About the Faculty

The English Department has a talented faculty of dedicated professionals who are enthusiastic about improving students' abilities to think, write, read, and speak intelligently and effectively. The faculty also has a commitment to enriching students' liberal education and to providing them with marketable career options for the professional world.

The department's courses in composition, literature, poetry, professional writing, reading and speech are taught both by full-time and adjunct faculty. Department faculty have authored more than fifty books and hundreds of articles, stories, and poems. They give papers at professional conferences and are active within the college and the larger community.