Departmental Faculty

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Robert Adams

Robert Adams, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1972)
Courses Taught: Medieval; Renaissance; Editorial Theory

Office: Evans 110
Phone: (936) 294-1419
E-mail: eng_ira@shsu.edu


Kimberly Bell

Kimberly Bell, Professor

(Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Chaucer; Old English and Middle English; Arthuriana; Epic and Romance

Office: Evans 310
Phone: (936) 294-3263
E-mail: eng_kkb@shsu.edu


Tracy Bilsing

Tracy Bilsing, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the English Department

(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998)
Courses Taught: British Short Fiction, Especially from the Great War; "Lost Generation" Writer Mary Butts

Office: Evans 458B
Phone: (936) 294-1402
E-mail: eng_teb@shsu.edu


Jacob Blevins

Jacob Blevins, Professor

(Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Renaissance; Seventeenth Century; Comparative Literature; Latin Poetry;
Literary Theory

Office: Evans 208
Phone: (936) 294-1413
E-mail: jblevins@shsu.edu


Paul W. Child

Paul W. Child, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992)
Courses Taught: British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century; Medicine and Literature; Social History of Medicine

Office: Evans 204
Phone: (936) 294-1412
E-mail:pchild@shsu.edu


Michael Demson

Michael Demson, Associate Professor

(Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009)
Courses Taught: Transatlantic and European Romanticism(s)

Office: Evans 314B
Phone: (936) 294-1430
E-mail: mtd007@shsu.edu


Robert Donahoo

Robert Donahoo, Professor

(Ph.D., Duke University, 1988)
Courses Taught: Literature of the American South; Contemporary American Literature; Modern Drama; American Humor; Christianity and Literature; Literary Theory and Editing

Office: Evans 408
Phone: (936) 294-1421
E-mail: eng_rxd@shsu.edu


Diane Dowdey

Diane Dowdey, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984)
Courses Taught: Writing Center Theory; Rhetoric and Composition; Twentieth-Century Literature; Multicultural Literature; Literature and Science

Office: Evans 410
Phone: (936) 294-4217
E-mail: dowdey@shsu.edu


Julie Hall

Julie Hall, Professor

(Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1993)
Courses Taught: Nathaniel & Sophia Hawthorne; American Renaissance; American Women Writers; Minority Literature

Office: Evans 115
Phone: (936) 294-1417
E-mail: eng_jeh@shsu.edu


Helena Halmari

Helena Halmari, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994)
Courses Taught: Linguistics (Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Language Contact)

Office: Evans 309
Phone: (936) 294-1420
E-mail: eng_shh@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/academics/english/faculty/halmari/


Darci Hill

Darci Hill, Professor

(Ph.D., Texas Women's University, 1990)
Courses Taught: Rhetoric; British Renaissance; Seventeenth Century

Office: Evans 206
Phone: (936) 294-1473
E-mail: eng_dnh@shsu.edu


Ada Hubrig

Ada Hubrig, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2020)
Courses Taught: Disability Studies and Neurodiversity; Community Literacy and Activism; and Secondary Education

Office: Evans 452
Phone: (936) 294-4096
E-mail:axh151@shsu.edu


Robyn Johnson

Robyn Johnson, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of California - Riverside, 2023)
Courses Taught: American literature, Multiethnic Literature, and World Literature

Office: Evans 117
Phone: (936) 294-3359
E-mail:rmj036@shsu.edu


Scott Kaukonen

Scott Kaukonen, Associate Professor

(Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006)
Courses Taught: Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Religious Culture and Literature

Office: Evans 412
Phone: (936) 294-1407
E-mail: kaukonen@shsu.edu


Ginger Ko

Ginger Ko, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2020)
Courses Taught: Feminist Poetics, Multimedia Writing, and Multiethnic and Migrant Literature

Office: Evans 411
Phone: (936) 294-4106
E-mail:gingerko@shsu.edu


Nick Lantz

Nick Lantz, Professor

(M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
Courses Taught: Creative Writing

