Programs

English Department Faculty


	MaryScarlett Amaris Lecturer msa-roho@yahoo.com Office Location: MHB 711
	Sarah Arroyo Professor sarroyo@csulb.edu 562-985-8517 Office Location: MHB 409	BA MA Specialties: Digital Rhetoric and New Media
	Vera Austin Lecturer vaustin@csulb.edu 562-985-2310 Office Location: MHB 706
	Monika Belhumeur Lecturer mbelhumeur@verizon.net 562-985-4231 Office Location: MHB 405	BA University of Heidelberg, Germany MA CSULB Interests: ESL, Composition, Linguistics
	Elyse Blankley Professor blankley@csulb.edu 562-985-4892 Office Location: FO2 222	BA Douglass College of Rutgers University MA UC Davis, PhD UC Davis Interests: Modernism (British and American), Feminist and Gender Theory, Contemporary Women Writers
	Christina Bowman Lecturer cbowman@csulb.edu 562-985-4217 Office Location: MHB 318	BA CSULB, MA CSULB PhD University of Southern California Interests: American Lit., Medieval Lit., Gammar, Classics-Greek Mythology, Women in the Classical World, Latin, Greek and Roman Lit.
	Mason Boyer Lecturer macfoo@msn.com 562-985-4393 Office Location: MHB 711
	Amy Braden Lecturer abraden2@csulb.edu 562-985-4232 Office Location: MHB 406
	Robert Brophy Professor Emeritus brophy@csulb.edu	Robinson Jeffers, Peace Studies
	Kristin Brown Lecturer kbrown2@csulb.edu 562-985-4217 Office Location: MHB 318
	Susan Carlile Professor scarlile@csulb.edu 562-985-4221 Office Location: MHB 305	BA Taylor University MA, PhD Arizona State University Interests: Eighteenth-Centurn British Literature; English Education
	Tim Caron Professor tcaron@csulb.edu 562-985-4233 Office Location: PSY 114	BA Louisiana College - Go Wildcats! MA, PhD Louisiana State University - Geaux Tigers! Interests: William Faulkner; Toni Morrison; 20th Century American Lit.; Religion in American Lit.
	Cheryl Chapman Lecturer chapmanc@csulb.edu 562-985-5239 Office Location: MHB 401
	Stephen Cooper Professor spcooper@csulb.edu 562-985-8644 Office Location: MHB 403	BA UCLA; MFA UCI; PhD USC Interests: Creative Writing, Fiction; 20th Century American Fiction; Narrative Theory; Fiction and Film
	Susan Cooper Lecturer scooper2@csulb.edu 562-985-4216 Office Location: MHB 708	BA, MA CSULB Interests: Linguistics - ESL; Composition; Grammar
	Shawne Cote Hume Lecturer scote@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 709	BA, MA CSULB Interests: 20th Century American and British Lit.; English Education, teacher preparation - EDSS & LIST
	Rebecca Cummings Lecturer rcummin2@csulb.edu 562-985-5285 Office Location: MHB 511	BA, MFA (Fiction) CSULB Interests: Composition; Creative Writing
	Carrie M. Damschroder Lecturer carried@hotmail.com Office Location: MHB 401	BA Bowling Green State University, MA Miami University Interests: Technical Communication website: www.csulb.edu/~cdamschr
	Tyler Dilts Lecturer tdilts@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 702	BA, MA, MFA CSULB Interests: Creative Writing; Literary Theory
	Gene Dinielli Professor dinielli@csulb.edu 562-985-4794 Office Location: MHB 510
	Kathleen Di Vito Keirn Lecturer divito@csulb.edu 562-985-4215 Office Location: MHB 305
	Julie Evans Lecturer jevans@csulb.edu 562-985-2140 Office Location: MHB 712	BA San Francisco State University, MA CSULB Interests: Literature: the Environment; Non-Fiction prose styles
	Boak Ferris Lecturer boak@csulb.edu 562-985-4232 Office Location: MHB 406
	Melissa Fiesta Assistant Professor mfiesta@csulb.edu 562-985-2606 Office Location: SPA 339	BA Wellesley College, MA Lehigh University, PhD University of Arizona Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Women's Rhetorics; Teaching Writing and Comp.; Theories of Writing and Literacy; Histories of Rhetoric
	Brian Finney Assistant Professor bhfinney@earthlink.net 562-985-4247 Office Location: MHB 506	BA University of Reading, England, PhD Birkbeck College, University of London, England Interests: 20th Century Literature (English Fiction); Literary Threory; Drama
	Todd Fox Lecturer tfox@csulb.edu 562-985-8516 Office Location: LAB 206	BA CSULB, MFA CSULB website: www.csulb.edu/~tfox
	Elliot Fried Professor efried@csulb.edu
