Graduate Faculty

Rhetoric and Composition Faculty
Creative Writing Faculty
English Education Faculty
Linguistics Faculty
Literature Faculty

Note: Because they teach in more than one area (e.g., creative writing and literature), some professors are listed twice.

Rhetoric and Composition  Faculty

Linda Hanson, Professor (PhD, University of Pennsylvania): Basic writing, writing assessment, teaching of writing, 19th c. theories of rhetoric and composition, British Romanticism

Graduate Courses: Seminar in Basic Writing Theory, Pedagogy & Reserach; 19th c. Theories of Composition; Literary Theory 1; Romantic Studies

Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Assistant Professor, Writing Center Director (PhD, University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Composition and rhetoric

Graduate Courses: Composition without Classrooms, Seminar in Composition (Writing Center Pedagogy), Teaching in English Studies, Technology in English Studies, Research in English Studies

Webster Newbold, Associate Professor; Director of the Writing Program (PhD, University of Birmingham, UK): Rhetoric and composition, on-line composition pedagogy

Graduate Courses: Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric, Writing Technologies, Technology and English Studies

Paul Ranieri, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Texas): First-year writing, honors humanities, classical rhetoric, cognitive development and composition pedagogy

Graduate Courses: Classical Rhetoric, Seminar in Composition: Cognition and Writing

Joseph Trimmer, Professor (PhD, Purdue University); Director, Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry: Professional writing, ethnography, 20th c. American fiction

Graduate Courses: Teaching English in Higher Education, Advanced Composition

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Creative Writing Faculty

Barbara Bogue, Associate Professor (MFA, The Witchita University): Fiction, creative nonfiction, contemporary literature written by women

Graduate Course: , Fiction Writing Workshop

Jill Christman, Associate Professor (MFA, University of Alabama): Creative nonfiction

Graduate Courses: Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop, Theory of Creative Writing: Reading & Writing Across the Genres, Teaching English Studies (Creative Writing)

Sean Aden Lovelace, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of Alabama): Fiction

Graduate Course: Fiction Writing Workshop

Mark Neely, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of Alabama): Creative writing (poetry)

Graduate Courses: Poetry Writing Workshop, Literary Editing

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English Education Faculty

Pamela Hartman, Associate Professor (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo): Secondary English education, literacy and writing, testing and pedagogy, gender and literacy, multiculturalism, critical pedagogy

Graduate Courses: Reading Printed Materials in the English Classroom

Peggy Rice, Associate Professor (PhD, Lousianna State University): English education, language arts, children's literature, gender issues, censorship, discourse analysis, intertextuality

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Linguistics Faculty

Megumi Hamada, Assistant Professor: Linguistics

Graduate Courses: Second Language Acquisition

Carolyn McKay, Professor (PhD, University of Texas): Mesoamerican languages (Totonac and Tepehua), Romance languages (Veneto, Italian, Spanish) sociolinguistics, language and culture, historical linguistics, field methods, research methods

Graduate Courses: Sociolinguistics, Language & Culture, Research Methods in Linguistics, Bilingualism and Social Contact

Elizabeth Riddle, Professor (PhD, University of Illinois): Pragmatics, functional syntax, semantics, TESOL, linguistic analysis of metaphor, tense/aspect, structure of English, structure of Hmong, teaching of Southeast Asian languages, language and society

Graduate Courses: Linguistics and the Study of English, Approaches to Modern English Grammar, Contrastive Analysis, Topics in English Grammar

Mary Theresa Seig, Associate Professor (PhD, Oklahoma State University): Discourse analysis, TESOL, English for specific purposes, materials and curriculum development

Graduate Courses: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Acquisition, Proseminar in Linguistics (English for Specific Purposes, Special Needs Assessment)

Lynne Stallings, Assistant Professor: Psycholinguistics, language production; Second language writing methods and assessment; The relationship between linguistic environment and language acquisition

Graduate Courses: TESOL methods, materials, and assessment

Frank Trechsel, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Texas): Theoretical syntax, formal semantics, phonetics, phonology, Native American languages (Totonac, Tepehua, K'iche, Tzotzil, Jakaltek, Southern Tiwa)

Graduate Courses: Introduction to Linguistics, Phonology, Syntax, Topics in Phonological Theory, Grammatical Theory

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Literature Faculty

Adam Beach, Assistant Professor (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo): Restoration and 18th c. British literature

Graduate Courses: Restoration and 18th c. Literature, Literary Theory

Patrick Collier, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Delaware): British Modernism, Modern Poetry, 19th & 20th c. British literature

Graduate Courses: Early 20th c. British literature, Teaching English in Higher Education (Literature)

Frank Felsenstein, Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities (PhD, University of Leeds): Honors humanities, literature and ethnicity, history of the book

Graduate Courses: English Literature; Ethnic and National Identity, 1660-1820; History of the Book

Robert D. Habich, Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania State University): American literature to 1900, especially the New England Transcendentalists; literary biography; textual editing

Graduate Courses: Early American Literature, American Renaissance, Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 19th c. American Subgenres

Linda Hanson, Professor (PhD, University of Pennsylvania): British Romanticism, Basic writing, writing assessment, teaching of writing, 19th c. theories of rhetoric and composition

Graduate Courses: Romantic Studies; Literary Theory 1; Seminar in Basic Writing Theory, Pedagogy & Reserach; 19th c. Theories of Composition

Bruce W. Hozeski, Professor (PhD, Michigan State University): Medieval British literature, dialects, Old English language & literature, Hildegard von Bingen, honors humanities

Graduate Courses: Chaucer, Drama from Beginnings to 1642, Early British Literature (non-Chaucer)

Joyce Huff, Assistant Professor (PhD, The George Washington University): Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the Victorian period, literature and medicine, disability studies, the novel

Graduate Courses: Victorian Literature, Literary Theory 2, Disability Studies

Kecia Driver McBride, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Tennessee): American fiction after 1865; American realism, naturalism & modernism; cinema studies; feminist theory; critical theory

Graduate Courses: American Realism & Naturalism, Women in American Literature, Film Theory & Criticism, Literary Theory 2

Deborah Mix, Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (PhD, Purdue): Twentieth-century American literature; American poetry; U.S. ethnic literatures; feminist literature and literary theory; postmodern literature and literary theory

Graduate Courses: Contemporary American Literature, Feminist American Poetry, Studies in U.S. Ethnic Literature

Robert Nowatzki, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): African American literature, 19th c. American literature, ideologies of race and masculinity

Graduate Courses: Novels of the American South, Race in American Literature and Culture, African American Literature

Lauren Onkey, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Postcolonial studies, Irish literature, Caribbean literature, contemporary British literature, cultural studies

Graduate Courses: Contemporary British Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Teaching in English Studies (Literature), Caribbean Literature, Irish Literature

Rai Peterson, Associate Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Poetics, pedagogy, modern poetry

Graduate Courses: Writing in the Profession, Rhetoric and Poetics

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