Dr. Charles Ernst

Professor
Director, Center for Excellence in Learning

Education
BA, Muhlenberg College
MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Department
English
Division of Arts and Letters
Contact
(716) 926-8850
(716) 926-8850
Email Address
cernst@hilbert.edu
Location
Bogel Hall 105A

I have been teaching for several decades, concentrating in literatures both early and recent, along with courses in writing, speech, and general studies. I have held faculty positions at Canisius University and Hilbert College, with short stints earlier in my career with Empire State College, Buffalo State University, and the teaching program at Attica State Prison.

Areas of Expertise

English Renaissance Literature/Shakespeare

Previous work history

Buffalo State University—Adjunct Instructor, EnglishResearch Institute on Alcoholism for the State of New York, Department of Mental Hygiene—Project Coordinator, Assistant Research Scientist

The Consortium (for Attica State Prison)—English faculty substitute

Empire State College—English Tutor

Canisius University—Instructor, Assistant Professor, English

 

Professional Memberships/Board Appointments

  • College English Association, former executive director
  • Medieval Academy of America
  • Modern Language Association
  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • New York College English Association, Executive Board member
  • Professional and Organizational Development Association
  • Renaissance English Text Society
  • Renaissance Society of America

Honors and Distinctions

The President’s Medal (Hilbert College); The Joe D. Thomas CEA Distinguished Service Award; Honorary Life Membership Award (CEA); New York College English Association Award for Scholarship, Teaching, and Service

Online presence or regular media contributions

Facebook website; several YouTube item featuring Dr. Ernst playing piano

Professional Research/Published Works/Presentations

“Night-Sea Journeying:  The Text-World and Life-Text of John Barth.”  Expanded version of

Cithara 43.3 (November, 2004): 45-66, rpt. in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers.  Ed. Rachelle Mucha, Thomas L. Schoenberg, and Lawrence J. Trudeau.  Detroit:  Thomson/Gale, 2006.  118-33.

“‘Murder’ Most Fun at NYCEA Conference:  A Model for Increasing Participation in Regional CEAs.”  The CEA Forum 31.2 (Summer, 2001):  1-6.

“Sir Thomas Overbury.”   British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century.  Ed. Clay-ton D. Lein.  Vol. 151 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London:  Gale Research, 1995.  253-61.

“‘I Am That King’—Disordered History and Delusional Writing:  The Artful Derangements of Gogol’s ‘Diary.’”  Cithara 32.2 (May, 1993):  39-48.

Barnes, Grace M., Ernest L. Abel, and Charles A. S. Ernst, comps.  Alcohol and the Elderly: 

A Comprehensive Bibliography.  Westport, CT, and London:  Greenwood P, 1980.