Graduate Faculty Directory - APSU Languages & Literature

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.

Full Time Graduate Faculty Profile:
Linda Barnes Professor Email: barnesl@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7119 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 215	Ph.D. (Vanderbilt). American Literature, Southern Writers. Coordinator of Honors Program.
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 Associate 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
Linda Davis Associate Professor Email: davisl@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7892 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 204	EdD (Tennessee State University) English Education
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 / 7864 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 139 / 235	Ph.D. (Miami of Ohio). American Literature, Women's Studies, Coordinator of Women's Studies.
Blas Falconer Assistant Professor Email: falconerb@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7117 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 223	Ph.D. (Houston). Creative Writing, Poetry
Jill Franks Associate Professor Email: franksj@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7879 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 236	Ph.D. (Rutgers). Modern British Literature, Modern Irish Literature.
Dwonna Goldstone Assistant Professor Email: goldstoned@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7886 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 220	Ph.D. (Texas). African American and African Literature.
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.
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.
Harry Clark Maddux Assistant Professor Email: madduxh@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7215 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 131	Ph.D. Purdue University Early American Literature
Ramon Magrans Professor Email: magransr@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7847 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 104	Ph.D. (Texas Tech). Spanish Literature and History.
David Major Associate Professor Email: majord@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7927 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 228	Ph.D. (Oklahoma State). Technical Writing.
Cynthia McWilliams Assistant 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 Assistant 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 Associate Professor Email: ruizavilesm@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7855 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 230	Ph.D. (Nebraska). Spanish Literature and History.
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 Assistant Professor Email: shead@apsu.edu Phone: (931) 221-7895 Office: Harned Hall, Rm 103	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 216	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.
Charla White-Major Assistant 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
Timothy Winters Associate 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