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<p>One of my proudest achievements at WKU came about after Walker Rutledge, John Spurlock, Russell Moore, and Wanda Gatlin invited me to join them in a protest movement. We called ourselves SAPS (Save Assistant Professors' Salaries.) At the time individual salaries were a private matter, but because of the Freedom of Information Act, we were able to procure from the state a print-out of the monthly pay checks for faculty and staff. We then calculated the annual salary of each faculty member along with her academic degree and years of teaching experience and published the results. In many cases there was no acceptable explanation for wide salary differences for individuals in the same department with similar degrees and years of employment. This action caused a seismic shift at WKU, and today salaries are kept on file in the University Library. Another high point occurred as more adult women began to appear in my classes, and it became clear that they had profound needs that were not being met. So in 1988 a few of us gathered around my kitchen table and decided to start our own support group. We called ourselves WIT, Women in Transition, and then mailed surveys to over 5,000 adult women students asking them to indicate their unmet needs. With this information in hand, we set up appropriate support services and got permission to use a meeting room in Garrett Conference Center. The WIT women became my heroes and friends. After I retired, Karen Westbrooks and I co-edited a collection and analysis of life histories of eleven WIT women. They taught me what it meant to struggle and prevail. WIT is still alive and well on the South Campus. </p>
<p>My interest in research began in graduate school. I was still a Catholic nun and preparing for my final PhD exams, when my major professor said, "Why don't you leave that community you're in and join the community of scholars." That was it for me. Along with Bob I was hired as a research assistant by the University of Iowa's English department. We soon married and never looked back. We are most proud of our work as editors of THE LETTERS OF CHARLES O'CONOR OF BELANAGARE (1710-1791.) O'Conor was one of 18th-century Ireland's greatest scholars. He corresponded with the important intellectual and cultural figures of his day and collected, preserved and had translated the ancient Irish manuscripts that were in danger of being lost. I am also proud that Professor Henry Louis Gates asked to include my essay "LINDEN HILLS: A Modern INFERNO" in GLORIA NAYLOR: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES PAST AND PRESENT, which is part of the Amistad Literary Series.</p>
<p>I loved my years at WKU and cherish the friendships I have made here. More recently my days are spent caring for Bob, who has limited mobility and dementia following a series of strokes. Luckily I have the help of an excellent home health aide, Donna Uhden. Donna and Bob go out to lunch five days a week and are happy to have discovered a watering hole frequented by ex-English majors where Bob enjoys recalling old times at WKU.</p>
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Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Hoyt Bowen, In Memoriam 1920 - 2011
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Lou-Ann Crouther
- Associate Professor
- Email: lou-ann.crouther@wku.edu
Dr. Nancy Davis, In Memoriam 1934 - 2008
- Professor of English, Emerita
Dr. Ronald Eckard
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: ronald.eckard@wku.edu
Keith Epley
- Instructor
- Email: keith.epley@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 132
- Phone Number: 270-745-3043
Ann Fields
- Assistant Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: ahfields@bellsouth.net
Dr. James S. Flynn, In Memoriam 1944 - 2014
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Joe Glaser
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: joe.glaser@wku.edu
- Phone Number: 270-745-5763
Dr. Katherine Green
- Professor and Advisor
- Email: katherine.green@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 135C
- Phone Number: 270-745-3045
Dr. John Hagaman
- Professor/Transitional Retirement
- Email: john.hagaman@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 3a
- Phone Number: 270-745-3043
Dr. James Heldman, In Memoriam 1930 - 2015
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Ward Hellstrom, In Memoriam 1930 - 2012
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Wanella Huddleston
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: wanella.huddleston@wku.edu
Anna-Jo Johnson
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: josyd@bellsouth.net
Pauline Jones, In Memoriam 1938 - 2013
- Assistant Professor of English, Emerita
Edna Laman
- Assistant Professor of English, Emerita
Dr. Lee Little
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: lee.little@twc.com
Dr. Brenda S. Martin
- Associate Professor of English, Emerita
Mary Ellen Miller, In Memoriam 1935 - 2018
- Professor/Transitional Retirement and WKU Poet Laureate
- Email: mary.miller@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 130
- Phone Number: 270-745-5721
- Curriculum Vitae: Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Joseph Millichap
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: joseph.millichap@wku.edu
Russell Moore
- Assistant Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: russell.moore@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 3c
- Phone Number: 270-745-3043
Dr. Charmaine Mosby, In Memoriam 1940 - 2014
- Professor of English, Emerita
Dr. Loretta Murrey
- Professor/Transitional Retirement
- Email: loretta.murrey@wku.edu
- Office: Glasgow 218
- Phone Number: 270-659-6938
Gretchen Niva
- Associate Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: qniva1170@gmail.com
Dr. Elizabeth Oakes, In Memoriam 1943 - 2017
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: elizabeth.oakes@wku.edu
John Reiss
- Assistant Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: jh.reiss@wku.edu
- Office: Cherry Hall 7d
- Phone Number: 270-745-3043
Dr. Nancy Roberts
- Associate Professor of English, Emerita
Dr. Karen Schneider
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: karen.schneider@wku.edu
Janet Schwarzkopf
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: jschwarz132@yahoo.com
Dr. John Spurlock
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Frank Steele
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: frank1349@bellsouth.net
Dr. Joe Survant
- Professor of English, Emeritus
- Email: joe.survant@wku.edu
Dr. Catherine Ward
- Professor of English, Emerita
- Email: wardkatie33@hotmail.com
Dr. Robert Ward, In Memoriam 1927 - 2016
- Professor of English, Emeritus
Dr. Willson Wood, In Memoriam 1908 - 2006
- Professor of English, Emeritus
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