer and a Gentleman; Author of “Who Were the Normans?” and other articles; Editor of the Journal Confrontation.

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Sally Ronsheim Ph.D., NYU,—Grammar and Linguistics—Co-Author of Grammatical Terminology; Co-Editor of A Literary Look at the Empire State.

Samuel C. V. Stetner, Ph.D., Columbia—Shakespeare; The Bible—Author of “Baptista and His Daughters”; Co-Author of “Regan’s Profession”; Author of such plays produced off off Broadway as “A Matter of Time,” “Prometheus 63,” and “That Damned Wingèd Chariot.”

Grace Volick, M.Phil., Columbia—Creative Writing; Contemporary Literature—Author of poetry in The Chicago Review and The Antioch Review.

Necrology: Deceased Long-Term Part-Time Faculty

Glennette Altman, M.A.: Died 01 September 2005; Loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother; Survived by daughter Tracy Altman Warner, son-in-law Greg Warner, grand daughters Haley, Amanda, and Brooke Warner, and step-daughters Virginia Aaron and Patricia Falkenberg; Loved poetry, classics and philosophy; Taught English for some time and subsequently ran a family jewelry business, M.B. Altman Sons.

Abraham Blinderman, Ph.D.,—Author of Three Early Champions of Education: Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, and Noah Webster and American Writers on Education after 1865; Author of “Medieval Correspondence Education: The Responsa of the Gaonate,” “Medical Advertisements: Rhetoric in American Newspapers 1861-1865,” “Andrew Jackson: The President Who Would Not Die Conveniently,” “Shamanistic Chants and Modern Poetry,” “Congressional Social Darwinism and the American Indian,” “A Book Collector Reminisces,” and other articles; Editor of The Critics on Upton Sinclair.

Joseph A. Cosenza, Ph.D., St. John's —American Literature—Author of “Giles Goat-Boy and Zeno’s Paradox,” “Reader Baiting in Gravity’s Rainbow,” and “Murdoch’s The Unicorn”; Has presented convention papers on “The Logic of Illogicality: John Barth’s The Floating Opera” and “The Paradox of Salvation in Giles Goat-Boy.”

David Pettys—Creative Writing—Author of “Kite,” “Spaces (for Samuel Beckett)” and other creative writing, much of it concrete poetry; died 20 May 2006.

Lillian Scheman, Ph.D., NYU—Renaissance, Composition—Co-Author of Blueprint for Essay Writing and a Glossary of Usage; Author of “The Elizabethan Amorous Epillion.”