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Department of English
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Main Office Location:
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ASU English Home > Who's Who > Faculty by Name

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Adams, Karen L. 

Sociolinguistics; pragmatics and discourse analysis; language and politics; language and gender; Southeast Asian languages 

 

Appachana, Anjana

 

 

Baker, Aaron

film; cultural studies; representation of social identity

 

Baldini, Cajsa

19th-century British literature and culture, European Romanticism, textual criticism, technological applications to the humanities.

 

Ball, Sally

Poetry, 20th century American poetry

 

Bates, Dawn

Phonological theory; English compounding; morphological theory; Salish linguistics; reduplication in Northwest Coast languages 

 

Bivona, Daniel

Victorian literature; history of the novel; theory; colonialism and culture; travel literature; Director of the CLAS Learning Community Institute

 

Bjork, Robert E. 

Medieval English literature; modern Scandinavian literature; medical writing 

 

Blasingame, James

English education: the teaching of writing using the "six trait model", cowboy poetry

 

Boyer, Jay

Film; American literature

 

Castle, Gregory 

Irish and British Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory

Cook, Paul 

20th-century American literature, especially novel and shorter prose fiction 

 

Corse, Taylor 

Restoration and 18th-century literature; Classics and Literary translation

 

Cutrara, Dan

Film Production

 

Dubie, Norman 

Creative writing--poetry 

 

Duerden, Sarah

Rhetoric and Composition; Technical Writing; Engineers and Writing; Integrated Curricula; Active and Cooperative Learning; Twentieth Century British Literature; Anglo/Irish Poetry

 

Dugan, Jeanne

Rhetoric and composition; stylistics and usage 

 

Dwyer, Karen 

Rhetoric and composition; cultural studies; women's studies 

 

Early, Jessica

English education and literacy research with a focus on issues of equity in education and writing as a healing practice

 

Ellis, Larry

Native American Oral Traditions; American Folklore; Legend Studies; Tricksterism; Mixed Blood Identities in American Ethnic Literature; Western American Literature

 

Fox, Cora

Renaissance; intertextuality, representations of emotion, the body, Elizabeth I, poetry, iconography, genre theory, cultural studies

 

Gillon, Carrie

Native American languages

 

Glau, Greg

Basic writing; reader-response theory; responding to student writing 

 

Goggin, Maureen Daly 

History of rhetoric and composition; history of rhetoric; rhetorical theory; research methods; visual rhetoric; material rhetoric  

 

Goggin, Peter

Theories of literacy; literacy and technology; environmental rhetoric

 

Goldberg, Beckian Fritz 

Creative writing--poetry; contemporary American poetry 

 

Hawkes, David

17th Cen British Literature

 

Heenan, Katherine

 

Composition and Rhetorical theory; philosophy of composition; liberation pedagogy; computer mediated communication; women's studies; and African American public discourse

 

Hogue, Cynthia

Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry; creative writing/poetry; modernist and contemporary poetry; ethical poetics, women's poetry

 

Horan, Elizabeth R. 

Comparative literature, especially between English and Spanish; literary theory; translation; poetry

 

Hummer, T.R.

Creative Writing, poetry and poetics

 

James, Mark

Curriculum, teaching, and learning in second language education

 

Lehman, Peter

History and theory of film

 

Lester, Neal

African American literature, black women writers, African American folklore, popular cultural African American studies

 

Lockard, Joe

 

Nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; African American literature; antislavery literature; Internet culture and theory; electronic English.

 

Lussier, Mark S. 

English literature, 1660-1850; William Blake; critical theory; science and literature

 

Major, Roy

Second-language acquisition; phonology; bilingualism; TESL

 

Maring, Heather

Old and Middle English language and literature, oral tradition, and poetics

Matsuda, Paul Kei

Second language writing, written discourse analysis, electronic discourse, cross-cultural rhetoric, research methods, rhetoric and composition, applied linguistics

 

McNally, T.M.

 

Creative Writing-fiction

McNeil, Elizabeth

career development for English majors; creative writing; American ethnic literatures; literature by women

Miller, Keith

Rhetoric and composition; the discourse of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement

 

Newhauser, Richard

Middle English Literature, especially Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet; Moral Thought, especially in Latin and English; Intellectual History

 

Newton, Camille

Rhetorical theories of identity construction, teaching assistant education, and writing program administration.

 

Nilsen, Alleen P.

Young adult and children's literature, vocabulary development, English education, humor

 

Nilsen, Don L. F. 

Linguistics; humor, wit, and satire in various languages and literatures

 

Ortiz, Simon

Indigenous Literature

 

Parchesky, Jennifer

 

Critical theory; 20th century American literature, film, and popular culture; issues of gender and class; history of work, consumption, and domesticity; reception studies.

Paris, Django

English Education, Literacy Studies

 

Pritchard, Melissa 

Creative writing--fiction

 

Reyes, Angelita D.

Comparative literature

 

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Creative writing--fiction; African American literature

 

Ríos, Alberto A. 

Poetry; fiction; magical realist literature

 

Robison, Alice

Rhetoric, technology, social media, videogames

 

Roen, Duane  (ASU Polytechnic)

Composition theory, research, and pedagogy; discourse analysis; gender and written language; collaborative writing

 

Ryner, Bradley

Renaissance literature; Drama; New Economic Criticism

 

Sadowski-Smith, Claudia

 

Contemporary U.S. Literatures, Literatures of the Americas, Border Writing, Literatures of the Southwest, Cultural Studies

 

Sands, Teryl

Computers & Composition , Technical Communication, and Programatic Assessment

 

Savard, Jeannine

Creative writing; Poetry; contemporary American poetry and poetics; Buddhist Studies

 

Sturges, Robert

Medieval literature, especially Chaucer; comparative literature; the Bible as literature; critical theory; gay/lesbian/queer studies

 

Thompson, Ayanna

Shakespeare, Film Adaptation, Race

Tobin, Beth

18th-century literature, cultural studies

 

Tohe, Laura 

Creative writing--poetry; Native American literature; Early American literature; Indigenous Women's Literature; Indigenous Poetry; Navajo Literature; Cultural Studies; and the Indian in Film and Video

 

Turchi, Laura

Teacher education, english education

 

van Gelderen, Elly 

Historical and comparative syntax; historical linguistics; sociolinguistics; grammar; history of English; typology; Germanic (Dutch, German, Swedish, Yiddish, Afrikaans) linguistics; interest in Farsi/Urdu, and Native American languages

 

Vernallis, Carol

 

 

Voaden, Rosalynn

Medieval mysticism, particularly women visionaries; hagiography; women in the Middle Ages; gender in Medieval literature; visionary literature

 

Waggoner, Zachary

Video game rhetoric, computers and writing, technological interfaces, and the rhetoric of gender in society

 

Webb, Patricia

Computers and Composition; study of feminism; cultural studies

 

Wheeler, Jackie

Philosophy of rhetoric; theories of composing; political rhetoric

 

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