2019 SACSCOC Reaffirmation

Faculty Credentials

Ira R Adams (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3373.01
English Grammar (U)
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ENGL 3373.02
English Grammar (U)
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ENGL 5375.01
Restoration-18Th Cent Brit Lit(G)
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BA Spanish
Washington & Lee University (1967)

MA English
University of Virginia - SFS (1969)

PHD English
University of Virginia - SFS (1972)

medieval literature (24+ hrs)

historical linguistics (6 hrs)

  • 1."Langland and the Liturgy Revisited," Studies in Philology 73 (1976): 266-84. 2."The Nature of Need in Piers Plowman XX," Traditio 34 (1978): 273-301. 3."Piers's Pardon and Langland's Semi-Pelagianism," Traditio 39 (1983): 367-418. 4."The Concept of Debt in The Shipman's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 85-102. 5."The Reliability of the Rubrics of Piers Plowman B," Medium Aevum 54 (1985): 208-32. 6."Some Versions of Apocalypse: Popular and Learned Eschatology in Piers Plowman," in The Popular Literature of Medieval England, ed. Thomas J. Heffernan (Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 1985), 194-236. 7."The Egregious Feasts of the Chester and Towneley Shepherds," Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 96 -107. 8."Langland's Theology," in A Companion to Piers Plowman, ed. John Alford (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988), 87-114. 9."Mede and Mercede: the Evolution of the Economics of Grace in the Piers Plowman B and C Versions," in Medieval English Studies Presented to George Kane, ed. E. D. Kennedy et a1. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1988), 217 -32. 10."Editing and the Limitations of the Durior Lectio," Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 (1991): 7 -15. 11."Editing Piers Plowman B: The Imperative of an Intermittently Critical Edition," Studies in Bibliography 45 (1992): 31-68. 12."Langland's Ordinatio: the Visio and the Vita Once More," Yearbook of Langland Studies 8(1994): 51-84.
  • Langland and the Rokele Family: the Gentry Background to Piers Plowman. Dublin: Four Courts P, 2013

Nadezhda Kareva Alford (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.04
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.12
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.35
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.65
Composition I (U)
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BA Language Teaching
Uralsk Teacher's Training Univ (1994)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

 
N/A

Jonathan David Antonini (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.14
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.21
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.24
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.28
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2012)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2016)

 
N/A

Nadia J Arensdorf (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.49
Composition I (U)
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BA Elementary Education
Univ of La Verne (1986)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (18+ Graduate Hours in English) (18 hrs)

  • Graduate teaching assistants have at least 18 graduate hours in the teaching discipline. Each is directly supervised by qualified faculty and receive in service training and periodic evaluation.

Kimberly K Bell (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 5389.01
Hist Dvlpt Of English Language(G)
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HONR 4398.01
Honors Thesis I (U)
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HONR 4399.01
Honors Thesis II (U)
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BA English
The American College of Greece (1990)

MA English
Clark University (1995)

PHD English
Georgia State University (2002)

Medieval Literature and History (24+ hrs)

Old and Middle English Languages (24+ hrs)

Greek and Roman History (6 hrs)

Greek and Roman Literature (6 hrs)

  • CHSS Teaching Achievement in English Award, 2010-2011, 2006-2007, 2005-2006
  • SHSU Teaching Excellence Award, 2010 (finalist 2009, 2008)
  • Co-editor, two peer-reviewed collections of original essays: The Texts and Contexts of Oxford University, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative (Brill Academic Publishers, 2011 - Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
  • 20 presentations at national and international conferences in medieval studies.
  • Dean of the Honors College (2015-present). Associate Director of the Honors College (2008-2015)
  • Three peer-reviewed articles on Homeric and Virgilian epic
  • Six peer-reviewed book chapters and articles on medieval literary texts (Havelok the Dane, King Horn, Saints' Lives, Somer Soneday, Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas', and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain) and manuscripts (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108).
  • Languages: Latin, Demotic Greek, French, Old and Middle English
  • Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in English and History. Ph.D. exams in Medieval Literature and Greek and Roman history. Passed areas with high distinction.

Tracy E. Bilsing (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.08
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.34
Composition II (U)
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HONR 3331.02
Culture and Society (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (1983)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1984)

PHD English
Texas A&M University (1998)

British Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Selected publications:''Rosalba and All the Kirchner Tribe': Mary Butts' 'Speed the Plough' and the Regenerative Image of the Feminine' in Essays in the Arts and Sciences 34.1 (Summer 2005): 61-73.''To every man the war is himself': D. H. Lawrence, the Battle of the Sexes, and the Great War' in The CEA Critic (Summer 2005): 76-91.'The Process of Manufacture: Rudyard Kipling's Private Propaganda.' in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Volume 167, Sept. 2005. Reprinted from War, Literature, and the Arts. Ed. Donald Anderson. 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 76-98. Selected conference presentations: 'Looping Mrs. Bathurst: Kipling's Quest for the Feminine through the Modern' College English Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 27-29, 2008.'The Inverse of Passion: Elizabeth Bowen's War Stories.' Thirteenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature,Cortland, NY, October 2003.
  • Assistant Dean Elliott T. Bowers Honors College
  • "Mais vous savez, c'est un peu degoutant, ca: Katherine Mansfield, Food, and the Indiscretions of the Great War" in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies (Winter 2015): 50-59.

Brian D Blackburne (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.18
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 4330.01
Writing In The Professions (U)
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BA English
Texas A&M University (1996)

MA Technical Writing
Univ of North Texas (2000)

PHD Texts and Technology
Univ of Central Florida (2008)

Technical Communication (24+ hrs)

Rhetorical Theory/Analysis (24+ hrs)

Media Studies (24+ hrs)

Usability Studies (9 hrs)

  • Selected publications: Blackburne, B. D., and Nardone, C. F. (2017). "Beyond Grammar: Tracking Perceptions of Quality in Student E-mail." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. *** Blackburne, B. D. (2014). "Overcoming Workplace Writing Norms: Empowering Technical-Writing Students Through Stylistic Analysis." Programmatic Perspectives, 6(2), 81--112. *** Blackburne, B. D. (2010) This Used to be the Future: Revisiting Professors' Roles in the Classroom of the 21st Century. Proceedings of the 37th Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference, Boise State University, Boise ID. 30 September--2 October 2010. Ed. Elizabeth Pass. Harrisonburg, VA, 2010.
  • CHSS Outstanding Online Teacher, Department of English. 2012. *** University of Central Florida: College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Dissertation Award. 2008. *** University of North Texas: Passed Masters' Comprehensive Exam in Technical Writing 'With Distinction.' 2000
  • Technical writer and college-level writing instructor: 1999 -- present. Selected consulting experience: Technical writer, content developer, curriculum writer/instructor: River Plantation Country Club, Conroe, Texas. Incredible Pizza Company, Conroe, Texas. Tubular Perforating Manufacturing, Conroe, Texas. Baker Hughes International. Houston, Texas. Water's Journey through the Everglades: NSF Funded Project. Orlando, Florida. University of Central Florida (UCF) Institute of Government, Orlando, Florida. Knoll Inc., Dallas, Texas. UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. UCF Undergraduate Research Journal. SENTEL Corporation, Dallas, Texas. First Horizon Home Loans, Dallas, Texas. Lasso Technologies, Dallas, Texas. GroceryWorks, Dallas, Texas.
  • Selected Peer-Reviewed Presentations: What of Professional Status? Why any Warm Body Won't Do. Paper presented at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Savannah, GA. October 2017. *** Program Identity and Curriculum Development: Using the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Build Sustainable Outcomes. Paper presented at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Logan, UT. October 2015. *** Building Value into Poster Presentations: A Best-Practices Approach to Designing Print Posters for Academic and Professional Contexts. Poster presented at the Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. 18th Annual Conference. Tampa, FL. March 2015. *** Contextualizing Errant E-mail Communication: A Study in Student/Faculty Interactions. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. September 2014. *** 2 Kewl 4 School. Using Social Media (Rhetorically) in the Classroom. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference. March 2012. *** An Xtra-Special Situation: Incorporating New Media into the Traditional Technical-Writing Classroom. South Central Modern Language Association. November 2011. *** This Used to Be the Future: Revisiting the Roles of Professors in the Classroom of the 21st Century. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. October 2010.
  • Executive Secretary for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
  • Director of Technical Communication, SHSU.

