Faculty and Staff Directory

Chair

Will Stockton

Professor and Chair
Renaissance Literature, Queer Studies
Email: wstockt@clemson.edu
Office: 802 Strode

Faculty

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

Lecturer
Prose Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction & Screenwriting); Psychological Fiction (realism & horror); Surrealism; Contemporary Literature
Email: aalawso@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode

Desiree Bailey

Writer in Residence
Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry, Black Literary Arts, Caribbean Literary Arts
Email: dcbaile@clemson.edu

Katalin Beck

Senior Lecturer
Technical Writing, Business Writing, World Literature
Technical and Business Writing; Global and Cross-cultural Communication; Online Collaboration
Email: kbeck@clemson.edu
Office: 604 Strode

Nic Brown

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting
Email: ncbrown@clemson.edu
Office: 315 Strode

Peter Bryan

Lecturer
Comics Studies, Fan Studies, Adaptation Studies, Disability Studies
Email: pbryan2@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 311

Sarah E.S. Carter

Lecturer, Director of First Year Composition
Primary Research; First-Year Writing; Military Studies; Professional Communication
Email: scarte6@clemson.edu
Office: 806 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
ENGL 2020: Literary Forms and Creative Writing; ENGL 2120: World Literature; Engl 2130: British Literature; ENGL 2140: American Literature; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th- and 21st- Century Contexts
Creative Writing, Modernisms, Poetics, Forms/Genres
Email: dcitro@clemson.edu
Office: 311 Strode

Chelsea Clarey

Lecturer
English 1030: Composition and Rhetoric, English 2140: American Literature
19th-century Trans-Atlantic Literature; Domesticity and Domestic Violence; American Food-Culture History
Email: cclarey@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Brittany Clark

Lecturer
ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2140: American Literature
Consumer Culture, Working-Class Studies, Popular Media
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

Anthony Correale

Lecturer
Contemporary Short Stories; Creative Writing; Transnational Literature; North American Indigenous Literature; Travel Narrative
Email: arcorre@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 613

Will Cunningham

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

Melissa Dugan

Senior Lecturer
Literary Forms and Creative Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing
genre fiction, screenwriting, women's and gender studies, contemporary American poetry
Email: mmdugan@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Megan Eatman

Associate Professor
Public Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Disability Rhetorics, Composition Pedagogy
Email: meeatma@clemson.edu
Office: 806 Strode

Melissa Edmundson Makala

Senior 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
ENGL 2020: Literary Forms and Creative Writing; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th- and 21st-Century Contexts; and ENGL 3460: Introduction to Creative Writing -- Poetry
Poetry, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature
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, Settler Colonialism, Infrastructure
Email: jbfield@clemson.edu
Office: 808 Strode

Ashley S Fisk

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

David Charles Foltz

Senior Lecturer
Americanism; Moral and Political Philosophy; the Western philosophical tradition
Email: davidf@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Jennifer Forsberg

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

Jordan Frith

Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
Technical Communication, Composition, Mobile media and Infrastructure, Histories of Technology
technical communication, mobile communication, infrastructure studies, writing studies, social media
Email: jfrith@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 602

Lucian Ghita

Senior Lecturer
Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, Theatre History, Postcolonial and World Literatures, Performance Studies, Adaptation
Email: lghita@clemson.edu
Office: 615 Strode

Hannah Godwin

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 2140: American Literature; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th and 21st Century Contexts; ENGL 3850: Children's Literature; ENGL 3860: Adolescent Literature
Modernist Literature and Culture; Childhood Studies; Sexuality Studies
Email: hgodwin@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Erin M. Goss

Associate Professor; Associate Chair
ENGL 4360 (Feminist Literature Criticism), ENGL 4640 (Topics: "Jane Austen and Comedy"); ENGL 4640 (Topics: "Women in Public"); ENGL 3960 (British Literature Survey I), ENGL 3100 (Critical Writing about Literature)
18th- and 19th-century British literature, culture, and thought; gender and race; nationalism; histories of feminism
Email: egoss@clemson.edu
Office: 810 Strode

LaCresha Green

Senior Lecturer
English 3040: Business Writing; English 1030: Composition and Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Divine Spaces; Rhetoric and Mortality; Rhetoric, Language, and Culture in U.S. Villages; and the Rhetoric of Identities
Email: lacresg@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Gabriel Hankins

Associate Professor
Digital Literary and Cultural Studies, World Literature, Modernist Literature
Modernism, Digital Humanities, Television Studies, Comparative Theory, Horror
Email: ghankin@clemson.edu
Office: 609 Strode

Tharon Howard

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

Jenny Joczik

Lecturer
Composition and Rhetoric, British Literature, American Literature, World Literature, English as a Second / Foreign Language
19th and 20th century British and Irish Literature; Irish Studies; World Mythology and Folklore; Literature of the American South; ESL/EFL; Composition
Email: vjoczik@clemson.edu

Tareva Johnson

Lecturer
ENGL 2160 African American Literature; ENGL 1030: Composition & Rhetoric
African American Literature, the Global South, Black Musical Traditions
Email: tarevaj@clemson.edu
Office: 517 Strode

Karen Kettnich

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature
Folktales, Fairy tales, Shakespeare, Medieval and Renaissance theatre, Libraries
Email: kkettni@clemson.edu
Office: 511 Strode

