Duties:

• Serves as assistant to Chair and Associate Chair
• Schedules and maintains English courses
• Maintains department website
• Tracks departmental budget and expenses
• Assigns departmental advisors
• Manages and maintains social media platforms
• Hires and supervises student workers 

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Poetry, Comparative Literature

Classes Taught:

• ENG 405/605 Creative Writing
• ENG 305/505 Creative Writing: Poetry I
• ENG 218 Intro to Multi-Ethnic Literature
• ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
• ENG 168 Multi-Ethnic Literature (Quest I)
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Memoir, Women’s Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 308/508 Autobiography: Theory & Practice
• ENG 281 Intro to English Studies
• ENG 226 Modern American Literature
• ENG 224 Women in Literature
• ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Film Studies, Modern American Literature

Classes Taught:

• ENG 381/581 Foundations of Literary Criticism
• ENG 379/579 American Poetry
• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 231 Literature and Film
• ENG 214 American Literature II

Areas of Interest:

Medieval Literature, Composition

Classes Taught:

• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 210 Classical and Medieval Literature
• ENG 211 British Literature I
• ENG 151 British Literature to the 18th Century (Quest I)
• ENG 100 Foundations of College English
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Film Studies

Classes Taught:

• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 231 Literature and Film
• ENG 101 College English I
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Modern British and Irish Literature, Ecocriticism/Animal Studies, Creative Writing: Poetry

Courses Taught:

• ENG/ES 399 Utopian/Dystopian Literature
• ENG 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism
• ENG 365 Modern British Fiction: Love and War in the Modern British Novel
• ENG/ES 360 Literary Animal Studies
• ENG 358 Postcolonial Literature: Nationalism, Rebellion, and Decolonization in Modern Irish Literature
• ENG 294 Literary Landscapes (Quest III Study Abroad in Ireland)
• ENG 225 Modern British Literature
• ENG 205 Literature from a Global Perspective (Honors College Study Abroad in Paris)
• ENG 165 Twentieth-Century British Literature (Quest I)
• ES 282 Environmental Humanities
• HNRS 475 Honors Senior Seminar: Animals, Human and Nonhuman
• HNRS 275 Culture Connection

Areas of Interest:

19th-Century American and African American Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale 
• ENG 396 Literature and History
• ENG 375 American Realism and Naturalism
• ENG 229 Honors African American Literature
• ENG 219 African American Literature
• ENG 213 American Literature I
• ENG 110 Honors Composition

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Modern American Literature

Classes Taught:

• ENG 226 Modern American Literature
• WRT 100 Foundations of College Writing
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing
• WRT 287 Advanced Writing
• WRT 288 Connect: Advanced Writing

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Shakespeare

Classes Taught:

• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 247 Intro to Shakespeare
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

British Literature, Criticism, Composition

Classes Taught:

• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 281 Intro to English Studies
• ENG 212 British Literature II

Areas of Interest:

American Literature / Literature & Film

Classes Taught:

• WRT 188 First-Year College Writing
• WRT 287/288 Advanced Writing
• ENG 213 American Literature I
• ENG 214 American Literature II
• ENG 219 African American Literature
• ENG 226 Modern American Literature
• ENG 231 Literature & Film
• RTF 150 Introduction to Film

Areas of Interest:

Modern American and European Drama

Courses Taught:

• ENG 380/580 Modern Drama
• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 300 Connect
• ENG 228 Honors Modern American Literature
• ENG 226 Modern American Literature

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Literary Modernism

Classes Taught:

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Poetry; Composition

Courses Taught:

• ENG 405/605 Creative Writing: Nature Writing
• ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
• ENG 243 Intro to Nature Writing
• ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing

Areas of Interest:

Comparative Literature, Composition

Classes Taught:

• ENG 381/581 Foundations of Literary Criticism
• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 231 Literature and Film
• ENG 227 Modern World Literature
• ENG 110 Honors Composition
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Medieval Literature, Linguistics

Courses Taught:

• ENG 701 Seminar in Literature
• ENG 384/584 Sociolinguistics
• ENG 383/583 Intro to English Linguistics
• ENG 346/546 Chaucer and His Age
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 210 Classical and Medieval Literature
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Composition, fantasy/pop culture, fiction, Scottish literature.

Courses Taught:

• All levels of composition from Foundations to Advanced
• Developmental Reading
• Learning Skills
• Business Writing

Areas of Interest:

18th-century literature; women’s and gender studies

Courses Taught:

• WG STDS 201
• WG STDS 232
• WG STDS 390
• WG STDS 435

Areas of Interest:

American and Women’s Literature

Courses Taught:

• Eng 391 Gay & Lesbian Literature

Areas of Interest:

Rhetoric and Composition

Courses Taught:

• ENG 714 Studying Rhetoric and Writing
• ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies
• ENG 387/587 Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition
• ENG 385 Topics in Professional and Digital Writing
• ENG 322/522 Theories of Rhetoric and Writing
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

African American and Southern Literature, Criticism

Courses Taught:

• ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
• ENG 381/581 Foundations of Literary Criticism
• ENG 229 Honors African American Literature

Areas of Interest:

19th-Century Literature and Science, Native Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 342 Literature of the Romantic Era
• ENG 359 Literature and Science
• ENG 352 The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• ENG 370 Native American Literature II
• ENG 212 British Literature II
• ENG 220 Native American Literature I
• HNRS 275 Culture Connection (Honors Study Abroad in London and Paris)

Areas of Interest:

Writing Center Studies: Helping students learn how to shape their own ideas and thoughts about the world through critical reading and writing.