Jacob Damon Blevins (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 4375.05
Special Problems In English (U)
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ENGL 5330.01
Grad Rsrch: Methods & Theories(G)
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BA English
McNeese State University (1994)

MA English
McNeese State University (1996)

MFA Creative Writing
McNeese State University (1997)

PHD English
Texas Tech University (2002)

 
N/A

Bruce G Chabot (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.20
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.67
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3330.06
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.10
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA English
Univ of Dallas (1984)

MA English
Texas A&M University (1995)

PHD English
Texas A&M University (2003)

 
N/A

Elizabeth Ching-In Chen (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.33
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 3380.02
Advanced Composition (U)
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ENGL 3382.04
Intro Creative Writing: Poetry (U)
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BA English
Tufts University (1999)

MFA Creative Writ for Perform Arts
Univ of Calif-Riverside (2010)

PHD English
Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2015)

 
  • BOOKS PUBLISHED: 'recombinant.' Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2017. 'The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems.' Los Angeles: Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009.

Jennifer L Child (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.09
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.13
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.26
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.30
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Texas A&M University (2005)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

 
  • Completed ENG 567, Practicum in Teaching College Composition, which is a study in current composition theory and practice. Course completed in Fall, 2007 Teaching supervised through class visitation by and conferences with the Department Chair
  • Graduate student - graduate teaching assistant

Paul W Child (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2332.06
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 3384.04
Early English Masterworks (U)
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ENGL 5330.02
Grad Rsrch: Methods & Theories(G)
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ENGL 5339.01
Dir Stu Sel Top Lit Lang(G)
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BA English
Saint John'S University (1978)

MA English
James Madison University (1984)

PHD English
Univ of Notre Dame (1992)

Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature; General Literary Studies (24+ hrs)

  • PhD qualifying orals in prose fiction from 1719-1837 (Defoe to Dickens).PhD dissertation on eighteenth-century medicine and medical literature.Extensive conference activity in Restoration and 18th-century topics.Member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1987 to present).NEH Summer 2007 Fellowship in seminar on Anglo-Irish literature of the Restoration and 18th century.Generalist comprehensive examination in MA program and rigorous five-day generalist examination in PhD program. Currently at work on MA in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
  • All prominent publications have concerned Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture.
  • Currently at work on MA in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.

Mary Genelle Cook (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.84
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1302.13
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.15
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.20
Composition II (U)
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BA History
Sam Houston State University (2002)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2004)

English (24+ hrs)

  • 14 years experience in a computer science corporation, including work as technical writer (supports ENG 330)

Lee F Courtney (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.75
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 2332.05
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 3380.01
Advanced Composition (U)
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BA English
Texas A&M University (1963)

MA English
Texas A&M University (1964)

PHD English
Emory University (1975)

English Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Director, BearKat Learning Academy, 2005-present.

Kimberly Anne Davis (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.02
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA Undeclared
Columbia College-Chicago (1985)

MFA Creative Writ, Publish, & Edit
Sam Houston State University (2015)

 
  • Acting Director Texas Review Press, April 2016 to present

Michael T Demson (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2332.02
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 2332.04
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 6098.01
Thesis I(G)
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ENGL 6099.01
Thesis II(G)
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BA English
Reed College (1996)

MA Comparative Literature
Grad Sch & Univ Center (2004)

PHD Comparative Literature
Grad Sch & Univ Center (2009)

 
  • Select Publications: "'Wastes of Corn': Wordsworth, Bryant, Cooper, and Cole on the Catastrophic Diet of Empire," Catastrophes: Essays from the 2012 International Conference on Romanticism. Liverpool UP, 2015. (Forthcoming 2017). "The Poetry and Agricultural Politics of Transatlantic Radicalism, 1789-93: Joel Barlow's The Hasty Pudding," Transatlantic Literary Ecologies. Routledge, 2016. 22-41. "Remembering John Cahuac: Post-Peterloo Repression and the Fate of Radical-Romantic Satire," Romantic Circles: Praxis Series. Web. 2015. "The Ungovernable Puppets and the Biopolitics of Hawthorne's Gothic Satires." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. 38.2 (2012). 72-92. Co-authored with Heather Brown. "'Aint I de Maine guy in dis paRade': Towards a Radical History of Comic Strips and Their Audience since Peterloo." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2.2 (2011). 151-167. "'Tis ye are culprits!'; The Radical Work of Shelley's The Cenci." Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor. Mellon P, 2011. 89-104. "'Let a great Assembly be': Percy Shelley's 'The 'Mask of Anarchy' and the Organization of Labor in New York City, 1910-1930." ERR. 22.5 (2011). 641-655. "Shelley's Radical Agrarian Politics." Romanticism. 16.3 (2010). 279-292.

Robert E. Donahoo (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3334.01
Literature And Film (U)
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ENGL 3360.02
Survey Of American Lit To 1865 (U)
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ENGL 5387.01
American Lit, 1920-the Present(G)
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BA Journalism
Baylor University (1978)

BA English
Baylor University (1978)

MA English
Duke University (1979)

PHD English
Duke University (1988)

English and American Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Book Chapters:'Moving with the Mainstream: A View of Postmodern American Science Fiction.' In Critical Essays on American Postmodernism. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. New York: Twayne, 1995. 152 165.'Lewis Shiner and the 'Good' Anarchist,' (written with Chuck Etheridge). In Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Ed. George Slusser and Tom Shippey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.Juried Articles'Buried Memory: 1918 and the Uses of the Past.' Horton Foote Review 1 (2005): 21-33. 'Subject to Limitations: O'Connor's Fiction and the South's Shifting Populations.' The Flannery O'Connor Review 2(2004): 16-30. 'Remembering and Forgetting: History and Memory in Horton Foote's The Last of the Thorntons. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 34 (2003): 1-13.'O'Connor's Catholics: A Historical-Cultural Context.' Literature and Belief 16.2 (1996): 100-113.
  • 'Healing the Cultural Divides: Reading 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'.' The Journal of Contemporary Thought 4 (1994): 7-21.'Tarwater's March Toward the Feminine: The Role of Gender in O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away.' CEA Critic. 56 (Fall 1993): 96 106.'The Problem with Peelers: Wise Blood as Social Criticism.' The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin 21 (1992): 43 57.'O'Connor's Ancient Comedy: Form in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'' Journal of the Short Story in English 16 (1991): 29 39.'Toward a Definition of Resurrection: Tolstoy's Novel as Theology and Art.' Literature and Belief 11 (1991): 1 12.
  • President of the Flannery O'Connor Society, June 2006-present (term expires 2009).Editorial Advisory Board Member for The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II. (2007-present).Editor of Cheers! The Newsletter of the Flannery O'Connor Society. June 2002-June 2006.President of the South Central College English Association (1998-99), having previously served as Vice President (1997-98) and Secretary (1996-97).President of the Texas College English Association, 1998-99, having previously served as Vice President (1997-98) and Secretary (1996-87).Book Review Editor for The Texas Review, 1995-2000.Reviewer for manuscript of Reading and Writing the College Experience. Longman Publishers, 2002.Reviewer for the manuscript of Voices of the American South. Longman Publishers, 2002.Editorial Assistant for American Literature, 1986-87.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 'Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor,' participant. July 2007.Sam Houston State University Research Enhancement Grant for 1997.College English Association Robert Hacke Scholar Teacher Award, 1994.
  • Bibliography:Contributing Bibliographer for The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1989, 1990, 1991.Creative Publications:'Jack.' (a short story). New Texas (2006): 78-89.'Fishing Round Mars' (a work of creative non-fiction). Concho River Review 13.1 (Spring 1999): 49-56.
  • Introducing Africa: A Guide to Teaching African Literature in the AP Classroom. Durham, N.C.: Talent Identification Program, 1992. Teacher's Manual for an Advanced Placement Course in "Language and Composition". Co authored with Lucy Haagen, et al. Durham, N.C.: Talent Identification Program, 1986.

