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Aaron Oforlea

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research

Alex Kuo

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus in
  • Research
Alex Kuo is Professor Emeritus in English. He taught creative writing (fiction, poetry, non-fiction), Native American literature and western American culture.

Alexander Hammond

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Research
Alexander Hammond (Ph.D. Northwestern University) is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of English. Before retirement, he taught American literature and culture; served as Vice Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Editor/Co-Editor of Poe Studies; and published research on the American cultural responses to nuclear war and on Edgar Allan Poe's literary career, especially his early fiction in relation to the literary marketplace. Currently a consulting editor on Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, he is doing research for a gathering of his essays and papers on Poe's "Tales of the Folio Club" and working a guide to WSU's Palmer C. Holt Poe Source Collection in MASC.

Ashley S. Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research
Ashley S. Boyd is an associate professor of English/English Education at Washington State University where she teaches graduate courses on critical and cultural theory and undergraduate courses on English Methods and Young Adult Literature. A former secondary English language arts teacher, Ashley's current scholarship examines practicing teachers' social justice pedagogies and their critical content knowledge and explores how young adult literature is an avenue for cultivating students' critical literacies. Drawing on frameworks from cultural studies, critical theory, and social justice education, Dr. Boyd addresses educational inequities and opportunities for social action through qualitative research and analysis. She is experienced in studies in secondary schools with students and practicing teachers and in data collection involving semi-structured interviews, ethnographic observations, surveys, and focus groups/discourse communities. Her methodologies span case study development, thematic coding, document and artifact analysis, and critical discourse analysis. Crucial to her work are collaborative endeavors in research and publication that include undergraduate and graduate students, community stakeholders, and practitioners. Her book with Teachers College Press, Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action, analyzes case studies of practicing English teachers to identify specific pedagogic approaches for advancing equity both inside and outside of the classroom. She has published in the Journal of Teacher Education; English Education; Teacher Education Quarterly; Educational Studies; the International Journal of Critical Pedagogy; and the ALAN Review.

Avery Hall


Barbara Monroe

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Research
Barbara Monroe Associate Professor Emeritus Research Interests: Indigenous Rhetoric of the Plateau Indians
, Cultural and Class Differences in Rhetoric, Learning Styles, Interactive Patterns
, Critical Literacies and Pedagogies, online and off bjmonroe@wsu.edu

Bill Condon

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus / Research
  • Professor of English at Washington State University
Biography: Bill Condon is currently Professor of English at Washington State University. He has been a Writing Program Administrator at a wide variety of institutions-the University of Oklahoma, Arkansas Tech University, the University of Michigan, and Washington State University. He is the English Leader of a state-wide College Readiness Project, organized by Washington's Higher Education Coordinating Board and Co-PI on a Spencer Foundation grant to trace the effects of faculty development into student learning outcomes. He was Principal Investigator of a three-year FIPSE grant devoted to faculty development and statewide accountability assessment around teaching critical thinking. Co-author of Writing the Information Superhighway and Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Theory, Practice, and Research, and Consulting Editor of Assessing Writing: An International Journal, Bill has also published articles in the areas of writing assessment ("Teaching and Assessing Writing: Common Ground." Composition Studies/Freshman English News 26 (Fall 1998): 83-96.), program evaluation ("Accommodating Complexity: WAC Program Evaluation in the Age of Accountability," in WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for/of Continuing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, Eds. Susan McLeod, Chris Thaiss, and Eric Miraglia. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.), and computers and writing ("Why Less Is Not More: What We Lose by Letting a Computer Score Writing Samples." In Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences. Eds Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard Haswell. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2006.).

