Faculty

Robert Alderman

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Carl Anderson, Ph.D.

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Randi Anderson

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Michael Anesko

• Professor of English and American Studies

Jim Ausherman

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Jan Babcock

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

W. Oliver Baker

• Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Brad Baumgartner

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Nicholas J. Beishline

• Lecturer in English

Kevin Bell

• Associate Professor of English

Hester Blum

• Associate Professor of English

Andrew Bode-Lang

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Rose Bohn

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Claire M. L. Bourne

• Assistant Professor of English

Joseph Bueter

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English
• Marketing and Recruitment Specialist

Bob Burkholder

• Associate Professor of English

Michael Bérubé

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature

Lauren Cameron

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Suresh Canagarajah

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies;
• Director, Migration Studies Project.

Christopher Castiglia

• Distinguished Professor of English
• Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Hsia-Ting Chang

• Lecturer in English

Jason Charnesky

• Lecturer in English

Tina Chen

• Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
• Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
• Director, Global Asias Initiative

Patrick Cheney

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Christine Chichester,

• Lecturer in English

Laurena Clemente

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

William J. Cobb

• Professor of English

Claire Mary Colebrook

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ebony Coletu

• Assistant Professor of African American Studies,
• English, and African Studies

Christina Cook

• Assistant Teaching Professor

Ana Cooke

• Assistant Professor of Professional Writing

Jennifer Dareneau

Julian Darragjati

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Bethany Doane

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, WGSS

Richard Matthew Doyle

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English
• Affiliate Faculty, Information Science and Technology
• Digital Director, Zebrapedia.org (Zebrapedia.psu.edu)

Courtney Dunn

• Lecturer in English

Erica Durian

• Lecturer in English

Rosa A. Eberly, PhD

• Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and English

Jonathan P. Eburne

• Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies

Caroline D. Eckhardt

• Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Chair in Literary Theory and Comparative Criticism; Professor of Comparative Literature and English;
• Director, School of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Robert R. Edwards

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Wil Fine

• Lecturer in English, EFT

Jessica Fisher

• Lecturer in English

Stephen M. Fonash

• Lecturer in English

Gabrielle Foreman

• Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History

Anthony Franklin

• Lecturer

Michael Gadaleto

• Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

Debra Gardecki

• Lecturer in English

Keith Gilyard

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies

Cheryl Glenn

• Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies
• Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric (Awarded a 2013 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence)

Sean X. Goudie

• Director, Center for American Literary Studies
• Associate Professor of English

Emily Rolfe Grosholz

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, English, and African American Studies

Christian P Haines

• Assistant Professor of English

Teresa Hamilton

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Michael Hart

• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, 2019-2020
• McCourtney Family Distinguished Graduate Fellow, 2013-2019

Debra Hawhee

• McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation
• Senior Scholar, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
• Professor of English and of Communication Arts and Sciences

Colin Hogan

• Lecturer in English

Heather Holleman, PhD

• Lecturer in English

Charlotte Holmes

• Director of Creative Writing
• Professor of English & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Albert Joseph Holtzinger, II

• Lecturer in English

Liz Holtzinger

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Abigail Houston

• Lecturer - Rhetoric and Composition

Kevin Hulburt

Robert D. Hume

• Evan Pugh University Professor of English

Alison Condie Jaenicke

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English
• Assistant Director of Creative Writing
• Faculty Advisor, Kalliope Literary Journal

Elizabeth Jenkins, Dr.

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Rosemary J Jolly

• Professor, Weiss Chair of the Humanities

Leisha Jones

• Assistant Professor of English

Elizabeth Nicole Kadetsky

• Associate professor/creative writing (fiction and nonfiction)

Verna Kale

• Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and
• Assistant Research Professor of English

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

• Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Talley V. Kayser

• Lecturer in English
• Program Director, Adventure Literature Series

Paul M. Kellermann

• Teaching Professor of English

Charity Ketz

• Lecturer in English

Julie Rachel Knepp

• Lecturer in English

Stan Hunter Kranc

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Maxwell Larson

• English Graduate Assistant

Lewis C. Lazarow

• Lecturer in English

Brian Lennon

• Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative

David Loewenstein

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities
• Director of Graduate Studies

Adam Lupo

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Janet Lyon

• Faculty-in-charge, Disability Studies Minor
• Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Michael Maguire

• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in English

Lisa Mangini

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Bradley Markle

• English Instructor
• Penn State University
• Ph.D. Candidate, Literature and Criticism
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania

John Marsh

• Associate Professor of English
• Associate Head, English

Leslie Robertson Mateer

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English
• Assistant Director, The Penn State Digital English Studio

Andrew Maust

• Lecturer in English

Elizabeth May

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Jacob Maynard

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Cynthia Marie Mazzant

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Shara McCallum

• Liberal Arts Professor of English

Faith Tibbetts McDonald, M.Ed.

