Department of English and Theatre

English and Theatre
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6246
Fax: 910.775.4092
Relay: 910.521.6246
Email: Click here

Location: Dial Humanities Building, Suite 104
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faculty and staff

CHAIRPERSON

	*Virginia K. McClanahan, Professor and Chair; Coordinator of ESL and Speech Programs Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email:* kay.mcclanahan@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6633 Office: Dial 105 Office Hours: Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri: 11:00 -12:00 and 1:00 - 2:00 Areas: Speech, Linguistics, English as a Second Language



ENGLISH FACULTY

	*Kathryn Allen, Lecturer, College Opportunity Program M.A., East Carolina University Email:* kathryn.allen@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6492 Office: DF Lowry 125 Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00 - 12:00, 2:30 - 3:30, and Tues/Thurs 9:10 - 1:30 Areas: composition theory, mythology, science fiction/fantasy writing, and popular culture

	Robert Arndt, Part-Time Lecturer and Reference/Instructional Services Librarian Email: robert.arndt@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6529 Office: Mary Livermore Library 105

	*Mike Berntsen, Lecturer Ph.D., University of Louisiana, Lafayette Email:* michael.berntsen@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4370 Office: Dial 133 Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00 - 11:00, 12:15 - 1:30, and Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 2:45 Areas: English & Spanish Renaissance, Theatre History, Composition, Creative Writing, and Pop Culture Studies

	*M. J. Braun, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona Email:* mary.braun@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6814 Office: Dial 114A Office Hours: Mon 10:00 - 12:00 and 1:00 - 2:00, Tues/Thurs 1:45 - 3:00 Areas: History of Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Political Economy, Public and Disciplinary Discourse, Composition and Critical Pedagogy

	*Nancy Britt, Part-time Lecturer Email:* nancy.britt@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6246 Office: Dial 151

	*Monika Brown, Professor Ph.D., Duke University Email:* monika.brown@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6257 Office: Dial 110 Office Hours: Mon 10:00 - 11:00, 2:30 - 3:30, Wed/Fri 12:15 - 1:15, and Thurs 5:00 - 6:00. Areas: British Novel, World Literature, Victorian Studies, Literature in Music and Film, Composition & English Education Home Page Profile

	*Mark Canada, Professor and Dean of Arts and Sciences Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Email: mark.canada@uncp.edu Phone:* 910.521.6431 Office: Hickory Hall Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 8:00 - 10:00 Areas: American Literature and English Language Home Page Profile

	*Susan Cannata, Professor Ph.D., University of New Mexico Email:* susan.cannata@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6806 Office: Dial 117 Office Hours: Tues 11:00 - 1:00 and Wed 3:00 - 6:00 (yet, on the first Wednesday of each month, Wed 5:00 - 6:00) Areas: Victorian Literature and The Novel

	*Youngsuk Chae,* Assistant Professor Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Email: youngsuk.chae@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4290 Office: Dial 119 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:30 - 2:30 and 3:45 - 5:00, Thurs 1:15 - 2:00 Areas: Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, Asian American Literature

	*Polina Chemishanova, Assistant Professor and Director of Composition Ph.D., New Mexico State University Email:* polina.chemishanova@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4256 Office: Dial 239A Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 10:00 - 11:00 and 1:00 - 2:30, and Wed 10:00 - 1:00 Areas: Writing in the Disciplines, Professional Writing, WPA, Writing Program Assessment, Composition, Literacy Studies

	*Teagan Decker, Assistant Professor and Director of the University Writing Center Ph.D., University of Washington Email:* teagan.decker@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6437 Office: Lowry 313 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 12:00 - 2:00 and Tue/Thurs 10:00 - 11:00 Areas: Composition, Rhetoric, Language Profile

	*Michael Fairley, Part-time Lecturer Email: michael.fairley@uncp.edu michaelf@richmond.cc.nc.us M.A., North Carolina A & T University Phone:* 910.521.6246 Office: Dial 151 Areas: English, African American Literature, Communications

	*Michele Fazio, Assistant Professor Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook Email:* michele.fazio@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4371 Office: Dial 113 Office Hours: Tues 2:00 - 3:00, Wed 5:30 -6:30, Thurs 9:30 - 12:30 Areas: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Working-Class Studies, Service-Learning Faculty Fellow

	*Denise Feikema, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Connecticut Email:* denise.feikema@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4362 Office: Dial 118 Office Hours:Tues 2:45 - 4:45 and Wed 12:15 - 3:15 Areas: English Education, Multiethnic Literature, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Women's Literature

	*Jan Gane, Lecturer M.A., The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email:* jan.gane@uncp.edu Phone: 910.522.5753 Office: Dial 250 Office Hours: Tues / Thurs 7:30 - 9:30 (AM) and Wed 8:00 - 9:00. Area: Composition

