The University of Arizona

New Faculty Information

The English Department

enthusiastically welcomes seven new professors

to our faculty this fall.

 

CREATIVE WRITING:

 

FICTION

 

Manuel Munoz is the author of two story collections: The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007) which was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize, and Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press 2003). His work has appeared in The New York Times, Epoch, Glimmer Train Stories, Swink, Puerto del Sol, The Boston Review, and Mid-American Review.

 

Muñoz earned his MFA at Cornell University and his BA from Harvard. He has taught at both Boston University and Cornell, and has spent the last seven years working in publishing, first at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, and currently at Hachette Book Group in New York City.

 

NONFICTION

 

Ander Monson is the author of three books: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, essays, (Graywolf Press 2007), Other Electricities, fiction, (Sarabande Books 2005), Vacationland, poetry, (Tupelo Press 2005). His work has appeared in A Public Space, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Believer, Ninth Letter, and Quarterly West. He is the designer, editor, and publisher of Diagram Magazine, and has held positions as editor at The New Michigan Press, Del Sol Press, and Black Warrior Review.  Recent awards include the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award (in fiction) and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.

 

Monson earned his MFA in Fiction and Poetry at the University of Alabama, MA from Iowa State University, and BA from Knox College.  He has taught at Grand Valley State University, the University of Alabama, Iowa State University, and Knox College.

 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS

 

Andrea Dallas (Ph.D. -- University of Florida, 2008) has a specialization in second language acquisition and psycholinguistics. She also holds an M.A. in linguistics from UF (2004). She has served as an instructor in UF's Academic Spoken English Program and in the Program in Linguistics, and worked as a research assistant in the Kaan Brain & Language Lab. Before beginning graduate work in linguistics, Andrea lived for two years in Sosnowiec, Poland, teaching English and completing her M.Ed. via Framingham (Mass) State College. She graduated summa cum laude from Florida International University in 1999 with a B.A. in English and a certificate in linguistics.



Andrea's research focuses on the processing of syntax by adult learners of second languages, particularly English.  She is also interested in how other individual differences, such as personality factors, foreign language anxiety, and working memory influence non-native syntactic processing.  Her most recent publication is "Second Language Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies by Late Learners" in Language and Linguistics Compass, which is based on her dissertation.  Her doctoral study was supported by a grant from Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies.

 

Jonathon Reinhardt (Ph.D. -- Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, 2007). His research focuses on second/foreign language pedagogy and teacher development, technology and language learning, corpus linguistics, and interlanguage pragmatics. He is Co-Director of the Technologies Project at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at Penn State. His work has appeared in International Journal of Applied Linguistics, CALICO Journal, and most recently in Mediated Discourse Online (Benjamins, 2008) and Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages (Equinox, 2008). His background is in EFL/ESL, which he taught for 10 years in Japan, Austria, Chicago, and Pennsylvania. He comes to Arizona from Southern Connecticut State University, where he taught foreign language education.


LITERATURE

 

Allison Dushane
Duke University, Ph.D. 2008.
Dushane is a Romanticist who also specializes in eighteenth-century literature, literary and aesthetic theory, science and technology, and digital media. Her dissertation argues for a relationship between theories of matter, conceptions of nature, and innovations in aesthetic form in the long Romantic period through the work of Erasmus Darwin, Blake, Shelley, Goethe, and Coleridge. She has also presented papers on Atwood, Darwin, Borges, and technology in the classroom. Her teaching experience includes classes on poetry and criticism, "Forbidden Knowledge: Literature, Science, and Creation," a course on Austen, and a course on digital textuality.

 

J. Paul Hurh
Berkeley Ph.D. 2008.
Hurh is a 19th century Americanist whose dissertation focuses on terror as literary affect  in Melville and Poe, but he also has an article forthcoming on Faulkner and has given conference papers on Dickinson. His teaching has included special topics courses on "Love and Money in the American Novel," "Crises of Faith," "Race in the Literature of the Nineteenth-Century America," and "Horrific Spaces in American Literature," as well as experience in both early and late American Literature surveys.

 

 

RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, and the TEACHING of ENGLISH

 

Damian Baca (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 2006) completed his dissertation on IndoHispano rhetorics at Syracuse University in 2006 and was formerly an assistant professor at Michigan State University. His publications range across Chicano literature, Native American codices, and professional issues in the teaching of writing. His Mestiz@ Scripts Digital Migrations and the Territories of Writing has just been published in the New Directions in Lantino American Cultures Series from Palgrave Macmillan, and he is currently editing a special issue of College English on “Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad.” He played jazz bass in a former life.