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Faculty and Staff

Department Chair

Gail Ivy Berlin, Ph.D.

Professor, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, Medieval Women, Holocaust Literature
110 Leonard Hall

Secretaries

Esther Beers

Secretary
Main Office
110 Leonard Hall
724-357-2261

Jackie Rohrabaugh

Secretary
Main Office
110 Leonard Hall
724-357-2261

Cathy Renwick

Secretary
Graduate Office
111 Leonard Hall
724-357-2263

Program Directors

Wendy Carse, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, 19th-century British literature, Gothic fiction, Cultural Studies, including film
Bachelor of Arts in English
103 Leonard Hall
724-357-2271

Linda Norris, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Secondary English Education, Media Literacy, Professional Development
Bachelor of Science in English Education
343 Sutton Hall

Ben Rafoth, Ed.D.

Professor, Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Writing Centers, Research Methods
Graduate Studies in Composition and TESOL
111 Leonard Hall
724-357-2263

Karen Dandurand, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, 19th-Century American Literature in Cultural Contexts, Women’s Literature, Autobiography, Letters
Graduate Studies in Literature and Criticism

Permanent Faculty

Lynne Alvine, Ed.D.

Professor, Adolescent Literature, Teaching Composition, Literacy, and Gender
353 Sutton Hall,
724-357-2744

Laurel Johnson Black, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Composition, Sociolinguistics, Pedagogy, Assessment, Creative Writing
116 Keith
724-357-5518

James M. Cahalan, Ph.D.

Professor, Modern Irish, American and British Literatures, Theory and Pedagogy
209D Leonard Hall
724-357-4934

Carolyn Camp, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, American and British Literatures, Novel, Poetry, Critical Theory, Composition
114E Leonard
724-357-4939

Sung-Gay Chow, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Southern Literature, Asian-American Studies
215E Leonard Hall
724-357-4936

Susan M. Comfort, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Postcolonial Literature, Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, Gender Studies
220 Leonard Hall
724-357-4483

Chauna Craig, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Creative Writing (Fiction and Nonfiction), Western Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Pedagogy
352 Sutton Hall
724-357-2576

David B. Downing, Ph.D.

Professor, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, American Literature
111 Leonard Hall
724-357-6486

Reena Dube, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Film, Film and Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Marxist, Feminist Studies
109B Leonard Hall
724-357-4938

Ronald Emerick, Ph.D.

Professor, Amer. Fiction, Southern Writers, Technical Writing
114D Leonard Hall
724-357-2989

Anthony G. Farrington, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary American Literature, Aesthetic Theory
140 Keith Hall
724-357-0165

Jeannine M. Fontaine, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Cognition, TESOL, Language and Literature
334 Sutton Hall
724-357-2457

Susan I. Gatti, Ph.D.

Professor, 19th- and 20th-Century American novel, British novel 1918–1945
209C Leonard Hall
724-357-2267

Jerry G. Gebhard, Ed.D.

Professor, English as a Foreign Language, Cross-Cultural Communication, Teacher Education
111 Leonard Hall
724-357-2264

Janet Goebel, Ph.D.

Advisor, Honors College. Professor, Medieval, 18th-Cent. Novel, Bronze Age, 19th-Cent. Continental, Myth
136 Whitmyre Hall

David Hanauer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, First and Second Language Literacy, Literature, Second Language Teaching
215D Leonard Hall
724-357-2274

Nancy Hayward, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Composition, TESOL, Sociolinguistics, Language/Gender, Discourse Analysis
201J Leonard Hall
724-357-2473

Audra Himes

Assistant Professor
IUP at Punxsutawney

Claude Mark Hurlbert, D.A.

Professor, Composition Theory and Practice, Rhetorical Traditions, Theories of Literacy
354 Sutton Hall
724-357-2322

Sue Johnson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Literacy Learning, Language and Gender Studies, Pedagogy, Reading Theory
349 Sutton Hall
724-357-4072

Jo-Anne Kerr, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
359 Sutton Hall
724-357-2617

Barbara Kraszewski, M.A.

Associate Professor, Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Theory, Classical Literature in Translation
201B Leonard Hall
724-357-4931

Chris Kuipers, Ph.D.