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Judith Lee McKelvey, Mx.

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Christine McMullin

Christine Meyer

• Faculty Lecturer in English

Erin Miele

• Lecturer

Shirley Moody-Turner

• Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Nina Morgan

• Lecturer in English

Mark S. Morrisson

• Department Head
• Professor of English

Carla J. Mulford

• Professor of English
• Honors Adviser
• Co-Director (with Marica Tacconi), PSU Committee for Early Modern Studies
• Founding President, Society of Early Americanists

Gerardo M Muniz Villalon

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Sharon A. Myers

• Lecturer in English

Jeffrey T. Nealon

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy

Kerry Newman

• Lecturer in English

Aldon Lynn Nielsen

• The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature

Marcy L. North

• Associate Professor of English
• Penn State Representative to the Folger Shakespeare Library

Steele Nowlin

• Teaching Professor of English
• Internship Coordinator

Jon Olson

• Associate Professor of Writing in English and Scholar in Residence for Writing and Communication with Penn State Learning
• Director, Graduate Writing Center

Kristen Osborne Carroll

• Lecturer in English
• ENG 015, 202A

Elizabeth Parfitt

• Associate Teaching Professor

Eduardo Pascual, Ph.D.

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Amanda Leigh Passmore-Ott

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English
• Faculty Advisor, Rince na Leon

Jayme Peacock

• English Postdoctoral Fellow

Brice Peterson

• Postdoctoral Fellow

Kelsey Peterson

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Britta Petrich

• Lecturer in English

Brendan Prawdzik

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Christopher Reed

• Distinguished Professor of English, Visual Culture, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Honors Adviser

Erica Young Reitz

• Lecturer in English

Matthew David Rockmore, PhD

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Gregg Rogers

• Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Kate Rosenberg, Ph.D.

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Manini Samarth

• Associate Teaching Professor of English and Women's Studies

Amy Sattler

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Judy Scheidecker

• Lecturer in English

John Schneider

• Lecturer in English

Benjamin Schreier

• Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies
• Professor of English and Jewish Studies
• Director, Jewish Studies Program
• Editor, /Studies in American Jewish Literature/

Sydney Schumacher

• Lecturer in English

Stuart A. Selber

• Associate Professor of English
• Director of Digital Education
• Director of The Penn State Digital English Studio
• Affiliate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology

Mary Sellers

• Lecturer in English

Steve Shwartzer

• Lecturer in English

Scott Thompson Smith

• Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Priscilla Sneff

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Sandra Spanier

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women's Studies and
• General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project

Anita Starosta

• Associate Teaching Professor
• English | Global and International Studies | German and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Cheryl Sterling

Lisa Sternlieb

• Associate Professor of English

Andrea Stout

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Garrett Sullivan

• Liberal Arts Professor of English

Christina Taheri

• Lecturer in English

Toby Thompson

• Associate Professor of English, emphasis Creative Nonfiction.

Stacy Glen Tibbetts

• Lecturer in English

Matt Tierney

• Assistant Professor of English

Anne Triolo

• Assistant Teaching Professor
• Television Script Writing
• Business Writing

Daniel Tripp

• Digital Specialist
• Associate Director, Digital Education
• Associate Director, The Penn State Digital English Studio
• Lecturer in English

Clara VanEnkevort

• Lecturer in English

Ashleigh Wade

• Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

• Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and English
• Director of Undergraduate Programs in WGSS
• President, The Society for Utopian Studies

Lorena Waselinko

• Teaching Professor of English

Raymond Watkins, Ph.D.

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Camille-Yvette Welsch

• Teaching Professor of English

Amy Cooper White

• Lecturer in English

Casey Edward Wiley

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Rachael Lyon Wiley

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Melinda Page Wilkins

• Associate Teaching Professor of English

Nathaniel A. Windon

• English Graduate Assistant

Xiaoye You

• Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies

Phillip Zapkin

• Assistant Teaching Professor of English