Anderson, Amy
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 547 | AAnderson@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2469
Education: Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Interests: Visual Rhetoric; Multimodal Composition

Ashley, Hannah M.
Professor
Main Hall 109 | HAshley@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2700
Education: Ph.D., Temple University
Interests: First-generation and Working-Class University Students; Basic Writing; Bakhtinian Voicing Theory; Critical Discourse Analysis; Critical Pedagogy; Service Learning; Community and Academic Literacies

Awuyah, Christian
Professor
Main Hall 528 | CAwuyah@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2470
Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta
Interests: African Literature; World Literature; Comparative Literature; Ghanaian Literature

Bacon, Jen
Professor; Chair
Main Hall 532 | JBacon@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2822
Education: Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Interests: Contemporary Rhetoric; Queer Theory; Lesbian Studies; Narrative Studies; Qualitative Research Methods

Banner, Rachel
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 551 | RBanner@wcupa.edu | 610-738-0499
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: 19th-century African American Literature; Frederick Douglass; 19th-Century U.S. Literature; 19th-Century Aesthetic Theories; Law and Literature; Critical Race Theory

Bauerlein, Charles R.
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 534 | CBauerlein@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2268
Education: M.A., The Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Journalism; Ethical Issues in Journalism; Eschatological Discourse; Baseball History; Popular Music; the History of Jazz

Bauknight, Lee M.
Instructor
Main Hall 416 | LBauknight@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2220
Education: M.F.A., University of South Carolina
Interests: Composition Studies; Teacher Education; Creative Writing; Digital Journalism

Betz, Barbara G.
Instructor
Main Hall 416 | BBetz@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2220
Education: Ph.D., University of Delaware
Interests: Popular Women's Fiction; the Victorian Novel; Composition; Local History

Blake, Michelle
Instructor
Main Hall 311 | MBlake@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3591
Education: M.A., Columbia University
Interests: Technology and the Writing Process; Self-Regulation Strategy Instruction; Basic Writing

Bridgford, Kim
Associate Professor
Main Hall 528 | KBridgford@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2470
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.F.A. (Iowa Writers' Workshop), University of Iowa
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Creative Writing; Fiction Writing; Women's Studies; Collaboration

Buckelew, Mary
Professor; Pennsylvania Writing & Literature Project Director
210 E. Rosedale | MBuckelew@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2998
Education: Ph.D., The University of New Mexico
Interests: Teacher Education; Multicultural Teacher Education; Writing and Teaching Writing; Teaching Reading and Literature in the Secondary Classroom; Qualitative Research Methods

Bunnell, Charlene
Instructor
Main Hall 419 | CBunnell@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3594
Education: Ph.D., University of Delaware
Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature; Composition and Business Writing; Intercultural Communication

Burns, Michael
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 520 | MBurns2@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2163
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Interests: African American Rhetorics; Composition and Rhetoric; Rhetoric and the Built Environment; Teaching Non-Traditional College Students

Chambers, Sean
Instructor
Main Hall 203 | Schambers@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2822
Education: M.F.A., Manhattanville College
Interests: Business Writing; Composition; Rhetoric; Digital Media/Creative Nonfiction

Comfort, Juanita Rodgers
Associate Professor
Main Hall 537 | JComfort@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2915
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Black Feminist Essay Writing; African American Women's Writing; Business Writing

Cook, Allan
Instructor
Main Hall 416 | ACook@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2220
Education: Ph.D. (English and Education), University of Michigan
Interests: Pedagogic Gaming Theory, Rhetoric and Composition, Journalism, Dialogic Education, Technical and Professional Communication.

Cream, Randall
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 312 | RCream@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2481
Education: Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Interests: Digital Humanities; Data Mining; Gaming; Technologies of Writing; Early Modern Philosophy and Literature; Distance Education

DelPrato, Anjali
Instructor
Main Hall 210 | ADelprato@wcupa.edu | 610-436-0185
Education: M.A., Immaculata University
Interests: Teacher Education; Teaching Language across the Curriculum; Best Practices in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); the Modern-Day Immigrant Experience; Culture, Language, and Immigrant/English Language Learner (ELL) Identity; Undocumented Youth and Progressive Immigration Reform

Dodson-Robinson, Eric
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 540 | EDodson-Robinson@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2745
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Interests: Reception Studies; Revenge Drama; Seneca; Tragedy; Shakespeare's Reception of the Classics; Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Ancient World; Archaic Greek Poetry

Dougherty, Tim
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 309 | TDougherty@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3091
Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Interests: Histories of Rhetoric; Cultural Rhetorical Theories; Intersectional Feminist Rhetorics; Critical Ethnic and Settler Colonial Studies; Irish Studies; Labor Issues in Writing Program Administration

