Between Robert Benchley and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, who is the Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program?
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Robert Benchley Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the "Harvard Lampoon" while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker" and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
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Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez is a Yaqui-Chicana professor, writer, and activist. Her teaching and research focus on Native American culture in addition the popular performance genres of the US-Mexico borderlands.
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Austin Bukenya Austin Bukenya (born 10 February 1944) is a Ugandan poet, playwright, novelist and academic. He is the author of the novel "The People's Bachelor", and a play, "The Bride". He has taught languages, literature and drama at Makerere University in Uganda and universities in the UK, Tanzania and Kenya since the late 1960s. He has also held residences at universities in Rwanda and Germany. Bukenya is also a literary critic, novelist, poet and dramatist. An accomplished stage and screen actor, he was for several years Director of the Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Kenyatta University, Nairobi.
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Robert M. Chesney Robert M. ("Bobby") Chesney is an American lawyer and the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, where he serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and teaches courses relating to U.S. national security and constitutional law.
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Jody Azzouni Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni; born 1954) is an American philosopher, short fiction writer, and poet. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
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David R. Boxley David Robert Boxley (born July 27, 1981), also known as D. Robert Boxley, is an Alaskan artist and totem-pole carver from the Tsimshian community of Metlakatla, Alaska. He is the son of the carver David A. Boxley, his mentor. His mother, Elizabeth, is non-Native, but was adopted into the Tsimshian Laxsgiik (Eagle clan).
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Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an American writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Robert P. Watson Dr. Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, frequent media commentator, and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives.
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Joseph L. McCauley Joseph L. McCauley (born 1943) is Professor of Physics at the University of Houston. He was Lars Onsager's last graduate student.
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Alan Shapiro Alan R. Shapiro (born February 18, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing program at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous poetry books, including "Tantalus in Love", "Song and Dance", and "Dead Alive and Busy".
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Margaret Doody Margaret Anne Doody (born September 21, 1939) is a Canadian author of historical detective fiction and feminist literary critic. She is professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, and helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame, and served as its director from 2001-2007.
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Laurie Ann Guerrero Laurie Ann Guerrero is an award-winning Chicana poet from San Antonio, Texas. She was the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2014-2016 and the Poet Laureate of Texas from 2016-2017. In the fall semester of 2017, she became the first writer-in-residence at Texas A&M University San Antonio and a "fully immersed faculty member. She will teach a contemporary American woman poets course, host numerous University writing workshops and mentor students while working on her next writing project."
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William Divale William Tulio Divale is a professor of anthropology at York College, City University of New York in Jamaica, New York, USA.
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Maria Dahvana Headley Maria Dahvana Headley (born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American novelist, memoirist, editor, and playwright. She is a "New York Times"-bestselling author as well as editor.
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Colum McCann Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world.
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John Irwin (academic) John Thomas Irwin (born April 24, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is an American poet and literary critic. He is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Professor in The Writing Seminars and the English Department at Johns Hopkins University and also a member of MJ12.
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Margaret Ball (writer) Margaret Elizabeth Ball (born November 7, 1947) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels. Under the pseudonym of Catherine Lyndell, she has also written romance. Ball has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. A former Fulbright scholar and UCLA professor, she devotes her time to fabric arts and embeadery. Married with two children, she lives in Austin, Texas.
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Cynthia Hogue Cynthia Hogue (August 26, 1951) is an American poet, translator, critic and professor. She specializes in the study of feminist poetics, and has written in the areas of ecopoetics and the poetics of witness. In 2014 she holds the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University.
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Margaret Rhee Margaret Rhee is a feminist poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy. Her scholarship has been published at "Amerasia Journal", "Information Society", and "Sexuality Research and Social Policy". As a digital activist and new media artist she is co-lead and conceptualist of From the Center a feminist HIV/AIDS digital storytelling education project implemented in the San Francisco Jail. For this project, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Award in Public Service from UC Berkeley and the Yamashita Prize Honorable Mention for young activists by the Center for Social Change. She currently serves on the board of directors for social justice organizations, DataCenter and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
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Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) is a West Indian author and literary scholar. Born in Jamaica, she is a professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. She was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies in 1980.
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Jonathan Tropper Jonathan Tropper (born February 19, 1970) is an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College.