Courses Taught:

• Writing 100
• Writing 188

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition

Classes Taught:

• ENG 312 Advanced Writing
• ENG 303 Creative Writing: Fiction I
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 226 Modern American Literature
• ENG 214 American Literature II
• ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
• ENG 100 Foundations of College English
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Areas of Interest:

Writing Center pedagogy and praxis; Writing assessment; Equity and systems of power.

Classes Taught:

• English 704 – Methods of Research
• English 714 – Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Center Theory and Administration
• English 391 / 591 – Special Topics in Literature: Gender(ed) Identity Constructions
• English 387/587 – Special Topics in Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Laughter
• English 387 / 587 – Special Topics in Rhetoric: Working Effectively with Writers
• Interdisciplinary Studies 384Q3 – Collaboration and Community: Intercultural Knowledge and Competence
• Writing 288 / 287 – Connect: Advanced Writing
• English 388 – Grant Writing Foundations
• English 281 – Introduction to English Studies
• English 207 – Introduction to Professional Writing
• English 211Q2S – Technology and Ethics: Sustainability and British Literature to the 18th Century
• English 206Q2IK – Writing, Community, and Collaboration: Rhetoric, or the Art of Moving Souls
• English 224 – Women in Literature
• English 211 – British Literature I: Medieval and Early Modern Literature
• English 210 – Classical and Medieval Literature
• English 151Q1s – Revolution: Sustainability and British Literature to the 18th Century
• Writing 188 – First-Year College Writing: The Doors of Perception
• Writing 188 – First-Year College Writing: American Political Comedy
• Writing 100 – Foundations of College English (100-level, basic writing)

Areas of Interest:

Film Studies, American Literature and Culture, Media Studies, Regionalism

Classes Taught:

• English 390/590 Film and Literary Studies: Archival Texts: Surveillance, Voyeurism, and Memory
• English 385 Professional and Digital Writing: Mediated Forms of Curating, Archiving, and Sharing
• English 378/578 Modern American Novel
• English 376/576 Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Regional Narratives
• English 366/566 Science Fiction
• English 231 Literature and Film: Horror Adaptations
• English 226 Modern American Literature
• English 219 African American Literature
• English 214 American Literature II: 1865 to the Present
• English 213 American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
• Honors 275 Culture Connection
• RTF 344 Prime-Time Television Writing
• Writing 310 Honors: Advanced Composition
• Writing 288 Connect: Advanced Writing: Technology and Culture
• Writing 287 Advanced Writing: Technology and Culture
• WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Publications:

Areas of Interest:

Courses Taught:

Areas of Interest:

Science Fiction/Fantasy literature, film, and television;  creative writing;  the works of Philip K. Dick; the works of William Gibson; the films of Hayao Miyazaki

Courses Taught:

• ENG 101 College Writing and Critical Reading 
• ENG 102 Critical Writing, Reading, and Research
• ENG 203/204 Creative Writing I and II. Writing-intensive sophomore-level literature courses for non-majors
• ENG 285 Literature of Nature; ENG 284 Science Fiction in Literature and Film (“Apocalypse Now-ish”);
• ENG 266 Modern Literature (“The Existential Crisis”); ENG 270 Survey of British Literature (“Here There Be Monsters”);
• ENG 272 Survey of American Literature (“In the American Grain”); ENG 277 Film Studies (“The Works of Hayao Miyazaki”)

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Fiction, 19th-Century American Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 709 Special Topics in Creative Writing
• ENG 372/572 The American Short Story
• ENG 350/550 Study Tour: American Writers in Paris
• ENG 343/543 Nature Writing
• ENG 304/504 Advanced Fiction Writing
• ENG 303/503 Creative Writing: Fiction I
• ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
• ENG 213 American Literature I
• ENG 153 American Literature through the Civil War (Quest I)

Areas of Interest:

19th-Century British Literature, Critical Animal Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Expatriate Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 369/569 Literature of the Victorian Period
• ENG 358/558 Postcolonial Literature
• ENG 347/547 Shakespeare I
• ENG 354/554 Studies in Travel, Literature, and Culture: Expatriate Writers in Paris
• ENG 356/556 Special Topics in British and/or Irish Literature: The British Children’s Novel
• ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
• ENG 247 Introduction to Shakespeare
• ENG 223 Young Adult Literature
• ENG 212 British Literature II

Areas of Interest:

Developmental Reading and Writing

Courses Taught:

• ENG 099
• ENG 100
• WBIS 188
• ACAD 100

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing/ Fiction; Composition; Linguistics

Courses Taught:

• WRT 188
• WRT 287
• WRT 288

Areas of Interest:

Courses Taught:

Areas of Interest:

18th- and 19th-Century British Novel, Women’s Literature

Courses Taught:

• ENG 396/596 Literature and History
• ENG 364/564 19th-Century English Novel
• ENG 363/563 18th-Century English Novel
• ENG 332/532 Early Women Writers
• ENG 224 Women in Literature
• ENG 212 British Literature II
• WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Helping

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Journalism, Advertising & Communications

Courses Taught:

• WBIS 188
• COMM 103
• COMM 218
• RTF 150

Areas of Interest:

Eighteenth-century literature and literary theory.

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature

Classes Taught:

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Reading and Study Skills.

Classes Taught: