4 new faculty join the Honors College in the Fall semester of 2009.

Meredith Blue, Instructor of Mathematics: Dr. Blue received her Ph.D. in Math at University of Texas-Austin. She was a visiting instructor at the Honors College in the past, taught at Eckerd College and the University of Texas-Austin, and worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratories, before joining us this Fall.

Carmen Caňete Quesada, Assistant Professor of Spanish. Dr. Canete Quesada received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Vanderbilt University, after receiving her M.A. in Hispanic Literature, University of Florida, and her B.A. at the University of Cordoba in Spain. Dr. Canete Quesada’s research interests embrace issues related to exile, race, and post coloniality in the Hispanic Caribbean and Spain since the Spanish-American War 1895-1898. She is now preparing a manuscript for publication based on the experiences of three Spanish writers – Juan Ramon Jimenez, Maria Zambrano, and Eugenio F. Granell – who took up exile in the Hispanic Caribbean after the Civil War in Spain 1936-1939. Dr. Canete is a member of the Editorial Board of the Afro-Hispanic Review and Voces del Caribe.

Amy Clukey, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature. Dr. Clukey received her Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University, where she also received her M.A.; and received B.A.s in both English and Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Clukey's research focuses on 19th and 20th Century American literature, transatlantic modernism, Irish literature, and theories of regionalism and cosmopolitanism.

Rachel Luria, Visiting Instructor of Writing. Ms. Luria received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina; and M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland; and her B.A. in Psychology from FSU.
She teaches freshman composition and creative writing.