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

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

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

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
• WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Creating Identity

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

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

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

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

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

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:

• ENG 214 American Literature II
• ENG 231 Literature & 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:

Renaissance Literature, Composition

Classes Taught:

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

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Literary Modernism

Classes Taught:

Areas of Interest:

First Year Writers and Remedial Reading Instruction

Classes Taught:

• ENG 099

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
• WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Remembering the Holocaust

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

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
• WBIS 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Watch Your Language

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 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

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

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

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

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

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: 

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

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, Beat Generation Literature, Shakespeare Studies

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

Areas of Interest:

Developmental Reading and Writing

Courses Taught:

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

Areas of Interest:

Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Fiction

Courses Taught:

• LEA 102, 
• LEA 103, 
• English 101
• English 102
• English 100
• WBIS 188 Writing Based Inquiry Seminar: Navigating the College Experience

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:

Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature

Classes Taught:

Areas of Interest:

Composition

Classes Taught: