Faculty: Emeritus

Catherine Blecki 
Emeritus Professor | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 
Interests: 16th & 17th Century English Literature 
(760) 603-8930 
cblecki@pacbell.net

Jack Haeger
Emeritus Professor
jhhaeger@yahoo.com

Allison Heisch
Professor Emeritus | Ph.D. Harvard, 1977 
Allison.Heisch@sjsu.edu
Interests: Renaissance Literature; Historiography; Critical Thinking & Writing; Interdisciplinary Arts & Humanities

Scott Hymas
Emeritus Professor
sshymas@hotmail.com

Don Keesey
Emeritus Professor
dkeesey@email.sjsu.edu

Arlene Okerlund
Emeritus Professor | Ph.D. University of California San Diego, 1969
Interests: English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Spenser; Marlowe
Arlene.Okerlund@sjsu.edu

John Pollock
Emeritus Professor | Ph.D. University of California Davis, 1971
Interests: 17th-Century British Literature; Poetry
debonairdude45@yahoo.com
Read "SJSU Says Farewell to John Pollock" by Amy Cravey (Fall 2007 Newsletter) (PDF)

Gabriele Rico
Emeritus Professor | Ph.D. Stanford, 1976
Interests: Rhetoric & Composition; Creative Arts.
g_rico@comcast.net
larico@rcn.com

Dr. Gabriele Rico has been named as the Advisory Board Member of two startup companies in Silicon Valley having to do with writing: www.drumtable.com and www.newmoon.com. She is close to finishing three projects: a book on Ekphrasis, Word and Image: Pictures Speak, Poems See; two books of contemporary translations of poems dealing with angels, one from German to English, to be published in the U.S.; the other from English to German, to be published in Germany. And Root Hunger: A Child's Vision of War, a creative nonfiction memoir. In December she was the Keynoter of a Creativity Conference in Osaka, Japan. In March she keynoted a Public Relations conference in Hershey, PA, having to do with brain research and creativity.