Faculty and Staff Directory
Chair
Will Stockton
Professor and Chair
Renaissance Literature, Queer Studies
Email: wstockt@clemson.edu
Office: 802 Strode
Faculty
Susanna Ashton
Professor
Notions of authentication and identity in slavery & freedom narratives; 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American Literature; collaboration; surveillance studies; copyright; history of the book; periodical culture; abolitionist literature; Charles W. Chesnutt; American Literary Realism; Life Writing
Email: sashton@clemson.edu
Office: 611 Strode
April Ayers Lawson
Senior Lecturer
Prose Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction & Screenwriting); Psychological Fiction; Autofiction; Contemporary Literature
Email: aalawso@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode
Nic Brown
Professor
Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting
Email: ncbrown@clemson.edu
Office: 315 Strode
Matthew Burchanoski
Email: mtburch@clemson.edu
Office: Strode Tower
Cameron Fae Bushnell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Postcolonial, World, and American Ethnic Literatures; Critical Literary and Race Theory; Interdisciplinary Studies; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature & the Arts; Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
Email: cbushne@clemson.edu
Office: 707 Strode
Phone: 864-656-9351
Daniel Citro
Senior Lecturer
Creative Writing, Modernisms, Poetics, Forms/Genres
Email: dcitro@clemson.edu
Office: 311 Strode
Brittany Clark
Lecturer
Working-Class Studies, Popular Media, Personal Narratives
Email: brc5@clemson.edu
David Coombs
Associate Professor
Email: dcoombs@clemson.edu
Office: 813 Strode
Jon Correa Reyes
Assistant Professor
Medieval Literature; the Global Middle Ages; Race
Email: jonatcr@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 306
Melissa Dugan
Principal Lecturer
genre fiction, screenwriting, women's and gender studies, contemporary American poetry
Email: mmdugan@clemson.edu
Office: 506 Strode
Megan Eatman
Associate Professor; Associate Chair
Public Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Disability Rhetorics, Composition Pedagogy
Email: meeatma@clemson.edu
Office: 806 Strode
Melissa Edmundson Makala
Senior Lecturer
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, PhD, MFA
Assistant Professor
Poetry, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature, Women's Literature
Email: sedwar7@clemson.edu
Office: 312 Strode
Phone: 312 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 (he/him)
Associate Professor, American literature
Early American Literature, Settler Colonialism, Infrastructure
Email: jbfield@clemson.edu
Office: 808 Strode
David Charles Foltz
Senior Lecturer
American letters, Moral and Political Philosophy, the Western philosophical tradition
Email: davidf@clemson.edu
Office: 814 Strode
Jennifer Forsberg
Principal Lecturer
20th/21st Century American Lit & Culture, Gender, Performativity, Working-Class Studies
Email: jforsbe@clemson.edu
Office: 606 Strode
Jordan Frith
Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
technical communication, mobile communication, infrastructure studies, writing studies, social media
Email: jfrith@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 602
Mary Geren
Lecturer
Email: mgeren@clemson.edu
Office: 809 Strode
Lucian Ghita
Principal Lecturer
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Literature, Adaptation, Performance, Avant-Garde and Modern Drama, Cultural History
Email: lghita@clemson.edu
Office: 615 Strode
Hannah Godwin
Senior Lecturer
Modernist Literature and Culture; Childhood Studies; Sexuality Studies
Email: hgodwin@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode
Erin M. Goss
Associate Professor
18th- and 19th-century British literature, culture, and thought; gender and race; nationalism; histories of feminism
Email: egoss@clemson.edu
Office: 810 Strode
Gabriel Hankins
Associate Professor
Modernism, Digital Humanities, Television Studies, Comparative Theory, Horror
Email: ghankin@clemson.edu
Office: 609 Strode
Anna Hill
Assistant Professor
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature; literature of the United States; environmental criticism; memory studies; postcolonial/decolonial studies; affect theory; visual arts and visual culture
Email: aah8@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 612
Karen Kettnich
Senior Lecturer
Folktales, Fairy tales, Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance theatre, Libraries
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: lanhamj@clemson.edu
Office: 115 Lehotsky Hall
Phone: 864-656-7294
Michael LeMahieu
Professor
20th/21st Cent American Lit. Civil War Memory. Philosophy of Language.
Email: mlemahi@clemson.edu
Office: 101 Strode Tower
Phone: 864.656.0376
Megan MacAlystre
Principal Lecturer
Children’s Literature, Neo-Victorian Adaptations, Harry Potter, and Fairy Tales
Email: mmacaly@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode
Kimberly Snyder Manganelli
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Transatlantic Studies, Victorian Literature, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, African American Literature and Culture, Popular Culture
Email: kmangan@clemson.edu
Office: 807 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-5408
Dominic Mastroianni
Associate Professor, American literature
Email: dbm@clemson.edu
Office: 608 Strode
Brian McGrath
Professor
Email: mcgrath@clemson.edu
Office: 607 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-3151
Chelsea McKelvey, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century Literature
Email: crmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 511
Seth McKelvey
Senior Lecturer
20th- & 21st century American literature; contemporary poetry; political economy
Email: rsmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 507
Amy N Monaghan
Principal Lecturer
Sound and Popular Music Studies, 21st C Poetry, the Long 1980s, Jet Lag, Shipping Containers
Email: amonagh@clemson.edu
Office: 506 Strode
Keith Morris
Professor, creative writing
Email: km@clemson.edu
Office: 314 Strode
Lee Morrissey
Alumni Distinguished Professor; Affiliate Faculty, Religious Studies.
