English Department Faculty and Staff Profiles
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Amy Acosta
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 360
Phone: 985/549-5760
Email:Amy.Acosta@selu.edu
Alysia Catanzaro Anderson
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 334
Email:alysia.anderson@selu.edu
David Armand
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 217
Phone: 985/549-2499
Email:david.armond@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature and creative writing.
Aimee Barrios
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 204
Phone: 985/549-5902
Email:aimee.barrios@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: British Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature, rhetoric and composition.
Jack Bedell
Title: Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Creative Writing
Location: DVIC 341
Phone: 985/549-5756
Email:jbedell@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern and contemporary literature and creative writing.
Michelle Bellavia
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 238
Phone: 985/549-2417
Email:mbellavia@selu.edu
Mackie Blanton
Title: Lecturer
Location: DVIC 351
Phone: 985/549-5769
Email:mackie.blanton@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Critical theory linguistics and literary analysis, sacriture, scientific and technical
discourse and editing, memoirs of less commonly known Mediterranean & African writers,
sociolinguistics.
Reine Bouton
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 336
Phone: 985/549-3767
Email:rbouton@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern American and British literature, travel writing, Southern literature, composition and rhetoric, Eudora Welty.
Francis Broussard
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 213
Phone: 985/549-3975
Email:fbroussard@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: American literature, Native American literature
Michelle Brown
Title: Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English Education
Location: DVIC 361
Phone: 985/549-3383
Email: michelle.brown-4@selu.edu
Suzzanne (Beth) Calloway
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 232
Phone: 985/549-2414
Email:scalloway@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and rhetoric, early American literature.
Andree Cosby
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 354
Phone: 985/549-2419
Email:acosby@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition and creative writing.
C. Denelle Cowart
Title: Assistant Professor
Location: DVIC 350
Phone: 985/549-2044
Email:ccowart@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Irish and modern British literature
Sherri Craig
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 337
Phone: 985/549-5787
Email:Sherri.Craig@selu.edu
Paul Crawford
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 235
Phone: 985/549-5779
Email:pcrawford@selu.edu
Ramona Cutrer
Title: Lecturer
Email:rcutrer@selu.edu
George Dorrill
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 362
Phone: 985/549-5757
Email:gdorrill@selu.edu
Nicole DosRamos-Schulter
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 363
Phone: 985/549-5762
Email:ndosramos@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and American literature.
Megan Porciau Eddy
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 338
Phone: 985/549-5786
Email:megan.eddy@selu.edu
Joan Faust
Title: Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
Location: DVIC 392
Phone: 985/549-5477
Email:jfaust@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Seventeenth-century dramatic and non-dramatic literature and the epic in literature.
Thomas Fick
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 344
Phone: 985/549-2104
Email:tfick@selu.edu
Areas of expertise: American literature, literature of race, women's literature
Joel Fredell
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 239
Phone: 985/549-2113
Email:jfredell@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Middle English, manuscript studies, Arthurian studies, digital humanities, and history of the book.
Timothy Gautreaux
Title: Professor Emeritus/Writer-in-Residence
Location: DVIC 335
Phone: 985/549-5788
Email:tgautreaux@selu.edu
Area of Expertise: Creative writing.
Chris Genre
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 366
Phone: 985/549-3122
Email:christoph.genre@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition, science fiction literature
H. Norman German
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 342
Phone: 985/549-5783
Email:ngerman@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Etymology, African-American literature, and twentieth-century American literature.
George Gibson
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 215
Phone: 985/549-3211
Email:george.gibson@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: British and Irish Modernism, Celtic mythology, James Joyce.
Eva Gold
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 365
Phone: 985/549-5768
Email:egold@selu.edu
David Hanson
Title: Professor and Department Head
Location: DVIC 221
Phone: 985/549-2100
Email:dhanson@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth century British literature and nonfictional prose, literature and the visual arts, digital humanities, textual scholarship, and Ruskin studies.
Chance Harvey
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 229
Phone: 985/549-2074
Email:chance.harvey@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth-Century British and American literature, Modern American literature, Southern literature, Lyle Saxon.
Rebecca Hite
Title: Instructor and Director of General Studies
Location: DVIC 352
Phone: 985/549-5025
Email:rhite@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: English literature and composition.
Amanda Hoover
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 209
Phone: 985/549-5136
Email:aphoover@selu.edu
Clara Houston
Title: Lecturer
Email:clara.houston@selu.edu
Martin Kearney
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 356
Phone: 985/549-5766
Email:mkearney@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern British and Irish literature, the British novel, and folklore.
