Faculty Members
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Lee Medovoi Department Head, English Email: medovoi@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-9917 Office: 445 Modern Languages Bldg Lee Medovoi is a Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Arizona. A graduate of the Ph.D. program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, he was the founding director of the Portland Center for Public Humanities and a... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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Dev Bose Assistant Director, Writing Program and Assistant Professor, English Email: bose@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: ML 359 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 Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literature Email: sbriante@email.arizona.edu Office: M LNG 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... |
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David Sterling Brown Assistant Professor Email: davidsbrown@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0771 FAX: (520) 621-7397 Office: ML474 David Sterling Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona (U of A) where he teaches Shakespeare and early modern English literature. In addition to being a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a 2016-2018 Duke University SITPA Scholar, he... |
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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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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.... |
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Bryan Carter Associate Professor 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... |
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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... |
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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:... |
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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 book is Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit published by Milkweed Editions in 2014. Two poetry books will be out in... |
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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... |
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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 (... |
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Jeremy Godfrey Assistant Professor Email: godfreyj@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 445 [more information] |
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Keith Harms Assistant Professor NTE Email: keithharms@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7537 Office: Modern Languages 445 [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... |
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Paul Hurh Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor Email: jphurh@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-5241 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... |
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Julie Iromuanya Assistant Professor Email: jiromuanya@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Julie Iromuanya is an assistant professor in fiction, and the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 “... [more information] |
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Amy Kimme Hea Associate Dean for Instruction, SBS & Associate Professor, RCTE Email: kimmehea@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1112 Office: Douglass 200W 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 Assistant Professor Email: mklotz@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-1836 Office: Modern Languages Rm 445 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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Manya Lempert Assistant Professor, English Email: mlempert@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 FAX: (520) 621-7397 Office: ML 423 Manya Lempert is an Assistant Professor of English literature. 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 nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels, which she studies in conjunction... |
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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, English & Interim Director, UA Institute for LGBT Studies Email: aclicona@email.arizona.edu Office: 482 Modern Languages Bldg and Institute for LGBT Studies Adela C. Licona, Associate Professor of English, Director of the University of Arizona's Institute for LGBT Studies, and Vice Chair of the Graduate Minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory is affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, Family Studies and Human... |
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Aimee C Mapes Assistant Director, Writing Program and Assistant Professor, 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... |
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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... |
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Farid Matuk Associate Professor, English Email: matuk@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Born in Lima, Peru to a Syrian mother and Peruvian father, Farid Matuk has lived in the United States since the age of six as an undocumented person, a "legal" resident, and a patriated citizen. He is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and ... |
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John J Melillo Assistant Professor, English Email: johnmelillo@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1836 Office: 424 Modern Languages Bldg 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 Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs Email: tpm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0202 Office: 501 Administration Bldg 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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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. Her research focuses on instructional technology, L2 writing, labor practices in writing programs, and writing program administration. Her work has appeared in ... |
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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... |
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Ander Monson Associate Professor, English; Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing Email: ander@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7405 Office: 429 ML 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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Manuel Muñoz Associate Professor, English Email: munozm@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-0775 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... |
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Tenney Nathanson Professor, English; Director of the Graduate Literature Program; Director of Graduate Studies Email: nathanso@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-1091 FAX: (520) 621-7397 (attn: Tenney Nathanson) Office: 431 Modern Languages Bldg Tenney Nathanson (PhD, Columbia University) is Director of the Graduate Literature Program and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of English. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in American poetry, poetics, and close reading. His critical book Whitman'... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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, 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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Shelley Rodrigo Associate Director Writing Program, Online Writing Email: rrodrigo@email.arizona.edu Office: ML 452 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 Associate Professor 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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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Aurelie Sheehan Professor, English Email: asheehan@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7399 Office: M LNG 471 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... |
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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 and 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 (... |
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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 (... |
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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... |
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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... [more information] |
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Franci A Washburn Associate Professor, American Indian Studies Email: washburn@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8581 Office: 470 Modern Languages Bldg 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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Susan M White Professor, English Email: swhite@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7404 Office: 378 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Wilson) Associate Professor, English Email: joshuamarie@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-6156 Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of eight books of poetry, including Meadow Slasher (Black Ocean 2017). He has edited five anthologies, including Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press 2010); Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre (University of Michigan Press 2015... |
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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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Lynda M Zwinger Professor, English Email: lyndaz@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7401 Office: 488 Modern Languages Bldg [more information] |
