People

Suzanne Anderson

3-D Technologies Instructor
Research Interests: Digital Animation, Narration and Production
WSU-Pullman
andersons@wsu.edu

Julian Ankney

Lecturer and Coordinator of Native American Programs

WSU Vancouver

julian.ankney@wsu.edu

Nancy Bell

Professor
Research Interests:Applied Linguistics , ESL , TESOL
WSU-Pullman
nbell@wsu.edu

Ashley Boyd

Associate Professor
Research Interests: English Education, Critical Theory
WSU-Pullman
Ashley.boyd@wsu.edu

Todd Butler

Dean and Professor
Research Interests:  17th Century Literature , Law and Literature , Political
Epistemology , Marriage of Knowledge and Power in the Renaissance
WSU-Pullman
butlert@wsu.edu

Patricia Cady

Teaching Associate Professor
Research Interests: Composition , Professional and Technical Writing
WSU-Pullman
patty.cady@wsu.edu

Professor
Research Interests:  Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century American
Literature  Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism -American Women’s Writing -Teaching with Technology
WSU Pullman
campbelld@wsu.edu

Peter Chilson

Professor
Research Interests: Writing Workshops in Fiction and Literary Nonfiction , African Literature , Borderlands Studies , Form and Theory in Writing Fiction and Literary Nonfiction , Magazine Editing , Environmental Issues Regarding Africa and the American West
WSU Pullman
pchilson@wsu.edu

Elijah Coleman

Teaching Associate Professor
Research Interests: Composition , Writing and Rhetorical Conventions ,
Technical and Professional Writing
WSU Pullman
coleelij@wsu.edu

Vanessa Cozza

Scholarly Associate Professor
Research Interests:  Rhetoric and Composition
WSU-Tri-Cities
vanessa.cozza@wsu.edu

Colin Criss

Teaching Assistant Professor
WSU Pullman
colin.criss@wsu.edu

Michael Delahoyde

Scholarly Professor
Research Interests: Shakespeare , Chaucer , Medieval, Renaissance , Humanities
WSU Pullman
delahoyd@wsu.edu

Robert Eddy

Professor
Research Interests: Rhetoric and racism; Malcolm X and the renaming of the U.S.A.;
Islamophobia and rhetorics of the less than human; Robotic rhetorics and the politics of the post-human
WSU Pullman
eddyr@wsu.edu

Mike Edwards

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Rhetoric and composition, Digital Rhetorics, Technology Studies,
Economics and Composition
WSU Pullman
mike.edwards@wsu.edu

Jamie Flathers

Teaching Assistant Professor
WSU Pullman

jamie.flathers@wsu.edu

Bryan Fry

Scholarly Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Creative Writing , Editing and Publishing ,
Writing and Research Honors
WSU Pullman
bryanfry@wsu.edu

Rebecca Goodrich

Scholarly Assistant Professor & Assistant Director of DTC
Research Interests: Literary Nonfiction, Personal Essay ,
Comics and Graphic Novels , Children’s and Young Adult Literature ,
Digital Storytelling
WSU Pullman
rgoodrich@wsu.edu

Tomie Gowdy-Burke

Teaching Assistant Professor
Research Interests: The role of the educator in the learning experiences of students with cultural learning differences, learning styles;
constructivist classrooms, Universal Design for Instruction
WSU Pullman
tomie@wsu.edu

Dene Grigar

Professor
Research Interests: Multimedia Narrative Performance and Installations ,
Ephemeral Writing and Technologies , Electronic Literature
WSU Vancouver
dgrigar@wsu.edu

William Hamlin

Professor
Research Interests: Shakespeare , English and Continental Literature, 1500-1700 -Renaissance Drama , Montaigne -Histories of Early Modern Philosophy and Religion
WSU Pullman
whamlin@wsu.edu

Michael Hanly

Professor
Research Interests: Medieval Literature and Culture , Humanities , Textual Editing ,
Paleography , Graduate Research
WSU Pullman
hanly@wsu.edu

Jon Hegglund

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests: modernist and contemporary narrative, cognitive and rhetorical narratology, materialist ecocriticism, posthumanism, Anthropocene narrative, new media studies
WSU Pullman
hegglund@wsu.edu

Desiree Hellegers

Professor
Research Interests: Environmental Justice Activism, Ecocriticism (Contemporary American Literature, and 17th Century British), Poverty and Inequality, Oral History, and Social Movements
WSU Vancouver
desiree.hellegers@wsu.edu

Jacob Hughes

Teaching Assistant Professor
WSU Pullman
jacob_hughes@wsu.edu

Leeann Hunter

Scholarly Associate Professor
WSU Pullman
leeann.hunter@wsu.edu

Jeff Jones

Teaching Assistant Professor
Research Interests: English Education, Composition, Creative Writing
WSU-Pullman
jeffrey.p.jones@wsu.edu

