Faculty Directory

 

Specializations:
Social Media, Media Effects, Document Design, Developing Writers

Recent Classes Taught:
Rhetorical Theory, Computers & Writing, Digital Literacies

 

Education:
Ph.D. English Studies - Illinois State University, Normal

M.S. Writing - Illinois State University, Normal

B.A. English & Journalism - Western Illinois University

Specializations:
Science Fiction, Utopian/Dystopian Literature and Film, Postcolonial Studies, Indian Literature and Culture

Recent Classes Taught:
Science Fiction Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Fiction and Imperialism

Education:
Ph.D. English Literature, 2010 - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

M.A. English Literature, 2002 - Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India

B.A. English Literature, 2000 - Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India

Diploma Russian Language, 1999 - Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India

Specializations:
Video games, Medieval Literature, Children's Literature, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II,

Education:
M.A. English - Texas State University

B.A. English & Psychology - Texas A&M University

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Specializations:
Gender in Film, Star and Celebrity Studies, Social Influence of Film

Recent Classes Taught:
Transgender and Me Too Movement in Film, Monsters in Film and Literature, Biopics & Documentary

Education:
Ph.D. English - Indiana University, Bloomington

M.A. English - Indiana University, Bloomington

B.A. English - Indiana University, Bloomington

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Specializations:
Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry), American Literature, Southern Literature, World Poetry, William Faulkner

Recent Classes Taught:
Creative Writing, American Literature

Education:
Ph.D. Southern Literature - Tulane University

M.A. English - Florida State University

B.A. English - Florida State University

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Specializations:
Poetry, Translation, Cultural Criticism, Film & Theater

Recent Classes Taught:
Graduate Form & Theory: Poetry, Confessional Poetry, Topics in Language and Literature: The Translated World

Education:
B. A. Film and Broadcasting - Stanford University

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Specializations:
Contemporary American Literature, Critical Theory, Women's Studies

Recent Classes Taught:
Experimental Writing and the Body, US Literature 1930-Present, The American Novel

Education:
Ph.D. Florida State University - Tallahassee

Ph.D. Université d’Orléans - France

M.A. Lehigh University - Pennsylvania

M.A. Université d’Orléans - France

B.A. Université d’Orléans - France

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Specializations:
First-year Writing, Composition Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of Pittsburgh

M.A. English - University of Pittsburgh

B.A. Humanities - The University of Texas at Austin

Specializations:
Disability Studies, Creative Writing-Fiction, Critical Pedagogy

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University

M.S. Publishing - University of Houston, Victoria

B.A. English - University of Texas, Pan American

 

Specializations:
Fiction, Screenwriting

Recent Classes Taught:
Graduate Fiction Workshop; Point of View; The Experimental Novel

 

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Fiction) - Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa

B.A. English and Political Science - Stanford University

J.D. Boalt Hall School of Law - University of California - Berkeley

 

Specializations:
Fiction, Narrative Structure, Ethics & Politics in Fiction

Recent Classes Taught:
Narrative Structure, Graduate Fiction Workshop, Ethics & Politics in Fiction

 

Education:
Stegner Fellowship -- Fiction - Stanford University

M.F.A. English - Iowa Writers' Workshop

B.A. Political Science and Philosophy - Tufts University

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Specializations:
Rhetoric and Composition, Qualitative Research, and World Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
Technical Writing, Writing and Rhetoric, and World Literature

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of Texas at San Antonio

Ed.M. Education - Harvard Graduate School of Education

M.F.A. Creative Writing - Texas State University

B.A. Literature - University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A. Psychology - University of California, Santa Cruz

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Specializations:
Shakespeare in Performance, Dramatic Literature, Italian Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
Early Shakespeare, Later Shakespeare, Brit Lit to 1785

 

Education:
PhD, Renaissance Literature - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

MFA, Performance - Roosevelt University

BA, Acting - De Paul University SNL

Specializations:
Creative Writing, American Literature, Composition

Recent Classes Taught:
American Literature Since 1865, Intro to Creative Writing, College Writing I

Education:
M.F.A Creative Writing - Texas State University, San Marcos

B.A. English - University of North Texas, Denton

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Specializations:
Writing Center Studies, Technical Writing, Nature Writing, British Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
British Literature, Arguing for Nature, Technical Writing

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University

B.A. English - Texas State University

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Specializations:
Poetry, Poetics, Creative Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
Introduction to Creative Writing, College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A. Writing (Poetry) - University of Texas, Austin

B.A. English & Creative Writing - Ashland University

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Specializations:
American Modernism and Modernist Culture, American Women's Writing, Literature of the U.S. West and Borderlands, Literature and the Arts, Autobiography and Memoir

Recent Classes Taught:
Borderlands Narratives, The Contemporary Memoir, The Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros

 

Education:
P.h. D. English, Women's and Gender Studies concentration - UCLA

M.A. English - UCLA

B.A. English - Stanford University
 

Specializations:
Nonfiction, fiction, contemporary fiction

Recent Classes Taught:
Nonfiction seminar, "Genre" fiction seminar, Fiction Workshop

Education:
B.A. Queens College

M.F.A. University of Iowa

Specializations:
Creative Writing, IA Training, General Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
Film Studies, American Literature, British Literature

Education:
M.F.A. Fiction - Texas State University

B.A. English - University of Texas at Austin

Specializations:
Writing Center Studies, Autoethnography, Qualitative Research

Recent Classes Taught:
Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies, Writing Center Theory and Practice, Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Education:
Ph.D. English - Rhetoric and Composition - Texas A&M University

M.A. English - University of Tulsa 

B.A. English - Southwest Texas State University

Specializations:
Creative Writing, The American Southwest, Horror Cinema

Recent Classes Taught:
Southwestern Studies, Editing the Professional Publication, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A Creative Writing - Texas State University

B.A English - University of South Carolina

Specializations:
Poetry, Creative Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I&II, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Writing Poetry

Education:
MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry - Texas State University

BA in English and Philosophy (double major) - Rice University

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, Poetry; American Literature; Short Story

Recent Classes Taught:
Gary Snyder; Robert Frost; Critical Theory and Practice for Majors

Education:
Ph.D. Creative Writing - Oklahoma State University

M.A. English - Sam Houston State University

B. A. English - Sam Houston State University

 

Specializations:
Pop Culture, The Beatles, Fairy Tales, Victorian Melodrama, Women and Girls in Mythology

Recent Classes Taught:
Adolescent Literature, Mythology, British Literature after 1785, The Beatles

 

Education:
Ph.D. Communication Studies, Rhetoric - University of Texas at Austin

M.A. English, Literature - Texas State University

B.A. Communication Studies - St. Edward's University

Specializations:
English, Language Arts, Student Teaching

Recent Classes Taught:
Coordinator, English Language Arts Student Teaching Program

Education:
M.A. English - Hunter College, City University of New York
 

Specializations:
Empathy, nonrational rhetorics, civic literacies, the personal essay

Recent Classes Taught:
Empathy and Writing, History / Theory of Rhetoric, Life Stories

Education:
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition - University of Louisville

M.A. English - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

B.A. English - University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Specializations:
20th and 21st-Century British Literature, Working-Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Architecture and Urbanism

Recent Classes Taught:
Critical Theory, 20th-Century British Literature, British Social Realism

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of California, Riverside

M.A. English - University of California, Riverside

B.A. English / Art History - Pitzer College

Specializations:
Early Modern Literature and Culture, Milton, Romance Literature, Pastoral Literature, Cognitive Theory

Recent Classes Taught:
16th-Century Poetry and Prose, Shakespeare, Spenser

Education:
Ph.D. English, Renaissance Literature - University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A. English - Loyola University of Chicago

B.A. English - Loyola University of Chicago

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, American Literature, Mythology, Professional Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
Creative Writing, Mythology, World Literature

