Faculty

Faculty & Staff Directory 

Members of the faculty have the depth and breadth of preparation and experience to offer students a full, well-balanced curriculum.

Regular Faculty and Staff

Linda Barnes
Professor
Email: barnesla@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7119
Office: Honors Building (Memorial Health) 

Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)

American Literature, Southern Writers.
Coordinator of Honors Program.

Jonathan Beasley 

Email: beasleyj@apsu.edu

Phone: (931) 221-7870

Office: Harned Hall, Rm 139

MA in English, Austin Peay State University

Beatrix Brockman
Assistant Professor
email: brockmanb@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7847

Office: Harned Hall, Rm 226 

Ph.D. German (Vanderbilt)

M.A. English (Austin Peay State University)
German  Literature

Thomas Call

Email: callt@apsu.edu

Office: Harned Hall 206

Phone: 221-7281

Ph.D. (UT Knoxville; 2005)

Mercy Cannon
Assistant Professor
Email:  cannonm@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7893
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 225, Ph.D. (U. Of Tennessee, Knoxville).

18th Century British Lit.

Culley Carson-Grefe
Professor
Email:  carsongrefec@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7596
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 213, Ph.D. (Oregon)

French & Spanish

Kenneth Cervelli
Assistant Professor
Email:  cervellik@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7864
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 235, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois)               

British Romanticism, Literature and The Environment

Sherry Clark
Administrative Assistant II
Email: clarkso@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7890
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 115,
Languages and Literature Department

MA English

Linda Davis
Associate Professor
Email:davisl@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7892
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 204, EdD (Tennessee State University)

English Education

Angelica DaSilva

Instructor

Email:dasilvaa@apsu.edu

office: Harned Hall 140

phone : (931) –221-7869

Masters of Hispanic Studies

Osvaldo Di Paolo
Assistant Professor
E-mail: dipaoloo@apsu.edu
Phone: 931-2217487
Office: Harned Hall, Rm 216, Ph.D. (University of KY).

19^th, 20^th, and 21^st century

Latin American Literature

Arthur Eaves
Associate Professor
Email:  eavesa@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7885
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 222, Ph.D. (Notre Dame).
Drama, British Literature

Jill Eichhorn
Associate Professor
Email:  eichhornje@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-6314
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 143, Ph.D. (Miami of Ohio).
American Literature, Women's Studies, Coordinator of Women's Studies. 

Taylor Emery
Instructor
Email:  emeryt@apsu.edu
Phone:  931-221-1453
Office:  FC Education Center APSUFC 117, M.A. (Austin Peay).
Composition, World Literature

Blas Falconer
Associate Professor
Email:  falconerb@apsu.edu , Ph.D. (Houston).

Creative Writing, Poetry

Lydia Fleming

Email: flemingl@apsu.edu

Phone: (931) 221-7870

Office: Harned Hall 139

MA English

Jill Franks
Professor
Email:  franksj@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7879
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 236

Reggie Forest
Instructor
Email: forestr@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-6041
office: Memorial Health, RM 112D , Ph.D. (Rutgers).
Modern British Literature, Modern Irish Literature

Dwonna Goldstone
Professor
Email:  goldstoned@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7886
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 220, Ph.D. (Texas).
African American and African Literature.

Barbara Lee Gray

Email: grayb@apsu.edu

Phone: (931) 221-6239

Office: Harned Hall 241

Master of Arts in English (Austin Peay State University)

David Guest
Associate Professor/Chair
Email:  guestd@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7860
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 116, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt).

Literary Criticism and Theory, American Literature.

Katherine Honea

Assistant Professor

E-mail:  honeak@apsu.edu

Phone: (931) 221-7117

Office: Harned Hall, Rm 223,  Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics)

Jenifer Jayne Jackson

Instructor

Email: jacksonjj@apsu.edu

M.A. in English

Johnny Jones

Assistant Professor

Email: jonesjl@apsu.edu

Office: Harned Hall 241

Phone: (931) 221-7861

M.F.A

Barry Kitterman

Professor Email:  kittermanb@apsu.edu

Phone:  (931) 221-7878

Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 219,  MFA (Montana) 

Creative Writing, Center of Excellence in Creative Arts Representative.

