Department of English & Humanities: Faculty


Dr. James Conley – Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; M.A.,Middlebury College, B.A.,Georgetown University. Program Director, Department of English and Humanities. Joined St. Thomas University in 1976.  Specialties: Epic, Drama, Renaissance, Romantic.  jconley@stu.edu 

Prof. Richard Raleigh – M.A., B.A., University of Detroit. Joined St. Thomas University in1966. Specialties: Poetry, News Reporting, Hemingway in Spain.  rraleigh@stu.edu

Dr. Philip Reckford – Ph.D., M.A., University of North Carolina, B.A., Harvard University. Joined St. Thomas University in 1974. Specialties: Novel, Short Story, America: Past and Present.  preckford@stu.edu

 Dr. Rafael Montes – Ph.D.,M.A., University of Miami, B.A., Oberlin College. Joined St. Thomas University in 1999. Specialties: Literary Criticism, Tropics in Literature, American Literature Survey. rmontes@stu.edu 

Dr. Guiyou Huang- Ph.D., Texas A&M University, M.A., Peking University, B.A., Qufu Teachers University. Dean of Biscayne College at St. Thomas University. Joined St. Thomas University in 2005. Specialties: American Literature, World Literary Masterpieces, 

Dr. Kevin Dvorak - Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvannia, M.A., Sonoma State University, B.A., Farleigh Dickinson University. Director of the University Writing Center. Joined St. Thomas in 2007. Specialties: Multigenre Research and Writing, Grammar and Rhetoic, Technical Writing and Editing. kdvorak@stu.edu 

For more information, please contact the Department of English and Humanities at (305) 628-6775.