English Department | Sam Houston State University

Faculty/Staff

Office Staff

Trina Strange, Secretary III • (936) 294-1404 • Trina@shsu.edu
Andrea Gauthier, Secretary II • (936) 294-1404 • gauthier@shsu.edu
Office Assistants: Weston Rose, Brandon Strubberg

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Bill Abbott, Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1973)

English Romantics; Classical Tradition; Myth
Office: Evans Complex 117
Phone: (936) 294-1430
E-mail: eng_wha@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wha

Robert Adams, Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1972)

Medieval; Renaissance; Editorial theory
Office: Evans Complex 110
Phone: (936) 294-1419
E-mail: eng_ira@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/Adams/index.html

Lee Bebout, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007)

Chicano/a literature and history, identity politics, nationalist discourses, and the work of public intellectuals; Mexican American literature; mulitcultural literature.
Office: Evans Complex 459
Phone: (936) 294-1990
E-mail: lxb006@shsu.edu

Kimberly Bell, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2002)

Chaucer; Old English and Middle English; Arthuriana; epic and romance
Office: Evans Complex 455
Phone: (936) 294-1437
E-mail: eng_kkb@shsu.edu

Tracy Bilsing, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998)

British short fiction, especially from the Great War; "lost generation" writer Mary Butts
Office: Evans Complex 404
Phone: (936) 294-1996
E-mail: eng_teb@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_teb

Bill Bridges, Professor and Chair (Ph.D., Florida State University, 1976)

Rhetoric; Composition; Teaching Writing
Office: Evans Complex 458
Phone: (936) 294-1402
E-mail: eng_cwb@shsu.edu

Linda Byrd Cook, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998)

Southern literature; Women's literature; Multicultural literature; Twentieth Century American literature
Office: Evans Complex 412
Phone: (936) 294-1425
E-mail: eng_ljb@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_ljb

Paul W. Child, Professor (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992)

Restoration/18th century literature; British literature; Medicine and literature; social history of medicine; Classical Tradition
Office: Evans Complex 204
Phone: (936) 294-1412
E-mail: eng_pwc@shsu.edu

Lee Courtney, Professor (Ph.D., Emory University, 1975)

Victorian and Edwardian Literature
Office: Evans Complex 406
Phone: (936) 294-1416
E-mail: eng_lfc@shsu.edu

Robert Donahoo, Professor (Ph.D., Duke University, 1988)

Literature of the American South; Contemporary American literature; Modern Drama; American humor; Christianity and literature; Literary theory and editing
Office: Evans Complex 408
Phone: (936) 294-1421
E-mail: eng_rxd@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_rxd

Diane Dowdey, Associate Professor and Director, Sam Houston Writing Center
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984)

Writing Center theory; Rhetoric and composition; Twentieth Century literature; Multicultural literature; literature and science
Office: Evans Complex 410
Phone: (936) 294-1438
E-mail: dowdey@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_dxd

Julie Hall, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1993)

Nathaniel & Sophia Hawthorne; American Renaissance; American women writers; Minority literature
Office: Evans Complex 108
Phone: (936) 294-1417
E-mail: eng_jeh@shsu.edu

Helena Halmari, Professor (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994)

Linguistics, specifically syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language contact
Office: Evans Complex 112
Phone: (936) 294-1420
E-mail: eng_shh@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_www/Halmari/

Melanie Hanson, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2004)

English Education, Early Modern English Literature, Women Writers, World Drama
Office: Evans Complex 108
Phone: (936) 294-1435
E-mail: mah011@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~mah011/

Darci Hill, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Texas Women's University, 1990)

Rhetoric; British Renaissance; Seventeenth Century
Office: Evans Complex 205
Phone: (936) 294-1473
E-mail: eng_dnh@shsu.edu

Scott Kaukonen, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006)

Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; 20th Century American Literature; Religious Culture and Literature
Office: Evans Complex 453
Phone: (936) 294-1407
E-mail: kaukonen@shsu.edu

Douglas Krienke, Professor and Associate Chair (Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1976)

Western World; Mythology; Shakespeare; Tudor/Stuart drama
Office: Evans Complex 208
Phone: (936) 294-1413
E-mail: eng_mdk@shsu.edu

Drew Lopenzina, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2006)

Early American Literature, Native American Literature, Multi-Cultural Literature of the colonial period, American Frontier Literatures.
Office: Evans Complex 463
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: ajl011@shsu.edu

Melissa Morphew, Associate Professor (Ph.D, University of Georgia, 1994)

Creative Writing; Contemporary poetry; 20th Century British/American literature; revisionist myths; magical realism; pop culture
Office: Evans Complex 116
Phone: (936) 294-1944
E-mail: eng_smm@shsu.edu

Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Associate Professor (Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2002)

Teaching: Technical & Professional Writing; Rhetoric
Research: Early American scientific texts; workplace writing practices; writing-in-the-disciplines
Office: Evans Complex 454
Phone: (936) 294-1472
E-mail: cfnardone@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_cfn/

Ralph Pease, Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1972)

Shakespearean Drama; Literature and Film; Mark Twain
Office: Evans Complex 414
Phone: (936) 294-1436
E-mail: eng_rwp@shsu.edu

Deborah Phelps, Professor (Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1992)

