Faculty and Staff Directory

Chair

William Stockton

Professor and Chair
Renaissance Literature, Queer Theory, Translation, Creative Nonfiction
Email: wstockt@clemson.edu
Office: 802 Strode

Faculty

Susanna Ashton, Ph.D.

Professor
Email: sashton@clemson.edu
Office: 611 Strode

April Ayers Lawson

Lecturer
Email: aalawso@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode

Desiree Bailey

Writer in Residence
Email: dcbaile@clemson.edu

Katalin Beck

Senior Lecturer
Technical Writing, Business Writing, World Literature
Email: kbeck@clemson.edu
Office: 604 Strode

Professor and Campbell Chair in Technical Communication; Interim Director RCID
Histories of Rhetoric and Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric of Film and Digital Media, Production-Related Practices
Email: dblakes@clemson.edu
Office: 616 Strode
Phone: (765)-409-2649

Nic Brown

Associate Professor
Creative Writing
Email: ncbrown@clemson.edu
Office: 315 Strode

Peter Bryan

Lecturer
Email: pbryan2@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 311

Cameron Fae Bushnell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, 20th-Century Anglophone Postcolonial Literature

Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication

Postcolonial & World Literatures, Critical Writing about Literature, Southern Literature, Contemporary Literature, Senior Seminar: Women & the Orient
Women & the Orient, Representations of Music in World Literature, Race & Writing
Email: cbushne@clemson.edu
Office: 707 Strode
Phone: 864-656-9351

Sarah E.S. Carter

Lecturer
Primary Research; First-Year Writing; Military Studies; Professional Communication
Email: scarte6@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Su Cho

Assistant Professor
Post-World War II U.S Poetry; Contemporary Asian American Literature; Feminist Utopian/Dystopian Literature
Email: scho@clemson.edu

Daniel Citro

Senior Lecturer
Modernisms, Forms/Genres
Email: dcitro@clemson.edu
Office: 311 Strode

Chelsea Clarey

Lecturer
19th Century Transatlantic Literature; Domesticity
Email: cclarey@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Brittany Clark

Working Class Studies and Consumer Culture; Cultural History and Popular Culture; American Studies Theory and Methods
Email: brc5@clemson.edu

David Coombs

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Email: dcoombs@clemson.edu
Office: 813 Strode

Anthony Correale

Transnational Literature; Indigenous Literature; Travel Narrative
Email: arcorre@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 613

Will Cunningham

Lecturer
Email: wcunnin@clemson.edu
Office: 613 Strode

Melissa Dugan, M.F.A.

Senior Lecturer
Creative Writing, American Literature, Rhetoric & Composition
genre fiction, screenwriting, women's and gender studies, contemporary American poetry
Email: mmdugan@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Megan Eatman

Associate Professor, Director of First-Year Composition
Email: meeatma@clemson.edu
Office: 806 Strode

Melissa Edmundson Makala, Ph.D.

Lecturer
British Literature, British and American Women Writers, World Literature
19th and 20th-century British women writers, gender and empire, women's supernatural fiction, ghost stories
Email: rmakala@clemson.edu
Office: 604 Strode

Stevie Edwards

Lecturer
Email: sedwar7@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode

Maziyar Faridi

Assistant Professor
Comparative Modernism; Global Cinema; Poetry and Poetics; Film Theory; Postcolonial Transnational Studies; Critical Theory; Global South; Middle East and North African Literatures and Cinemas
Email: mfaridi@clemson.edu
Office: 610 Strode

Jonathan Beecher Field

Associate Professor, American literature
Early American Literature, Contested Spaces, Writing for Electronic Media
Settler Colonialism, Strategies of White Innocence, Feminism, Marxist Geographies
Email: jbfield@clemson.edu
Office: 808 Strode
Phone: Nonewas

Ashley S Fisk

Senior Lecturer
Technical and Business Communication and Service Learning
Email: cowden2@clemson.edu
Office: 514 Strode

David Charles Foltz

Senior Lecturer
System & Resistance in Literature, Philosophy, American Mysticism
Email: davidf@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Jennifer Forsberg

Senior Lecturer
American Literature, Literature of the 20 & 21st Centuries, WAC/WID Graduate Seminar
20th/21st Century American Lit & Culture, Gender, Performativity, Working-Class Studies
Email: jforsbe@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Santee Frazier

Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: santeef@clemson.edu

Jordan Frith, Ph.D.

Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
technical communication, composition, mobile media and infrastructure, histories of technology
Infrastructure studies, writing studies, mobile media and communication,
Email: jfrith@clemson.edu
Office: 602

Lucian Ghita

Senior Lecturer
Shakespeare, Renaissance and Modern Drama, Film Adaptation, World Lit
Email: lghita@clemson.edu
Office: 615 Strode

Hannah Godwin

Lecturer
Modernist Literature and Culture; Childhood Studies; Sexuality Studies
Email: hgodwin@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Erin M. Goss

Associate Professor, British literature; Associate Chair
18th and 19th century British literature, culture, and thought; race and gender studies; histories of feminism
Email: egoss@clemson.edu
Office: 810 Strode

La'Cresha Green

Senior Lecturer
Email: lacresg@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Gabriel Hankins, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Digital Literary and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Modern Fiction
Modernism, Digital Humanities, Television Studies, Comparative Theory, Horror
Email: ghankin@clemson.edu
Office: 609 Strode

Cynthia Ann Haynes

Professor/ Director of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design
Email: texcyn@clemson.edu
Office: 256E Sirrine Hall
Phone: (864) 656-6411

Maya Hislop

Assistant Professor
20th and 21st century American and African American Literature
Email: mhislop@clemson.edu
Office: 811 Strode

Jan Rune Holmevik

Associate Professor, professional communication and rhetoric
Digital Publishing and Media Production, Transmedia Storytelling
Email: jholmev@clemson.edu
Office: 2101 Barre Hall

Matt Hooley

Assistant Professor
Environmental Humanities, Native Studies, US Colonialism Studies
Email: mhooley@clemson.edu
Office: 317 Strode

Tharon Howard

Professor, professional communication and rhetoric
Digital Publishing and Media Production, Content Strategy, UX Design
Email: tharon@clemson.edu
Office: 617 Strode

Virginia Joczik

19th and 20th Century British Lit; American Southern Lit; Visual Arts
Email: vjoczik@clemson.edu

Tareva Johnson

Lecturer
20th and 21st Century African American Literature and Culture
Email: tarevaj@clemson.edu
Office: 517 Strode

Karen Kettnich

Lecturer
Email: kkettni@clemson.edu
Office: 511 Strode

J. Drew Lanham

Affiliate Faculty, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Master Teacher, and Certified Wildlife Biologist
Email: lanham@clemson.edu
Office: 115 Lehotsky Hall
Phone: 864-656-7294

Megan Noel MacAlystre

Senior Lecturer
Children’s Literature, Neo-Victorian Adaptations, and Harry Potter
Email: mmacaly@clemson.edu
Office: 311 Strode

Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

Associate Professor, 19th-century British and American literature
Transatlantic Literature and Culture, Race and Ethnicity
Email: kmangan@clemson.edu
Office: 807 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-5408

Dominic Mastroianni

Associate Professor, American literature
19th-Century US Literature, Transcendentalism, History of Philosophy
Email: dbm@clemson.edu
Office: 608 Strode

Laurianne Matheson

Lecturer
Email: lauriap@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 516

Brian McGrath

Professor
Email: mcgrath@clemson.edu
Office: 607 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-3151

Seth McKelvey

Lecturer
20th- & 21st century American literature; contemporary poetry; political economy
Email: rsmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 311

Chelsea McKelvey

Lecturer
Email: crmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 511

Amy N Monaghan

Senior Lecturer
Sound and Music Studies, Art House/Indie Cinema
Email: amonagh@clemson.edu
Office: 506 Strode

Keith Morris

Professor, creative writing
Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature, Literary Editing
Email: km@clemson.edu
Office: 314 Strode

Lee Morrissey

Alumni Distinguished Professor; Affiliate Faculty, Religious Studies.
Milton, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century,
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-language literature; John Milton; early modern religion and politics; history of literary criticism; colonial Ireland; archipelagic and transatlantic
Email: lmorris@clemson.edu
Office: 316 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-3151

Clare Mullaney

Assistant Professor, Disability Rhetorics
American Literature, American Literature II, Practice of Criticism, Literary Editing, Disability Narratives (undergrad and grad)
disability studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature, material text studies, and reading methods
Email: cmullaney@clemson.edu
Office: 605 Strode

Chelsea Murdock, Ph.D.

