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Message from Michael S. Brogan, DPT, PhD
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
With the start of each new academic year, I always take pride in reflecting on and celebrating all that we have accomplished as a community of scholars. At the heart of ˿Ƶ is an outstanding professoriate that consistently engages in innovative research, high-quality scholarship, and meaningful service, while maintaining a standard of excellence in the classroom that we can all be proud of. As Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, I invite you to join me in recognizing the exceptional efforts of our faculty during the 2023–2024 academic year. This brochure provides a snapshot of how our dedicated colleagues enrich their respective disciplines while advancing the mission and values of ˿Ƶ.
Dr. Nancy Marck Cantwell, professor of English, was named Outstanding Faculty Member at President Olson’s State of the University address in 2024. Since joining the faculty in 1996, Marck has taught a broad range of topics in composition and literature, including classes focusing on major authors Dickens and Austen, the Gothic, Shakespeare, film, literary theory, and Native American and women’s studies. Since 2003, she has led the Literature of London course, which includes a spring break study abroad experience. She also developed the ˿Ƶ Honors Program and served as its founding director. Dr. Marck chaired the English Department for two terms and has served on nearly every faculty committee, including Faculty Travel and Research, as well as Faculty Senate and EPC. She has also served on committees for the First-Year Experience, Medical Humanities, and Strategic Plan, as well as on the General Education Advisory Committee and Writing Advisory Council.
Dr. Marck’s expertise is in British literature, and her special interest is in the work of nineteenth-century women writers. She has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters and delivered many conference presentations, including as a plenary speaker for the 2019 Féile Fidelma conference on Irish detective fiction in Cashel, Ireland. Most of her scholarship centers on British women writers’ representations of cultural and political contexts. Her most recent article, “‘Gaunt as Wolves and Mad for Prey’: Hunger, Hospitality, and the Irish Laborer in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South” (in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature) employs Derrida's ideas about hospitality to disclose the novel's critique of Famine immigration. Two recent book chapters address New Woman ideology in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (in Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, 2023) and commemorative acts in Hamlet and Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet (in The Palgrave Guide to the Ghost Story, in press). Dr. Marck is presently working on a critical edition of Anglo-Irish writer Emily Lawless’s 1892 novel Grania and on a book-length study, Reproducing Nation: Women of Color in the Nineteenth Century Novel. She is a graduate of the University of Maine (B.A. in English) and the University of Illinois (M.A. and Ph.D. in English).