Faculty Members
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Aurelie Sheehan Department Head, English Email: asheehan@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-9917 Office: M LNG 445 Aurelie Sheehan is the author of three short story collections, Demigods on Speedway (University of Arizona Press 2014), Jewelry Box: A Collection of Histories (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013), and Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press 1994), as well as... [more information] |
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Matthew Abraham Professor Email: mabraham1@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0775 Office: 486 Modern Languages Bldg Matthew Abraham is Professor of English, specializing in Rhetoric and Composition and the Teaching of English. His publications have appeared in JAC: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics, Cultural Critique, South Atlantic Quarterly... [more information] |
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H Douglas Adamson Professor Emeritus Email: dadamson@email.arizona.edu I have been retired for several years but continue to read and write about areas of applied linguistics that interest me. A longstanding interest is variation in interlanguage, especially whether learners of second languages acquire appropriate identity-marking features (do men learning English “... [more information] |
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Susan H Aiken Professor Emerita & University Distinguished Professor Email: sha@email.arizona.edu Susan Hardy Aiken (Ph.D., Duke University), University Distinguished Professor, teaches and writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and culture, gender studies, and poetry. A founding member of the University of Arizona Women’s Studies Program... [more information] |
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Daniel F Cooper Alarcon Associate Professor, English Email: dfcooper@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7394 Office: 490 Modern Languages Bldg Daniel Cooper Alarcon is dedicated to both research and teaching. Some of his additional interests include studies of travel, tourism, and migration; Latino/Latina literatures; American literature. [more information] |
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Dwight Atkinson Professor Email: dwightatki@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 445 Modern Languages Bldg Dwight Atkinson is an applied linguist and second language educator who specializes in writing, qualitative research approaches, and second language acquisition. Current projects include developing a “sociocognitive” approach to second language acquisition and research on the... [more information] |
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Damián P Baca Associate Professor Email: damian@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7216 Office: 434 Modern Languages Bldg Damián Baca (PhD, Syracuse University) is author of Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing (Palgrave Macmillan), lead editor of Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114BCE to 2012CE (Palgrave Macmillan), and has published in JAC: An... [more information] |
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Mary Bell Lecturer Email: mebell@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Carl T Berkhout Professor, Emeritus Email: ctb@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 459 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Kate Bernheimer Associate Professor, English Email: kbernheimer@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 445 Kate Bernheimer’s most recent book is Office at Night, a novella co-authored with Laird Hunt (Finalist, Shirley Jackson Awards). It was published by Coffee House Press and co-commissioned by The Walker Art Center. She also is the author of two story collections, How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from... [more information] |
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Laura C Berry Associate Professor, English Email: berry@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6901 Office: ML 340 [more information] |
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Dev Bose Assistant Professor CT Email: bose@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: ML 359 Assistant Director of Online Writing and Accessibility Acting Associate Director of Writing Program Affiliate Faculty of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, Co-chair of Disability Studies Initiative Pronouns: He/him/his Dev K. Bose is an Assistant Professor of... [more information] |
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Sean Bottai Senior Lecturer, English & Assistant Director, Writing Program Email: bottai@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0769 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 374 Sean Bottai has taught in the Writing Program as a Lecturer since 2007. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida, Gainesville (2007). He's a winner of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation’s Henfield Prize for his fiction. He is currently an Assistant... [more information] |
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Susan Briante Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literature Email: sbriante@email.arizona.edu Office: MLNG 336 Susan Briante’s most recent book The Market Wonders (Ahsahta Press) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. The Kenyon Review calls it “masterful at every turn.” She is also the author of the poetry collections Pioneers in the Study of Motion and Utopia Minus... [more information] |
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Stephanie J Brown Lecturer Email: stephbrown@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 476 Dr. Stephanie Brown is a lecturer in the University of Arizona English Department and an affiliated faculty member of Gender and Women's Studies. She received her PhD in English literature from the University of Virginia in 2012. Her current book project, Watching Women: State... [more information] |
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Meg L Brown Professor, English Email: mlbrown@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7393 Office: 492 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Thaddeus Camp Lecturer Email: tcamp@email.arizona.edu Office: Pink Hotel [more information] |
