Faculty and Staff

David L. Wallace
Department Chair
Research Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; alternative rhetorical theory and practice; feminist and queer theory.

Patricia Angley
Instructor
Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Faulkner and Southern Literature; Women Writers and Feminist Theory; Ethnic American Literature; Contemporary Composition Theory and Pedagogy

J.D. Applen
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Rhetoric; Technical and Professional Communication; Hypertext, XML, and Digital Archiving; Literature of Science and Technology

Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Literary nonfiction; Memoir; Personal Essay; Ecological Criticism and Ecotheory; Virginia Woolf

Kathleen Bell
Associate Professor

Dixie Bibeau
Visiting Instructor

Melody Bowdon
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Technical and Professional Communication; Gender and Technology; Service-Learning and Higher Education; Distance-Learning

Vicky Brain
Instructor

Lori C Brodkin
Instructor

Matthew Bryan
Instructor

James Campbell
Associate Professor
Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction

Lynn Casmier-Paz
Associate Professor

Farrah Cato
Instructor

Paul M. Dombrowski
Professor
Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

Holly Elliott
Visiting Instructor

Steve Ethridge
Instructor

Madelyn Flammia
Associate Professor
Research Interests: International Technical Communication; Virtual Teams; Visual Communication; Document Design and Layout; Publication and Production; International Studies

John Frongillo
Visiting Instructor

Mary Ellen Gomrad
Instructor

Anthony Grajeda
Associate Professor

Fayeza Hasanat
Instructor
Research Interests: Literature of the British Empire; English Novel, Gender Studies; 18th and 19th century English Literature Literature and Translation; Critical Theory

Judith Hemschemeyer
Professor

Luann Henken
Visiting Instructor

Lynn Hepner
Instructor

Kathy Hohenleitner
Instructor

Nathan Holic
Visiting Instructor
Research Interests: Fiction; Novel Writing; Mixed-Media/ Hybrid Narratives; The University Novel; Generational Studies

Susan Hubbard
Professor
Research Interests: Writing and reading contemporary fiction; creative writing pedagogy; defining speculative fiction.

Toni Jensen
Assistant Professor

Anna Maria Jones
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel; sensation fiction; science and literature

Dan Jones
Professor

Mark L Kamrath
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture; Atlantic Studies; Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

Russ Kesler
Instructor

Barbara Rau Kyle
Instructor
Research Interests: Composition and writing center theory; information literacy.

Eugene Launier
Instructor

Luke Leonard
Visiting Instructor

Anna Lillios
Associate Professor

Lisa M Logan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

Martha Marinara
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Queer Theory and Composition; Gender Studies and Feminist Theories; Fiction; Poetry

Paul Martin
Visiting Instructor

Barry Mauer
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monuments

Mark McKain
Visiting Instructor

Kevin Meehan
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature and Educational Development

Bob Mohrenne
Instructor

Bill Morton
Instructor

Patrick D. Murphy
Professor
Research Interests: Nature-oriented Literature; Contemporary Multicultural American Literature; Comparative Asian American and Asian Literatures; Modern American Poetry; Ecocriticism; science fiction; bodied subjecthood and identities; Bakhtinian dialogics

Darlin' Neal
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Literary Fiction; Literary Nonfiction; Memoir; Poetry and Flash Fiction; Native American Literature; Writing of the Southwest; Southern Writers; Eudora Welty

Rhonda Nelson
Visiting Instructor

Kathleen M. Oliver
Associate Professor
Research Interests: British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660 - 1830; Eighteenth-Century British Novelists (particularly Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, and Frances Sheridan); Fashion, Clothing, and Dress in Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory; Feminist and Gender Theory; Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Lindee Owens
Instructor

Tison Pugh
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

Adele Richardson
Instructor

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Associate Professor

Lisa Roney
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, literature of illness, marginality, mind-body dualism, cultural representations of health and illness; images and physical aspects of home and place; the impact of digital media on narrative; the relationships between genres (e.g., architecture and narrative, painting and digital art, fiction and nonfiction); and twentieth-century American literature and women's studies.

Pat Rushin
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Fiction writing, screenwriting, contemporary fiction.

Craig Saper
Professor
Research Interests: Digital Rhetoric New Media StudiesOnline and Digital ScholarshipVisual Poetry Networked ArtHeuretic Cultural Studies

John Schell
Professor

Catherine Schutz
Instructor

Blake Scott
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Rhetorics of Biotechnology and Public Health Policy; History of Rhetoric; Theory and Teaching of Composition; Technical and Professional Communication

Kathryn Lee Seidel
Professor
Research Interests: Dr. Seidel publishes in the area of women writers and literature of the American South.

Susan Spraker
Instructor

Don Stap
Professor

Peter Telep
Instructor

Terry Ann Thaxton
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Poetry Writing; Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Creative Non-Fiction; Literary Arts and Community; Community-Based Learning; Women's Studies; Marginalized Learners

Dawn Trouard
Professor

Laurie Uttich
Instructor

Elizabeth Wardle
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Scholoarship of Writing Program Administration; first-year composition as Writing Studies; disciplinarity of Writing Studies; genre theory; activity theory; transfer of writing-related knowledge

Debbie Weaver
Instructor

Beth Rapp Young
Associate Professor

Sharon R. Body
Program Assistant of Undergraduate Programs

Patricia Brinkman
Coordinator of Writing Programs

Patricia Coderre
Office Assistant

Elise McKenna
Office Assistant

Amber Mullens
Accountant

Brooks Pingston
Program Assistant of Graduate Programs

Elizabeth Sloan
Program Assistant of Texts and Technology and M.F.A. Creative Writing Programs