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.

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 ...
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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...
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Dev Bose is currently the Assistant Director of Online Writing and Accessibility of the Writing Program where he has multiple roles, including preceptor for 1st-year GTAs, faculty advisor for Difference and Inequality, and assistant programmer of online writing initiatives. ...
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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...
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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, ...
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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....
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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,...
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Stacey Cochran is a career-track 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, Stacey is researching the effectiveness of a student-...
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Roger Dahood's  pubpublications include The Avowing of King Arthur: A Critical Edition (1984; rpt Routledge, 2014); Ancrene Riwle:...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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...
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Amy C. Kimme Hea is Associate Dean for Instruction 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, and student engagement....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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Teaching of Composition, Supervision of Graduate Assistants/Associates in the Teaching of Composition 

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...
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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...
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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...
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Jon Reinhardt teaches courses for English undergraduate, MAESL 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...
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Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is Associate Director Writing Program, Online Writing, and Associate Professor in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 (...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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