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century English literature, esp. Victorian; women's literature
Office: Evans Complex 461
Phone: (936) 294-1409
E-mail: eng_dlp@shsu.edu

Paul Ruffin, Professor and Editor, The Texas Review
(Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1974)

Modern American fiction and poetry; creative writing
Office: Evans Complex 152
Phone: (936) 294-1429
E-mail: eng_pdr@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_pdr

April Shemak, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2003)

Postcolonial literature and theory, U.S. ethnic literature, Caribbean literature
Office: Evans Complex 411
Phone: (936) 294-1432
E-mail: aas004@shsu.edu

Kandi Tayebi, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Denver, 1999)

Women writers; Wordsworth; Romanticism; Environmental literature; Literary theory; computers and writing; Mary Shelley; poetry
Office: Evans Complex 413
Phone: (936) 294-1439
E-mail: eng_kat@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_kat

Gene Young, Professor (Ph.D., University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 1979)

Twentieth-century American; Literature and culture of Texas and the Southwest; Secondary English teaching methods
Office: Evans Complex 416
Phone: (936) 294-1436
E-mail: eng_eoy@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_eoy

Pool Faculty

Thieme Bittick • Evans Complex 405 • (936) 294-1427 • tjb005@shsu.edu

Lillie Busby (M.A., 1990) • Technology Supervisor • Evans Complex 111 • (936) 294-3590 • eng_lrb@shsu.edu

Dawn Caplinger (M.A, SHSU) • Evans Complex 452 • (936)294-1427 • dcaplinger@houston.rr.com

Mary Cook (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 231 • (936) 294-1410 • mgc001@shsu.edu

Frances Crawford (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 219 • (936) 294-3135 • stdfcm11@shsu.edu

Matt Davis (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 214 • (936) 294-1431 • stdmpd12@shsu.edu

James J. Dent (A.B.D., Texas A&M University) • Evans Complex 254 • (936) 294-1422 • eng_jjd@shsu.edu

Janet Fair (M.A. and M.Ed, SHSU) • AB4 210H • (936) 294-4456 • sam_jbf@shsu.edu

David Gaines (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 233 • (936) 294-4097 • eng_dtg@shsu.edu

Deborah Greene (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 231 • (936)294-3134 • dgreene@shsu.edu

Barbara Jones (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 217 • (936) 294-3142 • barb_jones@lycos.com

Alice Marcom (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 219 • (936) 294-3135 • asm004@shsu.edu

Barbara Miles (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 220 • (936) 294-1990 • eng_bem@shsu.edu

Jon Nelson (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 216 • (936) 294-3156 • stdjnn13@shsu.edu

Penny Pitrucha (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 220 • (936) 294-4106 • stdpch13@shsu.edu

Nathan Roberts (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 216 • (936) 294-3156 • nroberts@shsu.edu

Tannie Shannon (M.A,. SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 217 • (936) 294-3142 • tannieshannon@charter.net

Joul Smith (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 214 • (936) 294-3157 • jls017@shsu.edu

Ann Theodori (M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) • Smith-Kirkley 235 • (936) 294-3157 • anntheodori@shsu.edu

Belinda Turk (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 229 • (936) 294-1434 • eng_bat@shsu.edu

Samuel Unger (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 218 • (936) 294-4109 • samuel@shsu.edu

Zach Vande Zande (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkely 218 • Phone: (936) 294-4109 • zrv001@shsu.edu

Audrey Young (M.A., SHSU) • Smith-Kirkley 229 • (936) 294-1472 • eng_asy@shsu.edu

Teaching Assistants

Dana Allen • Evans Complex 407 • (936) 294-1415 • dma006@shsu.edu

Valerie Bell • Evans Complex 109 • (936) 294-3107 • vjb001@shsu.edu

Regina Bouley • Evans Complex 107 • (936) 294-1431 • stdrmb20@shsu.edu

Josh Bowen • Evans Complex 107 • (936) 294-1428 • stdjcb18@shsu.edu

Jennifer Child • Evans Complex 107 • (936) 294-1431 • jen@cowboysolution.com

David Clarke • Evans Complex 407 • (936) 294-1415 • d.e.t.clarke@gmail.com

Brandon Cooper • Evans Complex 107 • (936) 294-1431 • bdc008@shsu.edu

Jessica Cullison • Evans Complex 409 • (936) 294-1995 • jjc013@shsu.edu

José De La Garza • Evans Complex 109 • (936) 294-3107 • stdjad32@shsu.edu

Andrew Husband • Evans Complex 109 • (936) 294-3107 • stdajh21@shsu.edu

Bernadette Russo • Evans Complex 409 • (936) 294-1995 • stdbvr11@shsu.edu

Stephen Rydarowski • Evans Complex 109 • (936) 294-3107 • stdssr17@shsu.edu

Melanie Sweeney • Evans Complex 107 • (936) 294-1431 • mks005@shsu.edu

David Sweeten • Evans Complex 109 • (936) 294-3107 • stddws27@shsu.edu

Semira Taheri • Evans Complex 409 • (936) 294-1995 • sjt002@shsu.edu

Cami Whitehead • Evans Complex 407 • (936) 294-1415 • cami_whitehead@hotmail.com