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Department Head

Jeff Menne

Professor, Department Head
US and Latin American Cinema, Experimental Media, Critical Theory jeff.menne@okstate.edu 

Literature

William Decker

Regents Professor
American Literature, Ethnicities and color lines, Critical Race Theory, Literature of travel and migration, Autobiographywilliam.decker@okstate.edu 

Richard Frohock

Professor
Early American Literature, Early Caribbean Literature, 18th-Century British Literature richard.frohock@okstate.edu 

Katherine Hallemeier

Associate Professor
Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary Anglophone African fiction, Studies in Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, Affect Theorykatherine.hallemeier@okstate.edu 

Lisa Hollenbach

Associate Professor, Director of Literature
Post-1900 American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Sound Studieslisa.hollenbach@okstate.edu

Shelby Johnson

Assistant Professor
The Global 18th Century, Early Native American, Indigenous, Early African Diaspora, and Caribbean Studies, Ecocriticism, Queer Theory, Sexuality
shelby.l.johnson@okstate.edu

Edward Jones

Regents Professor
John Milton and the English Civil War, 17th-Century British Literature, Archival records of the English church, Diplomatic Correspondenceedward.jones@okstate.edu 

Timothy Murphy

Regents Professor
Modern & contemporary fiction, Critical Theory, Science fiction & fantasy, Science Studies, Music & Literature timothy.murphy@okstate.edu 

Chelsea Silva

Assistant Professor
Middle English literature, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, Manuscript Studies, History of Medicinechelsea.silva@okstate.edu

Lindsay Wilhelm

Assistant Professor
Victorian literature, Aestheticism and Decadence, History of Science, Pacific and global Victorianismlindsay.wilhelm@okstate.edu

Creative Writing

Sarah Beth Childers

Assistant Professor, Director of Creative Writing
Creative Nonfiction (lyric and narrative essays, memoir, linked essay collections), Fictionsarah.beth.childers@okstate.edu

Stephanie Choi

Assistant Professor
Poetry Writing
stephanie.choi@okstate.edu

Gene Kwak

Assistant Professor
Fiction (novel and short story), APIA Literature, Midwestern Literature
gkwak@okstate.edu

Lisa Lewis

Professor
Poetry Writing, Gender and Women's Studies, Contemporary Literature
lisa.lewis@okstate.edu

Aimee Parkison

Professor
Fiction Writing, Experimental Prose, Women’s and Gender Studiesaimee@okstate.edu 

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

An Cheng

Professor, Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program
English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Genre-based Professional Writing
an.cheng@okstate.edu

Reva E. Sias

Associate Professor, Director of First-Year Composition
African American Rhetoric and Culture, Cultural Rhetorics, Medical Rhetoric, Writing Program Administration
reva.e.sias@okstate.edu

Screen Studies

Jeff Menne

Professor, Department Head
US and Latin American Cinema, Experimental Media, Critical Theory jeff.menne@okstate.edu 

Stacy Takacs

Professor
American Studies, Cultural Studies, TV and Media Studies, Popular Culture, Contemporary American Literature and Culture  stacy.takacs@okstate.edu

Graig Uhlin

Associate Professor, Director of Film Studies
Ecocinema, Environmental Aesthetics, Cinema of Anthropocenecene, David Fincher, Film Theory, Film rhythm, French film history
graig.uhlin@okstate.edu 

TESOL and Linguistics

Michael Amory

Assistant Professor
Classroom discourse, Second language pedagogy and practice, L2 teacher professional development, Vygotskian Sociocultural Theorymichael.amory@okstate.edu

An Cheng

Professor
English for Specific Purposes (ESP), English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Genre-based Professional Writing
an.cheng@okstate.edu

Stephanie Link

Associate Professor
Computer Assisted Language Learning, Corpus-based genre pedagogy, Writing and technology
steph.link@okstate.edu 

Carol Moder

Professor, Director of TESOL
Applied Linguistics & TESOL, Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, Language Testingcarol.moder@okstate.edu 

Nicole Tracy-Ventura

Associate Professor
TESOL, Applied Linguistics
nicole.tracy-ventura@okstate.edu

Interdisciplinary Faculty

Kathleen Burns

PhD, Duke University
American Studies, Literature 19th through 21st Centuries
kathleen.burns@okstate.edu

Reanae McNeal

PhD, Texas Woman’s University
African Native American Women’s Literature, Rhetorics, and Activism

Office: Classroom Building 413405-744-9474
reanae.mcneal@okstate.edu

Teaching Associate Professors

Dinah Cox

PhD, Oklahoma State University: Creative Writing (Fiction) 
Office: Morrill 109
405-744-9476dinah.cox@okstate.edu

Eric D. Howerton

PhD, University of Houston: Creative Writing - Fiction, Literature, Composition
Office: Morrill 104D
405-744-8500eric.howerton@okstate.edu

Sara Loss

PhD, University of Minnesota: Linguistics
Office: Morrill 104E
405-744-3953sara.loss@okstate.edu

Teaching Assistant Professors

Gregory Brennen

PhD, Duke University
Composition, Serial Media and British Literature
gregory.brennen@okstate.edu

Ho'omana Nathan Horton

PhD, Oklahoma State University, TESOL/Linguistics
Office: Morrill 109A
405-744-9474
nathan.horton@okstate.edu

Frances M. Junnier

PhD, Oklahoma State University, Applied Linguistics
Office: 4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
frances.junnier@okstate.edu

Ariel Ross

PhD, Emory University, Comparative Literature
Office: 4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
ariel.ross@okstate.edu  

Richard Sears

PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington Early Modern Literature and British Literature
Office: Morrill 309C
405-744-9474
richard.sears@okstate.edu 

Ryan Slesinger

PhD, University of Tulsa, 20th Century American Literature
Office: Morrill 209
405-744-6233
ryan.slesinger@okstate.edu

Jessica Turcat

PhD, Oklahoma State University, Poetry and Gender & Women's Studies
Office: Classroom Building 413
jessica.turcat@okstate.edu

Lecturers and Visiting Assistant Professors

Sari Carter

PhD, Vanderbilt University 
Office: 4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
sari.carter@okstate.edu

Alex Hughes

PhD, Oklahoma State University, Creative Writing, Fiction
Office: 4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
alex.koenighughes@okstate.edu

"Jonsey" Bryan L. Jones

Writing Center Interim Director
PhD, Oklahoma State University, Rhetoric and Composition 
Office: 440 Student Union
405-744-9474
bryan.l.jones@okstate.edu

Daniel Morse

PhD, University of Edinburgh, 20th Century Transnational, Immigrant & Multiethnic Writing
Office: Morrill 309B
405-744-9474
daniel.l.morse@okstate.edu

Cynthia A. Rogers

PhD, Indiana University, Medieval Literature 
Office: Morrill 309B
405-744-6233
cindy.rogers@okstate.edu

Jason Sperb

PhD, Indiana University, Film and Media Studies
Office: 4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
sperb@okstate.edu

Seth Wood

PhD, Emory University, 19th Century American Literature, Literary Theory, and Pedagogy
Office:  4th floor, Morrill
405-744-9474
seth.r.wood@okstate.edu

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