Education:
M.F.A. Fiction - Texas State University

M.A. Literature - Wake Forest University

B.A. English - University of South Carolina, Columbia

Specializations:
Horror, The Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe, Carnivals and Circuses, Doppelgängers

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II, British Literature After 1785

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University

B.A. English - Texas State University

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Specializations:
Media Studies, Film, Comics, Post-1945 American Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
3340: Special Topics in Language and Literature—Comics and Graphic Narrative; 4350: Senior Seminar in Film—Spike Lee; 5302: Media Studies—Black on Film

Education:
Ph.D. English - Duke University

M.A. English - Duke University

B.A. English - Yale University

Specializations:
Fiction Writing, Nonfiction Writing, Argumentation

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Fiction - Texas State University

B.S. Secondary English Education - Dickinson State University

Specializations:
Composition, Rhetoric, Technical Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing II, College Writing I, Technical Writing

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Fiction - Texas State University, San Marcos 

B.S. Radio-Televsion-Film - University of Texas, Austin

Specializations:
Chicanx Literature, American Literature, Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing, College Writing II, Practices in Writing and Rhetoric

Education:
Ph.D. English - The Ohio State University

M.A. English - Pan American University

B.A. Philosophy and Political Science - North Texas State University

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Specializations:
Technical Communication, Scientific Communication, Commercialization of Technology

Recent Classes Taught:
Editing, Technical Marketing, Scientific Writing

Education:
Ph.D. Technical Communication & Rhetoric - Texas Tech University, Lubbock

M.S. Human Centered Design and Engineering - University of Washington, Seattle

M.A. Microbiology - University of Texas, Austin

B.S. Microbiology - Oregon State University, Corvallis

B.S. Psychology - Oregon State University, Corvallis

 

Specializations:
Fiction writing, Creative Nonfiction, History, Theory of the Novel

Recent Classes Taught:
Graduate Fiction Workshop, Graduate Creative Nonfiction, Form & Theory of Fiction

 

Education:
Ph.D Creative Writing/Narrative Theory - University of Utah

M.A. Rhetoric - Kansas State University

B.A. - University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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Specializations:
Medieval Comparative Literature, Pre-Conquest British literature ("Beowulf"), Chaucer, Pilgrimage Literature, Environmental Humanities with emphasis on Excrement and Waste

Recent Classes Taught:
Quiet and Silent Women, "Beowulf"’s Literary Hoard, Medieval Women Writers, Chaucer, Medieval European Literature

 

Education:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature - Brown University

A.M. Comparative Literature - Brown University

B.A. German (major), English (minor) - Swarthmore College

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Specializations:
Creative Writing-Poetry, Comparative Religion and Literature, British Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
World Literature since 1600, Honors British Literature: Magical Realism, Honors World Literature: Origins of Civilizations

Education:
M.F.A Creative Writing, Poetry - Texas State University 

B.A. Creative Writing and Film Studies - The University of Texas at El Paso

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Composition

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II, Practices in Writing and Rhetoric

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing - Texas State University, San Marcos

B.A. English - University of Texas, Arlington

Specializations:
Poetry and poetics, environmental literature, women writers

Recent Classes Taught:
Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, American Poetry, Graduate Poetry Workshop

 

Education:
Ph.D. English - City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center

M.F.A. Poetry - Columbia University

M.A. Poetry - Johns Hopkins University

B.A. English; Art History - Rice University

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, Poetry

Recent Classes Taught:
Problems in Language and Literature,  Graduate Writing Workshop, Creative Writing: Poetry

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Poetry) - University of Iowa

Specializations:
Composition, Creative Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
Introduction to Creative Writing, College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A Creative Writing-Fiction - Texas State University, San Marcos

M.A. English - University of Central Oklahoma

B.A Journalism - University of Central Oklahoma

Specializations:
Creative Writing, Rhetoric, Professional Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II, Creative Writing