Bryan Fry

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Assistant Professor / Research

Buddy Levy

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Interests
Biography: Buddy Levy is in his 33 rd year of teaching writing at WSU (but who's counting?) Levy is the author of eight books and his work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Kirkus Book Reviews, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, The Daily Beast, The A.V. Club and Library Journal. He was the co-star, for 25 episodes, on HISTORY Channel's hit docuseries Brad Meltzer's DECODED, which aired to an average of 1.7 million weekly viewers and is still airing as reruns today. In 2018 he was an on-camera expert on the 4-part TV Series THE FRONTIERSMEN: The Men Who Built America (HISTORY, Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio). Levy was a contributing writer on the 2018 documentary film The Weight of Water. The film was based in part on the book No Barriers, which Levy co-authored with blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer. The film premiered at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize and the Best Mountain Film Award. It has since won The People's Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2018 Denver Film Festival; Best Sport and Adventure Film at the 2018 Mendi Bilbao Film Festival; and Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Waimea Ocean Film Festival. Levy's most recent book is the forthcoming Empire of Ice & Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (St. Martin's Press, December 2022). His 2019 book Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (St. Martins Press), won the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award and the 2020 Banff Mountain Book Award in Adventure History. Levy is also the author of the National Bestseller No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon (with Erik Weihenmayer; Thomas Dunne Books, 2017); GERONIMO: The Life and Times of An American Warrior (co-authored with Coach Mike Leach, Simon & Schuster, 2014) and River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Bantam Dell, 2011). His other books include the critically acclaimed and Amazon #1 Bestseller Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Bantam Dell, 2008), which he is currently developing for a television series; American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Putnam, 2005, Berkley Books, 2006); and Echoes On Rimrock: In Pursuit of the Chukar Partridge (Pruett, 1998). His books have been published in nine languages. As a freelance journalist he has covered adventure sports and lifestyle/travel subjects around the world, including working with TV impresario Mark Burnett on numerous Eco-Challenges, and other adventure expeditions in Argentina, Borneo, Europe, Greenland, Morocco, and the Philippines. His interests are wide-ranging: discovery and adventure, the mountain men, arctic exploration travail, clashes of empires and civilizations, conspiracy theories, and riveting human stories of survival. He teaches writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and technical/professional writing.

Cameron McGill

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Co - Director
  • Research Interests

Camille Roman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research

Carol Siegel

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research
Carol Siegel Professor Emeritus Research Interests: Representation of Sexuality in Literature and Film
, Contemporary Youth Cultures
, Changes in the Discourses of Feminism
, Theories of Foucault, Deleuze & Other Theorists of Sexuality & Gender
, Asian American Literature WSU Vancouver siegel@wsu.edu

Daniela Molnar

Job Titles:
  • Artist

David Martin

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Debbie (DJ) Lee

Job Titles:
  • Education
  • Regents Professor

Diane Gillespie

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Donna L. Potts

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair / Research
Biography: Donna L. Potts (PhD, University of Missouri) was a professor at Kansas State University (taught there 22 years) before coming to Washington in 2013. She was a Fulbright senior lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway from 1997 to 1998, and later returned there for a fellowship in the Irish Studies Centre, where she did research on Irish Literature and Environmentalism.

Donna M. Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
  • Research
Biography: Donna Campbell (Ph. D., University of Kansas, 1990) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Before coming to WSU in 2004, she was an associate professor of English at Gonzaga University, where she won the university's Outstanding Scholarship award in 2000. Her book Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1880-1915 (Ohio U P, 1997), won the Northeast Modern Language Association book prize in 1995, and her publications, several of which have been reprinted, include articles in Studies in American Fiction, American Literary Realism, Studies in American Naturalism, Legacy, Resources for American Literary Study, Great Plains Quarterly, and the Norton Critical Edition of McTeague. Chair of the Regional Chapters Committee of the American Studies Association from 2004-2008, she has served as an officer in a number of scholarly societies, including the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, and maintains several web sites. From 2000-2008 she wrote the annual "Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s" chapter for American Literary Scholarship (Duke University Press). From 2007-2010 she was the Lewis and Stella Buchanan Distinguished Associate Professor of English, and from September 2010-June 2011 she served as the editor of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.

Edward R. Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Washington State University

Elijah Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor / Research

Elizabeth Siler

Job Titles:
  • Advisor for the ESL
  • ESL Specialist
  • Research Interests
  • Scholarly Associate Professor / Research
Biography: Liz Siler is the ESL Specialist in the English Department. As such, she teaches and coordinates the ESL classes offered by the department. She also trains graduate students interested in learning to teach ESL students. As a member of the Graduate Language Proficiency Subcommittee, Liz Siler teaches Spanish classes and provides French language assistance for graduate students who are preparing to take the graduate foreign language proficiency exam. She serves on a number of master's and doctoral committees. Liz Siler serves as the language advisor for the ESL graduate students in all departments.

George Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair
  • Professor Emeritus
Kennedy has his Ph.D. from New York University in English and American Literature. He has taught at Washington State University since 1979 in technical and professional communication, composition/rhetoric, and general literature and composition for the Honors College. In recent years, he has taught for WSU Online and has served as the English Department's Vice Chair and Scheduler.

Grant Maierhofer

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Research
Research Interests: English composition, creative writing, technical and professional writing

Jacob Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jamie Flathers

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jeff Jones

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Research

Joan Burbick

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus / Research

Johanna Phelps

Job Titles:
  • Director of Technical and Professional Writing
Research Interests: Human subjects research in Writing Studies; technical and professional communication manifested in public policy implementation, institutional infrastructures, and program design and assessment

Jon Hegglund

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Graduate Studies / Research
Research Interests: modernist and contemporary narrative, cognitive and rhetorical narratology, materialist ecocriticism, posthumanism, Anthropocene narrative, new media studies

Julian Ankney

Job Titles:
  • Department of English People
  • Lecturer and Coordinator of Native American Programs

Julie Staggers

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kandy S. Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Full Professor and Director of Writing Programs / Research

Kate Watts

Job Titles:
  • Director of Composition
  • Professor

Kirk McAuley - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Chairman
  • Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Transoceanic Studies, British and American Literature and Culture to 1900, Literature and Ecology (including Plant, Animal, and Anthropocene Studies, Ecofeminism and the Eco-Gothic), Colonialism and Empire Studies, Slavery and Abolition, Print Culture, and Gender Studies. Biography Kirk McAuley received his Ph.D. in British and American literature from the State University of New York, University at Buffalo in 2006. Since then he has taught in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma, and the Division of Humanities at New College (the honors college) of Florida. He joined the English Department at WSU in August 2008. McAuley is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK (2015 - 2016), and he was a Research Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville, VA (May 2011). McAuley received an ASECS-Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies Summer Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame in 2018, and he served as the Lawrence Ruff Visiting Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 2019) at the University of Dayton.

Laura Kuhlman

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Lauren W. Westerfield

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Assistant Professor / Director of Undergraduate Studies
Biography Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a hybrid essay/autofiction collection forthcoming in 2025 from Unsolicited Press. Her essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Spring s, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches in the English department at Washington State University, where she is the Editing and Publishing Certificate coordinator and serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. She is also the nonfiction editor at Split/Lip Press. Lauren is the recipient of a 2022 Fellowship in Literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in support of her current book project, a memoir in essays exploring epigenetics, illness, artmaking, addiction, autonomy, sexuality, power, and shame.

Leeann Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Associate Professor
Biography: Leeann Hunter (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2010) is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature and culture, gender studies, professional communication, and digital technology and culture. In the classroom, she emphasizes collaborative learning and community-building by introducing students to such themes as "collaborative consumption" and "invention mobs," where students both study and practice different forms of collaboration and creativity. Her teaching interests include business in literature, gender and work, the rhetoric of advertising, collaborative consumption and production, and digital cultures.

Leonard Orr

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research

Linda Russo

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing / Research
Biography: Linda Russo teaches courses in creative writing and literature, directs the land-based web project EcoArtsOnThePalouse.com, and is currently the Director of Creative Writing. She received her Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and her M.F.A. from Emerson College, and is the recipient of fellowships from Centrum, the Ragdale Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her creative and critical writing centers around understanding relationships between humans and the more-than-human world, which takes the shape through ecopoetics, geopoetics and site-based creative works.

Lynn Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus
  • Research

M.A. Miller

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Health
Research Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century global anglophone literature, environmental humanities, queer and trans ecologies, studies of empire and settler colonialism, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies of diaspora and the Global South (including India, Iran, Jordan, and South Africa), Queer/Trans and Feminist Theory, gender and sexuality studies, film studies

Marian Sciachitano

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Associate Professor, Women 's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Meagan Lobnitz

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Melissa Nicolas

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Interests

Michael Delahoyde

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor
  • Employee of WSU
  • Professor
Biography: Dr. Delahoyde has been a temporary employee of WSU since 1992. Earlier details are sketchy. He locates his birth in Poughkeepsie, NY on a cold July day after the war. He won a John Philip Sousa award for his fine bassoonism and did not attend the prom. Disturbingly unable to focus, he earned degrees in English, Music, and Education at the Vassar College for Wayward Women. Delahoyde hid out at the University of Michigan through the Reagan years, emerging with a license to practice English, a bucket of dreams, and a Depression-era song in his heart.

