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Faculty

Name Title(s) Research/Focus Email Room
Emily Allen Professor Nineteenth-century British literature, cultural studies, gender studies, narrative theory, history of the novel, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) elallen@purdue.edu SC 208
Megha Anwer Clinical Associate Professor Contemporary postcolonial literature, global cinema, Victorian literature and visual culture. manwer@purdue.edu HCRN 1091
Dorsey Armstrong Professor; Editor of Arthuriana Arthurian Literature; Medieval Romance; Old English; Gender and Feminist Studies darmstrong@purdue.edu SC 286
Jennifer Bay Professor Technical and Professional Communication; Community Engagement: Experiential Learning; Internships; Artificial Intelligence and Digital Rhetorics jbay@purdue.edu SC 272
Elena Benedicto Professor Formal theoretical Linguistics; Syntax and Syntax-Semantics Interface; Sign Languages; Indigenous, endangered and minority languages; Language Acquisition ebenedi@purdue.edu SC 263
Samantha Blackmon Associate Professor Computers and composition, African-American culture, lesbian and women's studies blackmos@purdue.edu SC 203
Richard Blanco Professor Creative Writing (Poetry, Memoir, Playwriting); U.S. Latinx Literature; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry; Public Humanities blancor@purdue.edu SC G070
Harris Bras Clinical Assistant Professor Second Language Writing; Applied Linguistics; EFL in East Asia; Sociolinguistics; ESL student support at public universities hbras@purdue.edu SC G074
Marlo D. David Associate Professor 20th and 21st Century African American Literature and Performance Studies; American Cultural Studies; Mothers and Maternal figures in fiction and film; Reproductive Justice; Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Methods mdavid@purdue.edu SC 205
Harry Denny Professor; Director of the Writing Lab Composition studies; writing center theory and practice; LGBT studies hdenny@purdue.edu KRCH 230B
Bradley Dilger Professor; Director of Writing Writing research methods; web-based research infrastructure; sustainable mentoring dilger@purdue.edu SC 260
Angelica Duran Professor 16th-21st century Comparative Literature, primarily English and Spanish; Disability Studies; Religious Studies; Translation Studies duran0@purdue.edu SC 288
John Duvall Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies 20th and 21st Century American Fiction; modernism and postmodernism jduvall@purdue.edu SC 214
Dino Franco Felluga Professor British Literature; Critical Theory; Digital Humanities felluga@purdue.edu SC 208
Wendy Stallard Flory Professor Poetry; Ezra Pound; American Literary Romance; Melville floryw@purdue.edu SC G078
Elaine Francis Professor; Department Head Syntax, psycholinguistics, relative clauses, grammatical categories, syntactic alternations, knowledge of grammar ejfranci@purdue.edu SC 124A
Melissa Fraterrigo Clinical Associate Professor Creative Writing; Fiction; Creative Nonfiction mfraterr@purdue.edu SC 202
Tina Huey Clinical Associate Professor Dialogical pedagogies; community writing; AI in teaching and learning; cultural study of technology huey8@purdue.edu SC 262
Shaun Hughes Professor Old Norse/Icelandic and Early Modern Icelandic Literature and Culture, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, Postcolonial Literature and World Literature sfdh@purdue.edu SC 256
Richard Johnson-Sheehan Professor Rhetoric of Science; Professional Writing; Technical Writing; Rhetoric of Health and Medicine; Ancient and Classical Rhetoric rjohnso@purdue.edu SC 274
Michael Johnston Professor; Director of Graduate Studies Middle English literature, the history of the book, romance, Piers Plowman mjohnst@purdue.edu SC 290
Robert Paul Lamb Professor American Literature lambr@purdue.edu Remote
Brian Leung Professor Creative Writing leung19@purdue.edu SC 206
Maren Linett Professor Modernist literature and culture; disability studies; eugenics mlinett@purdue.edu SC 284
Christopher Lukasik Associate Professor American literature and art history before 1900; Early American Studies; visual studies and visual theory; illustration studies; history and theory of the novel; American cultural and intellectual history clukasik@purdue.edu SC 261
Alfred J. López Professor Cuban & Cuban-American studies; Global South & postcolonial studies; Latin American & Caribbean studies alopez@purdue.edu University Hall, Room 331F
Jennifer Freeman Marshall Associate Professor 20th and 21st century African American literature and culture; Black Feminist Thought; Black women writers; children's literature; feminist ethnography; women's and feminist studies; Zora Neale Hurston jlfreem@purdue.edu SC G068
Robert Marzec Professor; Editor of Modern Fiction Studies Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Ecologies, Biodiversity & Environmental Justice, Environmental Ethics, Postcolonial Literature, Environmental Literature rmarzec@purdue.edu SC 282
Daniel Morris Professor American literature, poetry, art, and drama; Jewish American literature dmorris@purdue.edu Remote
Donald Platt Professor Creative writing; Twentieth-Century Poetry plattd@purdue.edu SC 212
Arkady Plotnitsky Distinguished Professor Critical and cultural theory, British and European romanticism; continental philosophy; modernism and postmodernism; relations among literature, philosophy, and science plotnits@purdue.edu SC 278
Thomas Rickert Professor Ancient and Contemporary Rhetoric; Digital Media and Technology; Post-phenomenology trickert@purdue.edu SC 268
Aparajita Sagar Associate Professor Postcolonial literature and theory; feminist studies; 20th century literature; Asian American, South Asian, and Caribbean literature; critical race, gender, class, ableism, sexuality studies asagar@purdue.edu SC 257
Michael Salvo Professor Technical & Professional Communication; Rhetoric & Ethics; Experience Architecture; Artificial Intelligence salvo@purdue.edu SC 266
Ryan Schneider Associate Professor 19th-century American Literature; Transcendentalism; African American literature; Public Intellectuals and Intellectual History pschnei@purdue.edu SC 255
Michael Shelden Dean's Research Professor The art of biographical narratives, and the connection between history and literature mshelden@purdue.edu SC 280
Sharon Solwitz Professor Creative Writing; Fiction ssolwitz@purdue.edu SC 210
Paul Whitfield White Professor Drama history and dramatic theory; Shakespeare; medieval drama; religion and culture of Tudor and early Stuart England pwhite@purdue.edu SC 292

