Faculty Directory
Full-Time Faculty
Melissa Aaron
English renaissance literature, Shakespeare, dramatic literature
Marta Albalá-PelegrÃn
Iberian Spanish literature, 15th through 17th-century Early modern drama
Alison Baker
English medieval literature, Epic, romance, mythology, folk literature
Rachal Burton
African American literature, Morrison, cultural studies, film & media studies
Isabel Bustamante-López
Spanish linguistics, languages in contact, bilingualism & identity
Armondo Collins
African American literature & rhetoric, cultural and media studies, digital humanities
Aaron DeRosa
American literature, 20th- & 21st-century, temporality, biopolitics, terrorism, trauma, exceptionalism, and African American literature
Kent Dickson
Latin American literature, 20th-century, poetry, indigenismo, surrealism, photography
Barbara Gill-Mayberry
Rhetoric & composition, language as symbolic action
Olga Griswold
Applied linguistics, classroom discourse analysis, adult L2, academic literacy
Dewey Hall
English literature, 18th- and 19th-century, Romanticism
Alyssa Kermad
Applied linguistics, speech perception & production, second language acquisition and pronunciation, applied phonology, second language speech assessment, research methods
Donald Kraemer
Rhetoric & composition, rhetorical analysis, composition studies, literacy
Amà lia Llombart
Spanish linguistics, syntax, bilingualism, second language acquisition, Spanish for heritage language learners, literacy development
Dan Luo
Comparative Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, world literature, women’s & gender studies, Chinese language
Aurora Matzke
Rhetoric and composition
Daan Pan
World literature, comparative poetics, Chinese calligraphy
Kristin Prins
Rhetoric & composition, multimodal/digital writing & rhetoric, DIY/craft/making, feminist rhetorics, writing pedagogy
Nancy Quintanilla
Latino/a literature, late 20th-century & contemporary, diaspora theory, performance studies, Central American studies
Claudia Salazar Jiménez
Latin American literature & creative writing, women's and gender studies, visual cultures, performance studies, Andean studies, politics of memory
Valerie Sky
Applied linguistics, L2 teaching, acquisition, assessment & pronunciation
Lise-Hélène Smith
World literature, Southeast Asia
Karen Tellez-Chaires
Rhetoric & composition, feminist and cultural rhetorics, literacy, writing pedagogy
Lecturers
Denisa Chatman-Riley
English Composition, literature
Alberta Miranda
English Composition, literature
Katie Schorr
English Composition, literature
Esmeralda Vazquez de Diriye
English Composition, linguistics
Teaching Associates
Maddie Amparo
English Composition
Amber Lopez
English Composition
Raquel Moreno
English Composition
Leo Ramirez
English Composition