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: 316 Strode
Clare Mullaney
Assistant Professor, Disability Rhetorics
disability studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature, material text studies, editorship studies, and reading methods
Email: cmullaney@clemson.edu
Office: 605 Strode
Chelsea Murdock
Director of the Writing Lab; Senior Lecturer, Department of English; SWCA C.A.R.E. Co-Chair, Southeastern Writing Center Association
writing center theory and practice; Indigenous rhetorics; material rhetorics, composition pedagogy
Email: cjmurdo@clemson.edu
Office: 301D Cooper Library
Angela Naimou
Associate Professor
Literatures in English since 1900; Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Studies of Race, Diaspora, and Migration; Law and Literature; World Literature in Translation
Email: anaimou@clemson.edu
Office: 709 Strode
Kathleen Nalley
Senior Lecturer
Email: snalley@clemson.edu
Office: 511 Strode
Mary Nestor, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of First-Year Writing
British Romanticism, Adaptation Studies, FYW Pedagogy, Course Design
Email: mcnesto@clemson.edu
Office: 809 Strode
Vincent R. Ogoti
Assistant Professor of English and Global Black Studies
Subjectivity, Biopolitics, and Postcoloniality; Literature and Medicine; Drama and Theater; Migration and Literature; Sound and Literature, Science Fiction and Afrofutures.
Email: vogoti@clemson.edu
Office: 811 Strode; Fall 2026 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2pm-4pm.
Taimi Olsen
Affiliate Faculty; Director of Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation
Email: taimio@clemson.edu
Office: 201 Watt Family Innovation Center
Ingrid Pierce
Senior Lecturer
Medieval British Literature; History of the Senses; Environmental Humanities
Email: ipierce@clemson.edu
Office: 506 Strode
Pete Puckett
Lecturer
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
John Logan Pursley III
Principal Lecturer
Poetry, Creative Writing, 20th & 21st Century Literature
Email: pursle3@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode
Elizabeth Rivlin
Associate Professor, Shakespeare and Early Modern British Literature
Early Modern British literature ; Shakespeare, adaptations, and cultural history
Email: rivlin@clemson.edu
Office: 804 Strode
Kara Russell, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Queer and Gothic South; Gender Studies; Environmental Humanities; Weird Modernity
Email: krusse5@clemson.edu
Office: 314 Strode
Kelly Sauskojus, Ph.D/2024
Postdoctoral Fellow
Community-Engaged Research | Technical and Professional Writing | Religious and Sacred Rhetorics | Urban Agriculture and Food Justice | Grantwriting | Place-Based Pedagogy
Email: ksausko@clemson.edu
Office: Strode Tower 601
Michelle Smith
Associate Professor and Director of First Year Writing
Feminist rhetorics, historiography, women’s work, archives, utopianism
Email: mcsmth@clemson.edu
Office: 806 Strode
Elizabeth Anderson Stansell
Senior Lecturer
Email: eander3@clemson.edu
Office: 514 Strode
Allen N. Swords
Principal Lecturer
Sequential Art, Popular Culture, Film, and Post-WWII Literature (American, Anglo, and World)
Email: swords@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode
Rhondda Thomas, PhD/2007
Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
18th- and 19th-century Black literature and culture and autobiographical writing
Email: rhonddt@clemson.edu
Office: 711 Strode
Hannah Treasure
Lecturer
Contemporary Poetry; Literary Translation; Gender & Sexuality
Email: htreasu@clemson.edu
Kenneth Tuite
Senior Lecturer
Greek Historiography; Ancient Greco-Roman Love Poetry; Latin Literature
Email: ktuite@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 502
Sarah Watkins
Lecturer
Creative writing; Fantasy and Children's Literature
Email: swatki2@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 517
Heather Williams
Senior Lecturer
Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary World Literature, Technical Writing, Business Writing, Client-Based Projects
Email: hpwilli@clemson.edu
Office: 517 Strode Tower
Emily Yates
Lecturer
Early Modern / Renaissance; Drama / Theatre; Performance; Adaptation
Email: ecyates@clemson.edu
Office: 709 Strode
Emeritus Faculty
Cynthia Ann Haynes
Professor Emeritus
Rhetoric, Composition, Critical Theory, Games Studies, Violence, Terrorism and Conflict
Email: texcyn@clemson.edu
Jan Rune Holmevik
Associate Professor
Digital creativity and literacies, information design, digital transformation
Email: jholmev@clemson.edu
Joan W. Kalley
Email: kalley@clemson.edu
Donna Reiss
Email: dreiss@clemson.edu
Staff
Katlyn Krumrey
Administrative Coordinator
meetings, office equipment, keys, office, student, student hire requests, alumni, hire requests, student supervisor, timecards, faculty support, faculty awards, department onboarding, dual employment, overloads, initiating purchases, asset inventory, procurement policy compliance, surplus processing, travel arrangements, lodging, mileage, travel authorization, guest travel, artist hospitality
Email: kkrumre@clemson.edu
Office: 801 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3151
