Department of English

19-21 st century Russian, Slavic, and American literatures

Name	Email	Position
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

American Literature - 1900 to Present

Name	Email	Position
Sandra L. Ballard	ballardsl@appstate.edu	Professor
Cece Conway	conwayec@appstate.edu	Professor
Bruce Dick	dickba@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Carl Eby	ebycp@appstate.edu	Professor
Kristina Groover	grooverkk@appstate.edu	Professor
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Holly Martin	martinhe@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Director of Graduate Studies
Michael T. Wilson	wilsonmt@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

American Literature - 19th Century

Name	Email	Position
Carl Eby	ebycp@appstate.edu	Professor
Grace McEntee	mcenteege@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Colin Ramsey	ramseyct@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Lynn Searfoss	searfossla@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Michael T. Wilson	wilsonmt@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

American Literature - African American

Name	Email	Position
Bruce Dick	dickba@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Carl Eby	ebycp@appstate.edu	Professor
Kristina Groover	grooverkk@appstate.edu	Professor
Grace McEntee	mcenteege@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

American Literature - Appalachian & Southern

Name	Email	Position
Sandra L. Ballard	ballardsl@appstate.edu	Professor
Cece Conway	conwayec@appstate.edu	Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Director of Graduate Studies

American Literature - Colonial & Federal

Name	Email	Position
Colin Ramsey	ramseyct@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Wilber Ward	wardwh@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

American Literature - Ethnic & Native American

Name	Email	Position
Bruce Dick	dickba@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Holly Martin	martinhe@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Appalachian Cultural Rhetoric

Name	Email	Position
Savannah Paige Murray	murrays@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Appalachian literature, folklore, and oral history

Name	Email	Position
Alex Sloop	sloopka@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Assistant Chair

Name	Email	Position
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Professor
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies

British and American Romanticism

Name	Email	Position
April McGinnis		Lecturer

British Literature - 18th Century

Name	Email	Position
Alexander Pitofsky	pitofskyah@appstate.edu	Professor
Jennifer Wilson	wilsonjp@appstate.edu	Professor

British Literature - 1900 to Present

Name	Email	Position
William Atkinson	atkinsoncw@appstate.edu	Professor
Kristina Groover	grooverkk@appstate.edu	Professor
James Ivory	ivoryjm@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer

British Literature - 19th Century

Name	Email	Position
William Brewer	brewerwd@appstate.edu	Professor
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor

British Literature - Early Modern

Name	Email	Position
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Professor
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Susan C. Staub	staubsc@appstate.edu	Professor
Roger Stilling	stillingrj@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

British Literature - Medieval

Name	Email	Position
Alison Gulley	gulleyea@appstate.edu	Professor

British Literature - The Romantic Period

Name	Email	Position
William Brewer	brewerwd@appstate.edu	Professor

British Literature - Victorian

Name	Email	Position
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor

Caribbean literature, cinema, and culture

Name	Email	Position
Patrick Crowley	crowleypm@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Citizenship studies

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Comparative Literature

Name	Email	Position
Başak Çandar	candarb@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Patrick Crowley	crowleypm@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Contemporary American Literature

Name	Email	Position
Ben Morris	morrisbc@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Contemporary and Cultural Rhetorics

Name	Email	Position
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Director of Composition

Contemporary Indigenous literatures and theory

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Creative Writing

Name	Email	Position
Katy Abrams	abramskj@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Joseph Bathanti	bathantjr@appstate.edu	Professor
Lynn Doyle	doylel@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor
Ben Morris	morrisbc@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Mark Powell	Powelljm1@appstate.edu	Professor
Bill Torgerson	torgersonwj@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Susan Weinberg	weinbergsc@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Critical digital literacy

Name	Email	Position
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Critical Theory

Name	Email	Position
Başak Çandar	candarb@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Carl Eby	ebycp@appstate.edu	Professor
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor
James Ivory	ivoryjm@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor
Thomas McLaughlin	mclaughlin@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Professor
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Kyle Stevens	stevensck@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Cultural Studies

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Craig Fischer	fischercj@appstate.edu	Professor
Kyle Stevens	stevensck@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Michael T. Wilson	wilsonmt@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Decolonial aesthetics

Name	Email	Position
Patrick Crowley	crowleypm@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Department Chair

Name	Email	Position
Prof. Leonardo L Flores	floresll@appstate.edu	Chair
Prof. Leonardo L Flores	floresll@appstate.edu	Professor

Digital Composition

Name	Email	Position
Bill Torgerson	torgersonwj@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Digital Literacies

Name	Email	Position
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Discourse Analysis

Name	Email	Position
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Ecocomposition

Name	Email	Position
Savannah Paige Murray	murrays@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Ecocriticism

Name	Email	Position
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor
April McGinnis		Lecturer
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Director of Graduate Studies

English Education

Name	Email	Position
Leslie Susan Cook	cookls@appstate.edu	Professor
Leslie Susan Cook	cookls@appstate.edu	Director of English Education
Leslie Susan Cook	cookls@appstate.edu	Executive Director of Teacher Education for the College of Arts and Sciences
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Elaine O'Quinn	oquinnej@appstate.edu	Professor

Environmental humanities

Name	Email	Position
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Environmental Rhetoric

