Faculty | Department of English | New Mexico State University

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
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