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College of Liberal Arts

Department of English

Department Faculty

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FACULTY MEMBER
TEACHING/RESEARCH AREAS
Anderson, Suzanne
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
suzander@mail.wsu.edu

 

  • Digital animation, narration and production
Arigo, Christopher
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman

chrisarigo@yahoo.com

  • Poetry writing
  • Ecopoetics and anticivilization theory
  • Ethnopoetics (especially in regards to hunter/gatherer cultures)
  • Ecocriticism
  • 20th century avant-garde poetry and poetics
  • Contemporary poetry and poetics
Arola, Kristin
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman
arola@wsu.edu


  • Rhetorics of New Media and Design
  • Composition Pedagogy
  • Multimedia Authoring
  • Digital Technology & Culture
  • Feminist Theory
Bell, Nancy
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pu
llman
nbell@wsu.edu
  • Applied Linguistics
  • ESL
  • TESOL
Benson, Boyd
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
thebensons@cableone.net
  • Composition
  • Creative writing, all genres
  • Modern poetry
  • Research writing
Bodley, Antonie
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
abodley@wsu.edu
  • Composition
Burbick, Joan
Professor
WSU-Pullman
burbick@wsu.edu
  • American literature and culture (especially late 19th and 20th century)
  • Cultural theory
  • Popular culture

Burwick, Kimberly
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
kaburwick@wsu.edu

 

  • Composition
  • Creative Writing
Butler, Todd
Associate Professor and Vice Chair
WSU-Pullman
butlert@wsu.edu
  • 17th century literature
  • Law and literature
  • Political epistemology
  • Marriage of knowledge and power in the Renaissance
Buyserie, Beth
Instructor and
Assistant Director of Composition
WSU-Pullman
bbuyserie@wsu.edu
  • Freshman composition
  • Beginning research writing
  • English Education methods
  • Professional & Technical Writing
Campbell, Donna
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
campbelld@wsu.edu
  • Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature
  • Realism, regionalism, and naturalism
  • American women's writing
  • Teaching with technology
Carter, Erik
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
ecarter@wsu.edu
  • Composition
  • Humanities
Chilson, Peter
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
pchilson@mail.wsu.edu
  • Writing workshops in fiction and literary nonfiction
  • Form and theory in writing fiction and literary nonfiction
  • Magazine editing
  • Environmental issues regarding Africa and the American West
Coleman, Elijah
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
coleelij@wsu.edu
  • Composition
Coomer, Paula
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
coom1286@hotmail.com
  • Composition
  • Technical and Professional Writing
Condon, Bill
Professor
WSU-Pullman
bcondon@wsu.edu
  • Writing assessment
  • Composition pedagogy
  • World civilizations
  • 19th century British literature
  • Computers and writing
Dasler Johnson, Wendy
Associate Professor
WSU-Vancouver
johnsonw@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • 'Other' rhetorics
  • History of rhetoric
  • American literature before 1900
  • Rhetorics of the disciplines
  • Sacred texts and cultures of world religions
  • Writing
  • American Indian Literatures
  • Women studies
  • Poetry
Davis, Andréa
Assistant Professor
WSU-Tri Cities
  • Rhetoric and Composition
Delahoyde, Michael
Clinical Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
delahoyd@wsu.edu
  • Shakespeare
  • Chaucer
  • Medieval/Renaissance
  • Humanities
Dephtereos, Andy
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
adephtereos@wsu.edu
  • Composition
Eddy, Robert
Associate Professor and
Director of Composition
WSU-Pullman
eddyr@wsu.edu
  • Rhetoric and racism (especially connected to Malcolm X)
  • Composition theory and practice
  • Teaching writing to nontraditional students
  • Prison writing and restorative justice
  • Ideological, identity and representation issues connected to writing across and among cultures
Ericsson, Patricia
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
ericsson@wsu.edu
  • Digital rhetorics
  • Composition studies
  • Digital technology and culture
  • Critical technology studies
  • Technical communication
  • Rhetorics of sustainability
Erikson, Kelly
Clinical Assistant Professor
WSU-Tri Cities
kelly_erikson@tricity.wsu.edu
 