Joshua Kulseth

Lecturer
Twentieth-century English/American poetry; creative writing (poetry); world history (specifically classical/Napoleonic); ancient Greek combat sports, Irish poetry
Email: jkulset@clemson.edu

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

Michael LeMahieu

Professor
Contemporary Literature, Capstone Seminar, Topics in American Literature since 1865.
20th/21st Cent American Lit. Civil War Memory. Philosophy of Language.
Email: mlemahi@clemson.edu
Office: 101 Strode Tower
Phone: 864.656.0376

Megan Noel MacAlystre

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 2130: British Literature; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th-and 21st-Century Contexts; ENGL 3850: Children's Literature
Children’s Literature, Neo-Victorian Adaptations, Harry Potter, and Fairy Tales
Email: mmacaly@clemson.edu
Office: 311 Strode

Kimberly Snyder Manganelli

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
ENGL 3980: Early American Literature: The Remix (Literature Survey); ENGL 4170: Victorian Literature in the Age of Empire
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
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

Chelsea McKelvey

Lecturer
ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2130: British Literature
Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century Literature
Email: crmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 511

Seth McKelvey

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

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
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

Director of the Writing Lab; Archivist, Southeastern Writing Center Association
writing center theory and practice; Indigenous rhetorics; cultural rhetorics; material rhetorics, composition pedagogy
Email: cjmurdo@clemson.edu
Office: 307 ASC

Angela Naimou

Associate Professor
Literatures of the Middle East and North Africa; Postcolonial and World Literatures; World Literature; American Literatures of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
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
ENGL 2150: 20th & 21st Century Literature; ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 2160: African American Literature; ENGL 3140: Technical Writing
Email: snalley@clemson.edu
Office: 511 Strode

Mary Nestor

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 1030: Advanced Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2150: 20th and 21st Century Literature; 2130: British Literature; ENGL 2140: American Literature
British Romanticism, Adaptation Studies, Cultural Memory Theory
Email: mcnesto@clemson.edu
Office: 708 Strode

Vincent Ogoti

Assistant Professor

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

Senior 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

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

Mike Pulley

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2130: Introduction to Journalism; ENGL 3330: Writing for the News Media; ENGL 3150: Science Writing & Communication
Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction, Science Writing, 20th-century Literature
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

Principal Lecturer
English 3150: Science Writing; English 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; STS 1010
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
Early Modern British literature ; Shakespeare, adaptations, and cultural history
Email: rivlin@clemson.edu
Office: 804 Strode

Michelle Smith

Associate 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

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
ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th- and 21st-Century Contexts; ENGL 2120: World Literature; Honors Courses
Sequential Art, Popular Culture, Film, and Post-WWII Literature (American, Anglo, and World)
Email: swords@clemson.edu
Office: 516 Strode

Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
ENGL 4820: American Literature to 1920; ENGL3980: American Literature Survey I; ENGL3990: American Literature Survey II; ENGL4960: Senior Seminar
Black self-writing, Black historiography, and 18th- and 19th-century Black literature and culture
Email: rhonddt@clemson.edu
Office: 711 Strode

Hannah Treasure

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

Eddy Troy

Senior Lecturer
Film-philosophy, Global francophone cinema
Film Philosophy, World Cinema, Adaptation
Email: etroy@clemson.edu
Office: 613 Strode

Kenneth Tuite

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature (Love and Literature in the Ancient World); ENGL 3500: Greco-Roman Mythology; Latin Series (LATN 1010-2020)
Greek Historiography; Ancient Greco-Roman Love Poetry; Latin Literature
Email: ktuite@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 502

Sarah Watkins

Lecturer
ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric
Creative writing; Fantasy and Children's Literature
Email: swatki2@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 517

Caitlin G. Watt

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 2130: British Literature; ENGL 1030: Rhetoric and Composition
Medieval Romance, Literary Character, Classical Reception, Medievalism in Modern Media
Email: cgwatt@clemson.edu
Office: 507 Strode

Heather Williams

Senior Lecturer
ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 3140: Technical Writing; ENGL 3040: Business Writing
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

Hayley Zertuche

Lecturer
Email: hzertuc@clemson.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Rayford Barfield, Jr., 2010

Hallman Bell Bryant, 2004

Email: jallmab@clemson.edu

James Richard Calhoun

Michelle Case

Email: thecase.family@att.net

Wayne K. Chapman, 2016

Email: cqayne@clemson.edu

Sterling Eisiminger, 2007

Email: esterli@clemson.edu

Carolyn Ezell Foster

Dixie Gooch Goswami, 1996

Email: dgoswam@clemson.edu

Deuel Norton Griffin, 1989

Email: deuelg@clemson.edu

Cynthia Ann Haynes

Professor Emeritus
RCID 8020 Cultural Research Methods; ENGL 3090 Studies in Humanities
Rhetoric, Composition, Critical Theory, Games Studies, Violence, Terrorism and Conflict
Email: texcyn@clemson.edu
Office: 256E Sirrine Hall
Phone: (864) 656-6411

Susan H. Hilligoss, 2014

Email: hillgos@clemson.edu

Jere Hodgin, 1987

Email: jere.hodgin@mso.umt.edu

Jan Rune Holmevik

Associate Professor
Digital Publishing and Media Production, Transmedia Storytelling
Digital creativity and literacies, information design, digital transformation
Email: jholmev@clemson.edu
Office: 2101 Barre Hall