Education:
M.F.A. Texas State University

B.A. Sarah Lawrence College

Specializations:
Compotion Studies, Minority Rhetorics, Literacy Studies, Minority Language and Cultural Issues

Recent Classes Taught:
Critical Theory and Practice,Technical Writing

Education:
Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education, Rhetoric and Composition emphasis - University of Utah

M.A. Composition Studies - California State University, Chico

B.A. English and Spanish  - California State University, Chico

Specializations:
Rhetoric and Writing, Autoethnographic Research, Critical Disability Studies

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.A. Rhetoric and Composition - Texas State University 

B.A. English - Texas State University 

A.S. - Lamar State College - Orange

Specializations:
Chicanx and women of color cultural productions, narratives of trauma, feminist theory and editorial praxis, queer of color thought, decolonial methodologies

Recent Classes Taught:
Chicanx Narratives of Trauma, The Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature: Gloria Anzaldúa, (Decolonizing) American Literature before 1865

Education:
Ph.D. Comparative Ethnic Studies - University of California, Berkeley

M.A. English - University of Texas at San Antonio

B.A. English and Pre-Professional Sciences - University of Notre Dame 

Benjamin Reed, Senior Lecturer & IA Coordinator

Specializations:
The Modern Novel, Creative Writing, Research and Citation

Recent Classes Taught:
World Literature since 1600, US Literature since 1865, Introduction to Creative Writing

Education:

M.F.A. Creative Writing - Texas State University

B.A. English - University of Texas, Austin

Specializations:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romanticism, Religion and Literature, Satire, Postcolonialism

Recent Classes Taught:
British Novels, British Literature, 1750–1800, The Postsecular Eighteenth Century

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of California, Los Angeles

M.A. English - University of California, Los Angeles

M.St. English Studies (1550–1780) - University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall)

B.A. English, Creative Writing - Texas Tech University

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Specializations:
Composition, Creative Writing, American Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A. Fiction - Texas State University

B.A. English - Rutgers University

 

Specializations:
Children's Literature, Magical Realism and Fantasy, Picturebook theory and history, Newfoundland folktale picturebooks

Recent Classes Taught:
Children's Literature, Advanced Studies Children's/Adolescent Lit, The Postsecular Eighteenth Century, History of Children's Literature, Canadian Literature

Education:
Ph.D English - University of Alberta

M.A. English - Carleton University

B. A. English (Honours) - Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
 

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, Technical Communication, Rhetoric and Composition

Recent Classes Taught:
Creative Writing: Fiction, Introduction to Creative Writing, Technical Writing

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Fiction - Texas State University

B.A. English and Journalism - University of Kentucky

 

Specializations:
STEM Communication, Research Methods, Digital Media, User Experience

Recent Classes Taught:
Science and Medical Communication, Usability Research Methods, Digital Media

 

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of Texas at Austin

M.A. English - University of Texas at Austin

Specializations:
Technical Writing, College Writing, European Cinema of the 1950s-1970s, Popular Music, Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
Sophomore Literature, Technical Writing, European Cinema of the 1960s

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University, San Marcos

B.A. Comparative Literature - University of Texas, Austin

 

Specializations:
Middle English Literature, Medieval Italian Literature, Roman Antiquity, Intertextuality

Recent Classes Taught:
Chaucer, Dante, Boccaccio, Development of English

 

Education:
Ph.D English - University of Connecticut

M.A. English - McGill University

B.A. English - McGill University

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Specializations:
Early American Literature, Transcendentalism, Gender Studies, Critical Race Studies

Recent Classes Taught:
Early American Literature before 1865, College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University

B.A. English - Texas State University

Specializations:
Early World Literature, Student Teacher Preparation, First-Year Composition

Recent Classes Taught:
World Literature Before 1600, College Writing I

Education:
M.A. Literature - Texas State University

 

Specializations:
Milton, Seventeenth Century Poetry and Prose, History of Rhetoric

Recent Classes Taught:
Milton, Shakespeare, Literary Scholarship

 