Diane Dowdey (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.57
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3330.22
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.23
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 5367.01
Practicm In Teaching Coll Comp(G)
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BA English
Texas Christian University (1976)

BA History
Texas Christian University (1976)

MA English
Univ of Missouri-Columbia (1977)

PHD English
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (1984)

American Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Literature in English, since 1914 (24+ hrs)

  • Author of two compositon textbooks: The Researching Writer published by Holt and TR5: To Research, To Read, To Reason, To Write, To Report: An Introduction to Research Writing published by Simon and Schuster 'Online Education and Writing Across the Curriculum.' Panelists Statements. WAC 2002: The SixthNational Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Houston: Rice University, 2002."Stephen Jay Gould: 'This View of Science.'" Markham Review 16 (1987): 26'34."Rhetorical Techniques of Audience Adaptation in Popular Science Writing." Journal of TechnicalWriting and Communication 17 (1987): 275'285.
  • "Citation and Documentation Across the Curriculum." Constructing Rhetorical Education. Edited byMarie Secor and Davida Charney. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992. 330'351."Bridging the Gap: Science for a Popular Audience" in Proceedings in Technical and BusinessCommunication: The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis'1985. Ed. Douglas M. Catron. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1985. 147'155.
  • 'Virtual Space: Another Frontier.' International Writing Centers Association. April 12-14, 2007.Houston.'Negotiation Strategies for Tutors.'Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 21-24, 2007. New York.'Negotiation Strategies for Tutors.'Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 21-24, 2007. New York.'Teacher or Editor? Helping Tutors Negotiate Their Role.' College English Association. April 6-8, 2006. San Antonio.'Defining Success at a Writing Center: A Qualitative Approach.' Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 22-25, 2006. Chicago.'What is a Successful Writing Center? A Problematic Definition' South Central Writing CentersAssociation Conference. February 23-26, 2006. Little Rock, Arkansas.'Reaching the Community: Writing Center Staff Talk to High School English Teachers.' South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. March 3-5, 2005. Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • 'What is a Successful Writing Center? A Problematic Definition' South Central Writing CentersAssociation Conference. February 23-26, 2006. Little Rock, Arkansas.'Reaching the Community: Writing Center Staff Talk to High School English Teachers.' South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. March 3-5, 2005. Baton Rouge, Louisiana'Shakespeare on Writing Center Leadership.' South Central Writing Centers Association Conference. February 19-21, 2004. Stillwater, Oklahoma.'Building Community in Tutor Training.' Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 24-27, 2004. San Antonio.'The Third Person at the Conference: Communicating with the Faculty.' South Central WritingCenters Association Conference. February 20-22, 2003. Fayetteville, Arkansas.'Evaluating the Impact of a Writing Center' International Writing Centers Association . October 23-25, 2003. Hershey, Pennsylvania.

William P Fleming (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.70
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.72
Composition I (U)
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UNIV 4301.01
Gen Studies Capstone Project (U)
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BBA Business Administration
Sam Houston State University (1965)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1966)

PHD English
Univ of Toledo (1972)

American Literature, Drama (24+ hrs)

  • Excellence in Teaching - 1997 (SHSU); Excellence in Service - 1995 (SHSU); Outstanding Academic Advising Administrator - 2004 (NACADA)
  • Outstanding Advising Administrator in United States (NACADA - 2013); Recipient of The Gail Rola Memorial Award which recognizes both "outstanding leadership and the ability to administer that leadership with heart and with care" (NACADA - 2013)
  • 2003: "Financing an Advising Center by Using Student Advising Fees." Presented in Baton Rouge regional conference of NACADA; presented in Dallas at International Conference of NACADA
  • 2002 (September)-2017 (August): Executive Director of the Student Advising and Mentoring Center
  • 2004: "Boosting Student Retention and Raising Student Morale." Presented in Cincinnati at International NACADA Conference
  • 2008: "Creating a Centralized Advising Center from Scratch." Presented in Denver at International NACADA Conference.
  • 2017-present: Coordinator of Bachelor of General Studies Degree in Liberal Studies

Olivia Clare Friedman (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3382.03
Intro Creative Writing: Poetry (U)
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ENGL 4381.01
Adv Creative Writing: Fiction (U)
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ENGL 5332.01
Creative Writing: Poetry(G)
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BA English
Univ of Calif-Berkeley (2006)

MFA English
University of Iowa (2008)

PHD English
Univ of Nevada-Las Vegas (2016)

Creative Writing (24+ hrs)

  • Disasters in the First World (book of short stories), Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 2017
  • The 26-Hour Day (book of poems), New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2015
  • Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, 2014
  • Anthologized in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2014
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation, 2011

David Taylor Gaines (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.01
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.05
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.07
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.11
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BJ Journalism
Univ of Texas At Austin (1968)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1998)

English (24+ hrs)

  • Educator Certification, State of Texas, Secondary English, December 29, 1996.Educator Certification, State of Texas, Secondary Journalism, December 29, 1996
  • Publisher, SportsPage Magazine, September 2001 - May 2003. Publisher, Horseman Magazine,December 1976 - June 1991.Editor, Atlanta Citizens Journal, March 1974 - November 1975.Police Reporter, Odessa American, March 1969 - August 1969.Police Reporter, Galveston Daily News, September 1968 - March 1969.
  • Numerous awards in journalism for editorial writing, feature writing, editing, photography, design,and general excellence.