Jason Landrum
Title:Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Southeastern Writing Center
Location: DVIC 358
Phone: 985/549-5764
Email:Jason.Landrum@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Film studies, critical theory, and American literature.
Dianna Laurent
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 234
Phone: 985/549-5755
Email:dlaurent@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Writing to communicate, internet research methodology. incorporation of language arts into high school and middle school science and math classes, grant writing, and editing.
Elisabetta LeJeune
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 357
Phone: 985/549-5765
Email:Elisabetta.Lejeune@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition, Italian language.
Richard Louth
Title: Professor and Director of Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project
Location: DVIC 332
Phone: 985/549-2102
Email:rlouth@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Writing and the teaching of writing, composition and rhetoric, technical writing, creative writing, living writers, Southern Literature: Louisiana literature, Southern short story, William Faulkner.
Sean Alan Marsh
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 207
Phone: 985/549-2870
Email:smarsh@selu.edu
Bev Marshall
Title: Writer-in-Residence
Location: DVIC 340
Phone: 985/549-5784
Email:bmarshall@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Creative writing (fiction).
Christine Mitchell
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 339
Phone: 985/549-5785
Email:cmitchell@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Professional writing, rhetoric, composition, and ESL.
Kenneth Mitchell
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 355
Phone: 985/549-5767
Email:Kenneth.Mitchell@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Professional writing, British romantic poetry, and composition.
Mary Mocsary
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 368
Phone: 985/549-3207
Email:mmocsary@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Teaching composition and the relationship of grammar to writing and literature; the vampire in history, literature, film, and pop culture.
Lisa Moody
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 346
Phone: 985/549-3106
Email:Lisa.Moody@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth-century American and British literature.
Rebecca Murry
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 345
Phone: 985/549-5781
Email:rebecca.murry@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: British literature, Harry Potter.
Heather O'Connell
Title: Instructor and Coordinator of English Early Start Program
Location: DVIC 364
Phone: 985/549-5328
Email:hoconnell@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and rhetoric.
Alison Pelegrin
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 230
Phone: 985/549-2358
Email:apelegrin@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and rhetoric, American literature, and creative writing (poetry).
Birgitta Ramsey
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 353
Phone: 985/549-2114
Email:bramsey@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition.
Ziba Rashidian
Title: Associate Professor and Coordinator of English Graduate Studies
Location: DVIC 330
Phone: 985/549-5780
Email:ziba@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Animal studies, comparative literature, critical theory, globalization, modernism.
David Rodriguez
Title: Instructor
Location: SEH 211
Phone: 985/549-2271
Email:david.rodriguez@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature, short stories, and creative writing.
Leigh Rourks
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 348
Phone: 985/549-5778
Email:leigh.rourks@selu.edu
Paul Sawyer
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Professional Writing
Location: DVIC 233
Phone: 985/549-5759
Email:psawyer@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Technical writing, online instruction, document design, visible rhetoric, and composition.
Annabel Servat
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 333
Phone: 985/549-5789
Email:Annabel.Servat@selu.edu
Jayetta Slawson
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 343
Phone: 985/549-5024
Email:Jayetta.Slawson@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Performance studies, including human events in social and cultural settings; and performativity in writing, speech, expressive actions, gender, and identity constructions.
Sarah Spence
Title: Lecturer and Retired Associate Professor
Email:sspence@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Eighteenth-century women's British literature.
Natasha Whitton
Title: Instructor and Interim Coordinator of Freshman English
Location: DVIC 231
Phone: 985/549-2413
Email:nwhitton@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; nineteenth- and twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history; Asian literature; comparative literature; composition; cross-cultural studies; history of science; interdisciplinary studies; women’s studies; Toni Morrison; Bible as literature.
Jeffrey Wiemelt
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Language & Literacy
Location: DVIC 393
Phone: 985/549-5761
Email:jwiemelt@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition studies, linguistics, disourse analysis, stylistics, Tolkein.
Anne Wilbourne
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 349
Phone: 985/549-5770
Email:awilbourne@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Freshman Composition and world literature (classical and European).
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Dustin Cotton
Title: Administrative Assistant I
Location: DVIC 222
Phone: 985/549-2048
Email:dustin.cotton@selu.edu
Jeanne Silk
Title: Administrative Assistant III
Location: DVIC 222
Phone: 985/549-3450
Email:jeanne.silk@selu.edu