Faculty and Staff

• Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D.
• Department Chair
• Professor
• patrick.murphy@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Nature-oriented Literature; Modern American Poetry; Ecocriticism; science fiction; bodied subjecthood and identities; Bakhtinian dialogics

• Patricia Angley, Ph.D.
• Instructor
• Advisor of Undergraduate Programs
• pangley@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Faulkner and Southern Literature; Women Writers and Feminist Theory; Native American Literature; Toni Morrison

• J.D. Applen, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• jd.applen@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric; Technical Communication for students across UCF in all majors; Hypertext and Writing for the Web; XML and Digital Archiving; Literature of Science and Technology ; The Discourse of Science

• Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Jocelyn.Bartkevicius@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Literary nonfiction; Memoir; Personal Essay; Ecological Criticism and Ecotheory; Virginia Woolf

• Christian Beck
• Visiting Instructor
• Christian.Beck@ucf.edu

• James Campbell, Ph.D.
• Director of Graduate Programs
• Associate Professor
• jcampbel@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction 

• Lynn A. Casmier-Paz
• Associate Professor
• lcasmier@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: African American Slave Narratives; Autobiography and Life Writing Studies; Literacy Studies; Literary Theory

• Farrah Cato
• Instructor
• farrah.cato@ucf.edu

Research Interests: World Literature; American Literature (especially 19th-century slave and womens literature); Womens Studies & Feminist Theory; Womanist Studies; Cultural Studies; Magical Realism; Speculative Fiction/Fantasy

• Paul M. Dombrowski, Ph.D.
• Professor
• pdombrow@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

• Madelyn Flammia, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Madelyn.Flammia@ucf.edu

Research Interests: International Technical Communication; Virtual Teams; Visual Communication; Document Design and Layout; Publication and Production; International Studies

• Francois-Xavier Gleyzon, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Francois-Xavier.Gleyzon@ucf.edu

• Anthony Grajeda
• Associate Professor
• anthony.grajeda@ucf.edu

• Fayeza Hasanat, Ph.D.
• Instructor
• fhasanat@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: Literature of the British Empire; English Novel, Gender Studies; 18th and 19th century English Literature Literature and Translation; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theory

• Kathy Hohenleitner, Ph.D.
• Instructor
• kathleen.hohenleitner@ucf.edu

• Susan Hubbard
• Professor
• Susan.Hubbard@ucf.edu

Research Interests: writing and reading contemporary fiction; creative writing pedagogy; the art and craft of speculative fiction

• Susan Jardaneh
• Instructor
• sspraker@mail.ucf.edu

• Anna Maria Jones, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• anna.jones@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; literary theory; history of the novel; sensation fiction; Gothic literature; science and literature; Japanese manga

• Dan Jones, Ph.D.
• Professor
• dan.jones@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Technical communication, plain English and plain language, science and literature, writing and designing online help, and science fiction.

• Mark L Kamrath, Ph.D.
• Professor
• mark.kamrath@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture; Native American Studies; Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

• Russ Kesler, M.F.A.
• Instructor
• thomas.kesler@ucf.edu

• Anna Lillios
• Associate Professor
• lillios@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests:

• Lisa M Logan, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• lmlogan@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

• Barry Mauer, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• bmauer@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monuments

• Kevin Meehan, Ph.D.
• Professor
• kevin.meehan@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature and Educational Development

• Jane Moody
• Instructor
• jane.moody@ucf.edu

Research Interests: E-portfolios as learning objects. Usability testing. Online learning and Distance Education. Technical Communication Pedagogy.

• Bill Morton, M.A.
• Instructor
• wmorton@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Herman Melville, Edgar Lee Masters, and Mark Twain

• Darlin' Neal, Ph.D.
• Program Director of M.F.A. in Creative Writing
• Assistant Professor
• darlinneal@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Literary Fiction; Literary Nonfiction; Memoir; Poetry and Flash Fiction; Native American Literature; Writing of the Southwest; Southern Writers; Eudora Welty

• Obi Nwakanma, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Obi.Nwakanma@ucf.edu

• Kathleen M. Oliver, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• Kathleen.Oliver@ucf.edu

Research Interests: British Literature and Culture, 1660 - 1830; The Early Gothic; Clothing and Accoutrement in Literature; The Fetishism of Mourning; Historicism (New and Old); Cultural Materialism; Feminist/Gender Theory

• David James Poissant, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• David.Poissant@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Fiction Writing; The Short Story; Contemporary American Literature; Southern Literature; Creative Writing Pedagogy

• Tison Pugh, Ph.D.
• Professor
• Tison.Pugh@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

• Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• cecilia.milanes@ucf.edu

Research Interests:
Latino/a Literature, writing, women writers of color, Emergent American Literature and women's studies.

• Lisa Roney, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• lisa.roney@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, representations of health and illness; images and physical aspects of home and place; the relationships between genres (e.g., architecture and narrative, painting and digital art, fiction and nonfiction); and twentieth-century American literature and women's studies.

• Pat Rushin, M.A.
• Associate Professor
• pat.rushin@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Fiction writing, screenwriting, contemporary fiction.

• Kathryn Lee Seidel, Ph.D.
• Professor
• Kathryn.Seidel@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Seidel publishes in the area of women writers and literature of the American South. She is the author of The Southern Belle in the American Novel and co-editor of Zora in Florida.

• Don Stap, Ph.D.
• Professor
• don.stap@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Shorebirds. Poetry. The Literature of Fact.

• Peter Telep
• Instructor
• peter.telep@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Writing for Video Games, Screenwriting, Fiction Writing.

• Terry Ann Thaxton, M.F.A.
• Associate Professor
• terry.thaxton@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Poetry Writing; Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Creative Non-Fiction; Literary Arts and Community; Community-Based Learning; Women's Studies; Marginalized Learners

• Dawn Trouard, Ph.D.
• Professor
• Dawn.Trouard@ucf.edu

• Laurie Uttich, M.F.A.
• Instructor
• laurie.uttich@ucf.edu

Research Interests:
Creative nonfiction: memoir, essay, segmented forms (braided, collage, lyrical), and literary journalism. Fiction: short stories, flash fiction.

• Beth Rapp Young, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• byoung@ucf.edu

• Hemchand Balram
• Accountant
• Hemchand.Balram@ucf.edu

• Sharon R. Body, B.A.
• Program Assistant of Undergraduate Programs
• sharon.body@ucf.edu

• Lauren Rausch
• Program Assistant of Graduate Programs
• Lauren.Rausch@ucf.edu

• Sara Sasser
• Admissions Specialist for Undergraduate Programs
• Sara.Sasser@ucf.edu