Douglas Stephen Haines (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.31
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.34
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1302.01
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.21
Composition II (U)
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BA Public Relations Studies
Texas Tech University (2002)

BA Creative Writing
Texas State Univ-San Marcos (2009)

MFA Creative Writing
The University of Memphis (2014)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2014)

 
  • Judge, 2015 National Sigma Kappa Delta Writing Awards for Prose
  • Writing Center Tutor at Sam Houston State University, University of Memphis, and Fayetteville Technical Community College
  • THINGS I PRAY I NEVER FORGET, collection of short stories, Unsolicited Press (under contract, release date: January 9, 2018)
  • Limited Space, short story, Drunk Monkeys (February 2017) The Barrelman, short story, Reed Magazine (2016 issue no. 69)
  • Meat, short story, The Chicago Tribune Printers Row (under contract)
  • Buzzards, short story, The West Trade Review (Spring 2016 vol. 7)
  • The Solicitation of Tom W, short story, Down in the Dirt Magazine: New Moon (March/April 2016 vol. 135)
  • The Experiment, short story, Slippery Elm Literary Journal (2014 edition)
  • RESURRECTING TRASH: Dan Phillips and the Phoenix Commotion, nonfiction, majority contributor and Senior Editor (Texas Review Press, 2013)
  • 2016 Ivy Chapter, Sigma Kappa Delta Highest Honor for Outstanding Chapter, Co-Advisor
  • Texas Review Press Intern and Senior Editor, 2010-2012
  • The Barrelman, short story, Reed Magazine (2016 issue no. 69)
  • Editor, Unbound: A Literary and Arts Journal, 2015-2017
  • Academic Advisor, Fayetteville Technical Community College, 2015-2017
  • Committee Member, Fayetteville Technical Community College ???Across the Disciplines??? Assessment Committee, 2015
  • Co-Advisor, Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD) Rho Beta Chapter, The English Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges, 2015-2017

Julie E Hall (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3361.01
Survey Amer Lit From 1865-Pres (U)
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ENGL 3361.03
Survey Amer Lit From 1865-Pres (U)
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BA English
Univ of The South (1979)

MA English
Univ of N Carolina-Chapel Hill (1983)

PHD English
Univ of N Carolina-Chapel Hill (1993)

American Literature, Beginnings to 1865, The American Novel, The American Short Story, Studies in Nathaniel Hawthorne (12 hrs)

  • Outstanding Engaged Scholar, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011-2012.Departmental Service Award, 2010-2011.
  • 1 peer-reviewed book and 5 additional peer-reviewed articles on nineteenth-century American writers. Book: _Reinventing the Peabody Sisters_ (U of Iowa P, 2006 - on nineteenth century American women writers)Articles:1. "Writing at the Crossroads," forthcoming in _Legacy_.2. "'At the Crisis of Our Fate': Sophia Hawthorne's Civil War Correspondence." In _Reinventing_.3. "'Coming to Europe,' Coming to Authorship: Sophia Hawthorne and her _Notes in England and Italy_." In _Legacy_, Vol. 19 Now 2 (2002). 4. "'Tracing the Original Design': The Hawthornes in Rappaccini's Garden." In _Nathaniel Hawthorne Review_ 21.1 (Spring 1995).5. "A Source for 'Drowne's Wooden Image' and Hawthorne's Dark Ladies." In _Nathaniel Hawthorne Review_ 16.2 (Fall 1990).5 International presentations10 National and regional presentations
  • 2 SHSU Faculty Research Enhancement Grants (2001 and 1997);Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988 - Teaching Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990-91 - Phi Beta Kappa, University of the South, 1978.

Sirkka Helena Halmari (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.09
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3372.01
Introduction to Linguistics (U)
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ENGL 4367.01
History Of English Language (U)
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BA English Philology
University of Tampere (1978)

MA English Philology
University of Tampere (1984)

MSS Library Science
University of Tampere (1986)

MA English Composition
California St Un-San Bernardin (1990)

MA Linguistics
Univ of Southern California (1992)

PHD Linguistics
Univ of Southern California (1994)

Linguistics (24+ hrs)

Philology (24+ hrs)

English Composition (24+ hrs)

  • 1 single-authored book, 1 co-edited book, ca. 40 journal articles and book chapters, 1 co-translated novel. 90+ academic presentations.
  • Director of the Academic Spoken English Program (2001-2003), University of Florida.
  • Member (by invitation) of the Kalevala Society, 2013-. SHSU, CHSS: Faculty/Administrator Outstanding Classroom Teacher Award 2011-12. SHSU, CHSS: Outstanding Faculty/Administrator Award 2010 for the most outstanding performance in instruction in the College. SHSU, CHSS: Research Achievement in English Award 2005-06. SHSU, CHSS: Excellence in Research Award 2004-05. SHSU: Development leave awarded for fall 2008 and fall 2016.
  • Abo Akademi University, H.W. Donner Visiting Professor, November-December 2008.
  • Editor-in-chief for the Journal of Finnish Studies. Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, member for a 5-year period from October 2007. Member of the editorial board of Virittaja from 2015.
  • Certificate in School Administration, Finland
  • Rice University, Department of Linguistics, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2000.
  • Accredited Translator, Finnish-English

Darci N Hill (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3384.01
Early English Masterworks (U)
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ENGL 3384.03
Early English Masterworks (U)
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ENGL 3390.01
The Bible As Literature (U)
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BA English
Texas State Univ-San Marcos (1970)

BA Spanish
Texas State Univ-San Marcos (1970)

MA English
Texas State Univ-San Marcos (1972)

PHD Rhetoric
Texas Woman's University (1989)

Renaissance Literature, Rhetoric and Composition (24+ hrs)

  • 'George Herbert and the Heroic Tradition: A consideration of the Third Movement of The Temple.' Reformation and Renaissance Review, 5.2 (Spring 2003), 245-54.'Monotony by Design: George Herbert's 'Sinne Group.'' Journal of Literature and Belief, 19 (Summer 1999), 177-89.'Mark Studdock as Hero: Another Look at C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength.' Mythlore, 84 (Summer 1998), 22-27.''The Church Militant' Resurrected: Mythic Elements in George Herbert's The Temple.' Mythlore, 79 (Summer 1995), 29-32.

Katie Ann Hubbard (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.29
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.80
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.81
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3330.16
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BS English
Northern Michigan University (2011)

MA English
Northern Michigan University (2013)

 
  • Volunteer Tutor, Fayetteville Technical Community College Writing Center, 2015-2017
  • Co-Founder & Host, Fayetteville Cultural Arts Festival, 2017
  • Academic Advisor, Fayetteville Technical Community College 2015-2017
  • Editor, Unbound: A Literary and Arts Journal, 2015-2017
  • Co-Host of Off the Record, Fayetteville Technical Community College student open mic series, 2015- 2017
  • Co-Advisor, Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD) Rho Beta Chapter, The English Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges, 2015-2017

Barbara Annkidd Jones (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.64
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3330.15
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.29
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.30
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.31
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BSHE Interior Design
Univ of Texas At Austin (1963)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1995)

English (24+ hrs)

  • WebCT Certification Level 2, Montgomery College, 2006.WebCT Certification Level 1, Montgomery College, 2005.Distance Learning Facilitator Certification, Montgomery College, 1999 - Online Certification, Sam Houston State University, December 11, 2009.
  • 'Writing across the Curriculum in Composition,' Third National Writing Across the University Conference, Charleston, SC, February 1997. 'Linking Technology and Writing Perspectives from Faculty,' Fourth National Writing across the University Conference, Miami, FL, February 1998.'Assessing Writing Centers: For Whom, By Whom,' Writing Centers Association Meeting of Conference of College Teachers of English, Amarillo, TX, March 2001.'Writing Centers and Time' South Central Writing Center Association Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2005.'Looking Back, Looking Forward: Writing Centers as the Center of WAC.' South Central Writing Center Association, Little Rock, AK, February 2006.Panel Presentation, Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the College English Association, San Antonio, TX, January 2006.'Punctuation as a Continuing Problem,' Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the College English Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2006.

Scott Aaron Kaukonen (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 5331.01
Creative Writing: Fiction(G)
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BA Political Science
Hope College (1991)

MFA Creative Writing
Univ of Arizona (1999)

PHD English
Univ of Missouri-Columbia (2006)

Creative Writing, American Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Recipient, 2008 Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts. Ordination (collection of short stories), winner of the Ohio State University Prize for Short Fiction, published by OSU Press in 2005.Winner, 2004 Nelson Algren Prize from the Chicago Tribune2003 AWP/Prague Summer Fellow in Fiction, Association of Writing Programs.
  • Short Stories: 'Punnett's Squares,' Chicago Tribune, Oct. 31, 2004.'Ordination,' Third Coast, Fall 2004.Books: Ordination (a collection of short stories), The Ohio State University Press, winner of TheOhio State University Prize for Short Fiction (Spring 2005).

