Faculty/Staff
English Department Faculty/Staff
Andrea R. Harbin (She/her/hers)
Title(s):
- Department Chair
- Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
- More Info URL about Andrea R. Harbin
- Research Interests: Medieval Drama, Digital Humanities
Katherine Ahern
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
Ivana Ancic

Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Andrew R Anderson
Title(s):
- Lecturer I
Department(s):
- English Department
Mr. Kofi Antwi (He/Him)

Title(s):
- Adjunct Lecturer
Department(s):
- English Department
Stephanie Ballard
Title(s):
- Office Assistant 1 (Keyboarding)
Department(s):
- English Department
Heather A Bartlett
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
Geoffrey E Bender
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Linda M Berquist

Department(s):
- English Department
Ross Borden
Title(s):
- Lecturer I
Department(s):
- English Department
Teagan Bradway (she/they)
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
- More Info URL about Teagan Bradway
- Research Interests: Contemporary American Literature, Queer and Trans Studies, LGBTQ+ Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory
Gabriel T. Colella
Title(s):
- Instructor
Department(s):
- English Department
Laura J. Panning Davies
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
Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
- More Info URL about Abigail Droge
- 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
Title(s):
- Instructor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
Sandra Dutkowsky

Title(s):
- Adjunct Lecturer
Department(s):
- English Department
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
Title(s):
- Administrative Assistant 1
Department(s):
- English Department
(retired) T Franke
Title(s):
- Professor, English and Professional Writing
- Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
Megan Frisbie
Title(s):
- Adjunct Lecturer
Department(s):
- English Department
Kathy Hemingway Jones

Title(s):
- Lecturer I
Department(s):
- English Department
Mario Hernandez
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
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
Matthew W Lessig
Title(s):
- Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
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
Title(s):
- Lecturer III
Department(s):
- English Department
Dr. Andrée R. Myers (she/her/hers)

Title(s):
- Lecturer II
Department(s):
- English Department
Lisa D Neville
Title(s):
- Instructor
Department(s):
- English Department
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
Title(s):
- Lecturer IV
Department(s):
- English Department
R Edward Porter

Title(s):
- Adjunct Lecturer
Department(s):
- English Department
Daniel Radus
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Department(s):
- Native American Studies
- English Department
Additional Info:
Adrienne Raw (she/her)

Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
James F. Reardon
Title(s):
- Lecturer II
Department(s):
- English Department
Deborah Rogers
Title(s):
- Adjunct Lecturer
Department(s):
- English Department
Danica Savonick

Title(s):
- Assistant Professor
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
- URL
- More info URL about Danica Savonick
- 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
Title(s):
- Coordinator of the Writing Center
Department(s):
- English Department
Additional Info:
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

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
Title(s):
- Lecturer IV
Department(s):
- English Department