Staff

Name Title(s) Email Room
Devin De Both Undergraduate Academic Advisor ddeboth@purdue.edu UNIV G037
Andrea Furrer Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator furrera@purdue.edu SC 209
Sarah Kindley Undergraduate Academic Advisor skindley@purdue.edu UNIV G037
Carmen Morrow Department Head's Assistant morrow23@purdue.edu SC 124B
Elise Taylor Academic Program Manager
Instructor 		taylo818@purdue.edu SC 211
Candace Tulacz-Moore Senior Undergraduate Academic Advisor ctulacz@purdue.edu UNIV G037
Courtney Wilson Undergraduate Academic Advisor wilso910@purdue.edu UNIV G037
Tanya Woodard Business Office Clerk twoodar@purdue.edu Remote

Emeriti Faculty

Name Research/Focus Email Room
Margie Berns   berns@purdue.edu
Marianne Boruch   mboruch@purdue.edu
Dorothy Deering   ddeering@purdue.edu
Marshall Deutelbaum   nitrate@purdue.edu
April Ginther   aginther@purdue.edu
Sandy Goodhart   goodhart@purdue.edu
Leon Gottfried   lelin2@comcast.net
Muriel "Mickey" Harris   harrism@purdue.edu
Christian Knoeller   knoeller@purdue.edu
Clayton Lein   lein@purdue.edu
Mary Niepokuj   niepokuj@purdue.edu
William Joseph Palmer   wjpalmer@purdue.edu
Nancy J. Peterson American literature and culture; multicultural literature and Native American studies; women's literature and feminist theory; critical pedagogy njp@purdue.edu
Victor Raskin   vraskin@purdue.edu
Charles Ross   rosscs@purdue.edu
Margaret (Peggy) Rowe   mmrowe@purdue.edu
James Saunders   saunderj@purdue.edu
Tony Silva   tony@purdue.edu
Patricia Sullivan   psulliva@purdue.edu
Irwin Weiser   iweiser@purdue.edu

Instructional Staff

Name Title(s) Research/Focus Email Room
Tracy Clark Senior Lecturer   clark9@purdue.edu SC 124
Casey Gray Senior Lecturer   gray225@purdue.edu SC 204
Linda Haynes Senior Lecturer   lhaynes@purdue.edu SC 258
Jennifer Hughes Lecturer   jenhughes@purdue.edu SC 240
Michael D. Johnson Senior Lecturer Mentoring; Student Success; Alternative Grading; Masculinity & Gender john3116@purdue.edu SC 258
Karrie Kaiser Lee Lecturer   kkaiserl@purdue.edu SC 254
Jessica Mercado Senior Lecturer   mercadj@purdue.edu SC 254
Carla Rosell Senior Lecturer   crosell@purdue.edu SC 254
Catherine Shukle Creative Writing Coordinator
Lecturer 		  lewis11@purdue.edu SC 204
Jessica Weatherford Lecturer   weatherj@purdue.edu SC 254