Education:
Ph.D. Renaissance and Seventeenth Century English Literature - University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.A. English and American Literature - University of Wisconsin, Madison

A.B. English - Miami University (Ohio)

Specializations:
Feminist and Literary Theory, LBGTQ Studies, Film and Television, 20th/21st Century British and American Women novelists

Recent Classes Taught:
Mainstream Queer Cinema, 20th and 21st Century Women Novelists, Critical Theory and Practice

 

Education:
Ph.D. History of Consciousness - University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A. English - University of Texas, Austin

B.A. English  - Pomona College

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Specializations:
Creative Writing, Essay Writing, Technical Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I

Education:
M.F.A. Fiction - Texas State University, San Marcos 

B.A. Modern Literary Studies - University of California, Santa Cruz

Specializations:
Spatial Literary Studies, Critical Theory, U.S. and World Literature, History of Criticism

Recent Classes Taught:
World Literature to 1600, The American Novel, Studies in Literary Genre

 

Education:
J.D., Law,  - Duke University School of Law

Ph.D., Critical and Cultural Studies -  University of Pittsburgh

M.A., Literature - University of Pittsburgh

A.B., Philosophy, Duke University

Specializations:
Poetry, Composition, Literature and the Arts

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing Poetry - Texas State University

B.A. English - Alma College

Specializations:
YA Literature, Children's Literature, SF, Fantasy, Horror

Recent Classes Taught:
Critical Theory and Practice, Children's Literature, Adolescent Literature

 

Education:
Ph.D. Russell Hoban (author) - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

B.A. (Hons.) English - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

B.A. English (Double Major) - Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Specializations:
Twentieth Century British Literature, Irish Studies, Modernism, Postcolonial Studies, James Joyce, Science and Technology, Gender and Women's Studies

Recent Classes Taught:
James Joyce / Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Modern Poetry, Twentieth Century British Literature, World Literature Since 1600

Education:
Ph.D. English - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

M.A. English - Texas A&M University

B.A. English - Texas A&M University

Specializations:
Technical Communication, Public Policy Writing, Race & Ethnicity in Technical Communication, Plain Language, Critical Discourse Analysis

Recent Classes Taught:
Writing for Government, Language Problems in Multicultural Environments, Editing the Professional Publication

Education:
Ph.D. Technical Communication & Rhetoric  - Texas Tech University

M.A. Technical Communication - Texas State University

M.A. Public Administration - University of Houston

B.S. Economics - University of Houston

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Specializations:
Rhetoric & Composition, Technical Communication, Public History

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II

Education:
M.A. English - Texas State University

B.A. History - University of Oklahoma

M.A. History - Texas State University

 

Specializations:
Composition Pedagogy and Theory, Writing Center Theory and Practice, Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetoric

Recent Classes Taught:
Women's Rhetoric, Composition Pedagogy, Composition Theory

 

Education:
Ph.D. in English, University of Texas at San Antonio

M.A. in English, Texas State University

B.A. in English, University of Oklahoma

Specializations:
Poetry of the US, the Beat Generation, US Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Irish Literature

Recent Classes Taught:
Graduate Poetry Workshop, Women of the Beat Generation, The Literature of Resistance

Education:
M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Wichita State University

M.A. in English - Texas State University

B.A. in Letters - University of Oklahoma

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Specializations:
Composition, Video Game Writing, Fiction Writing

Recent Classes Taught:
College Writing I, College Writing II, Practices in Writing and Rhetoric

Education:
M.F.A. Creative Writing - Fiction - Texas State University

B.A. English - Eastern Washington University

 

Specializations:
International technical communication, applied linguistics, ESL learning, translation studies, visual rhetoric, and technical writing

Recent Classes Taught:
International Technical Communication, Discourse Analysis, and Technical Writing

 

Education:
MPh. D. Technical Communication & Rhetoric - Texas Tech University

M.A. Applied Linguistics - Kunming University of Technology, China

B. A. English Literature - Guangxi Normal University

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