Duval, Peter
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 546 | PDuval@wcupa.edu | 610-430-2792
Education: M.F.A., Boston University; M.A. (Literature), University of Illinois; M.A. (Film Studies), New York University
Interests: Short Fiction; Creative Writing; Film Studies; Book and Web Design; Editing

Ervin, Kristine
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 551 | KErvin@wcupa.edu | 610-738-0499
Education: Ph.D., University of Houston; M.F.A., New York University
Interests: Creative Nonfiction; Poetry; Memoir; Intersections between Literature, Creative Writing, and Composition

Ervin, Margaret (Cortie)
Associate Professor
Main Hall 535 | MErvin@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2853
Education: Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York
Interests: Composition; Rhetoric; English Education; Business Writing

Esch, Stacy
Instructor
Main Hall 404 | SEsch@wcupa.edu | 610-436-1035
Education: M.A., West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Interests: General Education; Composition and Rhetoric

Fletcher, Robert P.
Professor
Main Hall 543 | RFletcher@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2371
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Digital Humanities; Victorian Literature and Culture; the Victorian Novel; Victorian Women's Poetry; Electronic Literature and Cyberculture; Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction

Gangopadhyay, Ayan
Associate Professor
Main Hall 535 | AGangopadhyay@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2853
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Globalization and Theater/Performance; Transnational Prose; Public Space and Religiosity; Contemporary American and British Theaters; Post-Modernism and Informatics; Globalization and Anthropology

Green, Paul D.
Professor
Main Hall 538 | PGreen@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2269
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: 16th- and 17th-Century British Literature; Jewish Literature; Literature of the Holocaust

Halko, Gabrielle
Associate Professor; Assistant Chair For Students and Student Learning
Main Hall 547 | GHalko@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2469
Education: Ph.D., Western Michigan University; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University
Interests: Children's & Young Adult Literatures and Cultures; Literature of the Great Depression; Literature of War/Internment/Occupation; Pedagogy of Poetry; American Poetry

Hall, H. Bernard
Assistant Professor; Writing Zones Coordinator
Main Hall 203 | HHall@wcupa.edu | 610-436-5674
Education: Ph.D., Temple University
Interests: Urban Teacher Education; Student Teaching Supervision; Teaching Writing in Middle Schools; Hip-Hop Studies; Hip-Hop Literacy Education

Hanson, John
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 544 | JHanson@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3444
Education: Ph.D., Florida State University
Interests: Civic Journalism; Social Media; the First Amendment; Mass Media and the Law; Mass Media and Social Change; Reporting, Writing, and Editing the News

Hennessey, Cate
Instructor
Main Hall | cHennessey@wcupa.edu
Education: M.F.A, University of Pittsburgh
Interests: Creative Nonfiction, The Essay, Book Reviews, Poetry, Basic Writing, Intersections of Creative Writing and Composition

Huff-Paul, Linda
Instructor
Main Hall 516 | LHuff@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2220
Education: Ph.D., The University of Pittsburgh
Interests: U.S. Composition and Rhetoric, Black Women's Writing, Ethnography in Composition, African American Literature

Hurt, Erin
Associate Professor
Main Hall 524 | EHurt@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2626
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: U.S. Latina/o Literatures; 20th-Century American Literatures; Women & Gender Studies; Public Sphere Theory

Jeffrey, Jane E.
Professor
Main Hall 530 | JJeffrey@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3101
Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa
Interests: Medieval Women's Writing and Culture; American Film; Film Noir

Johnson, Deidre Ann
Associate Professor
Main Hall 544 | DJohnson@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3444
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Interests: Children's Literature and Folklore; 19th- and Early 20th-Century Children's Series and Story Paper Fiction, Primarily for Girls; Biographical and Bibliographic Studies of Women who Wrote in those Genres

Kahn, Seth
Professor
Main Hall 537 | SKahn@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2915
Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Qualitative Research Methods; Labor Organizing and Rhetoric; Teaching and Scholarship as Activist Work; Marxism; Cultural Studies; Punk Rock Music; Counterculture

Konigsberg, Lisa
Instructor
Main Hall 412 | LKonigsberg@wcupa.edu | 610-436-6907
Education: M.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Interests: General Education Writing; Composition and Rhetoric; Student Teaching Supervision; British Literature (Poetry); Creative Writing (Poetry); Film; Teaching Writing about Popular Culture; Business Writing

Kuebrich, Ben
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 312 | BKuebrich@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2481
Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Interests: Podcasting, Community Journalism, Rhetoric for Social Justice, Popular Education

Lalicker, William
Professor
Main Hall 534 | WLalicker@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2268
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Interests: Basic Writing; Writing Program Administration; Composition Theory; Environmental Rhetoric; Transnational and Intercultural Rhetoric

