Faculty Directory
Dr. Joyce Inman
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Composition and Rhetoric
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 370
Nicolle Jordan
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
British literature; 18th-century British literature; women's writing; women's literary history; landscape studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 331
Dr. Philip Kolin
Emeritus
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Dr. Brian LaPierre
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
History of Modern Russia
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 311
Professor Jameela Lares
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
Milton, Renaissance literature, the history of rhetoric, children's and young adult literature..
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 343
Erika Luckert
Assistant Professor
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 370
Dr. Courtney Luckhardt
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
medieval history, 300-1500 CE
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 314
Dr. Laura Mammina
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
The U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery and Emancipation, Women and War, Gender and War, African American Military Service
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 476
Dr. Katya Maslakowski
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modern British History, History of the British Empire, History of Science and Medicine, Military History, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 475
Jason McCormick
Visiting Instructor
Areas of Expertise
Composition and Rhetoric, Critical Disability Studies, and Developmental Education
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 338 A
Dr. Bafumiki Mocheregwa
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Military History of Africa, The Cold War and Decolonization in Africa, Social and Political Histories of Africans
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 471
Ms. Susan Mullican
Senior Lecturer
Areas of Expertise
Ethics, Applied Ethics and Feminism
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: Philosophy and Religion
Elizabeth Hall (EH) 219
Hannah Mummert
Visiting Instructor
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Dr. Leah Parker
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Medieval literature, Old and Middle English, disability studies, history of Christianity
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 349
Dr. Jennifer Peterson
Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
Poetry and poetics; Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry; Teaching First-Year Composition; Teaching Developmental Writing
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 357
Dr. Joseph Peterson
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modern France, Imperialism, Religion, and Muslim-Christian encounter
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: History
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 350
Dr. Rebecca Powell
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
K-16 Writing Pedagogy, Teacher Education, Place Studies, Trauma and Narrative Writing
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Elizabeth Hall (EH) 315
Dr. Maureen Ryan
Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
modern and contemporary American Fiction
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB)
Ery Shin
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Modernism, Continental Philosophy, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 340
Dr. Amy Slagle
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy), sacred arts and material culture, religious conversion, afterlife beliefs, modern occultism
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: Philosophy and Religion
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) Room 332
Dr. Paula Smithka
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
Philosophy of Science--biology; Social/Political Philosophy
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: Philosophy and Religion
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 304B
Christopher Spaide
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
Poetry in English, especially modern and contemporary; transnational and global poetics; Anglophone modernism; poetry and race; theories of the lyric; ecopoetics; Asian American and Asian diasporic literature
College: Arts and Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Discipline: English