Departmental Faculty
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Robert Adams, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1972)
Courses Taught: Medieval; Renaissance; Editorial Theory
Office: Evans 110
Phone: (936) 294-1419
E-mail: eng_ira@shsu.edu
Kimberly Bell, Professor
(Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Chaucer; Old English and Middle English; Arthuriana; Epic and Romance
Office: Evans 310
Phone: (936) 294-3263
E-mail: eng_kkb@shsu.edu
Tracy Bilsing, Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the English Department
(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1998)
Courses Taught: British Short Fiction, Especially from the Great War; "Lost Generation" Writer Mary Butts
Office: Evans 458B
Phone: (936) 294-1402
E-mail: eng_teb@shsu.edu
Jacob Blevins, Professor
(Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Renaissance; Seventeenth Century; Comparative Literature; Latin Poetry;
Literary Theory
Office: Evans 208
Phone: (936) 294-1413
E-mail: jblevins@shsu.edu
Paul W. Child, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992)
Courses Taught: British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century; Medicine and Literature; Social History of Medicine
Office: Evans 204
Phone: (936) 294-1412
E-mail:pchild@shsu.edu
Michael Demson, Professor
(Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009)
Courses Taught: Romanticism, World Literature, Literary Theory
Office: Evans 314B
Phone: (936) 294-1430
E-mail: demson@shsu.edu
Robert Donahoo, Professor
(Ph.D., Duke University, 1988)
Courses Taught: Literature of the American South; Contemporary American Literature; Modern Drama; American Humor; Christianity and Literature; Literary Theory and Editing
Office: Evans 408
Phone: (936) 294-1421
E-mail: eng_rxd@shsu.edu
Diane Dowdey, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1984)
Courses Taught: Writing Center Theory; Rhetoric and Composition; Twentieth-Century Literature; Multicultural Literature; Literature and Science
Office: Evans 410
Phone: (936) 294-4217
E-mail: dowdey@shsu.edu
Julie Hall, Professor
(Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1993)
Courses Taught: Nathaniel & Sophia Hawthorne; American Renaissance; American Women Writers; Minority Literature
Office: Evans 115
Phone: (936) 294-1417
E-mail: eng_jeh@shsu.edu
Helena Halmari, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994)
Courses Taught: Linguistics (Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Language Contact)
Office: Evans 309
Phone: (936) 294-1420
E-mail: eng_shh@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/academics/english/faculty/halmari/
Darci Hill, Professor
(Ph.D., Texas Women's University, 1990)
Courses Taught: Rhetoric; British Renaissance; Seventeenth Century
Office: Evans 206
Phone: (936) 294-1473
E-mail: eng_dnh@shsu.edu
Ada Hubrig, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2020)
Courses Taught: Disability Studies and Neurodiversity; Community Literacy and Activism; and Secondary Education
Office: Evans 452
Phone: (936) 294-4096
E-mail:axh151@shsu.edu
Robyn Johnson, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of California - Riverside, 2023)
Courses Taught: American literature, Multiethnic Literature, and World Literature
Office: Evans 117
Phone: (936) 294-3359
E-mail:rmj036@shsu.edu
Scott Kaukonen, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006)
Courses Taught: Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Religious Culture and Literature
Office: Evans 412
Phone: (936) 294-1407
E-mail: kaukonen@shsu.edu
Ginger Ko, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2020)
Courses Taught: Feminist Poetics, Multimedia Writing, and Multiethnic and Migrant Literature
Office: Evans 111
Phone: (936) 294-4106
E-mail:gingerko@shsu.edu
Nick Lantz, Professor
(M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005)
Courses Taught: Creative Writing
Office: Evans 314A
Phone: (936) 294-1990
E-mail: nick.lantz@shsu.edu
