Meet the Faculty of the Department of English
Full-Time Faculty
Michael J. Chappell
Ph. D., Fordham UniversityDepartment Chairperson, Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9366 Email: chappellm@wcsu.edu 18th-century British literature, especially the Age of Johnson; literature of the Beat period; poetry; critical theory. . . [more]
Donald P. Gagnon
Ph.D., University of South Florida
Associate Professor
of English
Phone: 203-837-9062 Email:
gagnond@wcsu.edu
American literature and drama; ethnic literature;
g/l/b/t
Anam K.
Govardhan
Ph.D., Madras University,
India., Ph.D.,
Northern Illinois University.
Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9247 Email:
govardhana@wcsu.edu
A specialist in 18th century
British literature,
Indian literature in English, applied linguistics,
and rhetoric and composition. . . [more]
Heather Levy
Ph.D., Binghamton University
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-3272 Email: levyh@wcsu.edu
20th-century British literature, esp. Woolf; Modernist Women's
Literature; Narratives of the Sea: Melville and
Conrad. . . [more]
Maureen R. Maguire
Ph. D., New York University
Coordinator of English Education
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-8833 Email:
maguirem@wcsu.edu
Current grammar; literary origins of the musical stage;
18th-century British literature; English Renaissance
songs and poetry; contemporary poetry. . .
[more]
Margaret P.
Murray
Ph. D., New York University
American Studies Coordinator,
Professor
of English
Phone: 203-837-9120 Email: murraym@wcsu.edu
19th-century American literature; American regional literature; American
women writers; Wharton and Freeman; colonial American literature;
American Studies; Women Studies. . .
Ingrid Pruss
Ph. D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor
of English
Phone: 203-837-9071 Email: prussi@wcsu.edu
16th-and 17th-century British literature; Women Studies; critical
theory; Old
Testament Studies. . . [more]
Shouhua Qi
Ph. D., Illinois State University
Graduate Coordinator, Professor
of English
Phone: 203-837-9048 Email: qis@wcsu.edu
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http://people.wcsu.edu/qis
Victorian literature; Hardy; the English novel; American short fiction;
genre
studies; literary translation, creative writing. .
. [more]
Margaret Judith (Judy)
Sullivan
M.A., St. John’s University
Professor
of English
Phone: 203-837-9073 Email: sullivanj@wcsu.edu
Medieval literature; Chaucer; Shakespeare; children’s literature; drama;
African American literature; African literature. . .
Çiğdem Üsekes Ph. D., University of North Dakota
Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9329 Email: usekesc@wcsu.edu
Drama, especially modern drama; American drama; African American drama, fiction, and nonfiction; race studies; Woolf; 20th-century American literature. . . [more]
Part-Time Faculty
Ira Joe Fisher
Kathleen Fleming
Inese Racevskis
Wanda J. Reynolds
Marjorie B. Salem
Dianne
Wilson
Elizabeth Wright
