Cal State LA Department of English | Faculty and Staff

Chair

Linda M. Greenberg, Ph.D. 
Professor
Department Chair
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Specializations: Ethnic American Literature; 
Women's and Gender Studies; 20th Century American Literature;
Community Engagement Practices in English
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 

Staff

Laura Espinoza
Administrative Support Assistant
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Literary Studies

Michael Calabrese, Ph.D.
Professor
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Specializations: Medieval literature; Chaucer; Piers Plowman; Classical studies
Pronouns: he/him/his
 
Linda M. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Department Chair
E: [email protected]
Specializations: Ethnic American
Literature; Women's and Gender Studies;
20th Century American Literature;
Community Engagement Practices in English
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 
Ren Heintz, Ph.D.
CSGS Director
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Multi-ethnic US literature; Queer studies;
Gender studies
Pronouns: they/them/their
 
Nicole Horejsi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Specializations: 18th century British
literature; Neoclassicism; Women's
writing; Classical studies
 
Martin E. Huld, Ph.D.
FERP Professor 
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Specializations: Linguistics; History of the English language; Language and culture
 
Maria Karafilis, Ph.D.
Associate Chair
ACP Director
Professor
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Specializations: American literature to 1900;  Narratives of citizenship and belonging 
 
Andrew L. Knighton, Ph.D.
Professor
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Specializations: Critical and cultural theory; American literature to 1900; Cultural studies; Modern poetry and
poetics; Radical and left traditions
 
Juan P. Lamata, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Shakespeare; 16th and 17th century literature
in English and Spanish; literature and political economy
Pronouns: he/him/his
 
Atef Laouyene, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Specializations: Postcolonial studies; Anglo-phone literatures; Critical theory; Arab diaspora studies
 
Jun Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
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Specializations: Critical theory; 20th Century American literature
 
Caroline McManus, Ph.D.
Professor
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Specializations: Shakespeare; 16th and 17th Century English literature; Women's studies
 
Sarah Minslow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Children's & Young Adult literature
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 
Bidhan Roy, Ph.D.
Professor
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Specializations: Postcolonial literature; 20th century literature; Narrative therapy
 
Lauri Scheyer, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
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Specializations: Creative writing; Lyric poetry and poetics; African American literature; Intersection of critical and creative writing; Formally innovative literature; Modernism and postmodernism; Black British writing
Website: https://www.calstatela.edu/al/english/lauri-scheyer
 
Alison Taufer, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
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Specializations: Medieval and Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Arthurian literature; 16th century English prose
 
 
 

Writing Studies / Linguistics

Mais Al Khateeb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Transnational Feminisms; Posthumanism; New Materialisms; Feminist Phenomenology
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 
Joshua Adachi, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing
 
Jeffery Anderson, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing
Pronouns: he/him/his
 
Nicole Arslan, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 
Emily Baird, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]
Specializations: First-year writing
Pronouns: she/her/hers
 
Megan Bowe, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

James Briggs, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

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

Specializations: First-year writing

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Paul Cheng, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Deborah Conway de Prieto, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Christine Danelski, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Daven Desai, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Danelle Dyckhoff Stelzriede, Ph.D.
First-Year Writing Director
Assistant Professor
E: [email protected]
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: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Tsoleen Feghali, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Aaron Gebhardt, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Renee Grodsky, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Julie Guerrero, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Leone Hankey, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Christopher S. Harris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Specializations: History of composition & instruction; Writing pedagogy; Digital rhetorics;
Objectives-based writing
assessment
Pronouns: he/him/his or they/them/their
 
Ximena Hernandez, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Fred Hess, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]
Specializations: First-year writing; Creative writing
 
Jennifer Hicks, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Victoria Holladay, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing

Noelle Kahwaji, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Rebecca Kershman, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Jan Kraft, M.F.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing; Creative writing

Daniel Lambert, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Pronouns: he/him/his

Jung Lee, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Lianna Manukyan, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Karen McDermott, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Andrew Montana, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Judy Olson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Kathryn Perry, Ph.D.
Graduate Advisor
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Community Literacy and Literacy Studies; Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Ethnography and Ethnographic Methods; Qualitative Research; Narrative 
Theory; Actor-Network Theory
 
Md Mijanur Rahman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Specializations: Second Language Writing; First-Year Composition;Translingualism;Genre Theories;Intercultural Pragmatics;Critical Applied Socialinguistics
Preferred pronouns: he/him/his
 
Jorge Ribeiro, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing

Elizabeth Saikaly, M.A.
Lecturer
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Specializations: First-year writing

Benito Solis, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Albert Vargas, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

Niklas Watanabe, M.A.
Lecturer
E: [email protected]

Specializations: First-year writing

 

Creative Writing

Mary B. Bush, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
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Elisabeth Houston, M.F.A.
Lecturer
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Specialization: Creative writing; First-year writing

Veronica Reyes, M.F.A.
Lecturer
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Specialization: Creative writing; First-year writing
 
Lauri Scheyer, Ph.D.
FERP Professor
E: [email protected]
Specializations: Creative writing; Lyric poetry and poetics; African American literature; Intersection of critical and creative writing; Formally innovative literature; Modernism and postmodernism; Black British writing
Website: https://www.calstatela.edu/al/english/lauri-scheyer
 

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.
Lauri Scheyer, Ph.D.
Carl M. Selkin, Ph.D.
Timothy Steele, Ph.D.
Gaby Stuart, Ph.D.
Alison Taufer, Ph.D.
John H. Weston, Ph.D.