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Maritza E Cardenas Associate Professor, English Email: mcardena@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: mcardena@email.arizona.edu Office: 469 Modern Languages Bldg Maritza Cardenas is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She received her doctorate and masters degree from the University of Michigan in the program of American Culture, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in Comparative Literature. Her... [more information] |
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Bryan Carter Affiliate Faculty Email: bryancarter@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-0110 Office: Learning Services Building 242 Dr. Bryan Carter received his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies, specializing in African American literature of the 20th Century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and a secondary emphasis on digital culture.... [more information] |
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Kevin Cassell Lecturer Email: kcassell@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 FAX: 520-621-7397 Office: Santa Rita House (1219 N. Santa Rita-formerly Middle Eastern Studies) Kevin Cassell teaches courses in both Foundations Writing and the Professional and Technical Writing Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University, an MA in English (Composition & American Literature) from Northeastern University, and a... [more information] |
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Justin Chrestman Lecturer Email: jchrestman@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Stacey Cochran Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Student Success and Wellness Email: cochranwrites@email.arizona.edu Office: ML 380 Website for Arizona's Conference on Writing and Well-Being Stacey Cochran is an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona and serves as Coordinator of Student Success and Wellness for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. In his role as coordinator,... [more information] |
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Christopher A Cokinos Associate Professor, English Email: cokinos@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Tuesday afternoons and by appointment Christopher Cokinos is the author of three books of literary nonfiction: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Tarcher/Penguin); The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars (Tarcher/Penguin); and Bodies, of the Holocene (Truman). In 2016, the University... [more information] |
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Roger Dahood Professor, English Email: rdahood@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1920 Office: 465 Modern Languages Bldg Roger Dahood's pubpublications include The Avowing of King Arthur: A Critical Edition (1984; rpt Routledge, 2014); Ancrene Riwle: Introduction and Part One (co‑edited and translated with R. W. Ackerman, 1984) and essays on Old and Middle... [more information] |
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Lewis Daniel DeJong Lecturer Email: ldejong@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 [more information] |
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Alison H Deming Professor, English Email: ademing@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0799 Office: M LNG 438 Alison Hawthorne Deming was born and grew up in Connecticut. Her most recent books are the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven (Penguin 2016) and Death Valley: Painted Light, a collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom (George F. Thomson 2016). The essay collection ... [more information] |
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Edgar A Dryden Professor, Emeritus Email: edryden@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 367 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Carol R Ekstrom Lecturer Email: cekstrom@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 [more information] |
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William Epstein Professor, Emeritus Email: wepstein@email.arizona.edu Professor Epstein has a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and PhD. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His publications include the first book-length biography of the 18th-century British novelist John Cleland (Columbia UP), the first... [more information] |
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Lawrence J Evers Professor Emeritus, English Email: levers@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3416 Office: 365 Modern Languages Bldg Larry Evers is a professor in the Literature Program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was a post-doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Founding editor of Sun Tracks: an American Indian Literary Series published by the... [more information] |
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Amy Fatzinger Affiliate Faculty Email: fatzinge@ais.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-8440 Office: Harvill, Room 235B Amy Fatzinger, Ph.D. (American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, 2008) is an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for AIS and as the Associate Curator for the University of Arizona's American Indian Film Gallery (https... [more information] |
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Krista Ferguson Lecturer Email: kristaferguson@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7397 Office: 1219 N. Santa Rita, Room 11 Krista Ferguson has taught Foundations Writing courses at the University of Arizona since 2011. She has also taught women’s and gender studies, fiction writing, and technical writing at a variety of institutions since 2002. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and... [more information] |
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Peter Figler Lecturer Email: pfigler@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Jeremy J Frey Senior Lecturer, English Email: freybaby@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 380 In addition to his 2013 Lecturer of the Year award and recent invitation to serve as Faculty Advisor for UA's all-women voice club Dolce Acapella, Frey is a senator-at-large in Faculty Senate and sits on the Career Track Ad Hoc and Student Affairs Policy committees. A... [more information] |