William Ray Kerr (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.03
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.08
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.19
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.66
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2013)

 
N/A

Marion Douglas Krienke (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.73
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3391.01
Shakespeare: Tragedies & Hist (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (1959)

MA English
Texas A&M University (1965)

PHD English
Univ of Toledo (1976)

 
  • SHSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990.
  • 'The Theme of Damnation in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.' University of Toledo Regional Conference on Renaissance Studies. Toledo, OH, 1991.'A Tragic Vision in Shakespeare's Lear.' South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX, 1988.

Nicolas J Lantz (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3383.01
Practicum In Publishing (U)
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ENGL 5333.01
Practicum:Editing & Publishing(G)
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BA Religious Studies
Lewis & Clark College (2003)

MFA Creative Writing
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (2005)

 
  • How to Dance as the Roof Caves In (book of poems), Graywolf Press, 2014
  • Editor, The Texas Review, 2016-present
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship, 2017
  • You, Beast (book of poems), Winner of the Brittingham Prize, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017

Donnie Aristidez Lopez (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.68
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.77
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.78
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.79
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Univ of Houston-Downtown (2014)

MA English
Purdue University (2016)

 
  • Assisted in Editing The Fallen Woman in the East for the Center for Women's Studies Purdue University
  • Intensive Northwest Indiana Writing Project Grant for the summer session sponsored by the First Year Writing Experience at Purdue University
  • First Place Trophy Winner at The Stark-Tinkham 42nd Annual Writing Contest for Graduate Students. Sponsored by Purdue University. April 20.
  • "Queering Dracula's Red Lips" Purdue University North Central Writing and Arts Journal Portal. Special Edition Publication. May 2015.
  • "Queering Dracula's Red Lips" University of California-Los Angeles. Center for the Study of Women. May 27, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wo7e46THgE

Alice Mary Marcom (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.27
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.28
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.29
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.30
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.32
Composition II (U)
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BA Modern and Medieval Languages
New Hall Cambridge (1977)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2006)

English (24+ hrs)

  • 'Returning to Johnny Texas: A New Look at a Classic Work for Children.' American Studies Association of Texas, San Antonio, TX, 19 November 2004.
  • As a Graduate Assistant, completed ENG 567, Practicum in Teaching College Composition.

Shadow Loret Meritt (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.36
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.40
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.48
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.50
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2014)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2016)

 
N/A

Barbara Elaine Miles (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.42
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.46
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3330.27
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.28
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA English
Univ of Texas At Tyler (1992)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1997)

English (24+ hrs)

  • 3 years of experience as Office Manager and Editor for Texas Review Press, Sam Houston SU.
  • President/Conference Coordinator, American Studies Association of Texas 2015-present

Christopher George Mitchell (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.02
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.06
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.15
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.17
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Dalhousie University (1983)

BED Education
Dalhousie University (1985)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2015)

 
N/A

Audrey D Murfin (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.23
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 2333.05
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 4374.01
Studies In The English Novel (U)
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BA English
Reed College (1996)

MA English
Suny At Binghamton (2002)

PHD English
Suny At Binghamton (2008)

 
  • John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2015-2016. Enhancement Research Grant, Sam Houston State University, 2014.
  • "Arthur Morrison, Mimesis and Social Justice: Following Dickens's Dark Legacy through the Late-Victorian Slums." The Literary London Journal 11 (2014): 4-21. http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/spring2014/murfin.pdf "'Part Alive, Part Putrescent': Coral, Culture, and Contagion in the Island Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson." Victorians Institute Journal 40 (2012): 33-56. "The Gothic Challenge to Victorian Realism: Buried Narratives in Villette, Aurora Leigh, and Lady Audley's Secret." The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 10 (2011): 31 pages. http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/Murfin.html "Victorian Nights' Entertainments: Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins Develop the British Story Sequence." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (2007): 28 pages. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2007/v/n48/017440ar.html?vue=integral. All publications use theoretical approaches.

Carroll F. Nardone (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.24
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA Broadcasting
Univ of Texas-El Paso (1982)

MA Journalism
Ohio State Univ (1986)

PHD Rhetoric & Prof Communication
New Mexico State University (2002)

Rhetoric & Writing Studies (24+ hrs)

  • Selected Publications: "Beyond Grammar: Tracking Perceptions of Quality in Student E-mail." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. (2017): 1-29. (Co-author: Brian Blackburne) "Critical Inquiry Across the Disciplines: Strategies for Student-Generated Problem Posing," College Teaching 59.1 (2011): 13-22.(Co-author: Renee Gravois) "Assessment Strategies as Formative Evaluation." Academic Exchange Quarterly. 9.3 (2005): 293-298. "Seeing and Reading through the Culture of War." Academic Exchange Quarterly. 9.4 (2005): 204-209. (Co-author: Tracy Bilsing) "Complicating Tensions and Reproducing Culture: Searching for Models in Technical and Scientific Communication.' Published proceedings of the annual meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Utah State U, Logan, UT. 3-5 October 2002. Ed. Ann Blakeslee. Ann Arbor, MI: CPTSC, 2003. 49-51.'The Global Impact of E-Mail'. Eds. Alkhafaji, A. and Biberman, J., Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: UP of America, 2002: 203-208. (Co-authors: Louis K. Falk and Sharaf Rehman)'Integrated Marketing Texts and Hidden Ideologies,' Eds. Alkhafaji, A. and Biberman, J., Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: UP of America, 2001: 51-55.
  • Industry-related research:'Driving the Workplace: Preparing Students to Define and Manipulate Information Technologies.' Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 4-6 October 2007. 'Responding to Forces of Change in Industry: Single Sourcing, Postmodern Theory, and Technical Writing Pedagogy.' Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association annual meeting. Couer D' Alene, ID. 23-25 October 2005.
  • Historical Research:'Historical Precedence in Ways of Knowing: Early American Scientific Texts and their Postmodern Culture.' Association for Teachers of Technical Writing annual meeting. New York, NY. 21 March 2007. 'New Literary Spaces: Scientific Texts in the Early American Republic' Northeast Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2-5 March 2006. 'Early American Scientific Texts: Building a Community of Authority.' Poster Presentation. Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. San Francisco, CA. 16 March 2005.
  • Textbook: Technical Communication as Problem Solving. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2011. (Co-authors: Molly K. Johnson and Teena A. M. Carnegie). Journal co-editor: "World Religions and Professional Communication: Theories and Practices of the Discipline" Special Issue: Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization. Vol. 9 (2016) ISSN: 2153-9480 (co editors: David Alan Sapp and Barry Thatcher)

Bradley Ryan Nichols (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.71
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2015)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2018)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (18+ Graduate Hours in English) (18 hrs)

  • Graduate teaching assistants have at least 18 graduate hours in the teaching discipline. Each is directly supervised by qualified faculty and receive in service training and periodic evaluation.

