Faculty and Staff

Abayomi Animashaun

Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2012)
Creative Writing: Poetry, Comparative Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Emailanimasha@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)
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Laura Jean Baker

Associate Professor (M.F.A., University of Michigan, 2003)
Creative Writing: Memoir, Women’s Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Heather Benson

Lecturer (M.A., University of Toronto, 2002)
College Writing, Developmental Writing, Academic Support
Fox Cities Campus
Email: bensonh@uwosh.edu
Office: Fox Campus

Learn more about Heather
Areas of Interest:

College Writing, Developmental Writing, and Academic Support.

Classes Taught:
  • ACAD 115
  • WRT 99
  • WRT 101
  • WRT 188
  • WRT 201
  • WRT 287
  • WRT 288

Karl Boehler

Lecturer (Ph.D., Marquette University, 2005)
Medieval Literature, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Stewart Cole

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2012)
Cross-appointed to the Environmental Studies Program
Modern British and Irish Literature, Ecocriticism/Animal Studies,  Creative Writing: Poetry
Oshkosh Campus
Email: coles@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-2260
Office: Radford Hall 225
Website: stewart-cole.com

Learn more about Stewart
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

 

Don Dingledine

Professor (Ph.D., Temple University, 1998)
19th-Century American and African American Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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

Kelley Duhatschek

She/Her/Hers
Teaching Assistant Professor (M.A., University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000)
Composition, Shakespeare
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

​Aaron Dunckel

Lecturer (Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1998)
British Literature, Criticism, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
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

Scott Emmert

He/Him/His
Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University 2000)
American Literature, Literature & Film
Oshkosh and Fox Campus
Email: emmerts@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2640
Office:

Learn more about Scott
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

Robert Feldman

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985)
Modern American and European Drama
Oshkosh Campus
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

Sara Getzin

Lecturer

Fox Cities Campus
Email: getzins@uwosh.edu
Office: Fox Campus

Learn more about Sara
Areas of Interest:
Classes Taught:
  • WRT 99
  • WRT 100
  • WRT 188
  • WRT 287

Bill Gillard

Professor (M.F.A. Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2005)
Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Poetry, Composition
Oshkosh and Fox Cities Campus
Email: gillardw@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2669
Office: Fox Campus #1835

Learn more about Bill
Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Literary Modernism

Classes Taught:
  • ENG 231  Literature and Film
  • ENG 243  Introduction to Nature Writing
  • ENG 247  Introduction to Shakespeare
  • ENG 250  Introduction to Literary Studies
  • ENG 284  Science Fiction
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing
  • ENG 204  Introduction to Creative Writing

Douglas Haynes

Professor (M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2002)
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Poetry; Composition
Oshkosh Campus
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

He/Him/His
Lecturer (M.A., Indiana University, 1994)
Composition, Modern World Literature, Genocide Film and Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Margaret Hostetler

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996)
Chair, Department of English
Medieval Literature, Linguistics
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Oksana Katsanivska

Lecturer (M.A. in Philology/ Linguistics, Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine)
Linguistics, Ukrainian Literature, and Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: katsanivskao@uwosh.edu
Office: Swart 308

Learn more about Oksana
Areas of Interest:

Linguistics, Ukrainian Literature, and Composition

Courses Taught:
  • WRT 100 Foundations of College English
  • ENG 227 Modern World Literature

Kathryn Klein

Assistant Professor (PhD, Stony Brook University, 2013)
American and European Modernism, LGBTQ+ Studies, Creative Writing: Fiction
Oshkosh Campus
Email: kleink@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0762
Office: Sage 3475

Learn more about Kathryn
Areas of Interest:
Transatlantic Modernism, LGBTQ+ Studies, Creative Writing: Fiction, Genre Studies, Naturalism, Southern Literature
Courses Taught:
  • ENG 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism
  • ENG 224/WGSTDs 224 Women in Literature
  • WGSTDs 393 Queer Memoir
  • WGSTDs 205 Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
  • WGTSDs 201 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
  • WRT 288 Connect: Advanced Writing
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Ula Klein

Associate Professor (PhD, Stony Brook University, 2013)
18th-century literature; women’s and gender studies
Oshkosh Campus
Email: kleinu@uwosh.edu
Phone:
Office:

Learn more about Ula
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

Jordan Landry

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000)
American and Women’s Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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

She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011)
Associate Department Chair
Director of First-Year Writing
Rhetoric and Composition
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Pascale Manning

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

Learn more about Pascale
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)