Larsen, Darrell
Instructor
Main Hall 210 | DLarsen@wcupa.edu | 610-436-0185
Education: Ph.D., University of Delaware
Interests: Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Syntactic Theory; Interfaces with Syntax

Ligi, Justin
Instructor
Main Hall 419 | JLigi@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3594
Education: M.A., West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Basic Writing; Popular Culture; Technology and Composition

MacPhee, Graham
Professor; College Literature Editor
210 E. Rosedale Ave., Room 102 | GMacphee@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2901
Education: Ph.D., University of Sussex
Interests: 20th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture; Modernism; Postcolonial Studies; National Identity and Decolonization; Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt; Philosophy and Culture after Kant

Mader, Rodney
Professor
Main Hall 131 | RMader@wcupa.edu | 610-436-1055
Education: Ph.D., Temple University
Interests: 18th-Century American Culture; Print Culture; Book History; Feminisms; Queer Theories

Maltby, Paul L.
Professor
Main Hall 517 | PMaltby@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2425
Education: Ph.D., University of Sussex
Interests: American Fiction 1945-Present; Postmodernism; Literary/Critical Theory; Film Studies; Cultural Studies; Christian Fundamentalism

McVeigh Trainor, Maureen
Instructor
Main Hall 412 | MMcveigh@wcupa.edu | 610-436-6907
Education: M.F.A., Rosemont College; M.A.West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Creative Writing; Fiction Writing; James Joyce, especially Dubliners; Utilizing Creative Writing and Composition Techniques in Both Classrooms

Merkner, Christopher
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 203 | CMerkner@wcupa.edu | 610-430-5674
Education: Ph.D., University of Denver; M.F.A., University of Florida
Interests: 21st-Century Fiction; Forms and History of the American Short Story; Creative Writing Pedagogies; Scandinavian-American Immigrant Literatures

Molholt, Garry
Professor
Main Hall 517 | GMolholt@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2425
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: The Application of the Acoustic Analysis of Speech to Language Education and Speech Recognition; the Structure of English; Teaching English as a Second Language

Mrkich, Shannon
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 312 | SMrkich@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2481
Education: Ph.D., Temple University
Interests: First-Year Writing; Self-Regulated Strategy Instruction and Think-Aloud Protocol; Writing Assessment and the Rhetoric of Dictated Commentary; Verbal and Non-Verbal Immediacy in the Classroom; Writing Instruction and Popular Culture (Film and YA Literature); Distance Education and Pedagogy

Navitsky, Joseph
Assistant Professor; Assistant Chair For Faculty
Main Hall 550 | JNavitsky@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2898
Education: Ph.D., Boston University
Interests: Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage; Early Modern Religious Conflict and Satire; Print Culture and Professional Authorship

Nessly, William
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 550 | WNessly@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2898
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century U.S. Literature; Asian American and Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature; Transnational American Studies; Postcolonial Theory; U.S. and Japanese Imperialism; Narrative Theory

Nollen, Elizabeth M.
Associate Professor
Main Hall 542 | ENollen@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2467
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Interests: Gothic Studies; Film Criticism; Popular Culture Studies; Teaching Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom; Literary and Filmic Representations of the Family; Jane Austen Studies

Panagiotidou, Maria-Eirini
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 523 | MPanagiotidou@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2389
Education: Ph.D., The University of Nottingham
Interests: Literary Linguistics; Cognitive Poetics; Sociolinguistics; Intertextuality; Ekphrasis

Patriarca, Ashley
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 523 | APatriarca@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2389
Education: Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Interests: International Business Writing; Crisis Communication; Organizational Use of Social Media; Risk Communication; Grant Writing

Perry, Merry G.
Associate Professor
Main Hall 546 | MPerry@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2792
Education: Ph.D., University of South Florida
Interests: The Study and Teaching of Popular Culture; Cultural Studies in Rhetoric & Composition and Literature; Feminist Theory and Pedagogy; Masculinities and Men's Studies; Early Modern Drama, especially Christopher Marlowe

Pflieger, Pat
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 516 | PPflieger@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2916
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Interests: Children's Literature; Early American Periodicals for Children; Works Written and Published by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Pollard, Cherise
Professor
Main Hall 529 | CPollard@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2959
Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Interests: African American Literature; Poetry; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Black Historical Fiction; Black Feminist Literary Criticism; Slave Narratives

Rademaekers, Justin
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 543 | JRademaekers@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2371
Education: Ph.D., Purdue University
Interests: Writing across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines; Writing Program Development; Environmental Rhetoric/Ecocriticism; Postmodernism and Science Communication

Ramanathan, Geetha
Professor
Main Hall 530 | GRamanathan@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3101
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Interests: Women's Literature and Film; International Modernisms; Comparative Literature; World Literature