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Emma Gomez Lecturer Email: emmagomez79@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 1515 E. 1st Street Emma Gomez has lived in Tucson for over a decade. She received her B.A. in English and M.A. in Literature from CSULA. She holds a M.Ed., with a specialization in Special Education from GCU. Her academic interests include medieval literature, ethnic literature, film studies, and gender and sexuality... [more information] |
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Rafael Eduardo Gonzalez Lecturer Email: regonzalez3@email.arizona TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Pink Hotel [more information] |
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Jean N Goodrich Senior Lecturer Email: jgoodric@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 380; Modern Languages 445 (sign ledger, leave work in basket) [more information] |
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Kindall L Gray Lecturer Email: kindallg@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 344 [more information] |
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Nicholas Barlow Halsey Lecturer Email: nhalsey@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Santa Rita House: 1219 N Santa Rita Ave Nick has earned an MA in English Studies from Western Washington University and an MA in Teaching ESL from the University of Arizona. For over ten years, he has been teaching in the areas of first-year writing, second language writing, and ESL. [more information] |
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Keith Harms Assistant Professor CT Email: keithharms@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 330 Keith has a PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota and an MA in Fiction Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently Assistant Director for Professional and Technical Writing. His research interests include the... [more information] |
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Kristen Hoggatt-Abader Lecturer Email: khoggattabader@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Jerrold E Hogle Professor Emeritus & University Distinguished Professor Email: hogle@email.arizona.edu Dr. Jerrold E. (Jerry) Hogle, whose Ph.D. is from Harvard University (where he won the Howard Mumford Jones Thesis Prize), is Professor and University Distinguished Professor in the University of Arizona’s Department of English. The winner of Guggenheim... [more information] |
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Ryan Humphrey Lecturer Email: chomsky@email.arizona.edu Office: Pink Hotel [more information] |
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Paul Hurh Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor Email: jphurh@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 445 Paul Hurh’s research and teaching is primarily in the field of nineteenth-century American literature. His work has focused on questions of literary aesthetics, philosophy, and intellectual history. His book, American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and... [more information] |
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Jennifer Jenkins Professor, English, Film, Archival Studies Email: jenkinsj@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0774 Office: 461 Modern Languages Bldg. Jennifer Jenkins works at the intersections of literature, film, and archives, teaching in both the English department and the iSchool at the University of Arizona. Publications on literature include essays in ESQ, The Henry James Review, Twentieth Century... [more information] |
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Fenton Johnson Professor Email: fjohnson@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7392 Fenton Johnson is the author of three novels, The Man Who Loved Birds, forthcoming in February 2016, as well as Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock, each to be reissued in February 2016. He is also the author of Geography of the Heart: A Memoir and... [more information] |
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Hayriye Kayi-Aydar Assistant Professor Email: hkaydar@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: ML 445 Hayriye Kayi-Aydar teaches courses for English undergraduate, MAESL graduate, and SLAT PhD graduate students. Her research works with discourse, narrative, and English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogy, at the intersections of the poststructural Second Language Acquisition (SLA) approaches... [more information] |
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Frederick P Kiefer Professor, English & University Distinguished Professor Email: fkiefer@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7398 Office: 467 Modern Languages Bldg Frederick Kiefer is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he teaches Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He earned his B.A. in English at Loyola College, Maryland, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. He is the author of English Drama from “Everyman”... [more information] |
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Amy Kimme Hea Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Success, SBS & Professor, RCTE Email: kimmehea@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1112 Office: Douglass 200W Amy C. Kimme Hea is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Success in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. In this role, Dr. Kimme Hea is responsible for curriculum review and assessment, student enrollment management, student recruitment and retention, undergraduate advising, ... [more information] |
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Samantha Kirby Lecturer Email: samkm@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Marcia Klotz Assistant Professor Email: mklotz@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 Office: MLNG 459 Marcia Klotz received her Ph.D. From Stanford University in 1994. Since then, she has taught at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, the University of California at Irvine, and Portland State University before coming to the University of Arizona in 2013. She teaches a wide variety of... [more information] |
