English Department | Sam Houston State University

Faculty/Staff

Office Staff

Sarah Barragan, Secretary II • (936) 294-1403 •
sarahbarragan@shsu.edu
Kristen Mack, Secretary III • (936) 294-1404 •
kmack@shsu.edu

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

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

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

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

Chaucer; Old English and Middle English; Arthuriana; epic and romance
Office: Evans 310
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 404
Phone: (936) 294-1996
E-mail: eng_teb@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_teb

Brian Blackburne, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2008)

Technical Writing
Office: Evans 453
Phone: (936) 294-3359
E-mail:bdb026@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_bbd

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

Rhetoric; Composition; Teaching Writing
Office: Evans 314B
Phone: (936) 294-3142
E-mail: eng_cwb@shsu.edu

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 204
Phone: (936) 294-1412
E-mail: eng_pwc@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 412
Phone: (936) 294-1425
E-mail: eng_ljb@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_ljb

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

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

Michael Demson, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009)

Transatlantic and European Romanticism(s)
Office: Evans 117
Phone: (936) 294-1430
E-mail: mtd007@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 408
Phone: (936) 294-1421
E-mail: eng_rxd@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_rxd

Diane Dowdey, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984)

Writing Center theory; Rhetoric and composition; Twentieth Century literature; Multicultural literature; literature and science
Office: Evans 410
Phone: (936) 294-4217
E-mail: dowdey@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_dxd

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

Nathaniel & Sophia Hawthorne; American Renaissance; American women writers; Minority literature
Office: Evans 115
Phone: (936) 294-1417
E-mail: eng_jeh@shsu.edu

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

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

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

Rhetoric; British Renaissance; Seventeenth Century
Office: Evans 206
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 314A
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 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 304
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: ajl011@shsu.edu

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

Creative Writing; Contemporary poetry; 20th Century British/American literature; revisionist myths; magical realism; pop culture
Office: Evans 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 312
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 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 461
Phone: (936) 294-1409
E-mail: eng_dlp@shsu.edu

Paul Ruffin, Distinguished Professor of English
          (Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1974)
          Texas State University System Regents' Professor, Editor of The Texas Review,
           2009 Poet Laureate of Texas

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

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

Postcolonial literature and theory, U.S. ethnic literature, Caribbean literature
Office: Evans 308
Phone: (936) 294-1432
E-mail: aas004@shsu.edu

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

Women writers; Wordsworth; Romanticism; Environmental literature; Literary theory; computers and writing; Mary Shelley; poetry
Office: Evans 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 416
Phone: (936) 294-1426
E-mail: eng_eoy@shsu.edu
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_eoy

Pool Faculty

Alford, Nadya (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 463 • (936)294-3134 • nka001@shsu.edu

Dawn Caplinger (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 307 • (936)294-1428 • dcaplinger@shsu.edu

Mary Cook (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 108 • (936) 294-1435 • mgc001@shsu.edu

Ladelle Davenport (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 454 • (936) 294-3821 • ldd002@shsu.edu

Janet Fair (M.A., M.Ed., SHSU) • CHSS 190G • (936) 294-4456 • janetfair@shsu.edu

David Gaines (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 254 • (936) 294-4097 • eng_dtg@shsu.edu

Deborah Greene (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 452 • (936)294-4096 • dgreene@shsu.edu

Barbara Jones (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 316 • (936) 294-3157 • barb_jones@lycos.com

Alice Marcom (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 309 • (936) 294-3135 • asm004@shsu.edu

Barbara Miles (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 411 • (936) 294-4106 • eng_bem@shsu.edu

Audrey Murfin (Ph.D., Binghamton U) • Evans 109 • (936) 294-3107 • adm034@shsu.edu

Penny Pitrucha (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 459 • (936) 294-1422 • stdpch13@shsu.edu

Weston Rose (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 107 • (936) 294-1431 • wlr001@shsu.edu

Bernadette Russo (B.S., North. Arizona U) • Evans 209 • (936) 294-1427 • stdbvr11@shsu.edu

Reuben Sanchez (Ph.D., Cornell U) • Evans 107 • (936) 294-1431 • rxs031@shsu.edu

Tannie Shannon (M.A,. SHSU) • Evans 316 • (936) 294-3157 • tannieshannon@charter.net

Sue Tamminga (Ph.D., UT-Austin) • Evans 463 • (936) 294-3134 • vstamminga@shsu.edu

Audrey Young (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 455 • (936) 294-3258 • eng_asy@shsu.edu

Graduate Assistants

Travis Franks • tbf001@shsu.edu

Richard (Jake) Gebhardt • rjg018@shsu.edu

Douglas Haines • Evans 156 • (936) 294-1992 • dsh008@shsu.edu

Anna Jennings • arj016@shsu.edu

William Kerr • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • wrk004@shsu.edu

Dustin Levien • Evans 117 • (936) 294-1430 • stddcl16@shsu.edu

Christopher Marek • cdm011@shsu.edu

Timothy Ponce • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • poncetimothy@shsu.edu

Michele Reed • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • stdmkr15@shsu.edu

Tyler Segura • tss003@shsu.edu

Susanna Shupp • sjs038@shsu.edu

William Tunningley • Evans 156 • (936) 294-1418 • rwt002@shsu.edu

Roy Weesner • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • stdrww16@shsu.edu