Category: Alumnus

Professor

English

Associate in Arts Program

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

David Teague holds a B.A. in English Literature from Hendrix College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia.  Dr. Teague teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Delaware Associate in Arts Program.  His critical publications include The Southwest in American Literature:  The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic, The Secret Life of John C. Van Dyke:  Correspondence, 1890-1932, and The Nature of Cities.  His picture books and novels include Franklin’s Big Dreams, Saving Lucas Biggs, Billy Hightower, Connect The Stars, Henry Cicada’s Extraordinary Elktonium Escapade, and How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe and Put It Back Together Again.  His forthcoming novel is The Ballad of Phoebe Gray.

Dr. Teague is a longtime member of the MALS faculty, specializing in research methods and memoir.  He is currently UD Community Engagement Fellow, a member of the board of the Delaware Humanities Forum, and a member of the Just Write!  initiative, a creative writing program for underserved children in Wilmington.

Adjunct Faculty

Political Science & International Relations

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

John Allen Quintus was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Arlington, Virginia.  He is an Honors graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.  He received masters degrees from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.

Mr. Quintus entered the Foreign Service in 1980 after having taught at George Mason University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Delaware.  He was posted to Canberra, Bonn, Port Louis, Toronto, Yerevan, Belgrade, Leipzig, and Vienna.  He was instrumental in creating the German-American Dialogue Center in Magdeburg, and founded the Vienna Initiative for Central Asia, an Austro-American training program for city managers from Central Asia.  During his career in the Foreign Service, Mr. Quintus earned a Superior Performance Award, three Meritorious Honor Awards, and a Career Achievement Award.  He speaks German, French, and Russian.

Mr. Quintus has published articles on British and American literature, U.S. Naval history, American and British history, and education. He has taught at the University of Delaware and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute after retiring from the State Department in 2005.  Mr. Quintus serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the University of Delaware Library Associates and also served as President of the Delaware chapter of the English Speaking Union.

Professor Emeritus

Music History and Literature

University of Delaware

Biography

In 1991, 1997 and 2000 Larry W. Peterson was cited in three national publications for outstanding uses of technology in creative work and teaching. He is also the recipient of the 1991 Masters of Innovation Award, second place, Zenith Data Systems, and in 1987 the National Endowment for the Humanities funded his “Music and Technology” seminar at Dartmouth College. 

Dr. Peterson has been a visiting scholar at University of Georgia, Appalachian State University and Lancaster University in Great Britain. In 1986 Dr. Peterson’s team won national awards for the University of Delaware’s Music Videodisc Series, including a Gold CINDY Award from Association of Visual Communicators, and a University of Nebraska Merit Award. The series was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Dr. Peterson’s work is published by The American Institute of Musicology, The Journal of Bisexuality, Messiaen’s Language of Mystical Love, The Journal of the Music Library Association, Musicus: Computer Applications in Music Education, The Choral Journal, MusDisc, Institute for Academic Technology, Institute for Academic Technology Briefings, ATMI Newsletter, NATS Bulletin (Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing), Music Educators National Conference, and Opera Index Series. His multimedia programs to teach opera were shown on television twice. Dr. Peterson was selected a Woodrow Wilson Scholar in 1971 and was the faculty head of the Sexuality-Gender Program until his retirement. In retirement, Dr. Peterson continues to teach an opera course (MUSC103 or 104, SGST/WOMS 208 (Current Issues in Sexuality-Gender) or SGST/WOMS 301 (Gay-Lesbian Film) in addition to MALS.

Adjunct Professor

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

persoleo@udel.edu

Biography

Paula Persoleo is a multi-genre writer and composition instructor. Her work has appeared in local (Philadelphia Stories), international (The Wild Word, Into the Void), and scholarly (Tulane Review, Mantis) publications. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Beltway Poetry in 2018. She has an M.F.A. with an emphasis on poetry from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in English Literature from Pittsburg State University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Washington College. She’s taught English composition since 2002 and has been teaching at UD since 2014. She also created three Honors E110 courses: Magical Realism and its Relationship to the Marginalized; Adult Themes in Young Adult Literature; and Patriotism, Propaganda, and Poetic Rhetoric.

Associate Professor

English

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

​Bernard McKenna is the recipient of the University’s “Excellence in Teaching Award” and the “Exemplary use of Technology in Teaching Award.”  He has refereed articles for The Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/Modernity, The Philological Quarterly, and other scholarly publications; evaluated manuscripts for the University Press; and served as an external reviewer for tenure candidates at other institutions.  He has taught graduate courses and served on Ph.D. exam and dissertation committees at the University of Delaware, Temple University, and Drew University.  He has also volunteered for the Employer Support for the Guards and Reserves, giving deployment and USERRA briefings at the Dover AFB, the Delaware Joint Armed Forces Reserve Center, the Army Reserve Centers in Newark and Dover, and at the Marine Corps Training Center in New Castle.  He has worked as a consultant for the Peabody Heights Brewery in Baltimore and for Sagamore Development Corporation in Port Covington.  He founded the SABR Baltimore chapter, serving as its first chair and later as secretary.

Dr. McKenna has teaching interests in fantasy fiction, World War I, and Irish studies.

Associate Professor

Art History and Africana Studies

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

​Julie L. McGee, an art historian with specialties in African American art and contemporary African art, has published widely on contemporary African American art and South African art, with particular focus on artist and museum praxis. She joined the University Museums of the University of Delaware as curator of African American art in 2008 after a dozen years on the faculty of Bowdoin College and a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. McGee has written and lectured extensively on African American art and contemporary art in South Africa. She has curated exhibitions for the David C. Driskell Center, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and Guga S’Thebe Community Arts Centre in Langa (Cape Town), South Africa. With Vuyile C. Voyiya, McGee co-produced the documentary film The Luggage is Still Labeled: Blackness in South African Art. In 2011-2012 she held the Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis.

Assistant Professor

English

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

Meg McGuire teaches courses in technical and professional communication, including business and technical writing, environmental communication, and online representation. Her research interests include the significance of public discourse in social media and how it impacts the commemoration and curation of information in large-scale events, as well as how technology and new media affects technical and professional communication.

Degrees 

• Ph.D., Rhetoric and Professional Communication, New Mexico State University, 2013
• M.A., Scientific and Technical Communication, Bowling Green State University, 2005
• B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, New Mexico State University, 2001

Adjunct Professor

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

maynard@udel.edu

Biography

W. Barksdale Maynard has been a lecturer in art and architectural history at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University, at University of Delaware, and at Delaware College of Art and Design.  He holds a BA from Princeton and a PhD in Art History from UD. He is the author of eight books and more than 100 articles in 27 magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post and the New York Times.  His latest book is Artists of Wyeth Country: Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth, which combines art history with detailed exploration of the historic landscapes of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He has been a studio artist and illustrator since 1998.

Associate Professor

Sociology

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Biography

Chrysanthi Leon (B.A. Yale; J.D. and Ph.D., University of California, Berkley) focuses her work on sex crimes and punishments, criminal court reform and corrections, and the sociology of law. Her research also involves alternatives to imprisonment, problem-solving courts and the relationship between punishment and society.  She is the author of the book, Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work.  Dr. Leon has received several university-wide awards for student advising and mentoring. She holds secondary appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Legal Studies.