Meet Our English Faculty

Dr. Del Doughty, Associate Professor of English, earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Penn State in 1995. His professional interests include writing and information technology, hypertext poetics, haiku, and film.  His first poetry collection, the sound of breathing (Saki Press) won the Virgil Hutton Memorial Haiku Prize in 2000.  He has received grants from the NEH, NEA, Indiana Arts Commission, and Eli Lilly Endowment for both his research and his poetry.   His e-mail address is ddoughty@huntington.edu.

Dr. H. Jack Heller, Assistant Professor of English, received his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in August 1997. His primary research interests include Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, other 16th and 17th century literature, religious studies, and African American literature. He has presented conference papers on these subjects at various regional and national conferences. In 2000, his book on the 17th century dramatist Thomas Middleton was published by the University of Delaware Press (Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton’s City Comedies). He has also written articles for a Bible dictionary and book reviews for various journals. Dr. Heller’s other interests include attending movies and live theater, traveling, canoeing, baking bread, reading (that never gets old), and the music of Bob Dylan. His email address is jheller@huntington.edu.

Dr. W. Todd Martin, Associate Professor of English, earned his Ph.D. from Baylor University in the summer of 1998. His primary area of interest is twentieth century literature, and he dabbles in Science Fiction; he has presented his research at academic conferences and has published articles in Studies in Short Fiction, The Explicator, Renascence, and Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society.  Dr. Martin is also the Director of Off Campus and International Programs at Huntington College and serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board for the Christian Center for Urban Studies, part of the Olive Branch Mission located in Chicago, IL.  He and his family often spend much of their summer vacation in France, and his favorite pastime is reading to his two daughters.  Contact Dr. Martin at tmartin@huntington.edu.

Dr. Linda Urschel,  Professor of English and Department Chair, received her Ph.D. in English from Ball State University. She specializes in developmental writing, and has participated in professional meetings and published several articles. Her hobbies are folklore, oral history, and reading--especially murder mysteries. She's also interested in Huntington County history. Dr. Urschel is very active in her church, Central Christian, where she serves as Elder, teaches the older adult Sunday School class, and sings in the choir. Her family enjoys traveling, especially to historic sites. Her e-mail address is lurschel@huntington.edu.