Debbie (DJ) Lee

Regents Professor
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Environmental Humanities, Oral History, Wilderness Studies, Arctic Studies, Literature of the American West, 18th and 19th-century British Literature, History of Science, Paper and Printmaking
WSU Pullman
deblee@wsu.edu

Buddy Levy

Scholarly Professor
Research Interests: Creative Writing—all genres, Technical and Professional Writing, Digital Technology and Culture, History, Expedition and Discovery, Outdoor Adventure, Journalism
WSU Pullman
llevy@wsu.edu

Thabiti Lewis

Professor
Research Interests: 20th-Century African American Literature , Toni Cade Bambara , Critical Race Theory , Sport Culture ,
Black Masculinity Studies
WSU Vancouver
thabiti@wsu.edu

Meagan Lobnitz

Clinical Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Composition, Technical and Professional Writing, and Independent Publishing and Editorial Theory

WSU Vancouver

(360) 546-9488

meagan.lobnitz@wsu.edu

Grant Maierhofer

Teaching Assistant Professor
Research Interests: English composition, creative writing, technical and professional writing
WSU Pullman
grant.maierhofer@wsu.edu

David Martin

Teaching Associate Professor
WSU Pullman
drmartin@wsu.edu

Michael Mays

Professor and Director of Hanford History Project
Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Irish and English Literature; Critical Theory; Post War American Culture

WSU Tri-cities
michael.mays@wsu.edu

Kirk McAuley

Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Early American and British Literature and Culture (Including Poetry and Non-Fiction Prose) to 1900 , Transatlantic Studies , Print Culture , Travel and Empire Writing , Gender , Environmental Criticism
WSU Pullman
lmcauley@wsu.edu

Cameron McGill (he/him)

Scholarly Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Visiting Writers Series
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Poetry/Poetics, Editing and Publishing, Songwriting
WSU Pullman
cameron.mcgill@wsu.edu

Pavithra Narayanan

Professor
Research Interests: Film , Globalization , Gender Issues, Political Economy , South Asian Feminism; Post colonial Literature , Documentary Films
WSU Vancouver
pavithra@wsu.edu

Melissa Nicolas

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Disability Studies, Composition Studies, Feminist Theory
WSU Pullman
melissa.nicolas@wsu.edu

Aaron Oforlea

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Specializes in African American literature, folklore, and rhetoric.
sub areas: film, masculinity, and narrative theory and medicine.

WSU Pullman
aoforlea@wsu.edu

Wendy Olson

Associate Professor
Research Interests: Basic Writing , Critical Literacy , Political Economy , History and Theory of Composition , History and Theory of Rhetoric
WSU Vancouver
wmolson@wsu.edu

Leonard Orr

Professor
Research Interests:  19th- & 20th-Century British, Irish, and American Literature, Critical Theory and History of Criticism -Modernism , Representations of the Holocaust , Postcolonial and Literature of Exile , Creative Writing: Poetry
WSU Vancouver
orr@wsu.edu

Johanna Phelps

Associate Professor, Director of Technical and Professional Writing

Research Interests: Human subjects research in Writing Studies; technical and professional communication manifested in public policy implementation, institutional infrastructures, and program design and assessment
WSU Vancouver
j.phelps@wsu.edu

Donna Potts

Professor and Chair
Research Interests: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Poetry, Biography, Ecocriticism, Trauma Theory, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Women’s Writing, History of the English Language, Sexual Assault in Academia, Personal Essay
WSU Pullman

dl.potts@wsu.edu

Laura Powers

Teaching Associate Professor
Research Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Research Writing, Technical and Professional Writing, Humanities: Mythology, Literature and Reading. Creative Writing.
WSU Pullman
laura.powers@wsu.edu

Kandy S. Robertson

Scholarly Full Professor and Director of Writing Programs
Research Interests: Writing and Research , Introduction to English Studies
WSU Vancouver
kandy-robertson@wsu.edu

Linda Russo

Scholarly Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing
Research Interests: creative writing, ecopoetry, geopoetics, decolonial and Indigenous methodologies, environmental humanities
WSU Pullman
lrusso@wsu.edu

Rachel Sanchez

Teaching Associate Professor
Research Interests: Identity and student writing; university support and retention of underserved student populations; pop culture studies; creative writing (nonfiction)
WSU Pullman
rachel_sanchez@wsu.edu

Marian Sciachitano

Scholarly Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WSU Pullman

sciach@wsu.edu

Nishant Shahani

Professor
Research Interests: Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, Transnational Sexualities (with a focus on India), political economy of AIDS, Globalization
WSU Pullman
nshahani3@wsu.edu