	Gladys Garcia Lecturer ggarcia@csulb.edu 562-985-2844 Office Location: FO3 302
	Bill Gilbert Lecturer bgilbert@csulb.edu 562-985-4216 Office Location: MHB 708	BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: Technical Communication; Critical Reading and Writing; ESL Writing; ESL Pronunciation
	Paul Gilmore Associate Professor pgilmore@csulb.edu 562-985-4249 Office Location: MHB 410	BA University of Mississippi, MA & PhD University of Chicago Interests: 19th Century American Literature & Culture; Literature of Revolutionary Era; Cultural Studies; Aesthetic & Science
	Lisa Glatt Assistant Professor lglatt@csulb.edu 562-985-4243 Office Location: MHB 317
	Suzanne Greenberg Assistant Professor greenber@csulb.edu 562-985-4243 Office Location: MHB 501	BA Hampshire College, MFA University of Maryland Interests: Creative Writing
	Gary Griswold Assistant Professor griswold@csulb.edu 562-985-4234 Office Location: MHB 408	BA, MA CSULB, PhD Claremont Graduate University Interests: Composition Studies; Technical and Professional Writing
	Robert Guffey Lecturer rguffey@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 711
	Shirley Guthrie Lecturer sguthrie@csulb.edu 562-985-2609 Office Location: MHB 809	BA Swarthmore Colllege, MA & PhD Indiana University, JA University of Miami, MA CSULB; Interests: Developmental Writing; Reading; Composition; Technical Writing; Old & Middle English; Latin, Classical and Medieval Literatures
	Elizabeth Guzik Lecturer eguizik@csulb.edu 562-985-4231 Office Location: MHB 405
	Rick Hamwi Lecturer rhamwi@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 810	BA CSULB, MFA UC Irvine Interests: Contemporary Fiction
	George Hart Associate Professor ghart@csulb.edu 562-985-4235 Office Location: MHB 410	BA Kent State University, PhD Stanford University Interests: American Poetry; Modernism & Postmodernism; Criticism & Theory; Environmental Literature
	Robert Hertz Professor Emeritus rhertz@csulb.edu	BA Rutgers University, MA Syracuse University, PhD University of Southern California Interests: Linguistics: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, History of the English Language, Semantics, Historical Linguistics
	Diana Hines Lecturer dhines@csulb.edu 562-985-2140 Office Location: MHB 712
	Elizabeth Hoffman Lecturer ehoffman@csulb.edu 562-985-5692 Office Location: AS 12	BA CSULB, MA USC Interests: Compostion, Language Arts Methodology; Faculty Union/Lecturer Representative
	Don Hohl Lecturer dhohl@csulb.edu 562-985-7682 Office Location: MHB 312	BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: Composition and Assessment; American Literature; Student Teaching
	Mimi Hotchkiss Professor whotch@csulb.edu 562-985-4219 Office Location: MHB 402
	Helen Chau Hu Professor 562-985-4229 Office Location: MHB 705
	Neil Hultgren Assistant Professor nhultgre@csulb.edu 562-985-2423 Office Location: MHB 310	BA Augustana College (IL), MA & PhD University of Virginia Interests: Victorian Studies; Imperialism in Literature; Postcolonial Theory; the Novel
	Stephanie Johnson Lecturer sjohnso8@csulb.edu 562-985-4402 Office Location: MHB 505	BA Saint Louis University & UC Irvine, MA CSULB Interests: On-site coordinator for English Education, Supervisor for student teachers & interns
	Lloyd Kermode Professor lkermode@csulb.edu 562-985-4212 Office Location: MHB 512
	Eileen Klink Chair, Dept. of English
	LeeAnne Langton Lecturer llangton@csulb.edu 562-985-4217 Office Location: MHB 318	BA UCLA, MA CSULB Interests: Linguistics; Heritage Language Preservation, ESL
	Beth Lau Professor blau@csulb.edu 562-985-4252 Office Location: MHB 313	BA, PhD University of Illinois, Champaign Interests: British Romantic Period; Victorian Literature
	Mark Laurila Lecturer mlaurila@csulb.edu 562-985-1943 Office Location: MHB 401
	Paulino Lim Professor Emeritus paulmarqlim@yahoo.com
	Gerald Locklin Professor glocklin@csulb.edu 562-985-5285 Office Location: MHB 511	BA St. John Fisher College, MA & PhD University of Arizona Interests: Creative Writing, 20th Century Literature, Literary Theory, N. West, Hemingway, Bukowski, Brautigan, Haslam, Fante, Stein, et al.
