Faculty and Staff

Abayomi Animashaun

Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2012)
Creative Writing: Poetry, Comparative Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: animasha@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7273
Office: Radford Hall 224

Learn more about Abayomi

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)
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: The Immigrant Experience in America

Laura Jean Baker

Associate Professor (M.F.A., University of Michigan, 2003)
Associate Department Chair
Creative Writing: Memoir, Women’s Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: bakerl@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 228

Learn more about Laura Jean

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Conversations About Family

Loren Baybrook

Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1994)
Film Studies, Modern American Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: baybrook@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 203

Learn more about Loren

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

Karl Boehler

Senior Lecturer (Ph.D., Marquette University, 2005)
Medieval Literature, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: boehler@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 301

Learn more about Karl

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Creating Identity

Domenic Bruni

Senior Lecturer (M.A., Oklahoma State University, 1989)
Composition, Film Studies
UW Oshkosh
Email: bruni@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-2265
Office: Radford Hall 313

Learn more about Domenic

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: The Comic Book

Stewart Cole

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2012)
Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry
UW Oshkosh
Email: coles@uwosh.edu
Phone: 920-424-2260
Office: Radford Hall 225

Learn more about Stewart

Areas of Interest:

Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry

Courses Taught:

ENG 392/592 Special Topics in Literature: Dystopian Visions
ENG 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism
ENG 365/565 Modern British Fiction: Love and War in the Modern British Novel
ENG 358/558 Postcolonial Literature: Nationalism, Rebellion, and Decolonization in Modern Irish Literature
ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
ENG 306 Advanced Poetry Writing
ENG 294 Literary Landscapes (Quest III Study Abroad in Ireland)
ENG 225 Modern British Literature
ENG 205 Literature from a Global Perspective (Honors Study Abroad in London and Paris)
ENG 165 Twentieth-Century British Literature (Quest I)
HNRS 475 Honors Senior Seminar: Animals, Human and Nonhuman
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Animals in Society

Diane Crotty

Senior Lecturer (M.A., Bemidji State University, 1988)
Young Adult Literature, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: crotty@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 219

Learn more about Diane

Areas of Interest:

Young Adult Literature, Composition

Classes Taught:

ENG 226 Modern American Literature
ENG 223 Young Adult Literature
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Learning from The Hobbit

Don Dingledine

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Temple University, 1998)
19th-Century American and African American Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: dingledi@uwosh.edu
Phone: 920-424-7270
Office: Radford Hall 308

Learn more about Don

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

Jennifer Donath

Lecturer (M.A., Marquette University, 1998)
Composition, Modern American Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: donathj@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0299
Office: Radford Hall 312

Learn more about Jennifer Donath

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Modern American Literature

Classes Taught:

ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Debt and the American Dream

Kelley Duhatschek

Lecturer (M.A., University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000)
Composition, Shakespeare
UW Oshkosh
Email: duhatsch@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 219

Learn more about Kelley

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Shakespeare

Classes Taught:

ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
ENG 247 Intro to Shakespeare
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Wicked: The Concept of Evil

Aaron Dunckel

Lecturer (M.A., Marquette University, 1998)
British Literature, Criticism, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: dunckel@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 307

Learn more about Aaron

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

Robert Feldman

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985)
Modern American and European Drama
UW Oshkosh
Email: feldman@uwosh.edu
Phone: 920-424-7274
Office: Radford Hall 227

Learn more about Robert

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

Vivian Foss

Senior Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1994)
Renaissance Literature, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: foss@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7276
Office: Radford Hall 232

Learn more about Vivan Foss

Areas of Interest:

Renaissance Literature, Composition

Classes Taught:

ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
ENG 224 Women in Literature
ENG 211 British Literature I

Douglas Haynes

Associate Professor (M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2002)
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Poetry; Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: haynesd@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 204

Learn more about Douglas

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

Cary Henson

Senior Lecturer (M.A., Indiana University, 1994)
Comparative Literature, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: henson@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 307

Learn more about Cary

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Remembering the Holocaust

Margaret Hostetler

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996)
Chair, Department of English
Medieval Literature, Linguistics
UW Oshkosh
Email: hostetle@uwosh.edu
Phone: 920-424-7281
Office: Radford Hall 220

Learn more about Margaret

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Conversation and Identity

Jordan Landry

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000)
American and Women’s Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: landry@uwosh.edu

Learn more about Jordan

Areas of Interest:

American and Women’s Literature

Courses Taught:

Eng 391 Gay & Lesbian Literature

Samantha Looker-Koenigs

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011)
Director of First-Year Writing
Rhetoric and Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: lookers@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 223

Learn more about Samantha

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Watch Your Language

Roberta Maguire

Professor (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1997)
African American and Southern Literature, Criticism
UW Oshkosh
Email: maguire@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0862
Office: Radford Hall 315

Learn more about Roberta

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

Pascale Manning

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2013)
19th-Century Literature and Science, Native Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: manningp@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7342
Office: Radford Hall 306

Learn more about Pascale

Areas of Interest:

19th-Century Literature and Science, Native Literature

Courses Taught:

ENG 342 Literature of the Romantic Era
ENG 369/569 Literature of the Victorian Period
ENG 370 Native American Literature II
ENG 212 British Literature II
ENG 220 Native American Literature I
ENG 227 Modern World Literature
ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
HNRS 275 Culture Connection (Honors Study Abroad in London and Paris)
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Reading Popular Culture

