Dr. Stacy Erickson-Pesetski has degrees from Ripon College (AB in English and Spanish, summa cum laude) and the University of Iowa (2007, PhD in English, specializing in Early Modern English Literature and book history). 

She joined the Manchester English Department in Fall 2007 and over the years has taught classes including British Literature II: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century, World Literature, South Asian Literature, and Book Culture.  Currently, she teaches Shakespeare, Incarcerated Shakespeare, Topics in Literature: Prison Literature, Introduction to Literature, and First Year Writing Seminar. 

Dr. Erickson-Pesetski has presented and published work on early modern authorship and publishing and received fellowships to the Newberry Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Huntington Library for archival work.

Since 2012, Dr. Erickson-Pesetski has been reading and discussing Shakespeare with incarcerated juveniles and adults in Indiana.  She has led a summer Shakespeare class at Logansport Juvenile Correctional Facility since 2018 and has spent two sabbatical semesters (January/Spring 2015; January/Spring 2023) teaching Shakespeare at Pendleton Correctional Facility, the Allen County Juvenile Center, and in the Allen County Jail Chemical Addiction Program (JCAP).

In addition to her work in the English department, Prof. Erickson-Pesetski has served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs since 2015.  In that role she oversees the First Year Writing Seminar program, serves on the Spartan Success Intervention Team, and implements the MU Academic Integrity Policy.

Outside of Manchester, Stacy is a runner and knitter and has been volunteering at Humane Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, IN since 2017.

Dr. Katharine Ings earned her MA in Medieval and Renaissance literature and her PhD in American literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. She teaches a wide variety of literature classes, including American literature survey classes, World Literature, Literary Passport, Topics in Literature (Gothic lit), and Introduction to Literary Studies.

She also teaches classes on journalism and editing. She has over 25 years’ experience as a copyeditor, having worked both in-house and freelance for W. W. Norton, copy editing various Norton anthologies, composition books, and Norton Critical Editions, including works by William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. As a journalist, she writes about fashion for Selvedge, the London textile and style magazine, which complements her class, “Fashion and Cultural Identity.”

For her publication record in journalism, editorial work, and traditional scholarship, Professor Ings was named Manchester University’s 2015 Scholar of the Year.

Dr. Jonathan Watson, Ph.D. Indiana University (1998), has taught a wide sweep of courses in his twenty-five plus years at Manchester. History of the English Language; British and Irish Literature; Cinema for Social Change; J.R.R. Tolkien; Sherlock Holmes; and Creative Writing are notable favorites. He has also traveled widely with the support of the University: He has participated in an NEH Seminar on “Texts and Manuscripts” at the New British Library in London, where he worked with the Beowulf manuscript; he has traveled on a Ploughshares Grant to Cuba with faculty colleagues; he has been a writer at both the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont and the Squaw Valley Writers’ Community in Northern California.

As a former Fulbrighter to Iceland, Dr. Watson was a longstanding member of the Fulbright Committee at Manchester. Over the span of his MU career, he has also served on the Faculty Executive Committee, the VIA Committee. chaired the Athletics Committee, and directed the Honors Program. A former student-athlete at Vanderbilt University, Prof. Watson has been the Faculty Athletic Representative for MU for more than a decade, voting on NCAA issues at the NCAA National Convention. The highlights are plentiful in the Manchester community: Dr. Watson is a guitarist in the faculty/staff Otho Winger Experience; he has led a Timbercrest book group at the North Manchester Public Library for more than twenty years; he has coached youth soccer, basketball, and baseball.