English Faculty

Mark Ari, MFA (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)

Instructor
E-mail: mari@unf.edu
Website: www.arifiles.com
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2107
Areas of expertise: Writing (Particularly Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Song); Anti-literature; Form and Practice in the Application of Algebra, Fire and Wildcards in Creative Acts; Radical Jewish Culture

 

Mary Baron, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)

Professor of English
E-mail: mbaron@unf.edu

Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2617
Areas of expertise: British Renaissance Literature, Adolescent Literature, Children's Literature; Collaborative Learning in the Classroom; Computer Enhanced Education; Writing, Poetry

 

James Beasley, Ph.D. (Purdue University)

Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: james.beasley@unf.edu

Website: www.unf.edu/~james.beasley
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2629
Areas of expertise: Composition and Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric and Composition

 

Jeanette Berger, Ph.D. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Instructor

E-mail: j.berger@unf.edu
Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2603
Areas of expertise: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Composition Pedagogy

  

Keith Cartwright, Ph.D. (Indiana University)

Associate Professor of English
E-mail: kcartwri@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2621
Areas of expertise: African American, Caribbean, and Southern Literature; African Diaspora Studies; West African Expressive Traditions; Post-Colonial and Gender Studies; Creative Writing (Poetry)

 

John Chapman, Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: chaj0038@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2545
Areas of expertise: N/A

 

Frederick Dale, M.A. (University of North Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: fdale@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2627
Areas of expertise: N/A

 

Nicholas de Villiers, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)

Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: n.devilliers@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2625
Areas of expertise: Film Theory, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Queer Theory, Autobiography

 

Timothy Donovan, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University)

Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: tdonovan@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2219
Areas of expertise: Rhetoric and Composition, Literacy and Mediacy Studies, Critical and Literary Theory

 

Joseph Flowers, M.A. (University of North Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: jflowers@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2521
Areas of expertise: N/A

 

D. Christopher Gabbard, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

Associate Professor of English
E-mail: cgabbard@unf.edu

Website: www.unf.edu/~cgabbard

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2611
Areas of expertise: British Literature and Culture of "The Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1800); Disability and Normalcy in English and American Literature; Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson; Gender in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature; Early Modern Travel Writing

 

Laura Heffernan, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)

Assistant Professor

 E-mail: l.heffernan@unf.edu
Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2637

Areas of expertise: British Modernism, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, Joyce, Gender Studies

 

Linda Howell, M.A. (University of North Florida)

Instructor, Writing Program Director
E-mail: lhowell@unf.edu
Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2606
Areas of expertise: Composition, Rhetoric, New Media

 

Pamela Hnyla, M.A. (University of North Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: phnyla@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2525

Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Marnie Jones, Ph.D.

Professor of English

E-mail: mjones@unf.edu

Website: N/A
Office: Social Sciences Building (51), Room 3300
Areas of expertise: N/A

 

A.Samuel Kimball, Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
E-mail: skimball@unf.edu
Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2605
Areas of expertise: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Literary Theory (Cognitive, Deconstructive, Psychoanalytic)

 

Tru Leverette, Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: tleveret@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2427
Areas of expertise: African-American, Multicultural, and Mixed Race Literatures; Gender, Cultural, and Mixed Race Studies

 

Clark Lunberry, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Associate Professor of English
E-mail: clunberr@unf.edu

Website: www.unf.edu/~clunberr/Lunberry

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2645
Areas of expertise: Dramatic Literature and Performance Studies, Modern and Postmodern Literature and the Visual Arts, and Creative Non-fiction

 

Jason Mauro, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)

Associate Professor of English and Graduate Coordinator
E-mail: jmauro@unf.edu
Website: N/A
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2423
Areas of expertise: American Literature, Robert Frost, Film, Psychological Approaches to Literature, Creative Writing

 

Brenda Maxey-Billings, M.A. (University of North Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: brenda.maxey-billings@unf.edu

Website: www.unf.edu/~brenda.maxey-billings
Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2543
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Alex Menocal, Ph.D. (University of Florida)

Instructor
E-mail: amenocal@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2608
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Pamela Monteleone, Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Associate Professor of English
E-mail: pmontele@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2303
Areas of expertise: Shakespeare; Dramatic Literature and Theory; Renaissance to Contemporary (Emphasis on American) Play Production and Playwriting; Film; Popular Culture

 

Betsy Nies, Ph.D. (University of Florida)

 Graduate Program Coordinator, Associate Professor of English
E-mail: bnies@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2653
Areas of expertise: Composition; Children's and Adolescent Literature; American Literature; Multi-Cultural Literature

 

Marcus Pactor, M.F.A. (Texas State University - San Marcos)

Instructor
E-mail: mpactor@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2115
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Timothy Robinson, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)

Affiliated Professor of Applied Linguistics
E-mail: trobinso@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Honors Hall, Building 10, Room 2475
Areas of expertise:  N/A

  

Jillian Smith, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University)

Assistant Professor of English
E-mail: jlsmith@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, 2403
Areas of expertise: American Literature; Visual Culture; Film

 

Brian Striar, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate School)

Chair, Associate Professor of English
E-mail: bstriar@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2221
Areas of expertise: Classical and Renaissance Literatures, Translation, and Classical Influences upon English and Romance Literatures

 

Russell Turney, M.A. (George Mason University)

Instructor
E-mail: rturney@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2639

 

Amy Wainwright, M.A. (American University)

Instructor
E-mail: awainwri@unf.edu

Website: N/A

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2623
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Bart Welling, Ph.D. (University of Virginia)

Associate Profesor of English
E-mail: bhwellin@unf.edu

Website: www.unf.edu/~bhwellin

Office: Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2633
Areas of expertise: Twentieth Century Literature and Culture of the United States; Textual and Bibliographic Studies; Ecocriticism and Green Culture Studies; Southern and Faulkner Studies; Literature of the Americas

 

Michael Wiley, Ph.D. (New York University)

Professor of English
E-mail: mwiley@unf.edu
Website: N/A

Office:Arts and Sciences Building 8, Room 2641
Areas of expertise: British Romantic Literature; Literary Theory; Spatial Studies in Literature

 

Mark Workman, Ph.D.

Professor of English

mworkman@unf.edu
Office: JJ Daniel Hall, Building 1, Room 2500
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Emeritus Faculty

Richard Bizot, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of English
E-mail: rbizot@unf.edu

Website: N/A
Areas of expertise: Irish Studies

 

Gary L. Harmon, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of English
E-mail: gharmon@unf.edu

Website: N/A
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

William Slaughter, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of English
E-mail: wrs@unf.edu

Website: Mudlark
Areas of expertise:  N/A

 

Allen Tilley, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of English
E-mail: atilley@unf.edu

Website: N/A
Areas of expertise:  N/A