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Alan Thomas Kohler Assistant Professor CT, English & Assistant Director, Writing Program Email: alankohler@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Alan Thomas Kohler holds a PhD from the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) program at the University of Arizona and is currently Assistant Professor (career-track) and Assistant Director of Second Language Writing (SLW) in the Writing Program where he mentors graduate student... [more information] |
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Jonathan Laguardia Lecturer Email: jlaguard@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 [more information] |
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Manya Lempert Assistant Professor Email: mlempert@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7397 Office: ML 423 Manya Lempert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She received her B.A. in English and French from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel, which she reads in... [more information] |
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Geta J Leseur-Brown Professor Emerita, English Email: getal@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 [more information] |
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Adela C Licona Associate Professor Emeritus, English Email: aclicona@email.arizona.edu Adela C. Licona, Associate Professor Emeritus, English. Professor Licona served as the Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies and as Vice Chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory graduate minor. She was affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute of the Environment,... [more information] |
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Kristin L Little Lecturer Email: kll@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-7582 Office: ML 380 Kristin Little received bachelor’s degrees in English and Italian from the University of Arizona in 2007; previously, she received a BFA in Theatre Production. After a career in aviation as a flight instructor, she decided to return to school and earn master’s degrees in Rhetoric, Composition and... [more information] |
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Aimee C Mapes Associate Director, Writing Program and Associate Writing Specialist, English Email: acmapes@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3553 Office: 460 Modern Languages Bldg Aimee Mapes holds a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture with a cognate in Rhetoric from the University of Iowa and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University’s Thompson Writing Program. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Writing Program where she has... [more information] |
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Melani Martinez Lecturer Email: melanimartinez@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Melani Martinez was born and raised in Tucson, AZ. After completing a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, Melani attended Goucher College's low-residency program for an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She is the recipient of Fourth Genre's 1st Place Editor's Prize... [more information] |
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Lauren Camille Mason Assistant Professor Email: lmason@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 445 Modern Languages Bldg Lauren Camille Mason received her PhD in English from Michigan State University (Go Spartans!). Her research interests include visual culture, urbanism, and globalism in contemporary novels and films. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines photographic... [more information] |
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Farid Matuk Associate Professor, Creative Writing Email: matuk@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press), and of several chapbooks including My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta) and from Don't Call It Reginald Denny (Society... [more information] |
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Alison F McCabe Lecturer Email: afm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Main Library, Room B539 Alison McCabe is a Lecturer of English with the UA's Writing Program. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (emphasis in Fiction) and MA in Counseling from the University of Arizona. Since 2011, Alison has contributed to the Dept. of English as a Lecturer, Faculty Supervisor, and New Start... [more information] |
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Maureen A McHugh Lecturer Email: mmchugh@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 380 [more information] |
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George T McLoof Lecturer Email: gmcloof@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 344 [more information] |
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Peter Ernest Medine Professor Emeritus Email: medine@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-5539 Office: 484 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Lee Medovoi Professor, English Email: medovoi@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-9917 Office: 471 Modern Languages Bldg Lee Medovoi is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona and Chair of the Program in Social, Cultural and Critical Theory. A graduate of the Ph.D. program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, he was the founding director of the... [more information] |
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John J Melillo Assistant Professor Email: johnmelillo@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Online only John Melillo is an assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2010. John was an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2013. His book project, Outside In: ... [more information] |
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Claire Meuschke Lecturer Email: cmeushcke@email.arizona.edu Claire Meuschke received her MFA in Poetry at the University of Arizona in 2017. Her first book of poems will be published in 2020 by Noemi Press. In addition to teaching, she's an assistant poetry editor for DIAGRAM and works as a farm assistant at Las Milpitas Community Farm. [more information] |