Ralph Coleman Norris (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.16
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.53
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.56
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.59
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.99
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1302.35
Composition II (U)
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BA English
Kennesaw State University (1995)

MA English
Georgia State University (1998)

PHD English Literature
University of Wales (2005)

 
N/A

Amanda Lynn Nowlin-O'Banion (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.76
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 3381.01
Intro Creative Writing:Fiction (U)
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ENGL 3381.03
Intro Creative Writing:Fiction (U)
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BA Creative Writing
Southern Methodist University (1999)

MFA Creative Writing
New York University (2002)

PHD Creative Writing & Literature
Univ of Houston-Main (2007)

 
N/A

Jason M Payton (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2332.11
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 3360.01
Survey Of American Lit To 1865 (U)
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ENGL 3360.03
Survey Of American Lit To 1865 (U)
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ENGL 4375.01
Special Problems In English (U)
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BA Humanities
Milligan College (2000)

MA English
Univ of Kentucky (2005)

PHD English Language & Literature
Univ of Maryland-College Park (2012)

 
N/A

Deborah Lynne Phelps (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2333.02
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 2333.03
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 3385.01
Later English Masterworks (U)
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BS English
Towson State University (1983)

MA English
Univ of Delaware (1986)

PHD English
Univ of Delaware (1991)

British Victorian and Romantic Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Poetry Chapbook: Deep East. Concord, CA: Small Poetry Press Select Poetry Series, Feb. 2001. Winner, True Millenia Chapbook Prize.
  • Articles: A"Jorie Graham." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004."Claire Messud." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004. "Jamaica Kincaid." Multicultural Writers Since 1945. New York: Greenwood, 2004.'You take us for harlots': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Women Warriors." CCTE Studies 1997: 77-85."As the Faculty Turns: Hiring, Retiring, and Curriculum Change." CEA Magazine 1997: 53-62."Service on the Side: Literature Professors and the Teaching of Technical Writing." CCTE Studies 1996: 65-74. "Anna Jameson." British Travel Writers 1837-1875. The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Inc., 1996: 184-190."Pouring Tea and Filing Suit: Academic Women and the Feminist Generation Gap." Concerns Winter 1995: 15-21.
  • "Women's Writing, Technical Writing: Gender Difference in the Technical Report Process." Rhetorical Designs for Professional and Technical Writing: A Teacher's Guide. Ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas: Caxton's, 1994: 111-117."'At the Roadside of Humanity': Elizabeth Barrett Browning Abroad." Creditable Warriors: English Literature and the Wider World, 1830-1876. Ed. Michael Cotsell. London: Ashfield, 1990: 225-242.
  • Finalist. Book Manuscript. T.S. Eliot Prize, 2016.
  • Tennessee Williams Scholarship for Poetry, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2015.

Craig Erwin Plunges (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.02
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.12
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 3330.03
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.04
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA English
Cornell College (2004)

MA English
Harvard University (2010)

PHD English
Harvard University (2016)

 
N/A

Nathan Joseph Ridings (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.01
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.23
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.82
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1302.09
Composition II (U)
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MFA Creative Writ, Publish, & Edit
Sam Houston State University (2011)

BA History
Sam Houston State University (2011)

 
N/A

Reuben Sanchez (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.10
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.11
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 3373.03
English Grammar (U)
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ENGL 4399.01
Children?s Literature (U)
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BA History
Univ of New Mexico (1978)

MA English
Cornell University (1984)

PHD English
Cornell University (1986)

 
N/A

Angela Elisabeth Shaffer (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.32
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.33
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA English
Angelo State University (2005)

MA English
Angelo State University (2008)

 
N/A

Tannie H Shannon (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.37
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.38
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.51
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.58
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2000)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2004)

English (24+ hrs)

  • Professional editorial experience
  • Book: Seed of Villainy, Texas Review Press, Sam Houston SU, Huntsville, TX, 2007.

April A Shemak (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2333.09
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 2333.10
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 3338.01
Studies In Multicultural Lit (U)
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BA French
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (1993)

BA English
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (1993)

MA English
Univ of Maryland-College Park (1998)

PHD English Language & Literature
Univ of Maryland-College Park (2003)

English Literature: Postcolonial Literature and Theory (24+ hrs)

English Literature: Postcolonial Literature and Theory (24+ hrs)

  • Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
  • 'Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones,' Modern Fiction Studies, special issue: 'Postmodernism and the Globalization of English' ed. Michael Berube. 48:1 (Spring 2002) 83-112. 'Alter/Natives: Myth, Translation and the Native Informant in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale,' Textual Practice,19:3 (2005) 353-372. 'A Wounded Discourse: The Poetics of Disease in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban,' Postcolonial Text, 2:3 (June 2006) 1-23.
  • Enhancement Grant for Professional Development, Sam Houston State University, May 2008-June 2009,Enhancement Grant for Professional Development, Sam Houston State University, June2007-May 2008. Faculty Research Enhancement Grant. Sam Houston State University. Summer 2006.
  • Book chapters Literary and Linguistic Crossings: The Shifting Boundaries of Anglophone Caribbean Literature.Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. Supriya Nair. (New York: MLA, 2012): 131-154. Refugee and Asylum Seeker Postcolonial Travel Writing. Postcolonial Travel Writing. Edited by Robert Clarke, Cambridge University Press, 6000 words. (submitted, contract signed, invited) Interdict: Scenes of Military Maritime Encounter. Caribbean Military Encounters. Eds. Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Encyclopedia Entries Caribbean Literature, Criticism and Theory. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ray, Sangeeta, Henry Schwarz, Jos?? Luis Villaca??as Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak (eds). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2016, 4983 words. Postcolonial Refugee Narratives. Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 3400 words, (invited submission).
  • Articles Re/writing Reconciliation in Merle Collins???s Angel. Caribbean Quarterly. 60.1 (March 2014): 42-60. ???The Cartographic Dimensions of Humanitarianism: Mapping Refugee Spaces in Post-Earthquake Haiti.??? Cultural Dynamics, 26.3 (Nov. 2014): 251-275.
  • Book Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse (Fordham University Press, 2011).
  • Edited Volume Associate Editor, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, General Editors: Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Associate Editors: Jose Luis Villacanas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. 3 volumes, 1728 pages (print).
  • Coordinator, American Studies Minor
  • Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2013.

Anastasia Constance Soullier (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.39
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.44
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.52
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.60
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.90
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Wayne State University (2007)

MA Literature
Eastern Michigan University (2010)

 
  • Graduate Certification-Teaching English as a Second Langauge

Deborah Beth Spincic (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.16
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.18
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.22
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.24
Composition II (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2002)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2004)

English (24+ hrs)

  • 'From Tutors to Teachers: An Evolution of Thought.' College English Association, San Antonio, TX. 2006'Dirty Bag of Grammar.' Southwest Writing Center Association, Little Rock, AR. 2006.'Active'Passive Express.' Southwest Writing Center Association, Little Rock, AR. 2003.'Classical Rhetoric and PowerPoint.' SWWCA, Stillwater, OK. 2004.
  • Certified Master Tutor, College Reading and Learning Association, 2004
  • Free-lance technical writer, 6 years.