Stephen McCabe

Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2009)
Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: mccabes@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7290
Office: Radford Hall 310

Learn more about Stephen

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
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Music and Cultural Identity

Crystal Mueller

Senior Lecturer (Ph.D., Marquette University, 2005)
Director of the Writing Center
Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric and Composition)
UW Oshkosh
Email: muellec@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0505, (920) 424-0916
Office: Student Success Center 107

Learn more about Crystal

Areas of Interest:

Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Rhetoric and Composition

Classes Taught:

ENG 281 Intro to English Studies
ENG 211 British Literature I
ENG 151 British Literature to the 18th Century (Quest I)
ENG 100 Foundations of College English

Francis Ngaboh-Smart

Professor (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1995)
Postcolonial and African Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: ngaboh@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0915
Office: Radford Hall 206

Learn more about Francis

Areas of Interest:

Postcolonial and African Literature

Courses Taught:

ENG 376/576 20th-Century Literature
ENG 367/567 African Literature
ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 227 Modern World Literature

Paul Niesen

Senior Lecturer (M.F.A., University of Arizona, 1989)
Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: niesen@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 309

Learn more about Paul

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition

Classes Taught:

ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
ENG 231 Literature and Film
ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
ENG 101 College English I
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: A is for Ark; Z is for Zoo
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Inventory of the Human Legacy

Adam Ochonicky

Lecturer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2014)
Film Studies, Composition
UW Oshkosh
Email: ochonica@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7290
Office: Radford Hall 310

Learn more about Adam

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 376/576 Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Regional Narratives
English 366/566 Science Fiction
English 312 Advanced Writing: Technology and Culture
English 310 Honors: Advanced Composition
English 231 Literature and Film: Horror Adaptations
English 226 Modern American Literature
English 219 African American Literature
English 214 American Literature II
Honors 275 Culture Connection
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Midwestern History and Culture

Publications:

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism. Indiana University Press, 2019.

“Twin Peaks: Episode 2.22 and Beyond.” In Television Finales: From Howdy Doody to Girls, edited by Douglas L. Howard and David Bianculli, Syracuse University Press, 2018, pp. 415-424.

“The Spectral Present: Landscapes of Absence in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and The Headless Woman.” Screening the Past, special dossier on “Materializing Absence in Film and Media,” no. 43, April 2018, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2018/02/the-spectral-present-landscapes-of-absence-in-once-upon-a-time-in-anatolia-and-the-headless-woman/.

“‘A Better Civilization’ Through Tourism: Cultural Appropriation in The Marble Faun.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 70, no. 2, September 2015, pp. 221-237.

“The Millennial Midwest: Nostalgic Violence in the Twenty-First Century.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 32, no. 2, February 2015, pp. 124-140.

James (Duke) Pesta

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997)
Renaissance Prose and Poetry
UW Oshkosh
Email: pestaj@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 210

Learn more about Duke

Areas of Interest:

Renaissance Prose and Poetry

Courses Taught:

ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies
ENG 448 Shakespeare
ENG 396 Literature and History
ENG 353 Early Modern British Literature
ENG 347/547 Shakespeare I
ENG 247 Intro to Shakespeare
ENG 236 Foundations of Western Literature
ENG 227 Modern World Literature
ENG 210 Classical and Medieval Literature
ENG 151 British Literature to the 18th Century

Ron Rindo

Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1989)
Creative Writing: Fiction, 19th-Century American Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: rindo@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 201

Learn more about Ron

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)

Christine Roth

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2001
19th-Century British Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: roth@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7287
Office: Radford Hall 207

Learn more about Christine

Areas of Interest:

19th-Century British Literature

Courses Taught:

ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies
ENG 356/556 Special Topics in British and/or Irish Literature: The British Children’s Novel
ENG 369/569 Literature of the Victorian Period
ENG 354/554 Studies in Travel, Literature, and Culture
ENG 310 Honors Advanced Composition
ENG 281 Intro to English Studies
ENG 212 British Literature II

Julie Shaffer

Professor (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989)
18th- and 19th-Century British Novel, Women’s Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: shaffer@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7288
Office: Radford Hall 208

Learn more about Julie

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

Kristin Vielbig

Senior Lecturer (M.A., South Dakota State University, 2000)
Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature
UW Oshkosh
Email: vielbigk@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7340
Office: Radford Hall 304

Learn more about Kristin

Areas of Interest:

Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature

Classes Taught:

ENG 312 Advanced Writing
ENG 218 Intro to Multi-Ethnic Literature
ENG 168 Multi-Ethnic Literature (Quest I)
ENG 101 College English I
WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Sport, Gender and Race

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Administrative Staff:

Aly Catacutan

Academic Department Associate (B.S., University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, 2015)
UW Oshkosh
Email: catacutana@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-2232
Office: Radford 218

Learn more about Aly

Duties:

Serves as assistant to Chair and Associate Chair
Schedules and maintains English courses
Schedules Radford Computer Lab
Maintains department website
Tracks departmental budget and expenses
Assigns departmental advisors
Manages and maintains social media platforms

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Emeritus:

Norlisha Crawford (Associate Professor Emerita)
Marguerite Helmers (Professor Emerita)
Paul Klemp (Professor Emeritus)