As a student in the English department, you reap the benefits of qualified and engaged faculty who come from a variety of research and professional backgrounds.
Faculty and Staff
Dr. Linda T. Moser
Associate Dean-Academics and Student Success
Interim Department Head
My research, teaching and publications range broadly in American literature and culture, with an emphasis upon utopian communities and literature, American women writers, foodways, science & literature of the early Republic, and prose non-fiction...
I have published extensively in Seventeenth Century English literature (Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton) and in the history of rhetoric (classical, Renaissance, and modern). I have also published widely in critical theories (classical and contemporary)...
Research and interests: Digital rhetorics, Writing theory and pedagogy, Creative writing, Publishing, Emerging social software
Marcus S. Cafagna
Professor
Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program
Research and interests: Poetry Writing
Research and interests: African American literature, Race and ethnicity in U.S. literature and culture
Research and interests: Ozarks Jewry, History of Haggadot, Greek Jewry
Research and interests: English/American grammar punctuation, usage, editing, Academic advising
Dr. Keri R. Franklin
Director of Assessment
Director, Ozarks Writing Project
My research centers on teacher development; professional development; literacy, ranging across areas including technology and writing, assessment, writing response groups; and, qualitative and quantitative research focused on the impact of National...
Research and interests: Document design, Content management, Crosscultural communication
Research and interests: Regional Literature, Folklore, Folklore in Literature, Ozarks Studies
Dr. Andrea B. Hellman
Associate Professor
Coordinator, TESOL Program
TESOL Track
Research and interests: Private and Public Rhetoric, Creative Non-fiction, Travel Writing, Handicapped Issues
Research and interests: Children's and Adolescent Literature, Fantasy (esp. high fantasy and dragons), Censorship, Literacy
Amy E. Knowles
Student Teacher Supervisor
Ozarks Writing Project Co-Director
Research and interests: Victorian literature
Research and interests: Short story fiction writing, Novel writing, Graphic narrative (criticism and craft)
Research and interests: Discipline-specific Writing, Discourse Theory
Research and interests: Chinese linguistics, Discourse-pragmatics, Comparative studies of Chinese and English discourse grammar, English as a second/foreign language
Dr. Rhonda J. Stanton
Associate Professor
English Department Graduate Director and Program Coordinator for Professional/Technical Writing
Research and interests: Creative non-fiction, Scientific literature, Editing, Publishing, Regulatory writing, Online education
Research and interests: Composition theory and pedagogy, Rhetorical theory, History of rhetoric, Feminist theory and rhetoric
Research and interests: British Literature, Literature and Science, Literature and Medicine, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Pedagogy
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