Leadership

Department Head

Senior Director of Writing Program

Shelley Rodrigo

Senior Director, Writing Program
Writing Scholar and Professor
  • Professional development & mentoring
  • Online & technologically mediated learning
  • Writing program administration

Leadership

Paul Hurh

Associate Professor
Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies (July 1-December 30)
  • Early American literature
  • Intellectual history and philosophy
  • Affect theory and new materialism

Manya Lempert

Associate Professor with Tenure
Associate Department Head
  • British and French modernism
  • History and theory of Tragedy
  • Philosophy and Literature

Farid Matuk

Program Director, MFA Creative Writing
Professor
  • Poetry & Poetics
  • World Literature
  • Black Study & Feminist Pedagogy

Jonathon S Reinhardt

Professor, English and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Program Director, EAL
  • Teaching English as a second language
  • Computer-assisted language learning
  • Digital game-based language learning