Paul Hurh

Associate Professor

Director, Undergraduate Studies

• Early American literature
• Intellectual history and philosophy
• Affect theory and new materialism

Hayriye Kayi-Aydar

Director, English Applied Linguistics

Associate Professor

• Critical applied linguistics
• TESOL teacher education
• Positioning theory and discourse analysis

Manuel Muñoz

Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing

Associate Professor

Cristina D Ramirez

Program Director, RCTE

Associate Professor

Shelley Rodrigo

Interim Director, Writing Program

Associate Writing Specialist and Associate Professor

• Professional development & mentoring
• Online & technologically mediated learning
• Writing program administration

Aurelie Sheehan

Department Head

• Novels and short stories
• Flash fiction and prose poetry
• Cross-genre writing

Lynda M Zwinger

Director, MA and PhD in English

Director, Graduate Studies

Professor

• English and American Novel
• Late 19th/Early 20th Century U.S. Literature
• Psychoanalysis and Literature