Graduate Faculty Directory

Members of the graduate faculty have the depth and breadth of preparation and experience to offer students a full and well-balanced curriculum. They hold degrees from universities throughout the United States and include dedicated, published scholars committed to providing expert instruction within small seminar classes. In the creative writing program, resident faculty and renowned guest writers work with our students in intimate classes with a workshop atmosphere.

	Wes Atkinson Associate Professor Email: atkinsonr@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7215 Office: Harned Hall, Room 203 Ph.D. (Lehigh University) 19th-C American Literature, Early American Literature, Native American Literature
	Linda Crenshaw Professor Email: barnesla@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7119 Office: Harned Hall, Room 220 Ph.D. (Vanderbilt) American Literature, Southern Writers.
	Florian Gargaillo Assistant Professor Email: gargaillof@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7871 Office: Harned Hall, Room 236 Ph.D. in English Literature Boston University
	Katherine Honea Associate Professor E-mail: honeak@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7117 Office: Harned Hall, Room 223 Ph.D. (University of Florida) Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics)
	Stephen Kershner Assistant Professor, Classics Email: kershners@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-6828 Office: Harned Hal, Room 214 Ph.D. (SUNY Buffalo) Latin Literature, Roman Social History, Literary History
	Andrew Kostakis Assistant Professor Email: kostakisa@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7339 Office: Harned Hall, Room 105 Ph.D. (Indiana University - Bloomington) Linguistics and Germanic Studies
No photo available	David Major Professor Email: majord@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7927 Office: Harned Hall, Room 228 Ph.D. (Oklahoma State University) Technical Writing
No photo available	Cynthia McWilliams Associate Professor Email: mcwilliamsc@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7874 Office: Harned Hall, Room 232 Ph.D. (Southern Illinois) Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistics
	Daniel P. Shea Professor Email: shead@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7895 Office: Harned Hall, Room 230 Ph.D. University of Oregon British Victorian
	Marisa Sikes Assistant Professor Email: sikesm@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7212 Office: Harned Hall, Room 234 Ph.D. University of New Mexico British Medieval
	Karen D. Sorenson Professor Email: sorensonk@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-6246 Office: Harned Hall, Room 142 Ph.D. (Vanderbilt) French and Art History
	Andrea Spofford Associate Professor Email: spofforda@live63.net Phone: 221-7869 Office: Harned Hall, Room 118 Ph.D. (The University of Southern Mississippi) Creative Writing, Poetry
	Mickey Wadia Professor Email: wadiam@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7448 Office: Harned Hall, Room 227 Ph.D. (Southwestern Louisiana) Shakespeare, Technical Writing
No photo available	Charla White-Major Associate Professor Email: majorc@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7133 Office: Harned Hall, Room 212 Ph.D. (Oklahoma State University) 19th Century American Lit. Composition
No photo available	Paula White Assistant Professor Email: whitep@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7864 Office: Harned Hall, 235 Ph.D. (University of Arkansas) African American Literature, Women's Studies
No photo available	Jesse Williams, Jr. Assistant Professor Email: williamsjl1@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7885 Office: Harned Hall, 141 MFA (Screenwriting, Hollins University) Ph.D. (Middle Tennessee State University) African American Literature, Film Studies, Screenwriting
	Timothy Winters Professor Email: winterst@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7118 Office: Harned Hall, Room 212 Ph.D. (Ohio State) Classical Languages and Literature
	Amy Wright Professor Email: wrighta@live63.net Phone: (931) 221-7714 Office: Harned Hall, Room 215 Ph.D. (Denver). Creative Writing Non-Fiction CECA Representative for Creative Writing

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