Farman, Jason
Assistant Professor
WSU-Tri Cities
jfarman@tricity.wsu.edu
  • Rhetoric & Technology
  • Multimedia composition
  • Digital literacies
  • Digital Technology & Culture
Fry, Bryan
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
bryanfry@wsu.edu
  • Composition
  • Introduction to Literature
  • Writing and Research Honors
Goodrich, Rebecca
Senior Instructor
WSU-Pullman
rgoodrich@wsu.edu
  • Literary nonfiction, personal essay
  • Comics and graphic novels
  • Children's and Young Adult Literature
  • Digital Storytelling
Gordon, Lynn
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
gordonl@wsu.edu
  • Linguistics
  • English grammar
  • History of English
  • Syntax
  • Syntax and morphology of Native American languages
Grigar, Dene
Associate Professor
WSU-Vancouver
dgrigar@comcast.net
  • Multimedia Narrative Performance and Installations
  • Ephemeral Writing and Technologies
  • Electronic Literature
Hamlin, William
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
WSU-Pullman
whamlin@wsu.edu
  • Shakespeare
  • English and continental literature, 1500-1700
  • Renaissance drama
  • Montaigne
  • Histories of early modern philosophy and religion
Hammond, Alexander
Professor Emeritus
WSU-Pullman
hammonda@wsu.edu
  • American literature (colonial - present)
  • Humanities (ancient world)
  • Introduction to literature; film and literature
  • American fiction
  • Class/labor/gender in American literature
  • American drama
Hanly, Michael
Professor
WSU-Pullman
hanly@wsu.edu
  • Medieval literature and culture
  • Humanities
  • Textual editing
  • Paleography
  • Graduate research
Hegglund, Jon
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
WSU-Pullman
hegglund@wsu.edu
  • 20th century British literature
  • Film studies
  • Literary theory
  • Postcolonial literature
Hellegers, Desiree
Associate Professor
WSU-Vancouver
helleger@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • 17th century literature

Hill, Crag
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman

cahill@wsu.edu


  • Males & Multiliteracies
  • Teacher acceptance/resistance to incorporating computer literacies in the classroom
  • Classroom discourse
  • Building a K-12 classroom discourse curriculum
  • The efficacy of utilizing young adult literature in the secondary classrooms
  • Practioner research
  • Practioner classroom inquiry for K-12 teachers as professional development
  • Practioners making informed decisions about implementing changes in their practice and improving their program
  • Evolution of graphic literature
  • A marked increase in non-action graphic novels, e.g. Blankets by Craig Thompson and American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • An increase in non-fiction works, including Persepolis 1 & 2
Johnson-Shull, Lisa
Writing Center Director/Writing Program Co-Director/Instructor
WSU-Pullman
lisaj@wsu.edu
  • Writing Center theory and practice
  • Writing Program Administration
  • Writing pedagogy and assessment
Johnson, Patrick
Writing Center Administrator/Instructor
WSU-Pullman
pdjohnson@wsu.edu
 
  • Technical and Professional Writing
  • Introductory Writing
  • Writing and Rhetorical Conventions
Kennedy, George**
Professor and Chair
WSU-Pullman
gkennedy@wsu.edu
  • Technical communication
  • Rhetoric/composition
  • 19th century British fiction (Victorians)
  • Early 20th century British (Edwardians and Georgians)
Kittell, Linda
Clinical Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
lkittell@wsu.edu
  • Fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction
  • Greek and Roman myth
  • American Indian myth and story
  • Composition
  • Modern and contemporary literature
  • Theory and pedagogy
  • Sports literature
Kuo, Alex
Professor
Writer in Residence
WSU-Pullman
alexkuo@wsu.edu
  • Contemporary poetry
  • Creative writing (all genres)
  • Native American literature
  • American West literature
Law, Richard
Professor Emeritus
WSU-Pullman
rlaw@wsu.edu
  • 20th century American literature
  • Literature of the American South
Lee, Debbie
Professor
WSU-Pullman
deblee@wsu.edu
  • 18th and 19th-Century British Literature
  • 18th and 19th-Century Visual Cultures
  • Art History and Printmaking
  • William Hogarth and William Blake
  • British Social History (representations of single mothers, prostitutes, and poor women)
  • History of Science
  • Transatlantic Issues (slavery, hybridity)
  • Travel Literature
  • Creative Nonfiction

Levy, Buddy
Clinical Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
buddy@buddylevy.com
  • Technical & Professional Writing
  • Creative Writing, all genres
  • American Indian Literature
  • Adventure/Lifestyle/Journalism
Lewis, Thabiti
Assistant Professor
WSU-Vancouver
lewist@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • 20th Century African American literatureToni Cade BambaraCritical race theory and Sport culture
  • Black Masculinity Studies
Luders, Lesa
Senior Instructor
WSU-Pullman
luders@wsu.edu
 
  • Creative Writing
  • Technical and Professional Writing
Lyons, Jacqueline
Clinical Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman


  • Poetry
  • Creative nonfiction
  • Women’s literature
  • African literature
  • Multicultural literature
  • Postcolonial theory
Mason, Andrea
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
amason@wsu.edu
  • Humanities (Mythology and The Bible as Literature) Creative Writing (fiction and nonfiction)
  • Technical and Professional Writing
Mayer, Larry
Clinical Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman
larrymayer@wsu.edu
  • Humanities
  • Creative Writing
  • Writing and Research
McAuley, Kirk
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman

lmcauley@wsu.edu

  • Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • British & American Literature & Culture (including poetry & non-fiction prose) from the colonial period to 1900
  • Transatlantic Studies and/or Empire Writing
  • Print Culture
  • Nature Writing / Environmental Literature
  • Gender Studies
  • Religious Discourse
McCarthy, Jessica
Blackburn Fellow
WSU-Pullman
jesmccarthy@wsu.edu
  • Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature
  • Realism, regionalism, and naturalism
  • American women's writing
  • Nineteenth and early twentieth-century British literature
  • Genre theory
Menchaca, David
Assistant Professor
WSU-Vancouver
menchaca@vancouver.wsu.edu
 
