Brian R. Henderson
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Assistant Professor
Teaching of Writing Graduate Advisor (last names A-L)
Specializations: Composition Pedagogy, Rhetorical Theory, Ecocomposition, and Institutional Labor
Matthew S. S. Johnson
Ph.D. Indiana University
Associate Professor
Director of Expository Writing
Specializations: Composition Pedagogy & Theory; Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Digital/Electronic Literacies and Technologies; Ludology and Digital Games
Sharon James McGee
Ph.D. Purdue University
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature
Teaching of Writing Graduate Advisor (last names M-Z)
Specializations: Response and Assessment of Writing, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods; Pedagogy; Feminist Theory and Research; Technical and Professional Writing; Second Language Writing
Anushiya Ramaswamy
Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno
Professor
Specializations: Composition Theory; History of Rhetoric; Literary Theory; African-American Rhetoric; Post-colonial Literature
(Faculty members who on occasion teach courses in the Teaching of Writing program.)
Allison Funk
M.F.A. Columbia University
Professor
Specializations: Teaching Creative Writing; Creative Writing (Poetry); Contemporary American Poetry; Modern British and American Literature
John Pendergast
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Associate Professor
Specializations: History of Rhetoric and Literacy; Renaissance Literature (esp. William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser); Classical Literature in Translation; The Bible and/as Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetic Theory; The Epic
Nancy Ruff
Ph.D. Princeton University
Professor
Specializations: Computers; the Internet; Composition Pedagogy; Medieval Literature (esp. Chaucer); Renaissance Literature; Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature; Classical Influences; Greek; Latin; Women's Studies
Geoffrey Schmidt
M.F.A. University of Alabama
Associate Professor
Specializations: Teaching Creative Writing; Creative Writing (Fiction); American Literature; Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry; Popular Literature; Literary Editing
Jeffrey Skoblow
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Professor
Specializations: Composition Pedagogy, Politics and Pedagogy, 19th & 20th Century British Literature, Drama, Creative Writing
Carl Springer
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor
Specializations: Classical Mythology, Greek and Latin Language and
Literature, Ancient Rhetoric, the Trivium, Aesop's fables, Neo-Latin, the
Biblical Epic