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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
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, 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, Associate 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
Nick Lantz, Assistant Professor
(M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
Creative Writing
Office: Evans 314A
Phone: (936) 294-1990
E-mail: nick.lantz@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
Audrey Murfin, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D, Binghampton University, 2008)
Victorian literature
Office: Evans 304
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: adm034@shsu.edu
Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2002)
Technical & Professional Writing; Rhetoric; 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/
Jason Payton, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2012)
Early American literature; Transatlantic Studies, History of Piracy
Office: Evans 112
Phone: (936) 294-3135
E-mail: jmpayton@shsu.edu
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, Associate 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
Visitng Professor
Amanda Nowlin-Obanion (Ph.D., U of Houston) • Evans 457 • (936) 294-4109 • nowlin-obanion@shsu.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Danielle Skeehan (Ph.D., Northeastern U) • Evans 407 • (936) 294-1415 • skeehan.danielle@gmail.com
Pool Faculty
Nadya Alford (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 463 • (936) 294-3134 • nka001@shsu.edu
Bruce Chabot (Ph.D., Texas A&M) • Evans 107 • (936) 294-1431 • brucechabot@yahoo.com
Jennifer Child (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 454 • (936) 294-3821 • jlc055@shsu.edu
Mary Cook (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 108 • (936) 294-1435 • mgc001@shsu.edu
Leann Fischel (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 405 • (936) 294-1995 • lcf004@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
Wendy Hanks (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 109 • (936) 294-3107 • wcv001@shsu.edu
Anna Jennings (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 409 • (936) 294-1995 • arj016@shsu.edu
Barbara Jones (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 316 • (936) 294-3157 • barb_jones@lycos.com
William Kerr (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 316 • (936) 294-3157 • william.kerr@shsu.edu
Victoria Lantz (Ph.D., U of Wisconsin) • Evans 211 • (936) 294-3156 • vplantz@shsu.edu
Alice Marcom (M.A., SHSU) • ONLINE ONLY • asm004@shsu.edu
Barbara Miles (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 411 • (936) 294-4106 • eng_bem@shsu.edu
Ralph Norris (Ph.D., U of Bangor) • Evans 459 • (936) 294-1422 • rcn006@shsu.edu
Ritu Raju (Ph.D., Texas Tech U) • ONLINE ONLY stdrxr24@shsu.edu
Reuben Sanchez (Ph.D., Cornell U) • Evans 209 • (936) 294-1427 • rxs031@shsu.edu
Tannie Shannon (M.A,. SHSU) • Evans 316 • (936) 294-3157 • tannieshannon@charter.net
Susanna Shupp (M.A,. SHSU) • Evans 409 • (936) 294-1995 • sjs038@shsu.edu
Haley Stoner (M.A,. SHSU) • Evans 405 • (936) 294-3356 • stdhks13@shsu.edu
Joe Strange (Ed.D.,. U of Arkansas-Little Rock) • Evans 454 • (936) 294-3821 • jcs048@shsu.edu
Audrey Young (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 455 • (936) 294-3258 • eng_asy@shsu.edu
Graduate Assistants
Matthew Bennett • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • mwb005@shsu.edu
Alec Brewster • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • anb067@shsu.edu
Reina Shay Broussard • Evans 307 • (936) 294-1428 • vrb006@shsu.edu
Kimberly Davis • Evans 307 • (936) 294-1428 • kpdavis@shsu.edu
Keely Disman • TEXAS REVIEW • stdkad32@shsu.edu
Chris Foster • Evans 156 • (936) 294-1418 • cdf009@shsu.edu
Caitlyn Goodpasture • Evans 307 • (936) 294-1428 • ceg021@shsu.edu
Amanda Howard • Evans 307 • (936) 294-1428 • anh032@shsu.edu
Ruth Irvin • Evans 152 • (936) 294-1992 • rdj007@shsu.edu
Chad Meiners • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • mcm021@shsu.edu
Caryn Rasberry • Evans 109 • (936) 294-3107 • cjr004@shsu.edu
Kimberlee Rayl • Evans 307 • (936) 294-1428 • kar036@shsu.edu
Nathan Ridings • Evans 107 • (936) 294-1431 • njr004@shsu.edu
Jonathan Schreiber • Evans 352 • (936) 294-1663 • jas059@shsu.edu@shsu.edu
Lucas Wilson • Evans 156 • (936) 294-1418 • lmw005@shsu.edu