Zoe McDonald, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2024)
Courses Taught: Composition, English Education
Office: Evans 108
Phone: (936) 294-1435
E-mail: znm004@shsu.edu
Audrey Murfin, Associate Professor
(Ph.D, Binghampton University, 2008)
Courses Taught: Victorian Literature
Office: Evans 304
Phone: (936) 294-1434
E-mail: adm034@shsu.edu
Carroll Ferguson Nardone, Professor
(Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2002)
Courses Taught: Technical & Professional Writing; Rhetoric; Early American Scientific Texts; Workplace Writing Practices; Writing-in-the-Disciplines
Office: Evans 312
Phone: (936) 294-1472
E-mail: cfnardone@shsu.edu
April O'Brien, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Clemson University, 2019)
Courses Taught: Public Memory and Race; Space/Place Studies; Cultural Rhetorics; Technical Communication; Digital Rhetorics
Office: Evans 463
Phone: (936) 294-3134
E-mail:aprilobrien@shsu.edu
Shyam Pandey, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Purdue University, 2022)
Courses Taught: Technical Writing; Grant Writing; Intercultural Communication; Document Design; and Rhetoric
Office: Evans 413
Phone: (936) 294-4450
E-mail: sbp029@shsu.edu
Deborah Phelps, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1992)
Courses Taught: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century English Literature, esp. Victorian; Women's Literature
Office: Evans 461
Phone: (936) 294-1409
E-mail: eng_dlp@shsu.edu
La-Toya Scott, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Florida, 2022)
Courses Taught: African American Literature and Culture; Black Feminist-Womanist Pedagogy; Digital Ethnography; Multi-Ethnic Literature
Office: Evans 306
Phone: (936) 294-1425
E-mail:lls060@shsu.edu
April Shemak, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2003)
Courses Taught: Postcolonial Literature and Theory; U.S. Ethnic Literature; Caribbean Literature
Office: Evans 308
Phone: (936) 294-1432
E-mail: aas004@shsu.edu
Katie Jean Shinkle, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Denver, 2015)
Courses Taught: Prose (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction); Hybrid and Cross-Genre Writing; Novella; Flash Fiction; Documentary Hybrid/Poetics
Office: Evans 414
Phone: (936) 294-1436
E-mail:kjs078@shsu.edu
Yingying Tang, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Auburn University, 2024)
Courses Taught: Intro to Technical Writing, Document Design, Professional Style and Editing
Office: Evans 316
Phone: (936) 294-0108
E-mail:yxt045@shsu.edu
Kandi Tayebi, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Denver, 1999)
Courses Taught: Women Writers; Wordsworth; Romanticism; Environmental Literature; Literary Theory; Computers and Writing; Mary Shelley; Poetry
Office: Evans 406
Phone: (936) 294-1439
E-mail: eng_kat@shsu.edu
Website: https://www.shsu.edu/~eng_kat
Xiaobo "Belle" Wang, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2017)
Courses Taught: Technical and Professional Communication; Communication Design; Transnational Rhetoric and Communication; Digital Rhetoric; Feminist Rhetoric; Comparative Rhetoric
Office: Evans 453
Phone: (936) 294-3258
E-mail:xiaobo.belle.wang@shsu.edu
Lecturers
Pool Faculty
Graduate Assistants
Brianna Chapman Evans 154 • (936) 294-1663 • bxc076@shsu.edu
Christina Ellison • Evans 152 • (936) 294-1992 • cre029@shsu.edu
Brittany Miller • Evans 154 • (936) 294-1663 • brm058@shsu.edu
Bleah Patterson • Evans 152 • (936) 294-1992 • bbp005@shsu.edu
Professor Emeritus
Lee Courtney, Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Emory University, 1975)
Victorian and Edwardian literature
E-mail: eng_lfc@shsu.edu
Douglas Krienke, Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Toledo, 1976)
Western World; Mythology; Shakespeare; Tudor/Stuart Drama
E-mail: eng_mdk@shsu.edu
Ralph Pease, Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1972)
Shakespearean Drama; Literature and Film; Mark Twain
E-mail: eng_rwp@shsu.edu