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Faculty/Staff

English Department Faculty/Staff

Andrea R. Harbin (She/her/hers)

Title(s):

  • Department Chair
  • Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

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Katherine Ahern

Katherine Ahern
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Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Ivana Ancic

Ivana Ancic

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Andrew R Anderson

Andrew R Anderson
607-753-4853 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer I

Department(s):

  • English Department

Mr. Kofi Antwi (He/Him)

Mr. Kofi Antwi (He/Him)

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Stephanie Ballard

Stephanie Ballard
607-753-4308 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Office Assistant 1 (Keyboarding)

Department(s):

  • English Department

Heather A Bartlett

Heather A Bartlett
607-753-2230 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

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Geoffrey E Bender

Geoffrey E Bender
607-753-2069 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Linda M Berquist

Linda M Berquist

Department(s):

  • English Department

Ross Borden

Ross Borden
607-753-4880 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer I

Department(s):

  • English Department

Teagan Bradway (she/they)

Teagan Bradway (she/they)
607-753-2077 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

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Gabriel T. Colella

Gabriel T. Colella
607-753-4258 (Office Phone)

Title(s):

  • Instructor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Laura J. Panning Davies

Laura J. Panning Davies
607-753-4790 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric; M.S.T., University of New Hampshire, English; B.A. History and English, Le Moyne College
  • Teaching and research interests: first-year writing, writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, English education, writing assessment, writing technologies, technical writing, business communication, public rhetoric

Abigail Droge

Abigail Droge
607-753-4331 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, Reading Communities, History of Reading and Education, Literature and Science, Industrial History, Archival Methods, Public Humanities and Civic Engagement, Literary Pedagogies

Laura Dunbar

Laura Dunbar
607-753-4322 (Office Phone)

Title(s):

  • Instructor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Sandra Dutkowsky

Sandra Dutkowsky

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Augusto Luiz Facchini

Augusto Luiz Facchini

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Dr. Adam A. Ferguson (he, him, his)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer I

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Research Interests: British 19th Century Poetry, Queer Theory, Digital Culture and Composition, the Graphic Novel
  • Courses Planned, Spring 2024: CPN 101 (Writing Studies II), ENG 200 (Introduction to Literature)
  • Office Hours, Fall 2023: MWF, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM; other times by appointment
  • Education: PhD, Binghamton University, MA, SUNY Cortland, BA, Syracuse University
  • Courses Taught, Fall 2023: CPN 100 (Writing Studies I)

Lori B Foster

Lori B Foster
607-753-4307 (Office Phone)
607-753-5978 (Fax Number)
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Title(s):

  • Administrative Assistant 1

Department(s):

  • English Department

(retired) T Franke

Title(s):

  • Professor, English and Professional Writing
  • Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Megan Frisbie

Megan Frisbie
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Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Kathy Hemingway Jones

Kathy Hemingway Jones

Title(s):

  • Lecturer I

Department(s):

  • English Department

Mario Hernandez

Mario Hernandez
607-753-4889 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer IV

Department(s):

  • English Department

Dr. Jeffrey L. Jackson (he, him, his)

Title(s):

  • Instructor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Department Service: Student Engagement and Retention Committee, Anti-Racism Ad-Hoc Committee (Chair)
  • Education: Ph.D. Syracuse University M.S. Syracuse University B.A. Binghamton University

John C. Leffel

John C. Leffel
607-753-2080 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Matthew W Lessig

Matthew W Lessig
607-753-2071 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Howard Lindh

Howard Lindh

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Willnide E Lindor

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Publications: “Experience Retrieval Exercise (ERE): A Pedagogical Approach to Race and Empire.” Literature Compass, vol. 22, no.1 (Spring 2025). “Spectrum of Darkness: George Herbert's Ventriloquism of an African Woman in "Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diversi Coloris Virum.” English Literary Renaissance, vol.54, no.3 (Autumn 2024)
  • Research Interests: Early modern drama and poetry, Shakespeare, metaphysical poetry, premodern critical race studies, and gender studies
  • Education : Ph.D. English, Vanderbilt University M.A. English, Vanderbilt University B.A. English and Comparative Literature in French, Queens College

Gailanne L Mackenzie

Gailanne L Mackenzie
607-753-2220 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer III

Department(s):

  • English Department

Dr. Andrée R. Myers (she/her/hers)

Dr. Andrée R. Myers (she/her/hers)

Title(s):

  • Lecturer II

Department(s):

  • English Department

Lisa D Neville

Lisa D Neville
607-753-4854 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Instructor

Department(s):

  • English Department

James Osborne

James Osborne

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Education: BA, The University of Connecticut. MA, Brooklyn College, CUNY. PhD, The University of Arizona.
  • Research Interests: The Novel: Foundational Modernism (Conrad). High Modernism (Joyce, Faulkner, Woolf). Postwar Modernism (Ellison). American Postmodernism (Pynchon, Shetzline, Vonnegut, Kesey, et al.). Film: New Hollywood (Coppola, Scorsese, et al.). Women in New Hollywood (Elaine May, Barbara Loden). Stanley Kubrick. John Cassavetes. Classical Hollywood Horror. Science-Fiction Cinema.

Jaclyn Pittsley

Jaclyn Pittsley
607-753-4837 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer IV

Department(s):

  • English Department

R Edward Porter

R Edward Porter

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Daniel Radus

Daniel Radus
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Title(s):

  • Associate Professor

Department(s):

  • Native American Studies
  • English Department

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Adrienne Raw (she/her)

Adrienne Raw (she/her)

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

James F. Reardon

James F. Reardon
607-753-2520 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer II

Department(s):

  • English Department

Deborah Rogers

Deborah Rogers
607-753-4204 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Danica Savonick

Danica Savonick

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • URL
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  • Research Interests: 20th century and contemporary U.S. literature; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; pedagogy; American studies; social justice; critical university studies

Michael Turner

Michael Turner
607-753-5802 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Coordinator of the Writing Center

Department(s):

  • English Department

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Noah Wason (he, him, his)

Title(s):

  • Instructor

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Research Interests: Writing Pedagogies; Rhetorical History and Theory; Algorithmic Rhetorics; Surveillance Studies

Bobbie Weaver

Bobbie Weaver

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Elizabeth M. Wells

Title(s):

  • Adjunct Lecturer

Department(s):

  • English Department

Additional Info:

  • Education: PhD, English, Louisiana State University, 2018; B.A., English, University of Dallas, 2003
  • Research Interests: Disability studies; 19-20th c. social novel; American literary history and disability; Neurodiversity, autism, and cognitive disability studies in British and American literary traditions; Rhetorics of disability and embodiment

Laureen D Wells

Laureen D Wells
607-753-4881 (Office Phone)
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Title(s):

  • Lecturer IV

Department(s):

  • English Department