Director of the Writing Lab
English Composition, Advanced Composition, Writing Support Theory and Practice
Writing Center Theory and Practice, Indigenous Rhetorics, Cultural Rhetorics
Email: cjmurdo@clemson.edu
Office: 307 ASC

Angela Naimou

Associate Professor
Global Studies, Cultures of the Americas and the Middle East
Email: anaimou@clemson.edu
Office: 709 Strode

Kathleen Nalley

Senior Lecturer
Holocaust Literature, Dystopias, Social Justice Poetry
Email: snalley@clemson.edu
Office: 511 Strode

Mary Nestor

Lecturer
British Romanticism, Adaptation Studies, Cultural Memory Theory
Email: mcnesto@clemson.edu
Office: 708 Strode

Taimi Olsen

Affiliate Faculty; Director of Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation
American Modernism; Educational Development
Email: taimio@clemson.edu
Office: 201 Watt Family Innovation Center

Nancy Paxton-Wilson

Lecturer
17th and 18th Century British Lit, Critical Prison Studies, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing, STS Science/Technology in Society
Email: npaxton@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Ingrid Pierce

Lecturer
Medieval British Literature, Sound and Hearing, History of the senses
Email: ipierce@clemson.edu
Office: 506 Strode

Pete Puckett

American cultures and literatures of the long nineteenth century; Multiethnic American literatures; Native American literatures; Science and literature
Email: japucke@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 613

Mike Pulley

Senior Lecturer
Journalism, Science Writing, and Contemporary Poetry
Email: wpulley@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

John Logan Pursley III

Principal Lecturer
Poetry, Creative Writing, 20th & 21st Century Literature
Email: pursle3@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Philip D Randall

Senior Lecturer
Client-based projects. Science writing
Email: randal3@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Elizabeth Rivlin

Associate Professor, Shakespeare and Early Modern British Literature
Early Modern British lit; Shakespeare, adaptations, & cultural history
Email: rivlin@clemson.edu
Office: 804 Strode

Aga Skrodzka

Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film Theory, Transnational and Post-Socialist Cinemas
Email: askrodz@clemson.edu
Office: 712 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3151

Kendra Slayton

Visiting Assistant Professor - Medieval Literature
Chaucer; Gender; Medieval theology & philosophy
Email: kslayto@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 306

Michelle Smith

Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Composition
Rhetorical Theory, Feminist Rhetorics and Methodologies, Material Rhetorics, Utopian Literature
Feminist rhetorics, historiography, women’s work, archives, utopianism
Email: mcsmth@clemson.edu
Office: 606 Strode

John Smith

Lecturer, Interim Director of World Cinema
Film Theory, Genre, Adaptation Studies
Email: johnsm@clemson.edu
Office: 256D Sirrine Hall
Phone: 864-656-1532

Elizabeth Anderson Stansell

Senior Lecturer
Contemporary Fiction, Gender Studies, Science/Technology in Society
Email: eander3@clemson.edu
Office: 514 Strode

Allen N. Swords

Senior Lecturer
Sequential art, Holocaust Lit & Art, Vietnam War & Star Wars mythos
Email: swords@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode

Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
auto/biographical narratives, historiography, and representations of biblical stories in 18th & 19th Century African American literature
Email: rhonddt@clemson.edu
Office: 711 Strode

Hannah Treasure

Contemporary Poetry; Literary Translation; Gender & Sexuality
Email: htreasu@clemson.edu

Eddy Troy

Lecturer
Film-philosophy, Global francophone cinema
Email: etroy@clemson.edu
Office: 613 Strode

Kenneth Tuite

Lecturer
Ancient Greek & Roman Historiography (Herodotus)
Email: ktuite@clemson.edu
Office: 310 Daniel

Jennie Wakefield, MA, RSME

Senior Lecturer
Composition & Rhetoric (ENGL 1030); The Role of Dance in Culture (HUM 3090); Writing, Body, & Earth (Honors Seminar); Writing the Personal Occupational Narrative (Advanced Comp)
embodied cognition and creativity
Email: jwakefi@clemson.edu
Office: 708 Strode
Phone: 864.656.3151