Pamela Roddy Magrans

Instructor

Email: magransp@apsu.edu

Office: Harned 241

M.A. in English

David Major
Associate Professor
Email:  majord@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7927
Office: Harned Hall, Rm 228, Ph.D. (Oklahoma State)
Technical Writing

Robin L. Moss

Instructor

Email: mossr@apsu.edu

Phone: (931) 221-7215

Office: Harned 103

Master of English and Master of Divinity

Wanda McNabb
Administrative Assistant II
Email:  mcnabbw@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7891
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 11, Languages and Literature Department

MA English

Cynthia McWilliams
Associate Professor
Email:  mcwilliamsc@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7874
Office: Harned Hall, Rm 232, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois)
Composition and Rhetoric, Linguistics, Chair of Freshmen Writing

Norbert Puszkar
Associate Professor
Email:  puszkarn@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-6391
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 234, Ph.D. (Southern California)

German Literature and History

Jeanie Randall
Associate Professor
Email: randallj@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7212
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 218, Ph.D. (Georgia).

Composition, Medieval Literature

Miguel R. Ruiz-Aviles
Professor
Email:  ruizavilesm@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7855
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 104, Ph.D. (Nebraska).
Spanish Literature and History.    
Director of the Hispanic Cultural  Center, Coordinator of the Study Abroad Program Spain.

Steven Ryan
Professor
Email:  ryans@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7871
Office: Harned Hall, Rm 221, Ph.D. (Utah).
Fiction, American Literature, Southern Writers.

Daniel P. Shea
Associate Professor
Email:  shead@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7895
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 230, Ph.D. University of Oregon
British Victorian

Lynn Sims
Assistant Professor
Email:  simsl@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7339
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 244, Ph.D. Arizona State University
History of the English Language

Karen D. Sorenson
Professor
Email:  sorensonk@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-6246
Office: Harned Hall, Rm 142, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt)
French Literature and History

Mickey Wadia
Professor
Email:  wadiam@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7448
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 227, Ph.D. (Southwestern Louisiana)
 Shakespeare, Technical Writing

Eloise Weatherspoon
Instructor
Email:  weatherspoone@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7594
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 204, M.A. (Austin Peay).
Composition and World Literature.

Charla White-Major
Associate Professor
Email:  white-majorc@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7133
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 212, Ph.D. (Oklahoma State University)

19th Century American Lit. Composition

Name:  Mary E. Winters

Email:    wintersm@apsu.edu

Office:  Harned Hall 204

Phone: (931) 221-6828

Master of Arts from Ohio State University

Timothy Winters
Professor
Email:  winterst@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7118
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 212, Ph.D. (Ohio State)
Classical Languages and Literature

Amy Wright
Assistant Professor
Email: wrighta@apsu.edu
Phone:  (931) 221-7714
Office:  Harned Hall, Rm 215, Ph.D. (Denver).
Creative Writing Non-Fiction

Emeritus Faculty

Thayer W. Beach, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1968-1991).

Albert Bekus, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1970-2004).

Eleanor Beiswenger, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1977-1994).

James Clemmer, M.A.  Professor of English (1967-2004).

Don W. Der, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1970-1991).

Malcolm S. Glass, M.A.  Professor of English (1962-1999).

Nancy Hancock, D.A.  Professor of English (1988-2004).

Charles C. Holt, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1967-1991).

Edward Eugene Irwin, Professor of English (1962-1998).

Lewis C. Tatham, Jr., Ph.D.  Professor of English (1966-1995).

David Till, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1971-2004).

John Turner, M.A. Assistant Professor of English (1967-2000).

Charles M. Waters, M.A. Professor of English (1948-1985)

Allene Phy-Olsen, Ph.D.  Professor of English (1990-2007).                                 

 Ramon Magrans, Ph.D  Professor of Spanish (1982-2009).