Department Leadership
Dr. Lucy Alford
Assistant Professor, Literature
Dr. Erin Branch
Teaching Professor
Amy Catanzano
Associate Professor of English in Creative Writing
Poet-in-Residence; Co-Director, Creative Writing Program & Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series
Dr. Ryan D. Shirey
Teaching Professor
Dr. Dean Franco
Winifred W. Palmer Professor of English
Sarah Hogan
Associate Professor of English
Dr. Zak Lancaster
Director of Graduate Study, Associate Professor – Writing & Linguistics
Dr. Judith Madera
Associate Chair
Associate Professor of Literature; Director: Dean Family Speaker Series
C209 Tribble Hall
Dr. Monique O’Connell
Interim Department Chair of English and Professor of History
Dr. James Barefield Endowed Faculty Fellow
Joanna Ruocco
Associate Professor of English in Creative Writing
Co-Director, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series; Chair of the Editorial Board, Fiction Collective Two
Dr. Olga Valbuena
Associate Professor of English