Meet the Faculty of the Department of English
Çiğdem Üsekes
Ph. D., University of North Dakota
Department Chairperson, Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9329 Email: usekesc@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: Drama, especially modern drama; American drama; African American drama, fiction, and non-fiction; race studies; Woolf; 20th-century American literature
Michael J. Chappell
Ph. D., Fordham University
Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9366 Email:
chappellm@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: 18th-century British literature, especially the Age of Johnson; literature of the Beat period; critical theory; poetry
Donald P. Gagnon
Ph.D., University of South Florida
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9062 Email: gagnond@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: American literature and drama; ethnic literature; g/l/b/t literature
ANAM K. GOVARDHAN
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, Ph.D., University of Madras Professor of English Phone: 203-837-9247 E-Mail: govardhana@wcsu.edu Teaching and Research Interests: 18th-century British Literature, Indian Writing in English, Short Story, and Applied Linguistics.
HEATHER LEVY
Ph.D., Binghamton University
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-3272 Email: levyh@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: 20th-century British literature, esp. Woolf; Modernist Women's Literature; Narratives of the Sea: Melville and Conrad.
Maureen R. Maguire
Ph. D., New York University
Coordinator of English Education, Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-8833 Email:
maguirem@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: English education; Applied
Linguistics/TESOL; reader response criticism; 18th-century British literature; English Renaissance poetry; the literature of opera and the musical theatre, especially American
Margaret P. Murray
Ph. D., New York University
Co-Coordinator of American Studies, Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9120 Email:
murraym@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: 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
Teaching and Research Interests: 16th-and 17th-century British literature; Women Studies; critical theory; Old Testament Studies
Shouhua Qi
Ph. D., Illinois State University
Graduate Coordinator, Associate Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9048 Email:
qis@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: Victorian literature; Hardy; the English novel; American short fiction; genre studies;
creative writing (fiction and nonfiction)
Web Page: http://people.wcsu.edu/qis/
Margaret Judith (Judy) Sullivan
M.A., St. John’s University
Professor of English
Phone: 203-837-9073 Email:
sullivanm@wcsu.edu
Teaching and Research Interests: Medieval literature; Chaucer;
Shakespeare; children’s literature; drama; African American literature;
African literature.