	Zach Locklin Lecturer zlocklin@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 311
	Susan Peck MacDonald Assistant Professor smacdona@csulb.edu 562-985-1538 Office Location: MHB 809
	Clint Margrave Lecturer cmargrav@csulb.edu Office Location: MHB 810	BA CSULB, MFA CSULB Interests: Creative Writing
	Tina Matuchniak Lecturer tmatuchn@csulb.edu 562-985-1855 Office Location: LAB 212	BS Bombay University, BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: Literacy; Language Minority Education; Reading
	Charles May Professor Emeritus cmay@csulb.edu
	Bill Mohr Assistant Professor wmohr@csulb.edu 562-985-4246 Office Location: MHB 301
	Alosi Moloi Professor amoloi@csulb.edu 562-985-4598 Office Location: PSY 433	BA University of South Africa, MA University of South Africa, PhD University of the North Interests: Comparative Literature; Linguistics; History; Southern African languages., Pan African Studies
	Marianne Muller Lecturer mmuller@csulb.edu 562-985-1979 Office Location: MHB 806	BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: English Composition; American Language Program; WPE Advising
	Carol Nader Lecturer cnader@csulb.edu 562-985-4210 Office Location: MHB 311	BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: Composition; Technical & Professional Communication; Business Communication
	Carla Nyssen Lecturer cnyssen@csulb.edu 562-985-1979 Office Location: MHb 806	BA CSULB, MA CSULB, TESL Certificate
	Anthony Olah Lecturer aolah@csulb.edu 562-985-1979 Office Location: MHB 806
	Cynthia Pastrana Lecturer cpastran@csulb.edu 562-985-1979 Office Location: MHB 806
	Meg Pennington Lecturer mpennington562@charter.net 562-985-4261 Office Location: MHB 808
	Perrin Reid Lecturer pried@csulb.edu 562-985-7030 Office Location: USU 301	BA Tufts University, MA University of Massachusetts at Amherst, JD Loyola Law School at Los Angeles Interests: Post-Colonial Literature; Critical Race Theory (Legal)
	Kent Richmond Lecturer richmond@csulb.edu 562-985-4210 Office Location: MHB 311	BA CSULB, MA CSULB Interests: TESL; Language and Composition; Applied Linguistics; Shakespeare webpage: www.csulb.edu/~richmond
	Sandra Rogers srogers@lbusd.k12.ca.us	BA Stanford University, MA Stanford University Interests: Single-Subject - English Methods Curriculum and Instruction
	Gordon Rujanawech Lecturer grujanaw@csulb.edu 562-985-4515 Office Location: LA5 269	PhD University of Kansas, Post-Doctoral UCLA Interests: Grammar; Rhetoric; Critical Thinking
	David Samuelson Professor Emeritus dnsmlsn@csulb.edu 562-985-4245 Office Location: MHB 510	BA Drew University & MIT; PhD USC, Free U. of Berlin, School of Criticism and Theory at UCI Interests: 20th Century Literature and Crit.; "Unreal Estates" (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopian Literature)
	Norbert Schürer Assistant Professor nschurer@csulb.edu 562-985-4213 Office Location: MHB 302	BA Mochschule der Kunste Berlin; MA Folie Universitat Berlin; PhD Duke University Interests: Eighteenth-Century British Lit., Literary Theory; Women Writers; Book History; Postcolonial Literature
	Patty Seyburn Assistant Professor pseyburn@csulb.edu 562-985-8661 Office Location: MHB 313
	Nancy Strow Sheley Professor nsheley@csulb.edu 562-985-2030 Office Location: MHB 312	BA Murray State University, MA University of Illinois, PhD University of Kansas Interests: 19th & 20th Century American Literature and Art History; Professional Education