Comparative Literature, Myth, Classical Lit., Pastoral Lit., Ecocriticism, Anthologies
209B Leonard Hall
724-357-4937

John L. Marsden, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Contemporary British Novel, Modernist, Postmodernist, and Postcolonial Literatures
109D Leonard Hall
724-357-3964

Lea Masiello, Ph.D.

Professor, Oral Literature, Writing, American Literature, National Parks and Nature Writing
216 Eicher Hall
724-357-3029

Donald McAndrew, Ph.D.

Professor, Composition Theory and Practice, Writing Conferencing, Qualitative Research
355 Sutton Hall
724-357-2304

Catherine McClenahan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature, Women’s Studies, Speculative Fiction
350 Sutton Hall
724-357-5913

Stacey J. Miller, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Secondary English Education, Critical Pedagogy, Spacetime/Hybridity Theory and Teacher Identity, Social Justice Issues
346 Sutton Hall
724-357-3095

Jean Nienkamp, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Rhetorical History and Theory, Argumentation, Composition, and Literacy Studies
215A Leonard Hall
724-357-3967

Christopher Orchard, D.Phil

Associate Professor, Shakespeare, Early Modern British Literature, Transatlantic Studies, Theory
246 Keith Hall
724-357-4941

Gian S. Pagnucci, Ph.D.

Professor, Narrative Theory and Research, Technical Writing, Technology and Literacy, Composition Pedagogy
355 Sutton Hall
724-357-4788

Tina Perdue, D.A.

Associate Professor, Humor Writing, Basic Writing, Popular Literature, Pedagogy
348 Sutton Hall
724-357-7832

Heather Powers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Popular Culture
335 Sutton Hall
724-357-4878

Lilia Savova, Ph.D.

Professor, Teacher Education, Second Language Teaching, Linguistics, Instructional Design, Technology
216 Leonard Hall
724-357-3958

Mike Sell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Modern Drama, Avant-Garde, Performance Studies, Black Arts Movement
203 Leonard Hall
724-357-2272

Ronald G. Shafer, Ph.D.

Professor, 16th- and 17th-Century British Literature
114B Leonard Hall
724-357-3965

Kenneth Sherwood, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, 20th-Century American Poetry, Ethnopoetics, Theory and Writing
340 Sutton Hall
724-357-2606

Helen Sitler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Composition and Reading Pedagogy, Teacher Development
360 Sutton Hall
724-357-2120

Thomas J. Slater, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, American Silent Film, Film and Literature, Film Theory and Language
345 Sutton Hall
724-357-4879

Ronald F. Smits, Ph.D.

Professor, Poetry, Composition, Teaching of Composition, Literature
IUP at Northpointe
167 Northpointe Blvd,
Freeport, PA 16229
724-294-3300

Rosalee Stilwell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Rhetoric: the Study of Power and Persuasion in Human Discourse
310 Gordon Hall
724-357-2607

Dan J. Tannacito, Ph.D.

Professor, Second Language Acquisition and Literacy, Intensive English Programs
212 Eicher Hall
724-357-6944

Judith Haqan Villa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Popular Culture and Film, Multicultural and Women's Literature, Writing Pedagogy
117 Keith Hall
724-357-5517

Elaine Ware, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Student Literacy and Technology, Popular Culture
342 Sutton Hall
724-357-2382

Veronica Watson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, African American Literature/Culture, Slave Narratives, Social Construction of Race
341 Sutton Hall
724-357-4940

Susan Welsh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric, American, The Essay
109C Leonard Hall
724-357-2266

Michael M. Williamson, Ph.D.

Professor, Writing Assessment, Technology and Literacy, Research Methodology, Historical Research
351 Sutton Hall
724-357-2671

Michael T. Williamson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, 19th-Century British Literature, Poetry, Composition, and Travel Writing
215B Leonard Hall
724-357-3968

Cheryl Wilson, Ph.D.

19th-Century British Literature, Women’s Literature
114C Leonard Hall
724-357-3963

Lingyan Yang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Asian American/Diasporic Cultural Criticism/Literature, Critical Theories, Minority Literature
339 Sutton Hall
724-357-2604

  • English Department
  • Leonard Hall, Room 110
    421 North Walk
    Indiana, PA 15705-1094
  • Phone: 724-357-2261
  • Fax: 724-357-2265
  • Office Hours
  • Monday through Friday
  • 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
  • 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.