Michael Hanly

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research

Michael Mays

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Hanford History Project / Research

Michael Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Assistant Professor

Mike Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Mike Edwards
  • Research
Biography: Mike Edwards began his baccalaureate education at Carnegie Mellon before changing institutions and earning his BA in English from the University of Maryland at College Park. He served for four years as an enlisted soldier and noncommissioned officer in the United States Army's 24th Infantry Division and 3rd Infantry Division. He has an MFA in English with a graduate minor in composition from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he deployed to Afghanistan to help rebuild that country's institutions of higher education in 2011, before coming to Washington State University in 2012. He likes cats.

Nancy Bell

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research
Biography: A Portland native, Nancy Bell received her BA in linguistics at the University of Oregon and her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught English as a Second Language for much of her career, including two years with the Peace Corps in Cameroon. At WSU, she coordinates and teaches in the Linguistics track, trains graduate instructors in teaching academic literacies to second language users of English, and teaches courses that support our international and multilingual students.

Nishant Shahani

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research

Pamela Thoma

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Women 's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Research

Patricia Cady

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor / Research

Patricia Ericsson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus / Research

Patricia Wilde

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research

Paul Brians

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Pavithra Narayanan

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research

Peter Chilson

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research
Biography: Peter Chilson (MFA Pennsylvania State University, 1994) teaches writing and literature. He is the author of the travelogue Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa (University of Georgia Press, 1999), which won the Associated Writing Programs Award in nonfiction, and the short fiction collection Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories (Mariner Books, 2007), winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize and the Maria Thomas Fiction Prize. Chilson went to West Africa in 1985 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, near the border with Nigeria. A longtime visitor to Mali as a travel writer and journalist, he went back in 2012 for the Foreign Policy-Pulitzer Center Borderlands project. He was one of first western journalists to see firsthand the effects of civil war and the new breakaway jihadist state. Chilson's e-book, We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali (Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting/Foreign Policy), came out in January 2013.

Rachel Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Instructor
  • Teaching Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Composition / Research
Biography: Rachel Sanchez graduated from WSU in 2009 with her MA in English Literature. Since 2009, she has worked as a contingent faculty member for the English department, teaching both composition and technical and professional writing. Her teaching and research interests include success and retention of underrepresented students as well as identity construction in student writing. She has presented with colleagues and undergraduate students on both research interests over the years. Recently, she co-edited a collection of essays from non-tenure track composition colleagues across the country, titled Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in Writing Studies, which was published in 2021.

Rebecca Goodrich

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Assistant Professor / Research

Richard Law

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research

Robert Eddy

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research
Biography: Robert Eddy's PhD is from the University of Durham, England, where he studied the rhetorics of politics, science, and religion. He has directed writing programs in China and Egypt, and he was the department's Director of Composition, from 2002 through 2010. He won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001, worth $10,000. English Graduate Organization voted his rhetorics of racism course the Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award, Spring, 2021. English Graduate Students also voted him Most Supportive Faculty Member twice.

Roger Whitson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, WSU - Pullman Roger Whitson
  • Research
Biography: Roger Whitson (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nineteenth century literature and digital technology and culture. Before coming to WSU in 2012, Roger served as a Marion L. Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech and as an Andrew Mellon Fellow at Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS). His book William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media (coauthored with Jason Whittaker, Routledge 2012) examines Blake's work as a social and participatory network and applies computational methodologies to understanding Blake's persistence on social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia. His publications include articles on Blake, steampunk, digital humanities, graduate politics, and digital pedagogy published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN), The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.

