Faculty and Staff

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Barrett, Victoria, Assistant Professor (MFA, New Mexico State University): Writing program

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

Bethanis, Peter, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst): Writing program

Bishop-Weidner, Lauren, Instructor: Writing program

Blackwell, Brent, Assistant Professor (PhD, Purdue University): Writing program

Bogue, Barbara, Associate Professor (MFA, The Witchita University): Creative writing (fiction and creative nonfiction)

Bove, Cheryl, Assistant Professor: Director, Writing in the Design Curriculum

Boyd, John, Assistant Professor: Writing program

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Calhoun, Randall, Assistant Professor: Writing program

Chalk, Carol, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

Chalk, Steve, Assistant Professor (PhD, Michigan State University): Writing program

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

Clark-Upchurch, Mary, Instructor

Collier, Patrick, Associate Professor; Assistant Chair (PhD, University of Delaware): British modernism, modern poetry, 19th & 20th c. British literature

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Dalton, Elizabeth, Instructor (MA, Ball State University): Writing program

Davis, Peter, Assistant Professor (MFA, Bennington College): Writing program

DePeter, Ronald, Instructor (PhD, Florida State University): Writing program

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Edwards, Marita, Instructor: Writing program

Elliot, Chris, Computer specialist

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

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Gibson, Jama, Secretary to Assistant Chairperson

Grant, Shasta, Assistant Professor (MFA, Sarah Lawrence College): Writing program

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Habich, Robert, Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania State University): American literature to 1900; literary biography; textual editing

Hamada, Megumi, Assistant Professor: Linguistics

Hanson, Linda, Professor (PhD, University of Pennsylvania): Composition and rhetoric, basic writing, British Romanticism

Hartman, Matthew, Assistant Professor, Department Webmaster (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo): Writing program

Hartman, Pamela, Associate Professor (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo): Secondary English education

Haynes, David, Instructor (MA, Marquette University): Writing program

Hiday, Karen, Instructor: Writing program

Hillman, Sharon, Administrative Coordinator

Holbrook, William, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

Houck, Charles, Professor Emeritus (PhD, University of Iowa): Linguistics

Hozeski, Bruce, Professor (PhD, Michigan State University): Medieval British literature, dialects, Old English language & literature

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

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Jennings, Maude, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): African American literature, multicultural studies

Johnson, Fred, Instructor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

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Keathley, Michael, Instructor: Writing program

King, John, Instructor (MA, MS, Ball State University)

King, Sandra: Secretary

Kuha, Mai, Assistant Professor (PhD, Indiana University): Linguistics

Kurin, Stephanie, Instructor: Writing program

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Lindberg, Laurie, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Honors program

Lovelace, Sean Aden, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of Alabama): Creative writing (fiction)

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Mack, Rachel, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of Alabama): Writing program

MacKay, Carolyn, Professor (PhD, University of Texas): Linguistics, Mesoamerican languages (Totonac and Tepehua), Romance languages (Veneto, Italian, Spanish)

Matuka, Yeno, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program, linguistics

Mcbride, Kecia Driver, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department (PhD, University of Tennessee): American literature after 1865, cinema studies, critical theory

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

McKinney, Todd, Assistant Professor (MFA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Writing program

Mellen, Jamie, Instructor: Writing program

Metzger, Kenan, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence): English education

Meyerhofer, Michael, Instructor (MFA, University of Illinois - Carbondale): Writing program

Mix, Deborah, 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

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

Nesbitt, Elizabeth, Instructor: Writing program

Neubauer, Karen, Instructor: Writing program

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

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

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

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Payne, Martha, Assistant Professor (PhD, Michigan State University): Writing program, Greek and Roman history and culture, classical mythology

Peterson, Rai, Associate Professor (PhD, Ball State University): American literature, modern poetry

Priebe, Anna, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Cincinnati): Writing program

Prince, John, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

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Ranieri, Paul, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Texas): Rhetoric and composition, first-year writing, honors humanities, classical rhetoric

Rice, Peggy, Associate Professor (PhD, Lousianna State University): Elementary English education, language arts, children's literature

Riddle, Elizabeth, Professor, (PhD, University of Illinois): Linguistics, pragmatics, functional syntax, semantics, teaching of Southeast Asian languages, language and society

Riley, Larry, Instructor (MS, Ball State University): Writing program

Royster, Brent, Assistant Professor (MFA, Bowling Green State University): Writing program

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Scott, Andrew, Assistant Professor (MFA, New Mexico State University): Writing program instructor

Seig, Mary Theresa, Associate Professor (PhD, Oklahoma State University): Linguistics, discourse analysis, TESOL

Shawna Sewell, Secretary to Academic Programs Directors

Snyder, Laura, Assistant Professor (PhD, Loyola University Chicago): Writing program

Stahlke, Herbert, Professor Emeritus (PhD, UCLA): Linguistics

Stallings, Lynne, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Southern California): Psycholinguistics, language production; Second language writing methods and assessment; The relationship between linguistic environment and language acquisition

Stanley, Kelly, Instructor; Coordinator, Office of Internships (MS, Ball State University): Writing program

Stockton, William, Assistant Professor (PhD, Indiana University): Literature of the English Renaissance (especially Shakespeare), Chaucer, queer theory, and psychoanalysis

Strecker, Geri, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

Strecker, Trey, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

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Taylor, Karen, Secretary to Director of Writing Programs

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

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

Turnbull, Merrielle, Assistant Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Writing program

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Wescott, Lisa, Instructor (M.Ed., Walden University): Elementary education

Wittkamper, Kathi, Instructor: Writing program

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