About the Faculty and Staff

The faculty of the Department of English and Fine Arts have won almost a dozen teaching awards. They represent a wide range of expertise reflected in their publications and presentations and in the special topics courses and independent studies that they regularly direct. Members of the department have written and published novels, short stories, screenplays, memoirs and poems; produced films on Mexico and Poland; and written scholarly works on Shakespeare, Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Hemingway, Ginsberg, Stella Benson, E.A. Robinson, John Harington, Vietnam literature, Arthurian legend, Porgy and Bess, popular culture, composition theory, artistic genres and the environment.

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Faculty Profile

Col. Gordon Ball

Gordon Ball is an expert on the Beat Generation and Film. He was a close friend of Allen Ginsberg, about whom he has written extensively, and has edited two volumes of Ginsberg's journals, including Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. His book Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published a memoir, 66 Frames, as well as short stories. He is also a celebrated independent film maker and photographer and is adviser to the VMI chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society . He has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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