S.M. Tomie Gowdy-Burke

Job Titles:
  • Department of English S.M. Tomie Gowdy - Burke
  • Teaching Associate Professor / Research
Biography: S.M. Tomie Gowdy-Burke was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, where she has lived for most of her life. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at Washington State University in 2002 before earning an MA with the English graduate program at the University of Idaho in 2006. Her MA thesis concentrated on composition and applied linguistics and pursued her interests in distributive justice theory and how learning disabilities undermine the writing process. Tomie also worked on a Ph.D. in Adult Education at the UI was ABD when she had to leave the program; her efforts, however earned her a Specialist in Education in 2012. Tomie enjoys teaching students from diverse cultures, and in 2005, after two-years of teaching first-year college composition at the UI English Department, she accepted a position with the University of Idaho's American Language and Culture Program. In 2010, she accepted a teaching position at Washington State University where she has been teaching first year composition for native and non-native students, as well as argument, rhetoric, and technical writing courses. In 2003, Tomie presented "Images Can Be Deceiving: or a Postcolonial Interrogation of the ‘Other' in Spike Lee's Bamboozled" at the Fourth International Conference of Studies in Cultural Meaning in Chantilly, France. More recently, she presented "Redefining Literacies: Best Pedagogical Practices for Students with Learning Disorders" with a colleague at the Two-Year Composition Association and Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Conference in Vancouver, Washington in October of 2014. At the February 2015 Palouse Language and Culture Symposium in Moscow, Idaho, she joined a colleague to present "Cross-Cultural and Re-Appropriated: Using Fairy and Folk-Tales in the (University) ELL Classroom." Tomie's research focuses on the role of the educator in the learning experiences of students with learning and cultural differences.

Stella G. Buchanan

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Susan Ross

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research
  • Research Interests
Susan Ross is committed to the advancement of social justice and peace and believes that the careful telling of our lives provides fertile ground for compassion, connection, and cooperation. Her profoundly interdisciplinary work draws upon graduate training in journalism, international mass media, law, public policy, and economics, as well as deep and continuing reading in cultural studies, social movements, and peace studies. A Fulbright Scholar and the 2008-‘09 University of Calgary Research Fellow in Peace Studies, she has been a Visiting fellow in Greece, Israel and North Cyprus. Her teaching, research, and writing are also informed by life experience as a vocational rehabilitation instructor, a reporter, and a small-town newspaper owner.

T.V. Reed

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Research

Todd Butler

Job Titles:
  • Dean and Professor / Research
Todd Butler Dean and Professor Research Interests: 
17th Century Literature
, Law and Literature
, Political Epistemology
, Marriage of Knowledge and Power in the Renaissance WSU-Pullman butlert@wsu.edu

Vanessa Cozza

Job Titles:
  • Scholarly Associate Professor / Research

Victor Villanueva

Job Titles:
  • Regents Professor
  • Regents Professor, Retired
Biography: Victor Villanueva is Regents Professor and Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Washington State University. He received his PhD in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Washington in 1986. Since then, he has worked at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Northern Arizona University, and Auburn University, as well as Washington State University. He came to Washington State University in 1995, where he has served as Director of Composition, English Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of American Studies. He is the current Director of the Writing Program and is the editor of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series. He served as the head of the national organization for Rhetoric and Writing Studies, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, from 1997 to 2000. Over the years, he has received a number of honors, including the Richard A. Meade Award for Distinguished Research in English Education (1994), the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship in English (1995), Rhetorician of the Year (1999), the Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award (2008), and the disciplines' (rhetoric and composition studies) Exemplar Award (2009). Within Washington State University, he has received the Martin Luther King Distinguished Service Award (1999) and the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts (2005). Graduate Students declared him Mentor of the Year in American Studies (2009), Most Supportive Faculty Member (1998 and 2010), and declared his graduate seminar the year's best on three occasions (2000, 2006, and 2010). All of his efforts center on the connections between language and relations of power, especially racism. Research Interests: Modern fiction and drama especially by women writers, relationships between verbal and visual art forms, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, biography, archival work, Hogarth Press publications.

Wendy Dasler Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus / Research

Wendy Olson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Research

William Blake

William Blake, Text and Image: In this course, we explore the ways in which Blake's books challenge us as readers and political thinkers. We read Blake's works, look at his engraving and etching processes, and make our own prints in a simulation of his technique in the Fine Arts Studio.

William Hamlin

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
  • Research

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