English Department Faculty and Staff Profiles
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Staff _______________________________________________________________________
Amy Acosta
Location: DVIC 360
Phone: 985/549-5760
Email: Amy.Acosta@selu.edu
Danielle Alfandre
Email: danielle.alfandre@selu.edu
David Armond
Title: Instructor
Location: CNH 107
Phone: 985/549-2499
Email: david.armond@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature and creative writing.
Aimee Barrios
Title: Insturctor
Location: SEH 204
Email: aimee.barrios@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature, rhetoric and writing.
Jack Bedell
Title: Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Creative Writing
Location: DVIC 341
Phone: 985/549-5756
Email: jbedell@selu.edu
Education: B.A. and M.A. degrees from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana; an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville; and a Ph. D. from the University of Louisiana—Lafayette.
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
Education: B.A. and M.A., University of New Orleans, Ph.D. University of Southern Mississippi.
Areas of Expertise: Modern American and British literature, travel writing, southern literature, composition and rhetoric, Eudora Welty.
Francis Broussard
Title: Instructor
Location: CNH 109
Phone: 985/549-3975
Email: fbroussard@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: American Literature, Native American Literature
Suzzanne (Beth) Calloway
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 232
Phone: 985/549-2414
Email: scalloway@selu.edu
Education: PhD., University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Areas of Expertise: Composition and Rhetoric, Early American Literature.
Alysia Catanzaro
Title: Instructor
Email: alysia.catanzaro@selu.edu
Andree Cosby
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 354
Phone: 985/549-2100
Email: acosby@selu.edu
Education: B.A. from the University of New Orleans; M.A. from Southeastern Louisiana University.
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: r.cutrer@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
Education: B.A., Reed College MA, PhD, Indiana University.
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
Education: B.A. Nicholls State University; Ph.D. University of South Carolina.
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: CNH 105
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: NCMB 289C
Email: rhite@selu.edu
Education: B.A. from Southeastern Louisiana University; M.A. from Louisiana State University.
Areas of Expertise: English Literature and composition.
Amanda Hoover
Title: Instructor
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 Director of The 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
Education: Laurea in English and French Language and Literature from the University of Rome; M.A. from Southeastern Louisiana University; M.A.T. with English as a Second Language Endorsement from Tulane University.
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: 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: DVIC 230
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: Fiction Writing
Christine Mitchell
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 339
Phone: 985/549-5785
Email: cmitchell@selu.edu
Education: B.A. from California State University, Fullerton; M.A. from the University of California, Riverside; Ph.D. from Southwestern Louisiana University.
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
Education: B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.
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
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
Location: DVIC 364
Phone: 985/549-5328
Email: hoconnell@selu.edu
Education: B. A. and M. A. in English from Southeastern Louisiana University.
Alison Pelegrin
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 334
Phone: 985/549-2358
Email: apelegrin@selu.edu
Education: M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.
Mary Sue Ply
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 233
Phone: 985/549-3383
Email: mply@selu.edu
Education: B.A. University of Texas--Pan American (formerly Pan American University); M.A. Stephen F. Austin State University; Ph.D. Florida State University.
Areas of Expertise: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British, Vietnam War Literature and Film, Classical and Modern European Literature in Translation.
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
Education: BA Humbolt State University; MFA American University; PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo
Areas of Expertise: Animal Studies, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Globalization, Modernism.
David Rodriguez
Title: Instructor
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 361
Phone: 985/549-5759
Email: psawyer@selu.edu
Education: B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia; M.A. from Northwestern State University; Ph.D. from Illinois State University.
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
Education: B.A. French/English and M.A. English from Southeastern Louisiana University; M.A.E.T. from University of New Orleans; Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.
Areas of Expertise: Eighteenth-century women's British literature.
Wayne Wells
Title: Instructor
Location: CNH 111
Phone: 985/549-3082
Email: wwells@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: Freshman Composition
Natasha Whitton
Title: Instructor and Interim Director of Freshman English
Location: DVIC 231
Phone: 985/549-2413
Email: nwhitton@selu.edu
Areas of Expertise: American Literature, 19th and 20th Century; American Intellectual and Cultural History, 19th and 20th Century; Asian Literature; Comparative Literature; Composition; Cross-Cultural Studies; History of Science; Interdisciplinary Studies; Women’s Studies; Toni Morrison.
Jeffrey Wiemelt
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Language & Literacy
Location: DVIC 393
Phone: 985/549-5761
Email: jwiemelt@selu.edu
Education: B.A. in English from Northwestern University; M.A. in English (Applied Linguistics) and Education (Curriculum & Instruction) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. in English (Composition Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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: 985/549-2100
Margie Riley
Title: Administrative Assistant III
Location: DVIC 222
Phone: 985/549-2100