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Chair(s)

Jaime Goodrich Chair and Professor of English Director of the Humanities Center

Associate chair(s)

Lisa Ze Winters Associate Professor, African American Studies and English Associate Chair, English Department

Full-time faculty

Natalie Bakopoulos Associate Professor
Ruth Boeder Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Sarika Chandra Associate Professor
Simone Chess Director, Center for Gender and Sexuality (CGS) and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSW) Associate Professor of English
Laval Duncan Associate Professor of Teaching
Walter Fitz Herbert Edwards Professor Distinguished Service Professor
Kathy Elrick Assistant Professor of Teaching
Elizabeth Evans Associate Professor
Ryan Flaherty Associate Professor of Teaching
Hilary Elizabeth Fox Associate Professor
Jared Grogan Associate Professor of Teaching and Internship Coordinator
Donovan Hohn Professor
Renee carine Hoogland Professor Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, Editor of Criticism, and Senior Editor in Chief of MacMillan Handbooks: Gender
Kenneth Jackson Professor
Adrienne Jankens Assistant Professor
Chera Kee Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Laidler Assistant Professor Teaching
Amy Ann Latawiec Associate Professor of Teaching Writing Center Director
Michael Liebler Associate professor of teaching
Richard Marback Professor of English Research Fellow Center for the Study of Citizenship
Peter Marra Assistant Professor of Teaching
Caroline Maun Associate Professor
Irina Monich Assistant Professor
Bruce Morgan Assistant Professor
Michael Okpanachi Assistant Professor of Teaching
Olagbenro Oladipo Postdoctoral Fellow
Ljiljana Progovac Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Graduate Director, Linguistics
Jeff Pruchnic Associate Professor Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Graduate School
Natalia Rakhlin Associate Professor Linguistics
Christopher Susak Assistant Professor of Teaching
Jule Rohanna Thomas Professor Teaching
Joseph V Torok Associate Professor of Teaching
Thomas Trimble Associate Professor of Teaching
Chris Tysh Associate Professor of Teaching
Nicole Guinot Varty Associate Professor of Teaching Co-director, Composition Learning Community; Chair, Composition Mentoring Committee
Barrett Watten Professor

Emeritus faculty

Ellen Barton Professor Emerita, Department of English Professor Emerita, Linguistics Program
Lesley Brill Professor Emeritus
William Harris Professor Emeritus
Jerry Herron Founding Dean, Irvin D. Reid Honors College Professor of English Emeritus
Margaret Jordan
Arthur Marotti Distinguished Professor Emeritus Director, WSU Emeritus Academy
Lisa Maruca Associate Professor
Geoffrey Nathan Chief Privacy Officer (Retired) Professor Emeritus
Ross Pudaloff Retired Associate Professor
Frances Ranney Associate Professor Retired 2018
Richard Raspa Professor Emeritus
Martha Ratliff Professor Emerita
Ruth Ray Retired Professor
John Reed Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Michael Scrivener Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Steven Shaviro DeRoy Professor of English
Elizabeth Sklar Professor Emerita
Anca Vlasopolos Retired Professor
Renata Ruth Wasserman Retired Professor

Part-time faculty

Jonathan Gillham Part-time Faculty III
Michael Kroll Instructor
David MacGregor Adjunct Instructor
Edward Marks
Joyce Munro PTF-3
Stephen Pobutsky
Craig Smith Part-time Faculty
Jennifer Townsend Professor
Jennifer Weaver Adjunct Professor

Staff

Anglesia Brown Academic Services Officer III Human Resources Liaison
Laurean Butcher Program Specialist Graduate Studies
Amanda Donigian Administrative Assistant
Brittany Kalaj Secretary IV
Royanne Smith Academic Services Officer VI Departmental Undergraduate Advisor
Kayla White Program Specialist

Graduate students

Carly Braxton Graduate Teaching Assistant
Shelby Cadwell Rumble Fellow Ph.D Candidate
Robert Chapman-Morales Graduate Teaching Assistant
Anna Djavaheri
Minerva Minerva Gale Graduate Teaching Assistant
Thomas Martez Goins Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Dean's Diversity Fellow
Colleen J. Hart Assistant Director of Composition Acquisitions Intern, WSU Press
Nariman Hawily
Maddie Henry Ph.D. Student Graduate Teaching Assistant
Michael Ray Jackson II Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kalimah Johnson
Bernadette Kelly
Chloe E. Leavings Ph.D. Student
Chuck McKeever
Alaa Mokhtar
Kristi Morris
Kelly J. Plante PhD (August 2023) Managing Editor, Aphra Behn Online (ABO): Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1840
Molli Spalter
Hunter Tuinstra PhD Candidate
Rachael Tyler
Grace Williams Ph.D. Candidate