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Thomas P Miller Professor, English Email: tpm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 445 Thomas P. Miller is Professor of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. He has won awards for teaching, mentoring graduate students, and leadership on diversity issues. He has published five books and over fifty scholarly articles, chapters, and reviews on rhetorical theory... [more information] |
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Susan Miller-Cochran Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program Email: millercochran@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 445 Modern Languages Bldg Susan Miller-Cochran is professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Arizona. She teaches undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition and graduate courses in the doctoral program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE).... [more information] |
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David Mondy Lecturer Email: dmondy@email.arizona.edu Office: Pink Hotel [more information] |
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Gerald C Monsman Professor, English Email: monsman@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6157 Office: 367 Modern Languages Bldg Gerald Monsman is Professor and former Head of the Department, where he specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglo-African literature. Previously as Professor at Duke University he had been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and, while part of the Duke program in creative... [more information] |
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Ander Monson Associate Professor, English Email: ander@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7405 Office: MLNG 429 Ander Monson is the author of six published books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry (The Available World, Letter to a Future Lover, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, Vacationland, Vanishing Point), with two forthcoming (The Gnome Stories and I Will Take... [more information] |
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Manuel Muñoz Associate Professor, English; Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing Email: munozm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0775 Office: ML 484 Manuel Muñoz received his BA in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University in 1998, where he was mentored by the Chicana writer Helena María Viramontes. He is a first-generation college graduate and is often... [more information] |
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Joseph A Nardinelli Lecturer Email: ajosef35@email.arizona.edu Office: Modern Languages 334 [more information] |
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Tenney Nathanson Professor, English Email: nathanso@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1091 FAX: (520) 621-7397 (attn: Tenney Nathanson) Office: 482 Modern Languages Bldg Tenney Nathanson (PhD, Columbia University) teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in contemporary American poetry, modernist poetry and poetics, nineteenth century American poetry, American Buddhism and American poetry, and close reading. His critical book Whitman's... [more information] |
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Carol A Nowotny-Young Assistant Professor CT Email: can@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7407 Office: 361 Modern Languages Bldg Teaching of Composition, Supervision of Graduate Assistants/Associates in the Teaching of Composition [more information] |
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Stephanie R Pearmain Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate English Internships Email: pearmain@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3287 Office: 433 Modern Languages Bldg Stephanie Pearmain received an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hollins University and a BA in Religious Studies and History from the University of Arizona. She has worked in the English Department at UA since 2001 where she currently teaches courses in... [more information] |
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Homer B. Pettey Professor, Film and Comparative Literature Email: petteyh@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0778 Office: 442 Modern Languages Bldg Homer B. Pettey serves as the General/Founding Editor for three scholarly book series. Global Film Studios and International Film Stars are current series for Edinburgh University Press. Global Film Directors is a new series for Rutgers University Press. He is also on... [more information] |
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Seemin Raina Lecturer Email: sraina@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Cristina D Ramirez Associate Professor, English Email: cristinaramirez@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 386 Modern Languages Bldg Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, associate professor, is the Program Director for the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) graduate program in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the article “Forging a Mestiza Rhetoric: Mexican Women... [more information] |
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Diane R Ransdell Assistant Professor CT Email: ransdell@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3986 Office: 361 Modern Languages Bldg Dr. D.R. Ransdell teaches composition courses for the Writing Program. She holds a B.A. in Spanish, a Master's in ESL, and a doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition. Her specialty is second-language composition. She also teaches for the Arizona in Italy Program in Orvieto, Italy. [more information] |
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Suresh Somnath Raval Professor, English Email: sraval@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7403 Office: 440 Modern Languages Bldg Suresh Raval's interests include modern British fiction, Anglophone post-colonial fiction, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and globalization and literary studies represent my areas of teaching and research. Some of my research is focused on intersections... [more information] |
