English Directory
Faculty
| Name | Title(s) | Research/Focus | Room | |
| Emily Allen | Associate 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 |
| Dorsey Armstrong | Professor; Editor of Arthuriana | Arthurian Literature; Medieval Romance; Old English; Gender and Feminist Studies | darmstrong@purdue.edu | SC 286 |
| Robyn A. Bartlett | Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies | Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve; late medieval religious literature and culture | rmalo@purdue.edu | SC 216 |
| 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 |
| Harris Bras | Clinical Assistant Professor | hbras@purdue.edu | SC G074 | |
| Marlo D. David | Associate Professor | 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; Associate Head | Syntax, psycholinguistics, relative clauses, grammatical categories, syntactic alternations, knowledge of grammar | ejfranci@purdue.edu | SC 124A |
| 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 | 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 | 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 and Department Head
Mellon Foundation Provost's Fellow for Academic Leadership, 2024-2025 |
Global South & postcolonial studies; Cuban & Cuban-American studies; Latin American & Caribbean studies | alopez@purdue.edu | SC 124C |
| Jennifer Freeman Marshall | Associate Professor | 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) | Room | |
| Devin De Both | Undergraduate Academic Advisor | ddeboth@purdue.edu | YONG 1013 |
| Andrea Furrer | Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator | furrera@purdue.edu | SC 209 |
| Sydney Moore | Undergraduate Academic Advisor | sfmoore@purdue.edu | YONG 1036 |
| Kayla Scott | Department Head's Assistant | kaylascott@purdue.edu | SC 124B |
| Elise Taylor | Academic Program Manager
Instructor |
taylo818@purdue.edu | SC 211 |
| Candace Tulacz | Undergraduate Academic Advisor | ctulacz@purdue.edu | YONG 1038 |
| Courtney Wilson | Undergraduate Academic Advisor | wilso910@purdue.edu | YONG 1015 |
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Research/Focus | 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 | Methodology (including digital historiography); feminist issues in technology and writing; technical and professional writing; institutional critique; visual rhetoric and communication | psulliva@purdue.edu | SC 213 | |
| Irwin Weiser | iweiser@purdue.edu | |||
Instructional Staff
| Name | Title(s) | Research/Focus | Room | |
| Daniela M Ribeiro Beard, PhD | Overload Instructor | dmrbeard@purdue.edu | YONG 548 | |
| Elise Taylor | Academic Program Manager
Instructor |
taylo818@purdue.edu | SC 211 |
Limited Term Lecturer
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Cindy Aubuchon | Limited Term Lecturer | caubucho@purdue.edu | REMOTE | |
| 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 | |
| Cameron Brent | Limited Term Lecturer | bmcamero@purdue.edu | Writing Lab | |
| Josh A. Brewer | Limited Term Lecturer | brewer0@purdue.edu | SC 202 | |
| Matthew Del Busto | Limited Term Lecturer | mgdelbus@purdue.edu | ||
| 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 |
| Melissa Fraterrigo | Limited Term Lecturer | mfraterr@purdue.edu | SC 202 | |
| Eliza Gellis | Limited Term Lecturer | egellis@purdue.edu | SC G070 | |
| Jennifer Hughes | Limited Term Lecturer | jenhughes@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 | ||
| Jessica Welch | Limited Term Lecturer | jsnitko@purdue.edu | REMOTE | |
| Heather Wicks | Limited Term Lecturer | hwicks@purdue.edu | REMOTE | |
Lecturer
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Casey Gray | Lecturer | gray225@purdue.edu | SC 204 | |
| Michael D. Johnson | Lecturer | Mentoring; Student Success; Alternative Grading; Masculinity & Gender | john3116@purdue.edu | SC 258 |
| Karen (Karrie) Lee | Lecturer | kkaiserl@purdue.edu | SC 254 | |
| Jessica Mercado | Lecturer | mercadj@purdue.edu | SC 254 | |
| Carla Rosell | Lecturer | crosell@purdue.edu | SC 254 | |
| Catherine Shukle | Lecturer | lewis11@purdue.edu | SC 204 | |
| Jessica Weatherford | Lecturer | weatherj@purdue.edu | SC 254 | |
Graduate Student
| Name | Research/Focus | 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 | ||
| Robert Beck | Graduate Student | Rhetorical Theory; Digital Rhetoric; Public Rhetoric and Political Rhetoric | beck163@purdue.edu | |
| Jessica Berchtold | Graduate Student | Public rhetorics; professional and technical communication; digital writing and new media; conspiracy theory rhetorics | jberchto@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 | |
| Sidney Ducleroir | Graduate Student | Medieval Literature, Hagiography as Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Anglo-Norman Literature, and Arthurian Literature | sduclero@purdue.edu | |
| Ghada Seif Eddine | Graduate Student | graduate education mentorship in writing studies; writing centers and tutor education; conflict-management in workplace communication; disability rhetorics; digital writing and rhetorics | gseifedd@purdue.edu | |
| Danielle Giles | Graduate Student | Rhetorical Theory; Cultural Rhetorics; Political Rhetorics; Rhetoric and Archival Studies | gilles11@purdue.edu | |
| Mark Griffin | Graduate Student | Rhetorical Theory; Digital Rhetorical Theory; Classical Rhetoric; Composition Studies; Technical & Professional Writing; Games & Narrative | griff419@purdue.edu | |
| Dylan Henderson | Graduate Student | American weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith; the British ghost story; pulp magazines; and British fantasy, Lord Dunsany and J. R. R. Tolkien | hende218@purdue.edu | |
| Siroun Hintiryan | Graduate Student | Feminist gaming pedagogy | shintiry@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 | |
| Eric Joseph | Graduate Student | Writing Centers; Tutor Education; Public and Cultural Rhetorics | ej87@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 | |
| Emily Pearson | Graduate Student | pearso87@purdue.edu | ||
| Marybeth Perdomo | Graduate Student | mperdomo@purdue.edu | ||
| Carri Jane Tenniswood | Graduate Student | Medieval Literature; Old Norse Literature; Ecocriticism; Monster Studies | ctennisw@purdue.edu | |
| Monica Wolfe | Graduate Student | wolfe93@purdue.edu | ||
Postdoctoral Researcher
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Shaohua Fang | Postdoctoral Researcher | Psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, research methods, Large Language Model and language learning & processing, corpus linguistics | fang413@purdue.edu | SC 262 |
| Charlotte Ross | Postdoctoral Researcher | rossce@purdue.edu | SC 262 | |
Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Janet Alsup | Affiliated Faculty | |||
| Todd Borlik | Affiliated Faculty | tborlik@purdue.edu | Student Center, Room 205 | |
| Lindsey Wedow | Affiliated Faculty | lwedow@purdue.edu | BRNG 2245 | |
English Librarian // Courtesy Faculty
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Kristin Leaman | English Librarian // Courtesy Faculty | leamankb@purdue.edu | Stewart Center, Room 253 | |
Senior Lecturer
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Tracy Clark | Senior Lecturer | clark9@purdue.edu | SC 124 | |
| Linda Haynes | Senior Lecturer | lhaynes@purdue.edu | SC 258 | |
Managing Editor
| Name | Research/Focus | Room | ||
| Susan Wegener | Managing Editor | swegener@purdue.edu | G054 | |