	*Anita R. Guynn, Associate Professor Ph.D., University of South Carolina Email:* anita.guynn@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6880 Office: Dial 260C Office Hours: Mon 1:00 - 4:00 and Tues 12:30 - 1:30 Areas: Composition, Developmental Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Assessment, Service-Learning Faculty Fellow

	*Steven Hedgpeth, Lecturer M.A., The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email:* steven.hedgpeth@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6784 Office: Dial 151 Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Thurs 10:00 - 11:00, 12:05-12:35, and Mon/Wed 3:45-4:00 Areas: Composition and Literature

	*Thomas Heffernan, Lecturer P.hD., Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) Email: thomas.heffernan@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4239 Office:* Dial 139 Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:00 and Wed 2:00 - 5:00 Areas: Modernism, Early 20th Century American/British Literature, Early 17th Century Studies, Composition, Creative Writing

	*Jim Helgeson, Lecturer Ph.D., Indiana University Email:* jim.helgeson@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6487 Office: Dial 138C Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 3:15 - 4:15 and Wed 11:00 - 2:00. Areas: Literary Theory, History of the Novel

	*Karen Helgeson, Professor and Faculty Advisor, Student Publication, The Aurochs* M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Email: karen.helgeson@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6436 Office: Dial 107 Office Hours: Tues 3:30 - 5:00 and Wed 1:30 - 5:00 Areas: Modernism, Creative Writing, and Contemporary Literature

	*Scott Hicks,* Associate Professor Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Email: scott.hicks@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4032 Office: Dial 115 Office Hours: Mon 10:00 - 11:15 and Wed 10:00 - 2:00 Areas: African American Literature, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Environmental Literature Home Page Profile

	*Eun Hee Jeon, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Northern Arizona University Email:* eunhee.jeon@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6842 Office: Dial 260B Office Hours: Monday 4:00 - 6:30 and Tues/Thurs 10:45 - 12:30 Areas: Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Second Language Reading, Sociolinguistics, and Pragmatics

	*Deana C. Johnson, Lecturer and Director of College Opportunity Program M.A., The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email:* deana.johnson@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6470 Office: D. F. Lowry 126 Office Hours: Mon 11:00 - 12:00, Tues 11:00 - 1:00, Wed 9:00 - 10:00, Thurs 11:00 - 1:00, Fri 9:00 - 10:00 - 11:00 - 12:00 Area: First Year Transitions

	*Brigitte Knight,* Lecturer M.A., The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email: brigitte.knight@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6484 Office: Dial 138B Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:00 - 3:30 Area: Composition

	*Roger A. Ladd, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in English Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison Email:* roger.ladd@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6624 Office: Dial 121 Office Hours:Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00 - 11:00 and Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:00 Areas: Medieval Studies, British Literature, and Composition Profile

	*Ron Layne, Part-time Lecturer Email:* ronald.layne@uncp.edu, layner@sandhills.edu Phone: 910.521.6246 Office: Dial 151

	*Walter Lewallen, Lecturer Ph.D., University of South Florida Email:* walter.lewallen@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4154 Office: Dial 151 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:30 - 2:30, Tues 2:00 - 3:00, Thurs 10:00 - 11:00, and in Lindsey-Petris 103 at RCC on Thurs 5:00 - 6:00 Areas: Twentieth-Century British & American Literature, Literary Theory

	*David Marquard, Assistant Professor; Web Information Coordinator Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno Email:* david.marquard@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6429 Office: Dial 138A Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:00 - 1:30 Areas: Critical Literacy and Sociolinguistics, Basic Writing, and Writing Program Assessment Web Site

	*Dennis McGlothin, Lecturer M.A., University of Dayton Email:* dennis.mcglothin@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6430 Office: Dial 239C Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 12:00 - 2:00 and Wed/Fri 2:30 - 3:30 Areas: Composition Studies and American Drama

	*Cynthia Miecznikowski, Associate Professor and Project Coordinator, NASNTI III Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Email: cynthia.miecznikowski@uncp.edu Phone:* 910.522.5749 Office: Dial 249 Office Hours: Monday 10:00 - 12:00 and Tues 2:00 - 5:00 Areas: Rhetorical History, Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice; Writing and the Essay

	*Wendy Pearce Miller, Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair Ph.D., University of Mississippi Email: wendy.miller@uncp.edu Phone:* 910.521.6886 Office: Dial 120 Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 10:00 - 11:00 and 12:10 - 1:10 and Tues/Thurs 11:00 - 12:00 Areas: American Literature, Southern Literature

	*Frank B. Myers, Jr., Lecturer M.A., University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email: frank.myers@uncp.edu Phone: 910.522.5798 Office:* Dial 111 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 11:15 - 12:15, Tues 9:00-11:00, and Thurs 9:00 - 10:00 Areas: Literature and Composition

	*Sara Oswald, Senior Lecturer and Yearbook Advisor M.A., Rutgers University Email:* sara.oswald@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6566 Office: Dial 112 Office Hours:Mon/Wed/Fri 1:30 - 2:30 and Tues/Thurs 12:30 - 1:30 Areas: British Literature, Composition, Publication Editing and Design