Limited Term Lecturer

Name Research/Focus Email Room
Rachael Bailey Limited Term Lecturer   rdbailey@purdue.edu Remote
Beth Baumgartner Limited Term Lecturer   baumga27@purdue.edu SC G072
Jacob Baumgartner Limited Term Lecturer   jwbaumga@purdue.edu SC G054
Daniela M Ribeiro Beard Limited Term Lecturer   dmrbeard@purdue.edu YONG 548
Josh A. Brewer Limited Term Lecturer   brewer0@purdue.edu SC 202
Matthew Del Busto Limited Term Lecturer   mgdelbus@purdue.edu Writing Lab (KRCH second floor)
Brent Cameron Limited Term Lecturer   bmcamero@purdue.edu Writing Lab
Kelly Carpenter Limited Term Lecturer   carpe168@purdue.edu
Allan Celik Limited Term Lecturer   celika@purdue.edu
Melissa DeFrench Limited Term Lecturer Professional Writing, Legal Writing, Continuous Improvement, and Service Learning mkdefren@purdue.edu SC 240
JoLene Lark Limited Term Lecturer   jlark@purdue.edu STEW B14E
Amanda Leary Limited Term Lecturer   learya@purdue.edu Remote
Mary Ellen Lennon Limited Term Lecturer   lennon6@purdue.edu
Alexander Long Limited Term Lecturer Working-Class Studies; Marxism; Pop Culture; Film and Television; Victorian Literature; Modernism and Postmodernism long205@purdue.edu Remote
Alphonso Martinez Limited Term Lecturer   mart2633@purdue.edu SC G054
Kate O'Donoghue Limited Term Lecturer   kodonogh@purdue.edu Remote
Katherine Peterson Limited Term Lecturer   peter255@purdue.edu SC G070
Parvaneh Rezaee Limited Term Lecturer   prezaee@purdue.edu
Susan Wegener Limited Term Lecturer   swegener@purdue.edu G054
Heather Wicks Limited Term Lecturer   hwicks@purdue.edu Remote

Graduate Student

Name Research/Focus Email Room
Lila Alonso Graduate Student Mid-Twentieth c. American Literature; Mad Studies; Disability Studies; Post-/Decolonial Theory; Spatial Theory alonso18@purdue.edu
Kyle Alvey Graduate Student 20th and 21st Centuries American Literature; Poststructuralism Theory; Literary Theory; Holocaust Studies; Memory Studies kalvey@purdue.edu
Christopher Barber Graduate Student   barber50@purdue.edu
Rochel Bergman Graduate Student   rbergma@purdue.edu
Jeeyoung Choi Graduate Student   choi777@purdue.edu
Emily Crider Graduate Student 19th-century British literature; women writers; Lacanian theory; the Gothic; materiality and memory ecrider@purdue.edu
Luke Desnoyer Graduate Student Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Relations between Rhetoric and Philosophy; Modernism and Postmodernism; Posthumanism; Critical Theory ldesnoy@purdue.edu
Sidney Ducleroir Graduate Student Medieval Literature, Hagiography as Literature, Manuscript studies, Anglo-Norman Literature, and Arthurian Literature sduclero@purdue.edu
Mark Griffin Graduate Student Rhetorical Theory; Digital Rhetorical Theory; Classical Rhetoric; Composition Studies; Technical & Professional Writing; Games & Narrative griff419@purdue.edu
Sean Hall Graduate Student Multilingual writing, technology-assisted writing, rhetoric and AI, intercultural rhetoric, digital rhetoric, multiliteracies hall215@purdue.edu
Joshua (Derek) Jacoby Graduate Student Modernism; Post-Modernism; William Faulkner; James Joyce; Thomas Pynchon; Post-Structuralist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, and Post-Colonial Critical Theories jacoby11@purdue.edu
Consuela Jones Graduate Student AI Literacy and First-Year Writers jone3428@purdue.edu
Juan Carlos Montoya Lopez Graduate Student higher education mentorship in writing studies; writing center studies; curriculum writing; multidisciplinary writing; literacies; multiliteracies; multilingual writers; digital writing and rhetorics montoy22@purdue.edu
Marybeth Perdomo Graduate Student   mperdomo@purdue.edu
Thomas A. Sargent Graduate Student   tsargen@purdue.edu
Carri Jane Tenniswood Graduate Student Medieval Literature; Old Norse Literature; Ecocriticism; Monster Studies ctennisw@purdue.edu
Jake Austin Vincel Graduate Student Writing center studies; Queer studies; Writing across the curriculum; Professional writing; Technical writing; Multilingual writer mentorship jvincel@purdue.edu
Francis Rabi Wemniga Graduate Student Second Language Writing, Interlingual Translation (French, English), Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rhetoric, Cross-cultural Communication fwemniga@purdue.edu
Monica Wolfe Graduate Student   wolfe93@purdue.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Name Research/Focus Email Room
Janet Alsup Affiliated Faculty  
Todd Borlik Affiliated Faculty   tborlik@purdue.edu Student Center, Room 205
Kristin Leaman Affiliated Faculty   leamankb@purdue.edu Stewart Center, Room 253
Lindsey Wedow Affiliated Faculty   lwedow@purdue.edu Student Center, room 207