Faculty
English Department Faculty
Note: This is a listing of the current English Dept. professors and long-term lecturers. For a more comprehensive list of all department faculty, including part-time lecturers, please see our Office Hours Excel document.
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| Faculty | Education | Interests |
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| Amaris, Mary Scarlett (Nancy) msa.gypsy@gmail.com |
BA, Special Emphasis – CSULB; MA, Literacy Studies – CSULB; MA, Spiritual Psychology – University of Santa Monica Ministerial Credential Fellowship of Isis, UK; Temple of Isis, CA |
Literacy Instruction, Speaking Truth to Power, Changing the World One Student at a Time. |
| Arroyo, Sarah sarah.arroyo@csulb.edu |
BS, Education – New Mexico State University; MA, English – CSULB; PhD, Rhetoric – University of Texas at Arlington |
Digital and Networked Rhetorics; Video and participatory cultures; Critical Theory; Composition Theories and Pedagogies; Writing Program Administration |
| Bass, Jenny jenny.bass@csulb.edu |
BA, MA – CSULB | |
| Blankley, Elyse elyse.blankley@csulb.edu |
BA – Douglass College, Rutgers University; MA, PhD – University of California, Davis | Twentieth-Century British literature, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Feminist and Gender Theory, Literature by Women, Post-Colonial Theory |
| Boyer, Mason mb@profboyer.com |
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| Buckowski, Melanie melaniebuckowski@gmail.com |
BA in Economics UCLA; MFA in Creative Writing Poetry CSULB | ELL Pedagogy; Medieval Lit; Food Justice |
| Buehler, Jamie jamiebuehler15@gmail.com |
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| Carlile, Susan susan.carlile@csulb.edu |
BA Taylor Univ. (IN) MA, PhD Arizona State Univ. | Eighteenth-century British Literature; the novel; gender theory; Adolescent Lit, English Education |
| Chambers, Carrie carried@hotmail.com |
BA in English Literature, Bowling Green State University; MTSC (Master’s in Technical and Scientific Communications), Miami University | Technical Communication |
| Chapman, Cheryl cheryl.chapman@csulb.edu |
MA in Literature, CSULB | British modernist and Renaissance lit; film, esp. Japanese and Hays-era American |
| Cooper, Stephen stephen.cooper@csulb.edu |
BA, UCLA; MFA, UCI; PhD, USC | Creative Writing, Fiction; American Literature; Theory of Fiction and Film; Film and Genocide |
| Covey, Adrienne adrienne.irene@gmail.com |
BA, MA, CSULB | |
| Cummings, Rebecca rebecca.cummings@csulb.edu |
BA in English, CSULB; MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), CSULB | |
| Dilts, Tyler tyler.dilts@csulb.edu |
BA, MA, MFA CSULB | Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature and Theory, Narrative Studies, Crime and Detective Fiction |
| Egan, Gerald gerald.egan@live.com |
MA, CSULB; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara | Long eighteenth-century; Romanticism; visual culture; digital humanities |
| Esdale, Logan logan.esdale@csulb.edu |
BA, University of British Columbia; MA, University of Western Ontario; PhD, SUNY Buffalo | Modern poetry and poetics, American literature, Modernism, Gertrude Stein, textual scholarship |
| Esparza, Araceli araceli.esparza@csulb.edu |
PhD University of Southern California MA California State University, Northridge BS University of Southern California | ethnic literature, Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, gender and feminist theory |
| Eyre, Kelly kelly.eyre@csulb.edu |
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| Flynn, Sharron sflynn216@verizon.net |
BA, MA, Eastern Washington University | linguistics; composition; mentoring |
| Fox, Todd todd.fox@csulb.edu |
BA, MFA, CSULB | |
| Glatt, Lisa lisa.glatt@csulb.edu |
MFA, Sarah Lawrence College | Contemporary fiction, including novels and short story collections |
| Greenberg, Suzanne suzanne.greenberg@csulb.edu |
BA, Hampshire College; MFA, University of Maryland | Creative Writing, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction |
| Gridley, Suzan s.gridley@csulb.edu |
BA in English, San Francisco State University; MA in English-Composition and Rhetoric, CSULB | Composition, Digital Rhetoric, Technical and Professional Writing |
| Griswold, Gary (William) william.griswold@csulb.edu |
PhD, Claremont Graduate University MA, BA, CSULB | History of writing instruction Writing technologies Writing center theory and practice Technical and professional writing |
| Guffey, Robert rguffey@hotmail.com |
BA, MFA CSULB | |
| Guzik, Elizabeth elizabeth.guzik@csulb.edu |
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| Hart, George george.hart@csulb.edu |
BA, Kent State University; MA, Stanford University; PhD, Stanford University | 19th and 20th-century American literature; American poetry and poetics; literary theory; ecocriticism; ecopoetics; Robinson Jeffers; Larry Eigner |