	Jim Sieg	BA CSULB; MA UCI; PhD New York U. Interests: W.Whitman; Beat Generation; Chicano Literature; Biblio-Therapy; Curriculum & Methods of Teaching English; Supervising Student Teachers
	Marc Simões Lecturer msimoes@csulb.edu 562-985-4261 Office Location: MHB 808	BA CSULB & U. de São Paulo, Brazil; MA CSULB; Interests: Shakespeare, European Renaissance; Yeats; Faulkner; Pessoa; Machado de Assis; Visual Arts / Opera /Medicine of Literature; Pre-Bac & First Year Composition
	Jennifer Smith Lecturer jsmith10@csulb.edu 562-985-2310 Office Location: MHB 706	BA Penn State; MA CSULB Interests: Composition; Teacher Education in Writing & Literacy; Medieval & Renaissance Literature; Pop Culture; Professional Writing; Creative Writing
	Lori Smurthwaite Lecturer lsmurthw@csulb.edu 562-985-4231 Office Location: MHB 405
	Clifton Snider Lecturer csnider@csulb.edu 562-985-4247 Office Location: MHB 506	BA CSULB; MA CSULB; PhD University of New Mexico; Interests: 19th and 20th Century American and British Lit., Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Jungian/Archetypal and Queer Crit. World Lit., Composition, Creative Writing webpage: www.csulb.edu/~csnider
	Ronald Strahl Professor rstrahl@csulb.edu 562-985-7677 Office Location: FO5 201
	Graham Thomas Lecturer gthomas@csulb.edu 562-985-4260 Office Location: FO4 151
	Tom Thrasher Lecturer tthrashe@csulb.edu 562-985-5285 Office Location: MHB 511	BA CSULB; MFA CSULB Interests: Creative Writing (Poetry, Novel, Short Story); Shakespeare
	Chad Tsuyuki Lecturer iheartwritingclass@yahoo.com 562-985-4645 Office Location: FO3 340
	Martine van Elk Professor mvanelk@csulb.edu 562-985-4222 Office Location: MHB 512	MA University of Amsterdam, Rice University; PhD Rice University Interests: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature; Early Modern Women; Early Modern Vagrancy
	Dianne Vipond Professor dvipond@csulb.edu 562-985-4402 Office Location: MHB 505	BS McGill University; MA Concordia University; PhD York University Interests: 20th Century English Literature; John Fowles & Lawrence Durrell; English Ed. -Critical Literacy, Lit. Theory at H.S. level
	Charles Webb Professor cwebb@csulb.edu 562-985-4244 Office Location: MHB 502
	Frederick Wegener Professor fwegener@csulb.edu 562-985-4226 Office Location: 320
	Mark Williams Professor mwilliam@csulb.edu 562-985-1978 Office Location: MHB 317	BS Utah State University; MA U of Texas, El Paso; PhD U of Arizona Interests: Theories & Histories of Rhetoric; Composition Studies & Practice
	Howard Willison Lecturer howwill@csulb.edu 562-985-5662 Office Location: FO4 150
	Carol Yoshiyama Lecturer 562-985-4397 Office Location: MHB 713	BA CSULB; MA National University, UC Irvine Interests: Single-Subject Education
	Bill Younglove Student Teacher Supervisor wyoungl@aol.com 562-985-4397 Office Location: MHB 713	BA Adrian College; MA Western Michigan University, USC; EDD UCLA Interests: Assessment; American Studies; Holocaust Studies
	Rafael Zepeda Professor rzepeda@csulb.edu 562-985-4243 Office Location: MHB 501	BA CSULB; MFA University of Oregon Interests: Creative Writing; Film and Literature; 20th Century American Literature
	Carol Zitzer-Comfort Assistant Professor ccomfort@csulb.edu 562-985-7929 Office Location: MHB 310	BA CSU Fullerton; MA Cal Poly Pomona; PHD Claremont Graduate University Interests: Reading; Composition; Cognitive Development; American Indian Literature; Disability Studies

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