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Rhetoric of Technology
  • Professional Writing
  • Critical/Cultural Game Studies
  • Information Design
  • Technology and Pedagogy
Monroe, Barbara
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
bjmonroe@wsu.edu
 
  • indigenous rhetoric of the Plateau Indians
  • cultural and class differences in rhetoric, learning styles, and interactive patterns
  • critical literacies and pedagogies, online and off
Narayanan, Pavithra
Assistant Professor
WSU-Vancouver
pavithra@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • Film
  • Globalization
  • Gender issues
  • Political economy
  • South Asian feminism
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Documentary films
Oforlea, Aaron
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman
aoforlea@ad.wsu.edu
  • African American Literature
  • 20th-Century American Literature
  • African American Intellectual Traditions and Literary Theory
  • African American Folklore
  • African American Rhetoric
  • Literacy Studies
Olson, Wendy
Assistant Professor
WSU-Vancouver
olsonw@vancouver.wsu.edu

  • Basic Writing
  • Critical Literacy
  • Political Economy
  • History and Theory of Composition
  • History and Theory of Rhetoric
Orr, Leonard
Professor
WSU-Tri Cities
orr@tricity.wsu.edu
  • 19th and 20th century British and American literature
  • Critical theory and the history of criticism
  • Modernism
  • Representations of the Holocaust
  • Creative writing (poetry)
Pramschufer, Susan
Clinical Assistant Professor
WSU-Tri Cities
susanp@tricity.wsu.edu
  • Composition
  • American Literature
  • Asian/Pacific American Literature
Reed, T.V.
Professor
WSU-Pullman
reedtv@wsu.edu
  • Contemporary U.S.
  • Literary theory
  • Popular culture
  • Digital diversity
  • Multiethnic contemporary American literature
  • Ecocriticism
Ritter, Anne
Instructor, Co-Coordinator, Undergraduate Writing Center
Coordinator, Small Group Tutorials
WSU-Pullman
anneritter@wsu.edu
  • Composition
  • Writing Tutorial
Robertson, Kandy
Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Writing Programs
WSU-Vancouver
kandy_robertson@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • Writing and Research
  • Introduction to English Studies
Rohrbach, Augusta
Associate Professor
WSU-Pullman
rohrbach@wsu.edu
  • 19th Century US Lit and Cult History of the Book
  • Critical Race and Gender Studies
Ross, Susan
Professor
WSU-Pullman
suross@wsu.edu

 

  • Journalism
  • International Mass Media
  • Law
  • Public Policy
  • Economics
  • Cultural Studies
  • Social Movements
  • Peace Studies
Russo, Linda
Clinical Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman

lrusso@wsu.edu

  • 20th-Century American Poetry & Poetics
  • Creative, Investigative & Experimental Writing
  • Feminist Theory & Gender Studies
  • Small Press & Magazine Production
Sanchez, Rachel
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
rachel_sanchez@wsu.edu
  • Composition
Sena, Leslie
Instructor
WSU-Pullman

senal@wsu.edu

  • Composition
  • Technical and Professional Writing
Siegel, Carol
Professor
WSU-Vancouver
siegel@vancouver.wsu.edu
  • Representation of sexuality in literature and film
  • Contemporary youth cultures
  • Changes in the discourses of feminism
  • Theories of Foucault, Deleuze & other theorists of sexuality & gender
Sikkink, Lisa
Instructor
WSU-Pullman
lisasikkink@yahoo.com
  • Composition
Siler, Elizabeth
Clinical Assistant Professor ESL Specialist
WSU-Pullman
elizabethsiler@gmail.com
  • English as a second language
  • Second language reading
  • Studies on paraphrase and plagiarism
Stiles, Anne
Assistant Professor
WSU-Pullman
anne@annestiles.com
  • 19th-Century British Literature
  • History of Science, esp. Medicine
  • Neurology and Narrative
Villanueva, Victor
Regents Professor
WSU-Pullman
victorv@wsu.edu
  • Writing
  • Rhetoric
  • Composition theory
  • Rhetorical theory
  • Literacy
  • Applied linguistics
  • Cultural studies
  • Political economy
Wiechert, Nora
Instructor
WSU-Pullman

nwiechert@wsu.edu


  • Writing and Research
  • English Novel to 1900
Worden, Dorothy
Instructor
WSU-Pullman

dworden@wsu.edu

  • Teaching: Composition, Technical and Professional Writing, ESL Writing
  • Research: Writing Processes, Academic Literacy, Sociolinguistics

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