Dr. Lynn Morton, English Department Chair, Associate Professor of English

Dr. Lynn Morton earned her PhD in Renaissance and Medieval English Literature in 1994 from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She earned her M.A. in English from the University of Nevada, Reno and her B.A. with a double major in English and History with secondary teacher certification from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.  She was the 2008 recipient of the Joseph W. Grier Distinguished Professor Award and the 2004 recipient of the William S. Lee Distinguished Professor Award at Queens University.

Dr. Morton teaches pre-1660 British Literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Linguistics, Freshman Writing, and in the Core Program in the Liberal Arts.

Contact: Dr. Lynn Morton

Dr. Richard Goode, Humanities Division Chair, Professor of English

Dr. Richard Goode, McMahon Professor of English, received his B.A. in English from Washington & Lee University and his M.A. and PhD in English from the University of Texas. Dr. Goode joined the Queens faculty in 1978 as a Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. 

Dr. Goode also teaches film and television. He has received the Queens Teaching Award, the Grier Professor of the Year Award, the Sears Teacher of the Year Award, and in 1994 was selected as North Carolina Professor of the year by the Carnegie Institute for the Advancement of Learning.

Dr. Goode teaches the Survey of British Literature to 1660, the Seventeenth Century, Shakespeare, Chaucer, History of Film, History of Television, Film Studies, and Introduction to Mass Communications.

Contact: Dr. Richard Goode

Prof. Jane Hadley, Assistant Professor of English

Jane Holder Hadley, Professor of English and Drama and head of the theater program at Queens University of Charlotte has taught courses in multiple aspects of drama and theater and directed and supervised over two hundred plays at Queens and in the Charlotte community sincer her arrival in 1972.

Winner of numerous awards including Outstanding Teacher of the Year, the coveted Grier Award for service to the university and community and yearbook dedication, Professor Hadley was elected Honorary Alumna of Queens in 2003. Acknowledgement of the university’s appreciation of her excellent work is clearly reflected in the construction in 2005 of the Jane and Charles Hadley Theater.

In addition, Professor Hadley has pursued courses of study at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley, Calif., co-sponsored the creation of the Actor’s Contemporary Ensemble, taught at the South Carolina Governor’s School, and worked with noted director Robert Kalfin, in New York City, N.Y.

Together with her husband Charles O. Hadley the documentary production on Appalachia was created titled, “Ray and Rosa Hicks, Last of the Old Time Story Tellers” and was featured numerous times on PBS.

Dr. Michael Kobre, Professor of English

Dr. Michael Kobre joined the Queens faculty in 1989 as a professor of modern literature. He received his B.A. and PhD in English from Ohio University and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from The University of Iowa. Dr. Kobre is the author of Walker Percy’s Voices (University of Georgia Press, 2000) and has published essays, reviews, and fiction in such magazines as The Georgia Review, The New Orleans Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Critique, and West Branch.

Dr. Kobre received The Queens Teaching Award in 1994. In addition to his duties in the English department, he also serves as On-Campus Director of the college’s low-residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. An ardent student of popular culture, he has read more comic books than anyone should.

Dr. Kobre teaches courses in Modern American Literature, Modern English Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Literary Criticism.

Prof. Deborah Campbell, Assistant Professor of English

Professor Deborah Campbell earned an M.A. and B.A. from West Virginia University and has been on the Queens University faculty since 1987. She has presented numerous papers at the Conference for College Composition and Communication, has led study tours to Italy and Alpine Europe, and was the 2002 recipient of the Joseph W. Grier Distinguished Professor Award. 

Professor Campbell teaches Freshman Writing, World Literature, and in the Core Program in the Liberal Arts. 

Prof. Andrea McCrary, Director of Freshman Writing, Assistant Professor of English

Professor Andrea McCrary earned a B.A. in English from Queens College in 1990 and earned an M.A. in English from the University of Tennessee in 1996. She has led numerous study tours for the John Belk International Program, including trips to Great Britain, France, and the Grand Tour of Cities in Europe. Prof. McCrary began teaching at Queens in 1996 and was the recipient of the Joseph Grier Distinguished Professor Award in 2005.

Prof. McCrary teaches Freshman Writing and in the Core Program in the Liberal Arts. 

Prof. Charles Israel, Jr., Instructor

Charles Israel, Jr. joined the Queens faculty in 2000, having taught at Elon College, Western Michigan University, and Kalamazoo College. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. in fiction from  Western Michigan University.

Israel has had poems and short stories published in Nimrod: The International Quarterly, The Quarterly, Red Cedar Review, and Southern Poetry Review and has written book and magazine indexes for National Geographic Magazine.

Mr. Israel teaches Non-Fiction Writing, Creative Writing and in the Core Program in the Liberal Arts.