In addition to their commitment to teaching, our faculty members have national reputations as scholars in their fields of specialization, which include literature, creative writing, rhetoric, and technical and professional communication among others. The English Department atmosphere is friendly and welcoming to students of all levels.
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Name | Title | Areas |
Abbott, Lee K. | Distinguished Visiting Professor |
creative writing; fiction |
Banazek, Kerry | Assistant Professor |
Rhetoric, Writing Studies, Visual Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Design History, and the Philosophy of Media |
Bradburd, Rus | Associate Professor |
Creative Writing; Fiction |
Brown, Marieka | College Associate Professor |
English as a Second Language (ESL) writing |
Burnham, Christopher | Regents Professor retired |
Composition Pedagogy; Rhetorical Theory; Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing Program Administration; Creative Non-fiction; Literature |
Conley, Rose | Assistant Professor |
composition; women writers |
Cull, Ryan |
Associate Professor Undergraduate Studies Director |
American literature; poetry |
Garay, R. Joyce Zamora Lausch | Associate Professor |
Latina/o and African American literature |
Gray, Casey | College Instructor |
creative writing; fiction; composition |
Greenfield, Richard |
Associate Professor Puerto del Sol Director |
creative writing; poetry |
Hastings, Nancy | College Assistant Professor |
business and professional communication; Technical and Scientific Communication |
Lanier, Clint | College Assistant Professor |
Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Technical Communication |
Lawrence, Gina | College Assistant Professor |
Writing Centers, Rhetoric and Composition, Intersectional Feminist Pedagogies, Student Resistance, and Social Justice |
Linkin, Harriet | Distinguished Achievement Professor retired |
British Romantic and Gothic literature; Women Writers; Gender and Language |
Miller-Tomlinson, Tracey | Associate Professor
Graduate Studies Director |
English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Historical Drama |
Murrell, Cindy | College Professor
retired |
Rhetoric and Composition; Science Fiction; Children’s Literature |
Rosenberg, Lauren | Associate Professor
Writing Program Administrator Associate Department Head |
Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Critical and Community Literacy Studies; Writing Program Administration; Feminist Theories and Methodologies; Qualitative Research Methods; Creative Writing |
Rourke, Brian | Associate Professor |
Modern British Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Critical Theory; Socio-Historical Approaches to Culture; Film |
Schirmer, Elizabeth | Associate Professor
Interim Department Head |
Late Medieval and Early Modern English literature |
Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie | Associate Professor |
rhetorical theory; feminist theory; composition theory; pedagogical theory; studies in subjectivity, performativity, and emotion |
Stagliano, Anthony | Assistant Professor Creative Research Center Director |
rhetorical theory; media theory; theory and philosophy of technology; film; critical making
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Stolte, Tyson |
Associate Professor | Victorian literature and culture; 19th Century psychology; history of science/science and literature; history of the novel |
Thatcher, Barry | Professor | technical and professional communication; Spanish-English writing; border rhetorics; ESL writing |
Tremblay, Jean-Thomas | Assistant Professor | 20th- and 21st-century North American fiction, nonfiction, poetry, film, and television; autobiography; the avant-gardes; minoritarian aesthetics; feminist, queer, and trans politics, theory, and aesthetics; embodiment; ecology and the environment; and French continental philosophy. |
Voisine, Connie | Associate Professor La Sociedad/Writers in the Schools (WITS) Director Director of the Creative Writing Program |
creative writing; poetry; form and technique of poetry |
Wells, Justine | Assistant Professor
Internship Program Coordinator |
affect theory; (new) materialism; histories of rhetoric, philosophy, and ethics |
Wojahn, Patricia | Professor Borderlands Writing Project Director |
technical, scientific, and professional communication; technology and communication; document planning and testing; usability; small group communication and collaboration; writing in the disciplines |