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Department Heads

Jeff Menne

Department Head
Professor
jeff.menne@okstate.edu 

Steph Link

Associate Head
Associate Professor
steph.link@okstate.edu

Directors

Lindsay Wilhelm

Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor
lindsay.wilhelm@okstate.edu 

Lisa Hollenbach

Director of Literature
Associate Professor
lisa.hollenbach@okstate.edu

Sarah Beth Childers

Director of Creative Writing
Associate Professor
sarah.beth.childers@okstate.edu

An Cheng

Director of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Professor
an.cheng@okstate.edu

Graig Uhlin

Director of Film Studies
Associate Professor
graig.uhlin@okstate.edu 

Nicole Tracy-Ventura

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

Reva E. Sias

Director of First-Year Composition
Associate Professor
reva.e.sias@okstate.edu

Michelle Waters

Interim Director of OSU Writing Center
Visiting Assistant Professor
michelle.waters@okstate.edu 

Eric D. Howerton

Director of Technical Writing
Teaching Associate Professor
eric.howerton@okstate.edu

Frances Junnier

Director of International Composition
Teaching Assistant Professor
frances.junnier@okstate.edu

Sara Loss

Director of Language Studies Lab
Teaching Associate Professor
sara.loss@okstate.edu

Literature

Lisa Hollenbach

Director of Literature
Associate Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Post-1900 American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Sound Studies
lisa.hollenbach@okstate.edu

Richard Frohock

Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Early American Literature, Early Caribbean Literature, 18th-Century British Literature 
richard.frohock@okstate.edu 

Shelby Johnson

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
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
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
John Milton and the English Civil War, 17th-Century British Literature, Archival records of the English church, Diplomatic Correspondence
edward.jones@okstate.edu 

Timothy Murphy

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

Chelsea Silva

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Middle English literature, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies, Manuscript Studies, History of Medicine
chelsea.silva@okstate.edu

Lindsay Wilhelm

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Victorian literature, Aestheticism and Decadence, History of Science, Pacific and global Victorianism
lindsay.wilhelm@okstate.edu

Richard Sears

Teaching Assistant Professor
Associate Level 1 of Graduate Faculty
Bloomington Early Modern Literature and British Literature
richard.sears@okstate.edu 

Ryan Slesinger

Teaching Assistant Professor
Associate Level 1 of Graduate Faculty
20th Century American Literature
ryan.slesinger@okstate.edu

Ariel Ross

Teaching Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
ariel.ross@okstate.edu  

Seth Wood

Lecturer
19th Century American Literature, Literary Theory, and Pedagogy
seth.r.wood@okstate.edu

Kathleen Burns

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
American Studies, Literature 19th through 21st Centuries
kathleen.burns@okstate.edu

Gregory Brennen

Teaching Assistant Professor
Composition, Serial Media and British Literature
gregory.brennen@okstate.edu

Creative Writing

Sarah Beth Childers

Director of Creative Writing
Associate Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Creative Nonfiction (lyric and narrative essays, memoir, linked essay collections), Fiction
sarah.beth.childers@okstate.edu

Stephanie Choi

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Poetry Writing, Gender and Women's Studies, Experimental Poetics, APIA Literature
stephanie.choi@okstate.edu

Gene Kwak

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Fiction (novel and short story), APIA Literature, Midwestern Literature
gkwak@okstate.edu

Lisa Lewis

Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Poetry Writing, Gender and Women's Studies, Contemporary Literature
lisa.lewis@okstate.edu

Aimee Parkison

Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Fiction Writing, Experimental Prose, Women’s and Gender Studies
aimee@okstate.edu 

Dinah Cox

Teaching Associate Professor
Associate Level 3 of Graduate Faculty
Creative Writing (Fiction)
dinah.cox@okstate.edu

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

An Cheng

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

Reva E. Sias

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

Gregory Brennen

Teaching Assistant Professor
Composition, Serial Media and British Literature
gregory.brennen@okstate.edu

Screen Studies

Graig Uhlin

Associate ProfessorDirector of Film StudiesFull Member of Graduate FacultyEcocinema, Environmental Aesthetics, Cinema of Anthropocenecene, David Fincher, Film Theory, Film rhythm, French film history
graig.uhlin@okstate.edu

Jeff Menne

Department Head
Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
US and Latin American Cinema, Experimental Media, Critical Theory 
jeff.menne@okstate.edu 

Stacy Takacs

Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
American Studies, Cultural Studies, TV and Media Studies, Popular Culture, Contemporary American Literature and Culture  
stacy.takacs@okstate.edu

Jason Sperb

Visiting Assistant Professor
Associate Level 3 of Graduate Faculty
Film and Media Studies
sperb@okstate.edu

Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL

Nicole Tracy-Ventura

Director of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL
Associate Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
TESOL, Applied Linguistics
nicole.tracy-ventura@okstate.edu

Michael Amory

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Classroom discourse, Second language pedagogy and practice, L2 teacher professional development, Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory
michael.amory@okstate.edu

An Cheng

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

Stephanie Link

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

Carol Moder

Professor
Ann & Burns Hargis Professor & Director, Doel Reed Center for the Arts
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
Applied Linguistics & TESOL, Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, Language Testing
carol.moder@okstate.edu 

Sara Loss

Director of Language Studies Lab
Associate Level 3 of Graduate Faculty
Linguistics
sara.loss@okstate.eduTeaching Associate Professor

Ho'omana Nathan Horton

Teaching Assistant Professor
Associate Level 3 of Graduate Faculty
TESOL/Linguistics
nathan.horton@okstate.edu

Frances M. Junnier

Teaching Assistant Professor
Associate Level 3 of Graduate Faculty
Applied Linguistics
frances.junnier@okstate.edu

Interdisciplinary Faculty

Reanae McNeal

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
African Native American Women’s Literature, Rhetorics, and Activism

reanae.mcneal@okstate.edu

Kathleen Burns

Assistant Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
American Studies, Literature 19th through 21st Centuries
kathleen.burns@okstate.edu

Stacy Takacs

Professor
Full Member of Graduate Faculty
American Studies, Cultural Studies, TV and Media Studies, Popular Culture, Contemporary American Literature and Culture  
stacy.takacs@okstate.edu

Jessica Turcat

Teaching Assistant Professor
Poetry and Gender & Women's Studies
jessica.turcat@okstate.edu

Visiting Assistant Professors

Sari Carter

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

Alex Hughes

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

Daniel Morse

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

Cynthia A. Rogers

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

Jason Sperb

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

Michelle Waters

Interim Director of OSU Writing Center
Visiting Assistant Professor
michelle.waters@okstate.edu 

Most Recent Faculty Emeritus

William Decker
Regents Professor
Literature

Lynn Lewis
Professor 
Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Elizabeth Grubgeld
Regents Professor
Literature

Gene Halleck
Professor
TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Randi Eldevik (in memoriam) 
Professor
Literature
Learn more about the Randi Eldevik Medieval Studies Scholarship

Ravi Sheorey  (in memoriam) 
Regents Professor
TESOL
Learn about the Ravi Sheorey TESOL Award for Research

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