Office: Evans 314A
Phone: (936) 294-1990
E-mail: nick.lantz@shsu.edu


Zoe McDonald

Zoe McDonald, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024)
Courses Taught: Composition, English Education

Office: Evans 108
Phone: (936) 294-1435
E-mail: znm004@shsu.edu


Audrey Murfin

Audrey Murfin, Associate Professor

(Ph.D, Binghampton University, 2008)
Courses Taught: Victorian Literature

Office: Evans 304
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: adm034@shsu.edu


Carroll Ferguson Nardone

Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Professor

(Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Technical & Professional Writing; Rhetoric; Early American Scientific Texts; Workplace Writing Practices; Writing-in-the-Disciplines

Office: Evans 312
Phone: (936) 294-1472
E-mail: cfnardone@shsu.edu


April O'Brien

April O'Brien, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Clemson University, 2019)
Courses Taught: Public Memory and Race; Space/Place Studies; Cultural Rhetorics; Technical Communication; Digital Rhetorics

Office: Evans 463
Phone: (936) 294-3134
E-mail:aprilobrien@shsu.edu


Shyam Pandey

Shyam Pandey, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Purdue University, 2022)
Courses Taught: Technical Writing; Grant Writing; Intercultural Communication; Document Design; and Rhetoric

Office: Evans 413
Phone: (936) 294-4450
E-mail: sbp029@shsu.edu


Deborah Phelps

Deborah Phelps, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1992)
Courses Taught: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century English Literature, esp. Victorian; Women's Literature

Office: Evans 461
Phone: (936) 294-1409
E-mail: eng_dlp@shsu.edu


La-Toya Scott

La-Toya Scott, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Florida, 2022)
Courses Taught: African American Literature and Culture; Black Feminist-Womanist Pedagogy; Digital Ethnography; Multi-Ethnic Literature

Office: Evans 306
Phone: (936) 294-1425
E-mail:lls060@shsu.edu


April Shemak

April Shemak, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2003)
Courses Taught: Postcolonial Literature and Theory; U.S. Ethnic Literature; Caribbean Literature

Office: Evans 308
Phone: (936) 294-1432
E-mail: aas004@shsu.edu


Katie Jean Shinkle

Katie Jean Shinkle, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., University of Denver, 2015)
Courses Taught: Prose (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction); Hybrid and Cross-Genre Writing; Novella; Flash Fiction; Documentary Hybrid/Poetics

Office: Evans 414
Phone: (936) 294-1436
E-mail:kjs078@shsu.edu


Yingying Tang

Yingying Tang, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Auburn University, 2024)
Courses Taught: Intro to Technical Writing, Document Design, Professional Style and Editing

Office: Evans 316
Phone: (936) 294-0108
E-mail:yxt045@shsu.edu


Kandi Tayebi

Kandi Tayebi, Professor

(Ph.D., University of Denver, 1999)
Courses Taught: Women Writers; Wordsworth; Romanticism; Environmental Literature; Literary Theory; Computers and Writing; Mary Shelley; Poetry

Office: Evans 406
Phone: (936) 294-1439
E-mail: eng_kat@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/~eng_kat


Xiaobo Wang

Xiaobo "Belle" Wang, Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2017)
Courses Taught: Technical and Professional Communication; Communication Design; Transnational Rhetoric and Communication; Digital Rhetoric; Feminist Rhetoric; Comparative Rhetoric