Brandon C Strubberg (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.12
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.13
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.25
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3330.26
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
Catalog    Syllabus

BA English
Sam Houston State University (2008)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

PHD Tech Communication & Rhetoric
Texas Tech University (2017)

Literature (24+ hrs)

Research Methods (12 hrs)

Technical Communication (24+ hrs)

Rhetorical Theory/Analysis (24+ hrs)

  • Technical Writing Consultant, Welltec (oil and gas service provider), 2012-present
  • Associate Scientific Editor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2016-17
  • Published medical writer: Strubberg, Brandon C. (March 2017) Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer: Clinical trial compares outcomes of intensity-modulated proton therapy, standard radiation therapy. OncoLog. 62.3; Strubberg, Brandon C. (November/December 2016) Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Innovative Study Uses Molecular Testing to Assign Patients to Clinical Trials. OncoLog. 61.11; Strubberg, Brandon C. (September 2016) Nivolumab for Anal Cancer Treatment: Immunotherapy Drug Shows Potential in Treating Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anal Canal. OncoLog. 61.9; Strubberg, Brandon C. (June 2016) House Call: Types of Radiation Treatment: Various Techniques are used to Treat Cancer with Radiation. OncoLog. 61.6.
  • Editorial Assistant (independent contractor), Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2014-15

Kandi A Tayebi (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2333.04
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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ENGL 3385.03
Later English Masterworks (U)
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ENGL 5379.01
Romantic Literature(G)
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BA English
Univ of Northern Colorado (1985)

MA English
Univ of Northern Colorado (1991)

PHD English
Univ of Denver (1999)

English (24+ hrs)

English literature (24+ hrs)

critical theory (24+ hrs)

American literature (23 hrs)

  • major publications in British Romanticism. All publications utilize theoretical approaches. Publications covering both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the humanities and to social sciences.
  • comprehensive exams on 18-19th century British literature and theory, 20th-century British literature and theory, and medieval literature
  • Numerous professional peer-reviewed presentations on British Romanticism. All presentations utilize theoretical approaches. Presentations covered both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in both the humanities and social sciences.
  • dissertation on late 18th early 19th century Romantic British writer.
  • Master's thesis on 19th century British writer.
  • Master's comprehensive exams on American, World, and British literature and theory.

Ann E Theodori (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3374.01
Teaching Writing and Lit (U)
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BAED English Language Arts
Univ of Nebraska-Kearney (1990)

MA English
Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln (1998)

EDD Literacy
Sam Houston State University (2014)

English (24+ hrs)

  • Certified as a Teacher Consultant by the Nebraska Writing Project
  • Texas Educator Certificate, Standard, English Language Arts and Reading (Grades 8-12)Nebraska Educator Certificate, Standard, English Language Arts (Grades 7-12)
  • Director of Summer Young Writers Camp, Sam Houston Writing Project, 2008 (forthcoming)

Cassandra Leigh Tomchik (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.07
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.11
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.18
Composition I (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2009)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2012)

 
N/A

Debbra Gail Vogel (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.62
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.63
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1302.25
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.26
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 1302.31
Composition II (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2013)

 
  • Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising (2017)
  • Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising (2017)

Linda Joyce Webster (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2332.09
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 2332.10
Wrld Lit I: Before 17 Century (U)
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ENGL 2333.06
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
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BA English
Sam Houston State University (1976)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (1977)

PHD English
Texas A&M University (1998)

Women's Literature (24+ hrs)

  • ???FBOOK: Dancing in the Flames: Spiritual Journey in the Novels of Lee Smith. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc. P, 2009. ???FSELECTED ARTICLES: Censorship of 'Literary Pornography.'' Academic Exchange Quarterly 13.3 (Fall 2009): 162-66. ???F'The Emergence of the Sacred Sexual Mother in Lee Smith's Oral History.' Southern Literary Journal 31.1 (Fall 1998): 119-42. ???F'An Interview with Lee Smith.' Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 47.2 (Summer 1997): 95-118.???F'Reclamation of the Feminine Divine: 'Experiencing the Spirit Directly' in Lee Smith's Novels.' Humanities in the South 90 (2004): 28-42. ???F'Reconciliation with the Great Mother Goddess in Lee Smith's Saving Grace.' The Southern Quarterly 40.4 (Summer 2002): 97-112.???F'Spiritual Journey: An Interview with Lee Smith.' The Southern Quarterly 47.1 (Fall 2009): 74-103.
  • Numerous conference presentations on various women writers.Undergraduate Women's Literature taught for 11 years.Graduate Women's Literature taught for 5 years.
  • PhD qualifying oral and written exams in 20th century British and American women writers and critical theory. PhD dissertation on prominent woman writer. Member of Southern Women Writers Association and Society for the Study of American Women Writers.

Sharon J Worley (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1301.05
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.25
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.32
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.43
Composition I (U)
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ENGL 1301.61
Composition I (U)
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BSBA Finance
Ohio State Univ (1985)

MA Art History
Tufts University (1991)

PHD Humanities
Univ of Texas At Dallas (2007)

English Graduate Hours (24+ hrs)

  • Love Letters and the Romantic Novel during the Napoleonic Wars. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.
  • Philipp Otto Runge: The Semiotic Language of Nature and Patriotism. The European Legacy 15:1 (2010): 15-33.
  • Mapping the Metaphysical Landscape of Cape Ann: The Reception of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalism Among the Gloucester Audiences of Rev. Amory Dwight Mayo and Fitz Hugh Lane, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Summer (2001).
  • Christina Rossetti and the Victorian Aesthetic Market Place: The Disjunctive Spectator in the Transubstantiation of the Divine. The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. XVIII.1 (Spring 2010).
  • War between the Sexes: Germaine de Stael's Corinne and Benjamin Constant's Adolphe. Lilith: A Feminist Journal (Australia) 22 (2016): 66-77.
  • Vittorio Alfieri's Pazzi Conspiracy and Don Garcia: Renaissance Brutuses in Napoleonic Italy. Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th Century. Conference Proceedings. Sapienza University. Summer 2013. Cambridge Scholars Press (2014).
  • Louise Stolberg's Florentine Salon and Germaine de Stael's Coppet Circle: Neoclassical Art , Patronage and the Code of Freedom in Napoleonic Italy. Edwin Mellen Press (2014).
  • Ethical Aesthetics and the Immutable Model in Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man and Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin. New German Review 17 (2001-2002).
  • Louise Stolberg's Florentine Salon and Germaine de Stael's Coppet Circle: Neoclassical Art , Patronage and the Code of Freedom in Napoleonic Italy. Edwin Mellen Press (2014).
  • A Feminist Analysis of Gender and Primogeniture in Neoclassical Tragedy: The Literary Politics behind the French Revolution. Edwin Mellen Press. 2012
  • Women's Literary Salons and Political Propaganda during the Napoleonic Era: The Cradle of Patriotic Nationalism. Edwin Mellen Press (2010).
  • Gendered Reconstruction in the Prince's Parlor: Stephanie Genlis and Royalist Politics. Remaking Literary History. Eds. Helen Groth and Paul Sheehan. Cambridge Scholars Press 2010.

Eugene Owen Young (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.17
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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ENGL 3364.01
Folklore (U)
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ENGL 4364.01
Mth Tch Eng In Sec Sch (U)
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ENGL 4375.04
Special Problems In English (U)
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BA English
West Texas A&M State Univ (1968)

MA English
West Texas A&M State Univ (1975)

PHD English
Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville (1979)

American Literature (24+ hrs)

  • Dean, Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, 2006-15. Interim Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013-14
  • "Texas Music at the Crossroads." National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Houston, TX, March 2002."Between the Wish and the Thing: The Battle of Zacatecas and Mexican History in All the Pretty Horses." National Conference of the Cormac McCarthy Society, San Antonio, TX, October 1999."Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.
  • Honored for "Extraordinary and Sustained Service" to the College English Association, awarded at the National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.
  • Article: "Joanna Burden as Joe Christmas' Alter Ego." The Rectangle, Spring, 1976.Proceedings: "Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on College Composition and Communications.

Elizabeth Ching-In Chen (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.B6
Composition II (U)
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ENGL 3380.B1
Advanced Composition (U)
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ENGL 3382.B1
Intro Creative Writing: Poetry (U)
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BA English
Tufts University (1999)

MFA Creative Writ for Perform Arts
Univ of Calif-Riverside (2010)

PHD English
Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2015)

 
  • BOOKS PUBLISHED: 'recombinant.' Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2017. 'The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems.' Los Angeles: Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009.