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Christina Marty

Director of the Writing Center for the Access Campuses
Writing Center Studies: Helping students learn how to shape their own ideas and thoughts about the world through critical reading and writing.
Oshkosh, Fox Cities and FDL Campus
Email: martyc@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2867
Office: Fox Cities #1837

Learn more about Christina
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

Stephen McCabe

Teaching Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2009)
Creative Writing: Fiction, 
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

Crystal Mueller

She/They
Teaching Assistant Professor & Writing Center Director and Coordinator of Developmental Writing  (Ph.D., Marquette University, 2005)

Oshkosh Campus
Email: muellec@uwosh.edu
Office: Student Success Center 107

Learn more about Crystal
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)

Adam Ochonicky

He/Him/His
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2014)
Film Studies, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: ochonica@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0862
Office: Radford Hall 314

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 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:

The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism. Indiana University Press, 2020.

“Nostalgia and Retcons: The Many Returns, Homecomings, and Revisions of the Halloween Franchise (1978-2018).” Adaptation vol. 13, no 3, 2020.

“‘Something to be haunted by’: Adaptive monsters and regional narratives in ‘The Forbidden’ and Candyman.” Horror Studies vol. 11, no. 1, 2020, pp. 101-122.

“Introduction: Special Dossier on Fargo (FX, 2014-).” Middle West Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 65-70.

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.

“‘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 Pesta

Associate Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997)
Oshkosh Campus
Email: pestaj@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 210

 

Learn more about James
Areas of Interest:

 

Courses Taught:

Alayne Peterson

Associate Professor (MFA in Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999)
Fond du Lac Campus
Email: petersona@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 929-1196
Office: C-224 (Fond du Lac campus Classroom Bldg)

Learn more about Alayne
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”)

Ron Rindo

Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1989)
Creative Writing: Fiction, 19th-Century American Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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

She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2001)
Director of the English Graduate Program
19th-Century British Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Scottish Studies
Oshkosh Campus
Email: roth@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7287
Office: Radford Hall 207

Learn more about Christine
Areas of Interest:

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

 

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

Paul Sager

Lecturer
Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: sagerp@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 929-1185
Office: Radford Hall 206

Learn more about Paul
Areas of Interest:

Developmental Reading and Writing

Courses Taught:
  • ENG 099
  • ENG 100
  • WBIS 188
  • ACAD 100

Bijan Salamati

Lecturer 

Writing
Fox Cities Campus
Email: salamatib@uwosh.edu
Office: Fox Campus

Learn more about Bijan
Areas of Interest:

 

Courses Taught:
  • WRT 99
  • WRT 100
  • WRT 101
  • WRT 188
  • WRT 201

Lydia Sanders

Lecturer (MFA, Eastern Kentucky University)

Writing
Oshkosh Campus
Email: sanderslk@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 309

Learn more about Lydia
Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing/ Fiction; Composition; Linguistics

Courses Taught:
  • WRT 188
  • WRT 287
  • WRT 288

Lisa Schreibersdorf

Associate Professor
FDL Campus

 

 

 

Learn more about Lisa
Areas of Interest:

 

Courses Taught:
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Loren Snyder

Lecturer
Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: snyderl@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2650
Office: Radford Hall 232

Learn more about Loren
Areas of Interest:

Composition, Journalism, Advertising & Communications

Courses Taught:
  • WBIS 188
  • COMM 103
  • COMM 218
  • RTF 150

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Anne Stevens

Faculty/ Dean of College of Letters and Science
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: stevensa@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-1302
Office: Sage 3640

Learn more about Anne
Areas of Interest:

Eighteenth-century literature and literary theory.

Kristin Vielbig

Lecturer (M.A., South Dakota State University, 2000)
Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature
Oshkosh Campus
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
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing

 

Michael Wirkus

Teaching Assistant Professor
Composition, Reading and Study Skills
Oshkosh and Fox Cities Campus
Email: wirkusm@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 229

Learn more about Michael
Areas of Interest:

Composition, Reading and Study Skills.

Classes Taught:
  • WRT 99
  • WRT 100
  • WRT 188 First Year College Writing
  • ACAD 100
  • ACAD 169
  • INTRDSCP 101

Emeritus:

  • Norlisha Crawford ()
  • Marguerite Helmers ()
  • Paul Klemp ()
  • Malcolm Allen (Professor Emeritus)
  • Vivian Foss (Senior Lecturer Emerita)
  • Julie Schaffer (Professor Emeritus)
  • Roberta Maguire (Professor Emeritus)

Contact Us

English Department
Office: Clow Faculty, Room F010
Phone: (920) 424-2232