Faculty and Staff Profiles

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  Amy Acosta

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 360

  Phone:  985/549-5760

  Email:  Amy.Acosta@selu.edu

 

 

Danielle Alfandre  Danielle Alfandre

  Title:  Instructor

  Email:  danielle.alfandre@selu.edu

 

 

 

 

David Armand  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.

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Aimee Barrios  Aimee Barrios

  Title:  Insturctor

  Location:  SEH 204

  Email:  aimee.barrios@selu.edu

 

 

Areas of Expertise:  Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature, rhetoric and writing.  

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Dr. Jack Bedell  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  Michelle Bellavia

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 238

  Phone:  985/549-2417

  Email:  mbellavia@selu.edu

 

 

Mackie Blanton  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.

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Dr. Reine Bouton  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  Francis Broussard

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  CNH 109

  Phone:  985/549-3975

  Email:  fbroussard@selu.edu

 

Areas of Expertise: American Literature, Native American Literature

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   Dr. Beth Calloway  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  Alysia Catanzaro

  Title:  Instructor

  Email:  alysia.catanzaro@selu.edu

 

 


 

Andree Cosby  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.
 

Dr. C. Denelle Cowart  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  Sherri Craig

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 337

  Phone:  985/549-5787

  Email:  Sherri.Craig@selu.edu

 

 

Paul Crawford  Paul Crawford

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 235

  Phone:  985/549-5779

  Email:  pcrawford@selu.edu

 

 

Ramona Cutrer  Ramona Cutrer

  Title:  Lecturer

  Email:  r.cutrer@selu.edu


  

 

    

Dr. George Dorrill  George Dorrill

  Title:  Associate Professor

  Location:  DVIC 362

  Phone:  985/549-5757

  Email:  gdorrill@selu.edu

 
 

Nicole Dos Ramos-Schulter  Nicole DosRamos-Schulter

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 363

  Phone:  985/549-5762

  Email:  ndosramos@selu.edu
 

Areas of Expertise: Composition and American Literature.

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Megan Eddy  Megan Porciau Eddy

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 338

  Phone:  985/549-5786

  Email:  megan.eddy@selu.edu

 

    

Dr. Joan D. Faust  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.

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Dr. Thomas Fick  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

 

Dr. Joel Fredell  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.

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  Dr. Tim GeautreauxTimothy 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  Chris Genre

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 366

  Phone:  985/549-3122

  Email:  christoph.genre@selu.edu

 

Areas of Expertise: Composition, Science Fiction Literature 

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Dr. H. Norman German  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.

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Dr. George Gibson  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.

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Dr. Eva gold  Eva Gold

  Title:  Professor

  Location:  DVIC 365

  Phone:  985/549-5768

  Email:  egold@selu.edu
 

   

Dr. David Hanson  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.

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Chance Harvey  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.

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Rebecca Hite  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  Amanda Hoover

  Title:  Instructor

  Email:  aphoover@selu.edu

 

 

 

 

Clara Houston  Clara Houston

  Title:  Lecturer

  Email:  clara.houston@selu.edu

 

 

 

    

Dr. Martin Kearney  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.

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Dr. Jason Landrum  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.

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Dr. Dianna Laurent  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.

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Elisabetta LeJeune  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.
 

Dr. Richard Louth  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.

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S. Alan Marsh  Sean Alan Marsh

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 230

  Phone:  985/549-2870

  Email:  smarsh@selu.edu

 

 

Bev Marshall  Bev Marshall

  Title:  Writer-in-Residence

  Location:  DVIC 340

  Phone:  985/549-5784

  Email:  bmarshall@selu.edu

 

Areas of Expertise: Fiction Writing  

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Dr. Christine Mitchell  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.

 

Dr. Kenneth Mitchell  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  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.

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Dr. Lisa Moody  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.

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Rebecca Murry  Rebecca Murry

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 345

  Phone:  985/549-5781

  Email:  rebecca.murry@selu.edu
 

Areas of Expertise: British Literature, Harry Potter.

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Heather O'Connell  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  Alison Pelegrin

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 334

  Phone:  985/549-2358

  Email:  apelegrin@selu.edu

 

Education: M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Mary Sue Ply  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  Birgitta Ramsey

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 353

  Phone:  985/549-2114

  Email:  bramsey@selu.edu

 

Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition.

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Dr. Ziba Rashidian  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  David Rodriguez

  Title:  Instructor

  Email:  david.rodriguez@selu.edu

 

 

  

Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature, short stories, and creative writing.

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Leigh Rourks  Leigh Rourks

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 348

  Phone:  985/549-5778

  Email:  leigh.rourks@selu.edu

 

   

Dr. Paul Sawyer  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  Annabel Servat

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  DVIC 333

  Phone:  985/549-5789

  Email:  Annabel.Servat@selu.edu

 
 

Dr. Jayetta Slawson  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.

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Dr. Sarah Spence  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  Wayne Wells

  Title:  Instructor

  Location:  CNH 111

  Phone:  985/549-3082

  Email:  wwells@selu.edu


Areas of Expertise: Freshman Composition

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Dr. Natasha Whitton  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.

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Dr. Jeffrey Wiemelt  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  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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  DDustin Cottonustin Cotton

  Title:  Administrative Assistant I

  Location:  DVIC 222

  Phone:  985/549-2100

 

 

 

Margie Riley  Margie Riley

  Title:  Administrative Assistant III

  Location:  DVIC 222

  Phone:  985/549-2100


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