Cal State LA Department of English | Faculty and Staff

Chair

Linda M. Greenberg, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor
Department Chair
E: lgreenb2@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Ethnic American Literature;
Women's Literature; 20th Century American Literature
 

Staff

Alfredo Rodriguez
Administrative Support Coordinator
E: arodr213@calstatela.edu
 
To contact any of the faculty and staff, please click their email addresses and an email window will appear. 

Literary Studies

Michael Calabrese, Ph.D.
Professor
E: mcalabr@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Medieval literature; Chaucer; Piers Plowman; Classical studies
 
Linda M. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department Chair
E: lgreenb2@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Ethnic American
Literature; Women's Literature; 20th
Century American Literature
 
Lauren Heintz, Ph.D.
CSGS Director
Assistant Professor
E: lheintz@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Multi-ethnic US literature; Queer studies; Gender studies
 
Nicole Horejsi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E: nhorejs@calstatela.edu
Specializations: 18th century British
literature; Neoclassicism; Women's
writing; Classical studies
 
Martin E. Huld, Ph.D.
FERP Professor 
E: mhuld@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Linguistics; History of the English language; Language and culture
 
Steven S. Jones, Ph.D.
FERP Professor [On leave Fall 2020]
E: sjones@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Folklore; Children's Literature
 
Maria Karafilis, Ph.D.
ACP Director
Professor
E: mkarafi@calstatela.edu
Specializations: American literature to 1900;  Narratives of citizenship and belonging 
 
Andrew L. Knighton, Ph.D.
Professor
E: aknight@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Critical and cultural theory; American literature to 1900; Cultural studies; Modern poetry and
poetics; Radical and left traditions
 
Atef Laouyene, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E: alaouye@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Postcolonial studies; Anglo-phone literatures; Critical theory; Arab diaspora studies
 
Jun Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
E: jliu@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Critical theory; 20th Century American literature
 
Caroline McManus, Ph.D.
Associate Chair
Professor
E: cmcmanu@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Shakespeare; 16th and 17th Century English literature; Women's studies
 
Sarah Minslow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E: sminslo@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Children's & Young adult literature
 
Ruben Quintero, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
E: rquinte@calstatela.edu
Specializations: 18th Century British literature
 
Bidhan Roy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E: broy@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Postcolonial literature; 20th century literature; Narrative therapy
 
Lauri Scheyer, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
E: lramey@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Creative writing; Lyric poetry and poets; African American literature; Intersection of critical and creative writing; Formally innovative literature; Modernism and postmodernism; Black British writing
 
Alison Taufer, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
E: ataufer@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Medieval and Reanaissance drama; Shakespeare; Arthurian literature; 16th century English prose
 
 
 

Comp/Rhet/Linguistics

Mais Al Khateeb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E: malkhat7@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Transnational Feminisms; Posthumanism; New Materialisms; Feminist Phenomenology
 
Joshua Adachi, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jadachi2@calstatela.edu
Specializations: First-year writing
 
Jeffery Anderson, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jeffery.anderson25@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Nicole Arslan, M.A.
Lecturer
E: nicole.arlsan2@calstatela.edu
Specializations: First-year writing
 
Emily Baird, M.A.
Lecturer
E: ebaird@calstatela.edu
Specializations: First-year writing
 
Megan Bowe, M.A.
Lecturer
E: mbowe2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

James Briggs, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jbriggs4@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Katrine Chakmakchian, M.A.
Lecturer
E: katrine.chakmakchian3
@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Paul Cheng, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: pcheng8@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Deborah Conway de Prieto, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: dconway2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Christine Danelski, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: christine.danelski4@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Daven Desai, M.A.
Lecturer
E: daven.desai3@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede, Ph.D.
First-Year Writing Director
Assistant Professor
E: ddyckho@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Translingual writing theory; Rhetorics of US Empire; First-year writing; Writing Pedagogy; Writing program administration; 20th century American literature; Ethnic American literature
 
Florence Emch, M.A.
Lecturer
E: femch@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Tsoleen Feghali, M.A.
Lecturer
E: tsoleen.donoyan2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Aaron Gebhardt, M.A.
Lecturer
E: aaron.gebhardt2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Renee Grodsky, M.A.
Lecturer
E: rgrodsk2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Leone Hankey, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: lhankey@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Christopher S. Harris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E: charris3@calstatela.edu
Specializations: History of composition & instruction; Writing pedagogy; Digital rhetorics;
Objectives-based writing
assessment
 
Margaret Hart, M.A.
Lecturer
E: mhart2@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Ximena Hernandez, M.A.
Lecturer
E: xhernan@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Fred Hess, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: fhess@calstatela.edu
Specializations: First-year writing; Creative writing
 
Jennifer Hicks, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jhicks4@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Victoria Holladay, M.A.
Lecturer
E: vhollad@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Noelle Kahwaji, M.A.
Lecturer
E: nkahwaj@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Rebecca Kershman, M.A.
Lecturer
E: rebecca.kershman@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Jan Kraft, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: jkraft@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing; Creative writing

Daniel Lambert, M.A.
Lecturer
E: dlamber3@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Jung Lee, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jlee388@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Lianna Manukyan, M.A.
Lecturer
E: lianna.manukyan4@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Karen McDermott, M.A.
Lecturer
E: kmcderm4@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Andrew Montana, M.A.
Lecturer
E: andrew.montana7@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Judy Olson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: jolson3@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Kathryn Perry, Ph.D.
Graduate Advisor
Assistant Professor
E: kperry4@calstatela.edu
Specializations: Community Literacy and Literacy Studies; Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Ethnography and Ethnographic Methods; Qualitative Research; Narrative 
Theory; Actor-Network Theory
 
Phil Poulos, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: ppoulos@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Jorge Ribeiro, M.A.
Lecturer
E: jribeir@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Benito Solis, M.A.
Lecturer
E: bsolis11@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Albert Vargas, M.A.
Lecturer
E: avarga14@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

Niklas Watanabe, M.A.
Lecturer
E: niklas.watanabe@calstatela.edu

Specializations: First-year writing

 

Creative Writing

Simon Black, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: sblack@calstatela.edu
Specialization: Creative writing; First-year writing
 
Mary B. Bush, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
E: mbush@calstatela.edu
 
Elisabeth Houston, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: ehousto3@calstatela.edu

Specialization: Creative writing; First-year writing

Veronica Reyes, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: vreyes7@calstatela.edu
Specialization: Creative writing; First-year writing
 

Faculty Emeritus

Betty Bamberg, Ph.D.
Sharon Bassett, Ph.D.
Alfred Benedixen, Ph.D.
Peter A. Brier, Ph.D.
Mary B. Bush, Ph.D.
Robert Cantú, Ph.D.
Hema Chari, Ph.D.
John L. Cleman, Ph.D.
Saralyn R. Daly, Ph.D.
Melvin Donalson, Ph.D.
Marilyn R. Elkins, Ph.D.
James Garrett, Ph.D.
Rosemary L. Hake, Ph.D.
Martin E. Huld, Ph.D.
Steve S. Jones, Ph.D.
Barry Munitz, Ph.D.
Elaine Osio, Ph.D.
Thomas H. Peterson, Ph.D.
Vilma Potter, Ph.D.
Ruben D. Quintero, Ph.D.
Sidney Richman, Ph.D.
Alice M. Roy, Ph.D.
Carl M. Selkin, Ph.D.
Timothy Steele, Ph.D.
Gaby Stuart, Ph.D.
Alison Taufer, Ph.D.
John H. Weston, Ph.D.