Emeritx Faculty
Mary Rose D'Angelo
Theology
Mary D'Angelo's areas of scholarly endeavor are the origins of Christianity, Judaism in Roman antiquity and Greek and Roman religion, with particular interests in women and gender in ancient religion, and in history of exegesis.
Margaret Doody
English
Margaret Doody, John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature and the first Director of the Ph.D. in Literature Program, is interested in literature of many languages and cultures. Her career is rooted in the study of the eighteenth century; she is the author of many articles on writers including Swift, Sterne and Austen, and of book-length studies of Samuel Richardson and of Frances Burney, as well as The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (Cambridge UP 1985; reissued 2010).
Sonia Gernes
English
While at Notre Dame, Sonia Gernes taught Creative Writing, American Literature and Gender Studies. She has published one novel, The Way to St. Ives, (Scribners, 1982) and five books of poetry: The Mutes of Sleepy Eye (1981), Brief Lives (1982), Women at Forty (1988), A Breeze Called the Fremantle Doctor: Poem/Tales (1998), and What You Hear in the Dark (2006).
Jill Godmilow
Film, Television, and Theatre
As a producer/director, Jill Godmilow has earned a substantial reputation during more than four decades of film- and video-making. Considered one of the primary theoreticians/practitioners in the American non-fiction genre, she has been interviewed in American Film, Afterimage, In These Times, The Independent, History and Theory, and Text Performance Quarterly and featured in international festivals since 1973.
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
Romance Languages and Literatures
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros has specialized in the teaching and research of early modern Spanish literature and culture. Her interest in gender and disability studies culminated in her latest book Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints (Liverpool UP, 2017).
Susan Ohmer
Film, Television, Theatre
Susan Ohmer has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1998 after earning her doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University and serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (1997-1998). As an administrator at Notre Dame, she served as a Provost's Fellow (2007-2009), as Assistant Provost (2009-2010), Interim Director of the Hesburgh Libraries (2010-2011) and from 2011-2013 led Digital ND, a campus-wide initiative to streamline and strengthen digital work at Notre Dame. Her professional service includes serving as a board member and officer of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2003-2006) and as co-editor of the journal The Moving Image (2012-2019). She has also served on the Boards of Directors of the South Bend Museum of Art and of WNIT, the public broadcasting station, where she chaired the Board from 2015-2020.
Kathleen Pyne
Art History
Kathleen Pyne's research on women artists in early 20th-century American modernism culminated in her book, Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (University of California Press, 2007).
Valerie Sayers
English
Valerie Sayers is the author of a collection of stories, The Age of Infidelity, and six novels. Her most recent novel, The Powers, explores baseball, pacifism, and 1941 New York in parallel narratives of prose and photography. Who Do You Love and Brain Fever were both named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year, and a film, "Due East," was based on her novels Due East and How I Got Him Back. All six of her novels have been reprinted in uniform paperback editions from Northwestern University Press. Sayers’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely, in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Commonweal, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Image, Witness, and Prairie Schooner, and have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Her literary prizes include a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes for fiction. She has been honored with the Kaneb, Sheedy, and Joyce Awards for Excellence in Teaching.