Alice Mary Marcom (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 1302.B1
Composition II (U)
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BA Modern and Medieval Languages
New Hall Cambridge (1977)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2006)

English (24+ hrs)

  • 'Returning to Johnny Texas: A New Look at a Classic Work for Children.' American Studies Association of Texas, San Antonio, TX, 19 November 2004.
  • As a Graduate Assistant, completed ENG 567, Practicum in Teaching College Composition.

Carroll F. Nardone (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.B4
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
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BA Broadcasting
Univ of Texas-El Paso (1982)

MA Journalism
Ohio State Univ (1986)

PHD Rhetoric & Prof Communication
New Mexico State University (2002)

Rhetoric & Writing Studies (24+ hrs)

  • Selected Publications: "Beyond Grammar: Tracking Perceptions of Quality in Student E-mail." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. (2017): 1-29. (Co-author: Brian Blackburne) "Critical Inquiry Across the Disciplines: Strategies for Student-Generated Problem Posing," College Teaching 59.1 (2011): 13-22.(Co-author: Renee Gravois) "Assessment Strategies as Formative Evaluation." Academic Exchange Quarterly. 9.3 (2005): 293-298. "Seeing and Reading through the Culture of War." Academic Exchange Quarterly. 9.4 (2005): 204-209. (Co-author: Tracy Bilsing) "Complicating Tensions and Reproducing Culture: Searching for Models in Technical and Scientific Communication.' Published proceedings of the annual meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Utah State U, Logan, UT. 3-5 October 2002. Ed. Ann Blakeslee. Ann Arbor, MI: CPTSC, 2003. 49-51.'The Global Impact of E-Mail'. Eds. Alkhafaji, A. and Biberman, J., Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: UP of America, 2002: 203-208. (Co-authors: Louis K. Falk and Sharaf Rehman)'Integrated Marketing Texts and Hidden Ideologies,' Eds. Alkhafaji, A. and Biberman, J., Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives. Lanham, Maryland: UP of America, 2001: 51-55.
  • Industry-related research:'Driving the Workplace: Preparing Students to Define and Manipulate Information Technologies.' Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 4-6 October 2007. 'Responding to Forces of Change in Industry: Single Sourcing, Postmodern Theory, and Technical Writing Pedagogy.' Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association annual meeting. Couer D' Alene, ID. 23-25 October 2005.
  • Historical Research:'Historical Precedence in Ways of Knowing: Early American Scientific Texts and their Postmodern Culture.' Association for Teachers of Technical Writing annual meeting. New York, NY. 21 March 2007. 'New Literary Spaces: Scientific Texts in the Early American Republic' Northeast Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, PA. 2-5 March 2006. 'Early American Scientific Texts: Building a Community of Authority.' Poster Presentation. Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. San Francisco, CA. 16 March 2005.
  • Textbook: Technical Communication as Problem Solving. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2011. (Co-authors: Molly K. Johnson and Teena A. M. Carnegie). Journal co-editor: "World Religions and Professional Communication: Theories and Practices of the Discipline" Special Issue: Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization. Vol. 9 (2016) ISSN: 2153-9480 (co editors: David Alan Sapp and Barry Thatcher)

Jason M Payton (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3360.B1
Survey Of American Lit To 1865 (U)
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BA Humanities
Milligan College (2000)

MA English
Univ of Kentucky (2005)

PHD English Language & Literature
Univ of Maryland-College Park (2012)

 
N/A

Angela Elisabeth Shaffer (P) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.B1
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
Catalog    Syllabus

BA English
Angelo State University (2005)

MA English
Angelo State University (2008)

 
N/A

April A Shemak (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 2333.B1
World Lit II: 17th C & After (U)
Catalog    Syllabus

BA French
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (1993)

BA English
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison (1993)

MA English
Univ of Maryland-College Park (1998)

PHD English Language & Literature
Univ of Maryland-College Park (2003)

English Literature: Postcolonial Literature and Theory (24+ hrs)

English Literature: Postcolonial Literature and Theory (24+ hrs)

  • Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies
  • 'Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones,' Modern Fiction Studies, special issue: 'Postmodernism and the Globalization of English' ed. Michael Berube. 48:1 (Spring 2002) 83-112. 'Alter/Natives: Myth, Translation and the Native Informant in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale,' Textual Practice,19:3 (2005) 353-372. 'A Wounded Discourse: The Poetics of Disease in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban,' Postcolonial Text, 2:3 (June 2006) 1-23.
  • Enhancement Grant for Professional Development, Sam Houston State University, May 2008-June 2009,Enhancement Grant for Professional Development, Sam Houston State University, June2007-May 2008. Faculty Research Enhancement Grant. Sam Houston State University. Summer 2006.
  • Book chapters Literary and Linguistic Crossings: The Shifting Boundaries of Anglophone Caribbean Literature.Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. Supriya Nair. (New York: MLA, 2012): 131-154. Refugee and Asylum Seeker Postcolonial Travel Writing. Postcolonial Travel Writing. Edited by Robert Clarke, Cambridge University Press, 6000 words. (submitted, contract signed, invited) Interdict: Scenes of Military Maritime Encounter. Caribbean Military Encounters. Eds. Shalini Puri and Lara Putnam, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016. Encyclopedia Entries Caribbean Literature, Criticism and Theory. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ray, Sangeeta, Henry Schwarz, Jos?? Luis Villaca??as Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak (eds). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2016, 4983 words. Postcolonial Refugee Narratives. Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 3400 words, (invited submission).
  • Articles Re/writing Reconciliation in Merle Collins???s Angel. Caribbean Quarterly. 60.1 (March 2014): 42-60. ???The Cartographic Dimensions of Humanitarianism: Mapping Refugee Spaces in Post-Earthquake Haiti.??? Cultural Dynamics, 26.3 (Nov. 2014): 251-275.
  • Book Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse (Fordham University Press, 2011).
  • Edited Volume Associate Editor, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, General Editors: Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. Associate Editors: Jose Luis Villacanas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. 3 volumes, 1728 pages (print).
  • Coordinator, American Studies Minor
  • Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2013.

Brandon C Strubberg (F) - Vita

Courses Taught Degrees & Graduate Course Credits Earned Other Qualifications
ENGL 3330.B5
Intro To Technical Writing (U)
Catalog    Syllabus

BA English
Sam Houston State University (2008)

MA English
Sam Houston State University (2010)

PHD Tech Communication & Rhetoric
Texas Tech University (2017)

Literature (24+ hrs)

Research Methods (12 hrs)

Technical Communication (24+ hrs)

Rhetorical Theory/Analysis (24+ hrs)

  • Technical Writing Consultant, Welltec (oil and gas service provider), 2012-present
  • Associate Scientific Editor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2016-17
  • Published medical writer: Strubberg, Brandon C. (March 2017) Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer: Clinical trial compares outcomes of intensity-modulated proton therapy, standard radiation therapy. OncoLog. 62.3; Strubberg, Brandon C. (November/December 2016) Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Innovative Study Uses Molecular Testing to Assign Patients to Clinical Trials. OncoLog. 61.11; Strubberg, Brandon C. (September 2016) Nivolumab for Anal Cancer Treatment: Immunotherapy Drug Shows Potential in Treating Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anal Canal. OncoLog. 61.9; Strubberg, Brandon C. (June 2016) House Call: Types of Radiation Treatment: Various Techniques are used to Treat Cancer with Radiation. OncoLog. 61.6.
  • Editorial Assistant (independent contractor), Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2014-15