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Nataly Reed Lecturer Email: reedn@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 1515 E 1st St, rm 10 Nataly Reed teaches Foundations Writing courses. She earned her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has been teaching English – academic composition and language acquisition – since 1999 in various settings, including high school in Massachusetts... [more information] |
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Jonathon S Reinhardt Associate Professor, English & Director of EAL Email: jonrein@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 478 Modern Languages Bldg Jon Reinhardt teaches courses for English undergraduate, MATESL graduate, and SLAT PhD graduate students, primarily focused on teaching languages with technology, sociolinguistics, and teaching English as a foreign language. His research interests lie in the relationship between... [more information] |
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Ruth M Reiniche Lecturer Email: reiniche@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Pink Hotel [more information] |
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Shelley Rodrigo Associate Director Writing Program, Online Writing; Associate Writing Specialist Email: rrodrigo@email.arizona.edu Office: ML 452 Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is Associate Director Writing Program, Online Writing, and Associate Writing Specialist. She also serves as core faculty in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She researches how “newer”... [more information] |
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Jamey Rogers Lecturer Email: jameyrogers@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: 'Pink Hotel' (1515 E. 1st Street, Bldg. 12: between Cherry and Vine) Jamey Rogers has taught Foundations Writing and Technical & Business Writing courses as a Lecturer at the University of Arizona since 2014. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics from Pitzer College and a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other... [more information] |
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Judd Ruggill Associate Professor, Affiliate Faculty Email: jruggill@email.arizona.edu Judd Ruggill joined the University of Arizona in 2016 as part of the Computational Media Cluster initiative. He is an Associate Professor and Department Head of Public and Applied Humanities, and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of English, the School of Information, the School of... [more information] |
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Sean J Rys Lecturer Email: srys@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 344 [more information] |
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Michael S Sayle Professor, English Email: mssayle@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: Modern Languages 445 [more information] |
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Charles W Scruggs University Distinguished Professor Email: scruggs@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3527 Office: 332 Modern Languages Bldg Charles Scruggs is a professor of American literature at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (Johns Hopkins UP, 1984) and Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 1993... [more information] |
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Scott Selisker Associate Professor Email: selisker@email.arizona.edu Office: 470 Modern Languages Bldg Scott Selisker's research and teaching focus on post-WWII U.S. literature, with emphases on science and technology studies and the digital humanities. He received his PhD in English at the University of Virginia in 2010 and taught at Macalester College and UCSB (as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow)... [more information] |
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Maria Serrano Lopez Adjunct Lecturer Email: serranolopez@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 [more information] |
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Charles E Sherry Associate Professor, English Email: csherry@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6214 Office: 421 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Ann Shivers-McNair Assistant Professor & Director of Professional and Technical Writing Email: shiversmcnair@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 FAX: 520-621-7397 Office: Modern Languages 445 Ann Shivers-McNair is Assistant Professor and Director of Professional and Technical Writing in the Department of English and Affiliated Faculty in the School of Information at the University of Arizona. Her work has appeared in journals such as Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction; ... [more information] |
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Johanna Skibsrud Assistant Professor Email: jskibsrud@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 430 Modern Languages Bldg Johanna Skibsrud is an Assistant Professor with a special interest in modern poetry and philosophy and critical theory. She completed her PhD from the University of Montreal in 2012 with a dissertation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and was awarded a Social Sciences and... [more information] |
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Joel E R Smith Senior Lecturer Email: jersmith@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-7582 Office: Mod Lang 380 Joel Smith teaches Foundations Writing, as well as Technical, Business, and Creative Writing. He also serves on the College of SBS Faculty Advisory Committee. To find him on the internet, please visit parishcomic.com. His debut graphic novel, The Parish: An AmeriCorps Story, ... [more information] |
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Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan Assistant Professor Email: rtsrinivasan@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 FAX: 520-621-7397 Office: Modern Languages 427 Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan joins the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor of English. She holds a B.A. in Literature from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with an emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Trained as an interdisciplinary... [more information] |