| Hashima, Lawrence larry.hashima@csulb.edu |
BA in English & American Studies, UCLA; MA in American Studies, Washington State University; MA/ABD in American Culture, University of Michigan | Asian Pacific American Literature; American Studies; U.S. Cinema; 19th- & 20th-century African American Literature; 19th- & 20th-century American Literature |
| Hernandez, David david.hernandez@csulb.edu |
MFA, University of California, Irvine | Creative Writing, Poetry and Fiction |
| Hoffman, Harold harold.hoffman@csulb.edu |
BA, MFA CSULB | |
| Hotchkiss, Mimi (Wilhelmina) wilhelmina.hotchkiss@csulb.edu |
BA English and German, CSU Fullerton PhD English, UCLA | [British] literature of the long eighteenth century/Romanticism; British poetry & drama; gender studies; literature & visual culture; Shakespeare (pedagogy & performance) |
| Hultgren, Neil neil.hultgren@csulb.edu |
BA English and French, Augustana College (IL) MA, PhD English Language and Literature, University of Virginia | Victorian studies; British imperialism; the novel; postcolonial theory |
| Hume, Shawne shawne.hume@csulb.edu |
BA, CSULB, 1995, English Education MA, CSULB, 2000, English Literature | Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Secondary Education Pedagogy |
| Johnson, Stephanie stephanie.johnson@csulb.edu |
Saint Louis University, CSULB, UC Irvine | Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) program; Supervisor for Student Teachers; Ice Skating Institute (ISI) |
| Kermode, Lloyd lloyd.kermode@csulb.edu |
BA, Hons University of Sheffield, UK; MPhil, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK; MA, The Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Rice University | Renaissance and Early Modern British Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory |
| Klink, Eileen eileen.klink@csulb.edu |
BA, UCLA MA, CSULB Ph.D. USC | Renaissance Literature, 17th and 18th century British Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, English Education. Current Chair, Department of English |
| Lawson, Geri geri.lawson@csulb.edu |
BA, MA, CSULB | gender theory; queer modernism/postmodernism; pop culture studies |
| Li, Moyang moyang.li@csulb.edu |
PhD Rutgers University, BA Columbia University (mathematics and literature) | Global anglophone literature; postcolonial theory; modernism; literature and mathematics |
| Locklin, Zachary zachary.locklin@csulb.edu |
BA in Modern Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz; MPW (Master’s of Professional Writing), University of Southern California | 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature (particularly British Romantic poetry and Victorian fiction); all other British, American, and commonwealth literature; Freudian and semiotic theory/philosophy; existentialist philosophy and literature; feminist and gender theory; crime and horror fiction; film; pop culture. |
| López, Dennis dennis.lopez@csulb.edu |
MA, California State University, Northridge; PhD, University of California, Irvine | U.S. Ethnic Literatures; Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; U.S. Protest and Proletarian Literatures; Marxism; Critical Race Theories |
| Loughrey, Patricia patricia.loughrey@csulb.edu |
MA Theatre Arts, San Diego State University MFA Theatre Arts, CSULB | Composition, literature, theatre arts, documentary drama, HIV/AIDS education, LGBTQ history I am also interested in laughter, compassion, and good Thai food. |
| Margrave, Clint clint.margrave@csulb.edu |
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| Matuchniak, Tina tina.matuchniak@csulb.edu |
BA Chemistry, University of Bombay, India MA CSULB, Literacy Studies PhD UCI, Education, Language, Literacy, & Technology | Composition Theories and Pedagogies, Writing Center Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, College Access & Success |
| Mello, Barbara (Mary) barbara.mello@csulb.edu |
BA, MA, CSULB; PhD, USC | Medieval & English Renaissance; literature and material culture; Feminism & Gender Studies |
| Mitchell-Smith, Ilan ilan.mitchellsmith@csulb.edu |
BA, Medieval Studies, UC Davis; MA, Medieval Studies, Fordham University; PhD, Medieval English Literature, Texas A&M |
Co-Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CSULB Old and Middle Enlish Language, Medieval Literature, Chivalric Literature, Monsters, contemporary American versions of the Middle Ages |
| Mohr, Bill (William) william.billmohr@gmail.com |
BA, University of California, Los Angeles; MA, PhD, University of California, San Diego | Twentieth-century American literature; creative writing; avant-garde theater; visual arts |
| Olah, Anthony anthony.olah@csulb.edu |
AA, Cypress J.C.; BA, MA, CSULB | |
| Opsteegh, Michael michael.opsteegh@csulb.edu |
BA, CSULB; MA, CSULB | Technical communication, ethics, user experience, visual rhetoric, risk communications, new media |
