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Department Chair

Kate Parker  Kate Parker saysMeet with me  Office hours

Associate Department Chair

Bryan Kopp  Office hours

Academic Department Associate

First-Year Writing Program Coordinator

Darci Thoune  Darci Thoune saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.

Faculty

Judi Becker  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Composition, education, and TESOL. 

MS Education; MS TESOL 

Bradley Butterfield  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Western Literature from Enlightenment to Postmodern; Critical Theory; The Novel; Classic and Foreign Cinema

Matthew Cashion  Matthew Cashion saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Creative Writing

Susan Crutchfield  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Film Studies and Film Theory; Literature by Women; African American Literature; Drama; Disability Studies; The Woman's Film and Feminist Film Theory

Kimberly Defazio  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, Materialism, Posthumanism, Critical and Cultural Theory, and the City

Rebekah Fowler  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Medieval Literature, Arthurian Literature and Lore, Medievalisms, History of the English Language, Early Modern Literature, Ethics and Emotions; Contemplative Practices and Compassion in Higher Education

Ryan Friesen

Specialty areas:

College composition, Early Modern literature, comic books as social commentary, supernatural themes in literature, dreams as literary and cultural themes. 

Merideth Garcia  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Digital Literacies, Fan Studies, English Teaching Methods, Young Adult Literature, Qualitative Research, Rhetoric & Composition

Karen Hart  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Fairy Tales, College Writing, Storytelling, Trickster Literature, Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Literature, German Literature, Improvisation in the College Classroom, Theory of Abjection and Eco-Criticism, Literary History of Psychological Discourses, Online Teaching

Sara Heaser  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Writing Center Director

Thomas Jesse  Office hours

Specialty areas:

20 & 21c American Literature, Secondary English Education, Poetry and Poetics, Rhetorical Approaches to Literature

Bryan Kopp  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric & writing studies; professional & technical communication; writing pedagogy; science of learning; teaching & learning with artificial intelligence (AI)

Haixia Lan  Haixia Lan saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric and Composition

Comparative Rhetoric

Meagan Madigan  Office hours

Specialty areas:

College Writing 110

Stephen Mann  Office hours

Specialty areas:

sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; American English dialects; language, gender, & sexuality; language attitudes & ideologies; folk dialectology

Shannon McClellan Brooks  Shannon McClellan Brooks saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric and writing studies; first-year writing; translingualism; language socialization; writing technologies and writing with technology; literacy studies & writing pedagogy; auto/ethnographic, multisensory, and archival linguistic & writing research methods

Christopher Mccracken  Christopher Mccracken saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric of Science; Writing in the Disciplines; Genre Studies; Professional & Technical Writing

Jennifer Mohlenhoff-Baggett  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Composition, dystopian literature, women writers, comparative literature, literature from Latin America and Argentina's Dirty War (1976-1983), creative/satiric writing

Kate Parker  Kate Parker saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Literary and cultural studies with specialization in early modern and eighteenth-century texts

 

Luke Schaaf  Luke Schaaf saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetoric & Composition, American Literature, Mythology

Lindsay Steiner  Lindsay Steiner saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Professional & Technical Writing, Content Writing, UX Writing, Usability & User Experience, Social Media Writing, Visual Rhetoric & Document Design, AI & Writing, Writing Technologies, Grant Writing, Qualitative Research, Community Engagement Projects, Internships, Career Readiness, Instructional Design, and Collaborative Learning.

William Stobb  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Creative Writing

Olivia Stoltman  Olivia Stoltman saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

First Year Writing, Literature

Kelly Sultzbach  Office hours

Specialty areas:

20th Century British & American Literature, Environmental Literature, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Climate Literature, Questions of Place and Identity, Law and Literature

Darci Thoune  Darci Thoune saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Fat Studies.

Robert Wilkie  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Digital and Visual Cultural Theory; Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology; Contemporary Literature and Film.

Louise Zamparutti  Louise Zamparutti saysMeet with me  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Memorials, monuments, borderland identity, Italy & ex-Yugoslavia in World War II.

Lei Zhang  Office hours

Specialty areas:

Rhetorical and Discourse Analysis, Comparative Rhetoric, Journalism, New Media Studies, 

 

 

Emeriti Faculty