Office: Evans 453
Phone: (936) 294-3258
E-mail:xiaobo.belle.wang@shsu.edu


Lecturers

Kari Bush
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 209 • (936) 294-1427 • klb021@shsu.edu
Bruce Chabot
    (Ph.D., Texas A&M) • Evans 107 • (936) 294-1431 • brucechabot@shsu.edu
Jennifer Child
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 454 • (936) 294-3821 • jlc055@shsu.edu
Danielle Dahmann
    (M.A., Texas State) • Evans 211 • (936) 294-1944 • dkd018@shsu.edu
Kelley Frierson
    (M.A., U of H - Clear Lake) • Evans 407 • (936) 294-1415 • kaf076@shsu.edu
Kelly Jordan
     (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 350 • (936) 294-4097 • stdksr13@shsu.edu
Donnie Lopez
    (M.A., Purdue U) • Evans 405 • (936) 294-3356 • dal042@shsu.edu
Nathan Machart
    (M.F.A., U of Iowa) • Evans 352 • (936) 294-4605 • stdnpm12@shsu.edu
Ralph Norris
    (Ph.D., U of Bangor) • Evans 459 • (936) 294-1422 • rcn006@shsu.edu
Lauren Owens
    (M.A., SFASU) • Evans 457 • (936) 294-4551 • leo017@shsu.edu
Angela Shaffer
    (Ph.D., Texas Tech) • ONLINE ONLY  aes075@shsu.edu
Dione Sibley
    (M.A., LSU) • Evans 409 • (936) 294-1995 • drs082@shsu.edu
Katrina Thornton
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 116 • (936) 294-1426 • klt015@shsu.edu

Pool Faculty

Olivia Abernethy-Ramsey
    (M.A., Texas Tech) • Evans 258 • (936) 294-4719 • oaa026@shsu.edu
Nadia Arensdorf
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 258 • (936) 294-4568 • nja017@shsu.edu
Amy Bilski-Arredondo
    (M.Ed., BGSU) • ONLINE ONLY • alb160@shsu.edu
Marilyn Comer
    (M.FA., SHSU) • Evans 254 • (936) 294-4714 • mrc052@shsu.edu
Hannah Dietrich
    (Ed.D, SHSU) • ONLINE ONLY  hed007@shsu.edu
Alexandra Ekstrom
    (M.A., Northwestern State University) • ONLINE ONLY  ace049@shsu.edu
Ashley McNeese
    (M.A., Liberty University) • Evans 258 • (936) 294-4193  abm072@shsu.edu
Adam Norris
    (M.F.A., SHSU) • Evans 112 • (936) 294-3157  ajn032@shsu.edu
Michael Pararuan
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 258 • (936) 294-4193  mjp050@shsu.edu
Penny Pitrucha
    (M.A., SHSU) • Evans 254 • (936) 294-4714  pcp004@shsu.edu
Charlotte Pitts
    (Ed.D., U of Houston) • ONLINE ONLY  cxl094@shsu.edu
David Pulling
    (M.A., ULL) • Evans 258 • (936) 294-4606 • dlp059@shsu.edu
Nathan Ridings
    (M.F.A., SHSU) • Evans 109 • (936) 294-3107 • njr004@shsu.edu 
Tannie Shannon
    (M.A., LSU) • ONLINE ONLY  • ths001@shsu.edu
Jennifer Swailes
    (M.A., U of Houston - Clear Lake) • ONLINE ONLY  jss085@shsu.edu
William Whitmire
    (M.A., M.FA., SHSU) • Evans 112 • (936) 294-3157  wcw009@shsu.edu

Graduate Assistants

Brianna Chapman Evans 154 • (936) 294-1663 • bxc076@shsu.edu 

Christina Ellison • Evans 152 • (936) 294-1992 • cre029@shsu.edu 

Brittany Miller • Evans 154 • (936) 294-1663 • brm058@shsu.edu 

Bleah Patterson • Evans 152 • (936) 294-1992 • bbp005@shsu.edu

Professor Emeritus

Lee Courtney, Professor Emeritus
 
         (Ph.D., Emory University, 1975)

Victorian and Edwardian literature
E-mail: eng_lfc@shsu.edu

Douglas Krienke, Professor Emeritus
 
         (Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1976)

Western World; Mythology; Shakespeare; Tudor/Stuart Drama
E-mail: eng_mdk@shsu.edu

Ralph Pease, Professor Emeritus
          (Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1972)
Shakespearean Drama; Literature and Film; Mark Twain
E-mail: eng_rwp@shsu.edu