Janis Haswell is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses in modern and contemporary British literature for the English department and composition in the university’s First-Year Program and Honors Program. She has published seven monographs and some thirty-five articles and book chapters in both literature and composition. She received numerous college and university teaching awards, and was recognized by the A&M System for teaching excellence. She was also a faculty fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She and her husband, Richard, share seven children and twelve grandchildren.