Name	Email	Position
Savannah Paige Murray	murrays@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Ethnic American Literature

Name	Email	Position
Melissa Birkhofer	birkhofermd@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Feminist Historiography

Name	Email	Position
Savannah Paige Murray	murrays@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Film

Name	Email	Position
Bruce Dick	dickba@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Craig Fischer	fischercj@appstate.edu	Professor
Toney Frazier	fraziertj@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Leon Lewis	lewislh@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Ben Morris	morrisbc@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Alexander Pitofsky	pitofskyah@appstate.edu	Professor
Kyle Stevens	stevensck@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Roger Stilling	stillingrj@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Director of Graduate Studies

Folklore

Name	Email	Position
Cece Conway	conwayec@appstate.edu	Professor

Gender Studies

Name	Email	Position
Carl Eby	ebycp@appstate.edu	Professor
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor
Alison Gulley	gulleyea@appstate.edu	Professor
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Michael T. Wilson	wilsonmt@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Gender, Race, and the Novel

Name	Email	Position
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Gender, Religion, and Social Movements

Name	Email	Position
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Director of Composition

History of the English Language

Name	Email	Position
Alison Gulley	gulleyea@appstate.edu	Professor
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Lynn Searfoss	searfossla@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

Horror, the gothic, science fiction, and the fantastic

Name	Email	Position
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Indigenous Literatures

Name	Email	Position
Melissa Birkhofer	birkhofermd@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Irish Literature & Culture

Name	Email	Position
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor

Language Studies & Linguistics

Name	Email	Position
William Atkinson	atkinsoncw@appstate.edu	Professor
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Donna Lillian	lilliandl@appstate.edu	Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Lynn Searfoss	searfossla@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

Latinx Literatures

Name	Email	Position
Melissa Birkhofer	birkhofermd@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Literary transnationalism

Name	Email	Position
Patrick Crowley	crowleypm@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Modernism and Modernity

Name	Email	Position
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Musical Culture

Name	Email	Position
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Pedagogy

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Poetry & Poetics

Name	Email	Position
Joseph Bathanti	bathantjr@appstate.edu	Professor
Lynn Doyle	doylel@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor
Kathryn Kirkpatrick	kirkpatrick@appstate.edu	Professor

Post-Colonial Literature

Name	Email	Position
James Ivory	ivoryjm@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Postcolonial literature and theory

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Posthumanism, animal studies, and critical plant studies

Name	Email	Position
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Print Culture and Book History

Name	Email	Position
Colin Ramsey	ramseyct@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus

Queer Studies

Name	Email	Position
Jill R. Ehnenn	ehnennjr@appstate.edu	Professor
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Professor
David L. Orvis	orvisdl@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Kyle Stevens	stevensck@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Rhetoric

Name	Email	Position
Sarah-Beth Long	hoptonsb@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Sarah-Beth Long	hoptonsb@appstate.edu	Internship Director
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Rhetoric & Composition

Name	Email	Position
Jacob Babb	babbjs@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Rhetoric and Modernism

Name	Email	Position
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Name	Email	Position
Kate Birgel	birgelkz@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Professor
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Hailie Bryant	bryanthm@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Heather Childress Custer	custerhc@appstate.edu	Adjunct Instructor
Ben Morris	morrisbc@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Megan Ruggiero	mcswainma@appstate.edu	Adjunct Instructor
Lynn Searfoss	searfossla@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Cole Wahab	wahabjc@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Gail York	yorklg@appstate.edu	Senior Lecturer

Russian, Soviet, and American cinema

Name	Email	Position
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer

Science Fiction and Horror

Name	Email	Position
Jacob Babb	babbjs@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Southern Studies

Name	Email	Position
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Zackary Vernon	vernonzd@appstate.edu	Director of Graduate Studies

Teacher education

Name	Email	Position
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Teaching and Tutoring Writing

Name	Email	Position
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Bethany Ober Mannon	mannonbo@appstate.edu	Director of Composition

Technical & Professional Writing

Name	Email	Position
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Professor
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Assistant Chair
Jessie Blackburn	blackburnjb@appstate.edu	Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Sarah-Beth Long	hoptonsb@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Sarah-Beth Long	hoptonsb@appstate.edu	Internship Director
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Technology integration in English language arts education

Name	Email	Position
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Television Studies

Name	Email	Position
Kyle Stevens	stevensck@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

Transnational Approaches to Literature

Name	Email	Position
Vanessa Evans	evansvk@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Urban Modernism

Name	Email	Position
Ryan James McGuckin	mcguckinrj@appstate.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor

Virtual reality

Name	Email	Position
Clarice Moran	morancm1@appstate.edu	Associate Professor

World Literature

Name	Email	Position
William Atkinson	atkinsoncw@appstate.edu	Professor
Başak Çandar	candarb@appstate.edu	Associate Professor
Howard Giskin	giskinha@appstate.edu	Professor Emeritus
Christopher Meade	meadecm@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor
Brittany Roberts	robertsbr2@appstate.edu	Lecturer
Belinda Walzer	walzerbl@appstate.edu	Assistant Professor

Writing Program Administration

Name	Email	Position
Jacob Babb	babbjs@appstate.edu	Associate Professor