| Orliski, Constance (Connie) constance.orliski@csulb.edu |
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| Palomarez, Michael michael.palomarez@csulb.edu |
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| Pennington, Margaret (Meg) megpennington1@gmail.com |
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| Rifkin, Alan alan.rifkin@csulb.edu |
BA, UCLA / MFA, CSULB | Creative Nonfiction, Contemporary Fiction, Personal/Literary Journalism |
| Rogers, Sandra smrogers28@gmail.com |
BA French, Stanford University MA Education, Stanford University | Secondary Education |
| Rust, Rusty (Marilee) rusty.rust@csulb.edu |
BA CSU Channel Islands; MA CSU Long Beach | Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Ethnic Literature; Post WWII Lit.; 20th Century American Literature |
| Scenters-Zapico, John john.scenters-zapico@csulb.edu |
B.A. English, B.A. Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, Northern Arizona University; PhD Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona | Writing Program Administration, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Centers, Traditional and Digital Literacies, Rhetoric and Composition History, Theory, and Pedagogy, Ethnographic Approaches to Literacy Study |
| Schürer, Norbert nschurer@csulb.edu |
BA, Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany; MA (Staatsexamen), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; PhD, Duke University | 18th-century British literature, literary theory, book history, women’s writing, the Anglo-Indian encounter, Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Seyburn-Little, Patricia (Patty) patty.seyburn@csulb.edu |
BS, MS in Journalism, Northwestern University; MFA in Poetry, University of California, Irvine; PhD in Creative Writing and Literature, University of Houston | 20th-century female poets; Eastern European poetry; Midrash |
| Simoes, Marc marc.simoes@csulb.edu |
BA, MA CSULB | |
| Smith, Jennifer jennifer.smith@csulb.edu |
BA, Pennsylvania State University; MA, CSULB | Professional Writing; Technical Editing; Medieval & Early Modern English Literature & Christianity |
| Smurthwaite, Lori lori.smurthwaite@csulb.edu |
MA in English, Brigham Young University; PhD in American Literature and Rhetoric, University of Southern California | Nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; the short story; children’s literature; composition |
| Stavast, John johnstavast@gmail.com |
BA, MA, CSULB | Twentieth-century American lit; rhetoric; cinema; technical writing |
| Thomas, Marshall marshall.thomas@csulb.edu |
BA, MA, EdD CSULB | |
| Thrasher, Thomas t.thrasher@csulb.edu |
BA,MFA CSULB | |
| Treviño, Rene H. rene.trevino@csulb.edu |
BA, University of Texas – Pan American; MA, University of Arkansas; PhD, Texas A&M University | 19th-Century American Literature; 19th-Century African-American Literature; U.S. Ethnic Literatures; Gothic Literature; Animal Studies. |
| Van Elk, Martine martine.vanelk@csulb.edu |
MA, University of Amsterdam; PhD, Rice University | Early modern literature; Shakespeare; 17th-century women writers |
| Vipond, Dianne dianne.vipond@csulb.edu |
BS, McGill University; MA, Concordia University; PhD, York University (Canada) | Twentieth-Century British Literature; Metafiction; Postmodernism; English Education |
| Webb, Charles charles.webb@csulb.edu |
BA in Honors English, Rice University; M.A. in English/Poetry Writing, University of Washington; MFA in Professional Writing, University of Southern California; PhD in Counseling Psychology, University of Southern California | Creative Writing (fiction and poetry); 20th-century Poetry and Fiction; Poetics |
| Wegener, Frederick frederick.wegener@csulb.edu |
BA, Columbia University; MA, PhD, Harvard University | post-1865 American literature and culture; forms of narrative; critical theory; history of the novel |
| Williams, Mark mark.williams@csulb.edu |
BS, Utah State University; MA, University of Texas El Paso; PhD, University of Arizona | Rhetorical history, theory, and practice; Composition and literacy studies |
| Wooldridge, Nina nina.wooldridge@csulb.edu |
BA in English, MA in Education, & Reading Specialist Credential CSULB; EdD University of Southern California |
Advisory Board for CA Writing Project; English Single Subject Credential Program Coordinator; Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Pedagogies in English Education |
| Zepeda, Rafael (Ray) rafael.zepeda@csulb.edu |
BA, CSULB; MFA, University of Oregon | Creative Writing, fiction (short story and novel); Poetry Writing; Script Writing & Play Writing; Twentieth-Century American and English literature; Nineteenth-Century American and English literature; Twentieth-Century World literature; Film making, Film history, and Film Theory; Photography; Twentieth-Century Art; World Art History; Archeology |