Departmental 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

Leslie R. Anglesey, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Nevada Reno, 2019)
Rhetoric and Composition; Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Feminist Rhetorics; Disability Studies

Office: Evans 211
Phone: (936) 294-3156
Email: lra012@shsu.edu

Kimberly Bell, 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

Kristin Bennett, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2022)
Technical, Professional, and Business Communication; Rhetoric and Composition; Disability Studies/Disability Justice; Rhetorics of Health and Medicine; Usability Studies/User Experience Design; Digital Rhetorics

Office: Evans 117
Phone: (936) 294-3359
E-mail: kcb062@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

Jacob Blevins, Professor and Chair of the English Department

(Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2002)
Renaissance; Seventeenth Century; Comparative Literature; Latin Poetry;
Literary Theory

Office: Evans 458B
Phone: (936) 294-1402
E-mail: jblevins@shsu.edu

Paul W. Child, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992)
British literature of the Long Eighteenth Century; Medicine and Literature; Social History of Medicine

Office: Evans 204
Phone: (936) 294-1412
E-mail:pchild@shsu.edu

Michael Demson, Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009)
Transatlantic and European Romanticism(s)

Office: Evans 314B
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

Diane Dowdey, 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

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

(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994)
Linguistics (syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, language contact)

Office: Evans 309
Phone: (936) 294-1420
E-mail: eng_shh@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/academics/english/faculty/halmari/

Darci Hill, 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

Ada Hubrig, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2020)
Disability Studies and Neurodiversity; Community literacy and activism; and Secondary Education

Office: Evans 452
Phone: (936) 294-4096
E-mail:axh151@shsu.edu

Scott Kaukonen, Associate Professor

(Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006)
Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Religious Culture and Literature

Office: Evans 412
Phone: (936) 294-1407
E-mail: kaukonen@shsu.edu

Ginger Ko, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2020)
Feminist poetics, Multimedia writing, and Multiethnic and Migrant literature

Office: Evans 411
Phone: (936) 294-3821
E-mail:gingerko@shsu.edu

Douglas Krienke, Professor Emeritus

(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, Associate Professor

(M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
Creative Writing

Office: Evans 314A
Phone: (936) 294-1990
E-mail: nick.lantz@shsu.edu

Audrey Murfin, Associate Professor

(Ph.D, Binghampton University, 2008)
Victorian literature

Office: Evans 304
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: adm034@shsu.edu

Carroll Ferguson Nardone, 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

April O'Brien, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Clemson University, 2019)
Public Memory and Race; Space/Place Studies; Cultural Rhetorics; Technical Communication; Digital Rhetorics

Office: Evans 463
Phone: (936) 294-3134
E-mail:aprilobrien@shsu.edu

Shyam Pandey, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Purdue University, 2022)
Technical Communication; Transnational Rhetorics; Digital Writing; Multimodal Composition; Environmental Rhetorics

Office: Evans 211
Phone: (936) 294-4450
E-mail: sbp029@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

April Shemak, 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

Katie Jean Shinkle, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Denver, 2015)
Prose (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction); Hybrid and Cross-genre writing; Novella; Flash Fiction; Documentary hybrid/poetics

Office: Evans 414
Phone: (936) 294-1436
E-mail:kjs078@shsu.edu

Evelyn Soto, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2019)
Early American Literature; Multiethnic Literatures; Caribbean, Latinx, and Hemispheric Studies; the history of slavery and race; colonial and postcolonial studies.

Office: Evans 413
Phone: (936) 294-1944
E-mail:exs109@shsu.edu

Brandon C. Strubberg, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2017)
Technical Communication; Technology, Culture, and Rhetoric; Rhetorics of Science and Healthcare

Office: Evans 316
Phone: (936) 294-3135
E-mail:strubberg@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 406
Phone: (936) 294-1439
E-mail: eng_kat@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/~eng_kat

Xiaobo "Belle" Wang, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2017)
Technical and Professional Communication; Communication Design; Transnational Rhetoric and Communication; Digital Rhetoric; Feminist Rhetoric; Comparative Rhetoric

Office: Evans 453
Phone: (936) 294-3258
E-mail:xiaobo.belle.wang@shsu.edu

Linda J Webster, Retired/Part-Time Professor

(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998)
Southern literature; Women’s literature; Multicultural literature; Twentieth-Century American literature

Office: Evans 306
Phone: (936) 294-1425
E-mail:lindawebster@shsu.edu

Samar Zahrawi, Associate Professor (Arabic)

(Ph.D., University of Leeds, 1992)
Arabic drama, Arabic film, Middle Eastern cultural studies, translation studies and Arabic language pedagogy

Office: AB IV 325
Phone: (936) 294-3894
E-mail:sxz015@shsu.edu

John Gruesser

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)

As a Senior Research Scholar at SHSU, his major project is writing Man on the Firing Line: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs, 1872-1933. He is the author of six books, most recently Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts (Bloomsbury 2019), and the editor or co-editor of six others, the latest being a Broadview edition of Pauline E. Hopkins 1901-02 novel Hagar's Daughter.

Office: Evans 108
Phone: (936) 294-1435
E-mail: jxg200@shsu.edu