Faculty
Carl Anderson, Ph.D.
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
Michael Anesko
- Professor of English and American Studies
(814) 865-9932
Jim Ausherman
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 865-3949
Oliver Baker
- Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
Brad Baumgartner
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Andrew Bode-Lang
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
Claire M. L. Bourne
- Assistant Professor of English
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
Joseph Bueter
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
- Marketing and Recruitment Specialist
(814) 865-0334
Michael Bérubé
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature
(814) 863-8663
Suresh Canagarajah
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies;
(814) 865-6229
Christopher Castiglia
- Distinguished Professor of English
- Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-9034
Hsia-Ting Chang
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in English
Tina Chen
- Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
- Founding Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
- Director, Global Asias Initiative
- Director, English Department Mentoring Program
(814) 863-9592
Patrick Cheney
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(814) 865-9283
Claire Colebrook
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-6413
Ebony Coletu
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies,
- English, and African Studies
Julian Darragjati
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Richard Matthew Doyle
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English
- Affiliate Faculty, Information Science and Technology
- Digital Director, Zebrapedia.org (Zebrapedia.psu.edu)
(814) 883-9597
Rosa A. Eberly, PhD
- Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and English
- Director, Intercollege Minor in Civic and Community Engagement
- Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences
(814) 863-0867
Jonathan P. Eburne
- Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies
(814) 863-0968
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
(814) 863-4931
Robert R. Edwards
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(814) 863-9642
Gabrielle Foreman
- Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History
Michael Gadaleto
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in English
Keith Gilyard
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies
(814) 865-9123
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)
(814) 863-0271
Sean X. Goudie
- Director, Center for American Literary Studies
- Associate Professor of English
(814) 865-3945
Emily Rolfe Grosholz
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, English, and African American Studies
(814) 865-1676
Teresa Hamilton
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 865-1552
Michael Hart, (he/him/his)
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in English, 2019 - present
- 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
(814) 863-8678
Charlotte Holmes
- Professor of English & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
(814) 470-1188
Albert Joseph Holtzinger, II
- Lecturer in English
(814) 863-9281
Elizabeth Holtzinger
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Christine Hughes
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 360-8815
Robert D. Hume
- Evan Pugh University Professor of English
(814) 863-2344
Alison Condie Jaenicke
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
- Assistant Director of Creative Writing
- Faculty Advisor, Kalliope Literary Journal
(814) 865-0009
Elizabeth Jenkins, Dr.
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9593
Rosemary J Jolly
- Professor, Weiss Chair of the Humanities
(814) 865-1188
Leisha Jones
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
(814) 865-9414
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
(814) 865-1879
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
- Liberal Arts Professor of English
(814) 865-0025
Talley V. Kayser
- Lecturer in English
- Program Director, Adventure Literature Series
Paul M. Kellermann
- Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9583
Brandon S. Killen
- Lecturer in English
(814) 863-9583
Julie Rachel Knepp, BA, MA
- Lecturer in English
Nanami Kobayashi
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 865-6419
Stan Hunter Kranc
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
(814) 865-9243
Brian Lennon
- Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative
(814) 865-6261
David Loewenstein
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities
- Director of Graduate Studies
(814) 863-3068
Janet Lyon
- Faculty-in-charge, Disability Studies Minor
- Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-9681
Bradley Markle
- Lecturer in English
- Penn State University
- Ph.D. Candidate, Literature and Criticism
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
John Marsh
- Professor of English
- Associate Head, English
(814) 863-2627
Leslie Robertson Mateer
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
- Assistant Director, The Penn State Digital English Studio
Cynthia Marie Mazzant
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Shara McCallum
- Liberal Arts Professor of English
Faith Tibbetts McDonald, M.Ed.
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9330
Judith Lee McKelvey, Mx.
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
(814) 933-6915
Christine McMullin
- Lecturer in English
- Unite Brotherhood of Carpenters Work Studies instructor
- Project Manager, Microsoft
(917) 399-5336
Shirley Moody-Turner
- Co-Director, Center For Black Digital Research, #DigBlk
- Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
(814) 863-2767
Mark S. Morrisson
- Department Head
- Professor of English
(814) 863-2626
Carla J. Mulford
- Professor of English
- and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Co-Advisor, English Honors Program
(814) 865-2082, but prefer email
Gerardo M Muniz Villalon
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Jeffrey T. Nealon
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy
(814) 865-3944
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature
(814) 865-0091
Marcy L. North
- Associate Professor of English
- Penn State Representative to the Folger Shakespeare Library
(814) 865-9703
Steele Nowlin
- Teaching Professor in English
- Internship Coordinator
(814) 863-2342
Kristen Osborne Carroll
- Lecturer in English
- ENG 015, 202A
Elizabeth Parfitt
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Scholar in Residence in Writing and Communication, Penn State Learning
Eduardo Pascual, Ph.D.
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9331
Amanda Leigh Passmore-Ott
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
- Faculty Advisor, Rince na Leon
Kelsey Peterson
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Brendan Prawdzik
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(510) 684-8211
Christopher Reed
- Distinguished Professor of English, Visual Culture, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Art History
- Honors Adviser
(814) 865-4242
Matthew Rockmore, PhD
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Gregg Rogers
- Associate Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-3754
Kate Rosenberg, Ph.D.
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 404-2931
Manini Samarth
- Associate Teaching Professor in English and Women's Studies
Benjamin Schreier
- Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies
- Professor of English and Jewish Studies
- Editor, /Studies in American Jewish Literature/
(814) 863-1724
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
(814) 863-8032
Mary Sellers
- Associate Teaching Faculty in English
(814) 441-5832
David Sidore
- Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9087
Scott Thompson Smith
- Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
(814) 863-8670
Priscilla Sneff
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-9296
Sandra Spanier
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women's Studies and
- General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project
(814) 865-9702
Anita Starosta
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
- English | Global and International Studies | German and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Cheryl Sterling
- Associate Professor of English
- Program Head, African Studies
(814) 865-8425
Lisa Sternlieb
- Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies
(814) 865-3947
Garrett Sullivan
- Liberal Arts Professor of English
(814) 863-0595
Toby Thompson
- Associate Professor of English, emphasis Creative Nonfiction.
(814) 865-0026
Anne Triolo
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
- Television Script Writing
- Business Writing
Daniel Tripp
- Digital Specialist
- Associate Director, Digital Education
- Associate Director, The Penn State Digital English Studio
- Lecturer in English
(814) 865-4385
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
(814) 867-0367
Lorena Waselinko
- Teaching Professor in English
(814) 863-3066
Raymond Watkins, Ph.D.
- Assistant Teaching Professor in English
Camille-Yvette Welsch
- Teaching Professor in English
Casey Edward Wiley
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
Rachael Lyon Wiley
- Associate Teaching Professor in English
Xiaoye You
- Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4533