Affiliated Faculty in Humanities

Name	Title	Address	Phone	E-mail
Trudy Harrington Becker	Senior Instructor	244 Lane	231-6486	thbecker@vt.edu
Elizabeth C. Fine	Professor, Religion and Culture and Communication; Director of Humanities Program	114 Lane	231-9593	bfine@vt.edu
Matthew Gabriele	Assistant Professor; Coordinator of Medieval & Early Modern Studies	342 Lane	231-2293	mgabriele@vt.edu
Neal Kin	Associate Professor (Department of Sociology); Coordinator of Popular Culture	642 Lane	231-8174	Nmking@vt.edu
Phil Olson	Visiting Assistant Professor (Department of Philosophy)	243 Lane	231-6080	prolson@vt.edu
Terry L. Papillon	Associate Professor (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures)	304 Maj Wms	231-8319	terry.papillon@vt.edu
Anita M. Puckett	Associate Professor; Director of Appalachian Studies Program	343 Lane	231-9526	apuckett@vt.edu
Barbara J Reeves	Instructor	331 Lane	231-7687	reeves@vt.edu
C. Janene Roberts	Senior Instructor	353 Lane	231-7004	janene@vt.edu
Michael.B. Saffle	Professor; Coordinator of Humanities and the Arts	243 Lane	231-6080	msaffle@vt.edu
Suchitra Samanta	Instructor	256 Lane	231-7322	ssamanta@vt.edu
Emily Satterwhite	Assistant Professor, Coordinator of American Studies	344 Lane	231-8779	esatter@vt.edu
Peter Schmitthenner	Associate Professor, History and Religion and Culture; Department Chair	111 Lane	231-8377	pschmitt@vt.edu
Joan M. Watson	Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies	154 Lane	231-2897	jmwatson@vt.edu

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Books Published by Faculty

Fine, Elizabeth. Soulstepping: African American Step Shows. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Fine, Elizabeth. The Folklore Text:  From Performance to Print. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Pp. 244.  First Paperback Edition, 1994, and reprint of cloth edition.

Fine, Elizabeth and Speer, Jean Haskell, eds.,Performance, Culture, and Identity. New York: Praeger, 1992.  Pp. 303.

Papillon, Terry L. Isocrates II. University of Texas Press, 2004.

Papillon, Terry L. Rhetorical Studies in the Aristocratea of Demosthenes. Lang Classical Studies, 1998.

Puckett, Anita. Seldom Ask, Never Tell: Labor and Discourse in Appalachia. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Schmitthenner, Peter L. Telugu Resurgence: C.P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth Century South India. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2001.

Saffle, Michael. Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research. revised edition. New York: Routledge, 2004. xv, 520pp. ISBN 0-415-94011-7.

Saffle, Michael. Richard Wagner: A Guide to Research. New York: Routledge. Routledge Music Bibliographies, [no number assigned yet]. In page proofs; scheduled for publication April 2002.

Saffle, Michael and James R. Heintze, eds. Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium. Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 16. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, 2000. xvii, 428pp. ISBN 1-57647-070-9.

Saffle, Michael, Daniel Mosser and Ernest Sullivan, eds. Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks.[Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks held in Roanoke, Virginia].London: British Library; and New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2000. xii, 270pp. ISBN 1-58456-029-0.

Saffle, Michael. Liszt in Germany: 1840-1845: A Study in Sources, Documents, and the History of Reception.Franz Liszt Studies Series, 2. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1994. xiii, 340pp. ISBN 0- 945193-39-4.

Journals Edited By Faculty

Fine, Elizabeth, editor.  Appalachia and the Politics of Culture.  Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association. Vol. 7 (1995).

Fine Elizabeth, editor.  Folklore and Communication, Special Issue of Southern Folklore  49 (January, 1992). 

Papillon, Terry and Andy Becker, eds. Electronic Antiquity.

Saffle, Michael, editor. Journal of the American Liszt Society. Volumes 21-309 (1987-1991).

Saffle, Michael, editor. The Pendragon Review.

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Selected Awards and Fellowships Received by Faculty

Trudy Harrington Becker	Alumni Award in Teaching Excellence, 2007 Inaugural Dr. Carroll B. Shannon Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006 Certificates of Teaching Excellence, 1998 and 2006 Finalist for the Sporn award, 2006 and 2007
Elizabeth Fine	Outstanding Service-Learning Educator Award, 1998-1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1995 The Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, presented by the Speech Communication Association, 1993 Recognitions for The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print: Third Place, Chicago Folklore Prize, 1985; and Choice's An Outstanding Academic Book of 1985 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, 1978-79 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1971
Terry Papillion	Sporn Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Subjects, 2000 Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, 1997 Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, 1995
Michael Saffle	Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies, University of Helsinki, 2000-2001 Certificate of Teaching Excallence, College of Arts and Sciences, 1999 Bellagio Conference Center Award, Rockefeller Foundation, 1981, 1998 Elected Honorary Member, British Liszt Society (London), 1993 Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship, University of Heidelberg, 1993 Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, Budapest, 1989-1990 Humboldt European Fellow, German Historical Institute, London; Fall 1985 Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship, Universities of Frankfurt a.M. and Heidelberg, 1984-1986 American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 1982 DAAD Fellowship, University of Bonn, 1974-1975
Peter Schmitthenner	Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (in India), 2002 American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship, 2001-2002 Outstanding Educator for Excellence in Service Learning Instruction, 1999

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