Carol Siegel

Professor
Research Interests: 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 , Asian American Literature
WSU Vancouver
siegel@wsu.edu

Elizabeth Siler

Scholarly Assistant Professor
Research Interests: English as a Second Language , Second Language Reading ,
Studies on Paraphrase and Plagiarism
WSU Pullman
mejia@wsu.edu

Julie Staggers

Associate Professor
WSU Pullman
julie.staggers@wsu.edu

Pamela Thoma

Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests: Asian American Literature and Studies, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Women’s Literature, Feminist Media Studies, Health Humanities, Feminist and Queer Theory, Graphic Narrative, and Neoliberalism
WSU Pullman
pthoma@wsu.edu

Michael Thomas

Scholarly Assistant Professor
WSU Pullman
michael.f.thomas@wsu.edu

Kate Watts

Scholarly Associate Professor
Interim Director of Composition
Research Interests: Composition
WSU Pullman
kate.watts@wsu.edu

Lauren Westerfield

Scholarly Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Creative Writing (Nonfiction and Poetry), Digital and Cross-Disciplinary Texts, Editing and Publishing, Composition, and Professional Writing.
WSU Pullman
lauren.westerfield@wsu.edu

Roger Whitson

Associate Professor
Research Interests: 19th C British Literature, esp. William Blake , Digital Humanities , Digital and Hybrid Pedagogy , Steampunk , Comics and Graphic Novels , Speculative Realism and Object, Oriented Ontology , Media History and Archaeology
WSU Pullman
roger.whitson@wsu.edu

Patricia Wilde

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Feminist Rhetorics, History and Historiography, Archival Research, and Composition Studies

WSU Vancouver

patty.wilde@wsu.edu

Retired Faculty

Paul Brians

Professor Emeritus
paulbrians@gmail.com

Joan Burbick

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:  American literature and culture (especially late 19th and 20th century) , Cultural theory , Popular Culture
burbick@wsu.edu

Bill Condon

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Writing Assessment , Composition Pedagogy , World Civilizations ,
19th Century British Literature , Computers and Writing
WSU Pullman
bcondon@wsu.edu

Wendy Dasler Johnson

Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: ‘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
WSU Vancouver
wjohnson1@wsu.edu

Patricia Ericsson

Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Digital Rhetorics , Composition Studies , Digital Technology and Culture , Critical Technology Studies , Technical Communication , Rhetorics of Sustainability
WSU Pullman
ericsson@wsu.edu

Diane Gillespie

Professor Emeritus
gillespie@pullman.com

Research Interests: Modern fiction and drama especially by women writers, relationships between verbal and visual art forms, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, biography, archival work, Hogarth Press publications.

Lynn Gordon

Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Linguistics , English Grammar , History of English ,
Syntax , Syntax and Morphology of Native American Languages
WSU Pullman
gordonl@wsu.edu

Alexander Hammond

Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:  American Literature (Colonial-Present) , Humanities (Ancient World) , Introduction to Literature , Film and Literature , American Fiction , Class/Labor/Gender in American Literature , American Drama
hammonda@wsu.edu

George Kennedy

Professor Emeritus:
Research Interests: Technical Communication , Rhetoric/Composition , 19th century British fiction (Victorians) , Early 20th Century British (Edwardians and Georgians)
gkennedy@wsu.edu

Alex Kuo

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Contemporary Poetry , Creative Writing (All Genres) , Native American Literature; American West Literature
alexkuo@wsu.edu

Richard Law

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: 20th-Century American Literature , Literature of the American South
rlaw@wsu.edu

Barbara Monroe

Associate Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Indigenous Rhetoric of the Plateau Indians , Cultural and Class Differences in Rhetoric, Learning Styles, Interactive Patterns , Critical Literacies and Pedagogies, online and off
bjmonroe@wsu.edu

T.V. Reed

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Contemporary U.S.  Literary Theory , Popular Culture , Digital Diversity , Multiethnic Contemporary American Literature , Ecocriticism
WSU Pullman
reedtv@wsu.edu

Camille Roman

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Multiethnic American Poetries and Cultures ,
Women Writers , Modernisms , Writing and Research , WWII-Cold War Cultures (Film and Poetry) , Pacific Rim American Poetries; U.S. Immigration Poetries , African & Caribbean, American Poetries , American Censorship Culture (Literature, Music, and Visual Arts) ,
20th- and 21st-c. American Book Publishing Cultures
roman@wsu.edu

Susan Ross

Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Journalism , International Mass Media , Law , Public Policy -Economics , Cultural Studies , Social Movements , Peace Studies
WSU Pullman
suross@wsu.edu

Victor Villanueva

Regents Professor, Retired
victorv@wsu.edu