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Erik St. Mark Lecturer Email: estmark@email.arizona.edu Office: Department of English Instructor Offices (the Pink Hotel located at 1515 E 1st St) Room 12, Desk #6 Erik earned undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Criminology as a Pre-Law student before attending the University of Arizona on departmental assistantships and college fellowships. He earned graduate degrees in Higher Education and English Applied Linguistics, and completed the... [more information] |
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Shelley Staples Associate Professor Email: slstaples@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 445 Shelley Staples (PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, 2014) teaches courses in the undergraduate English program, MA in ESL program, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching PhD program. Her research focuses on the use of corpus-based discourse analysis (... [more information] |
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Christine Tardy Professor, English, Associate Director, Writing Program, & Associate Professor, SLAT/Teaching-GIDP Email: ctardy@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-3553 Office: 462 Modern Languages Bldg Christine Tardy teaches courses in the undergraduate English program, MA-TESL program, and SLAT PhD program. Her research focuses on the areas of second language writing, genre and discourse studies, English for Academic Purposes (EAP)/Writing in the Disciplines (WID), and the... [more information] |
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TC MD Tolbert Lecturer Email: tctolbert@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014), Conditions/Conditioning (a collaborative... [more information] |
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Norman E Toso Assistant Professor CT Email: netoso@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 326 Modern Languages Bldg Erec is the author of a memoir, Zero at the Bone: Re-Writing Life After a Snakebite, numerous essays and poems, and has edited three editions of Rain Shadow, a literary magazine for prison writers. He has also edited the Student's Guide to First-Year Composition. He... [more information] |
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Stephanie Troutman Assistant Professor Email: troutmans@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 426 Modern Languages Dr. Stephanie Troutman is a Black feminist scholar and first-generation college student. An advanced junior faculty member, she joins the RCTE program as Assistant Professor of Emerging Literacies. A former high school and middle grades public school teacher, Stephanie is a scholar-activist who has... [more information] |
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John P Warnock Professor Emeritus, English Email: johnw@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 B.A. 1963 Amherst College M.A. 1968 Oxford University (England) J.D. 1968 New York University School of Law John Warnock started teaching English at the University of Wyoming in 1970. Over the next twenty years, he directed the composition program, the Wyoming Writing Project, the UW Writing... [more information] |
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Franci A Washburn Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, Affiliate Faculty Email: washburn@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8581 Office: Harvill 214 Franci Washburn holds a BA with a double major in English/Spanish; an MA in English (Creative Writing, Fiction) and a Ph.D. in American Studies with an emphasis in Cultural Studies, all from the University of New Mexico. Her dissertation, Beauty of Sound and Meaning: An Analysis of... [more information] |
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Susan M White Professor, English Email: swhite@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7404 Office: 378 Modern Languages Bldg Susan White is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. After completing undergraduate degrees at Université Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle (Cinema) and UC Berkeley (Semiotics), White received her M.A. in French and her Ph.D. at the... [more information] |
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Thomas S Willard Professor, English Email: willard@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1154 Office: 494 Modern Languages Bldg Thomas Willard has been at the University of Arizona since 1978. He teaches late medieval and early modern literature, Shakespeare, literary analysis and research, comparative literature. [more information] |
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Dennis Wise Lecturer Email: dwwise@email.arizona.edu Office: 1219 Santa Rita Ave. Dennis Wilson Wise (PhD, Middle Tennessee State U) is a lecturer who teaches in the UA's Writing Program. His main academic areas include science fiction, fantasy literature, and more generally 20th- & 21st-century British and American lit. The relationship between political philosophy and... [more information] |
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Kirk Wisland Lecturer Email: wisland@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 BA in Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, MFA in Creative Writing, University of Arizona, PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, Ohio University. I am a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee in Nonfiction, and in 2015 Roxane Gay selected my essay collection, "The Melancholy of Falling Men," as the winner... [more information] |
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Jesseka Z Zeleike Senior Lecturer Email: jzz@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: ML 373 [more information] |
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Lynda M Zwinger Professor, English; Director of the Graduate Literature Program; Director of Graduate Studies Email: lyndaz@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1679 Office: 431 Modern Languages Bldg Lynda Zwinger teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the novel, epic fantasy fiction, psychoanalytic literary theory, the monstrous, and fairy tales. Her current project entangles questions of the novel, time, and subjectivity with the transgressive complications presented by narratives of ... [more information] |