	*Catherine Parisian, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia Email:* catherine.parisian@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4291 Office: Dial 116 Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 10:00 - 12:30 and Tues 1:45 - 3:15 Areas: Eighteenth-Century British Literature, The Novel, Book History Profile

	*Jesse Peters, Professor Ph.D., University of New Mexico Email: jesse.peters@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6635 Office:* Dial 260A Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 8:30 - 9:30 and 1:30 - 2:30, and on line: Mon/Wed 8:00 - 9:00 Areas: Native American Literature, Modernism, Language and Rhetoric, Creative Writing Home Page

	*Jessica Pitchford, Assistant Professor and Editor of Pembroke Magazine M.F.A., McNeese State University Ph.D., Florida State University Email: jessica.pitchford@uncp.edu Phone:* 910.521.6433 Office: Dial 102 Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 and Wed 1:30 - 3:30 Areas: Creative Writing

	*Christie Poteet, Part-time Lecturer and Director of Service-Learning Email:* christina.poteet@uncp.edu Phone: 910.775.4296 Office: Old Main 124

	*Therese Rizzo, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Delaware Email:* therese.rizzo@uncp.edu Phone: 910.522.5802 Office: Dial 108 Office Hours: Mon 2:00 - 2:30 / Tues 3:00 - 3:30, 6:00 - 6:30 / Wed 2:00 - 2:30 & 4:00 - 5:00 / Thurs 5:00 - 7:00 Areas: American Literature, African American Literature, Women’s Literature

	*Melissa Schaub, Associate Professor and Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for SASR Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison Email:* melissa.schaub@uncp.edu Phone: 910.522.5794 Office: Lowry 322 Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 8:30 - 9:30 Areas: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Women's Literature Profile

	*Dennis Sigmon, Professor Ph.D., Purdue University Email:* dennis.sigmon@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6312 Office: Dial 239B Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 12:00 - 2:00 Wed 2:30 - 3:30 and Fri 2:30 - 3:30 Areas: English Literature and Languages

	*Robin L. Snead, Lecturer, College Opportunity Program M.A., The University of North Carolina, Pembroke Email:* robin.snead@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6469 Office: D. F. Lowry 127 Office Hours: Mon 11:00 - 12:00, Tues 1:00 - 2:00, Wed 11:00 - 12:00, and Fri 10:00 - 12:00 Areas: Composition, English Literature

	*Charles Tita, Associate Professor and Director of Distance Education Ph.D., Howard University Email:* charles.tita@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6352 Office: Distance Education, West Office Building Office Hours: Mon 4:00- 6:00 and Tues/Thurs 10:30 - 12:00 Areas: Eighteenth-Century British Literature, African American Literature, Critical Theory

	*Richard R. Vela, Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Email:* richard.vela@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6600 Office: Dial 121A Office Hours: On Directed Academic Leave, Spring 2013 Areas: Shakespeare, Film, Contemporary and Latino Literature

THEATRE FACULTY

	*Holden G. Hansen, Professor M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin Email:* holden.hansen@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6774 Office: Givens Performing Arts Center, 2nd Floor Office Hours: Tues 12:30 - 2:00, 3:30 - 5:00 and Thurs 10:00 - 11:00, 3:30 - 5:00 Areas: Acting, Directing

	*Chet Jordan, Professor and Coordinator of Theatre Ph.D., Bowling Green State University Email:* chet.jordan@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6289 Office: Givens Performing Arts Center 311 Office Hours: Mon/Wed 1:00 - 3:00 and Tues/Thurs 1:00 - 2:00 Areas: Theatre and Speech Profile

	*Natalie Smith,Lecturer and Costumer/Choregrapher B.F.A., East Carolina University Email: natalie.smith@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6754 Office:* Givens Performing Arts Center, 2nd floor Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:30 and Wed 1:30 - 3:30 Areas: Costuming and Choreography

	*Gary Tremblay, Lecturer and Technical Director, Givens Performing Arts Center Email:* gary.tremblay@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6288 Office Hours: Mon/Fri 11:00 - 12:00 Office: Givens Performing Arts Center

	*David Underwood, Senior Lecturer and Designer/Production Manager, Givens Performing Art Center M.F.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Email:* david.underwood@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6408 Office: Givens Performing Arts Center 310 Office Hours: Mon/Fri 11:00 - 2:00 Area: Theater Technology Profile

STAFF

	*Emma N. Evans, Administrative Support Associate, Foreign Languages and English Composition Email:* emma.evans@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6435 Office: Dial 241

	*Tina P. Emanuel, Technology Support Technician, Director of ET Resource Center, Web Information Coordinator Email: tina.emanuel@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6358 Office:* Dial 141

	*Carolyn Price, Administrative Support Associate, English and Theatre Email:* carolyn.price@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6246 Office: Dial 131

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