Ray, Timothy D.
Associate Professor
Main Hall 529 | TRay@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2959
Education: Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
Interests: Computers and Writing; the Rhetoric of Technology and Digital Culture/Cyberculture; the Rhetoric of Counterculture and the Grateful Dead Subculture

Renzi, Laura
Associate Professor
Main Hall 500 | LRenzi@wcupa.edu | 610-436-1040
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Interests: Teacher Education; Student Teaching Supervision; Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools; Young Adult Literature; LGBT and Multicultural Adult Literature

Sancak-Marusa, Ilknur
Instructor
Main Hall 404 | ISancak-Marusa@wcupa.edu | 610-436-1035
Education: M.A., Millersville University
Interests: Composition & Rhetoric; Basic Writing; Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Sargent, Andrew
Associate Professor
Main Hall 536 | ASargent@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2671
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: African American Literature; American Literature; the Literature and Culture of the Civil Rights Era; Prison Literature; Film and Popular Culture; Race, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice

Sattler, Amy
Instructor
Main Hall 311 | ASattler@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3591
Education: Ph.D., Washington University
Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Early Modern Literature, Restoration Literature

Schmidt, Pauline
Assistant Professor
210 E. Rosedale | PSchmidt@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2998
Education: Ph.D., University of Buffalo
Interests: The Infusion of the Dramatic Arts in English Education; Diversifying the Canon of Literature for Children and Young Adults; the Impact of New literacies on Curriculum and Teacher Preparation

Scholl, Richard
Instructor
Main Hall 419 | RScholl@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3594
Education: M.A., The Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Strategies for Teaching Correctness in Student Writing; Teaching Students to Produce Effective Job Application Materials; Composition and Research Writing

Schugar, Jordan
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 309 | JSchugar@wcupa.edu | 610-436-3091
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: Mobile Pedagogy; Wearable Technologies; Reading Comprehension (Digital and Traditional); Figurative Language

Shevlin, Eleanor F.
Professor
Main Hall 548 | EShevlin@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2463
Education: Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Interests: British Literature and Culture in the 18th-Century; History of the Book/Print Culture Studies; Postcolonial Fiction; Genre Theory; the "Novel"; Fiction and Law; Technology and Digital Culture; the Institutional History of English as a Discipline

Smith, Luanne
Associate Professor
Main Hall 536 | LSmith@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2671
Education: M.F.A., The Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Murray State University
Interests: Fiction Writing; All Forms of Creative Writing; American Film; Southern Literature; Popular Culture

Sommers, Jeff
Professor
Main Hall 516 | JSommers@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2916
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Writing Assessment; Professional Journal Editing; Pedagogy

Sorisio, Carolyn
Professor
Main Hall 517 | CSorisio@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2425
Education: Ph.D., Temple University
Interests: 19th-Century U.S. Literature with an Emphasis on Race and Gender

Teutsch, Christopher J.
Associate Professor
Main Hall 542 | CTeutsch@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2467
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: Composition Theory; Reading-Writing Relationships; Developmental Writing; Literacy; Writing and Writing Program Assessment; Ethics of Writing Instruction; First and Second Language Acquisition

Tischio, Victoria
Professor
Main Hall 550 | VTischio@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2898
Education: Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York
Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Critical Theory and Pedagogy; Service Learning; Popular Culture Representations of Schooling; Writing Program, Writing Center, Departmental, and University Administration Theory and Practice

Ulmer, Spring
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 524 | SUlmer@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2626
Education: M.F.A. (Poetry), The University of Arizona; M.F.A. (Nonfiction), University of Iowa
Interests: African Literature; African American Literature; Critical Pedagogy; Contemporary Art Issues; Creative Nonfiction; Cultural Studies; Feminisms; Genocide Literature and Theory; Journalism; Justice Studies; Neocolonialism; Poetics; Photography; World Literature

Verderame, Carla
Professor
Main Hall 550 | CVerderame@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2898
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: American Indian Literature; Women Writers of the American South; Young Adult Literature; Literature Pedagogy

Walters, Kuhio
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 538 | KWalters@wcupa.edu | 610-738-0498
Education: Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
Interests: Composition and Visual Rhetoric; the Photograph as an Aspect of Literacy; theories and Histories of Photography

Wanko, Cheryl L.
Professor
Main Hall 503 | CWanko@wcupa.edu | 610-436-2126
Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Interests: History of Theatrical Culture and Drama; Early Modern Novel and Poetry; 18th-Century Popular Culture

Woodlief, Jamie
Instructor
Main Hall 411 | KWoodlief@wcupa.edu | 610-436-0013
Education: M.A., West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Developmental Composition and Rhetoric; Pop Culture Studies; Young Adult Literature