Faculty and Staff
Abayomi Animashaun
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2012)
Creative Writing: Poetry, Comparative Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: animasha@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7273
Office: Radford Hall 224
Learn more about Abayomi
Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing: Poetry, Comparative Literature
Classes Taught:
- ENG 405/605 Creative Writing
- ENG 305/505 Creative Writing: Poetry I
- ENG 218 Intro to Multi-Ethnic Literature
- ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
- ENG 168 Multi-Ethnic Literature (Quest I)
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Heather Benson
Lecturer (M.A., University of Toronto, 2002)
College Writing, Developmental Writing, Academic Support
Fox Cities Campus
Email: bensonh@uwosh.edu
Office: Fox Campus
Learn more about Heather
Areas of Interest:
College Writing, Developmental Writing, and Academic Support.
Classes Taught:
- ACAD 115
- WRT 99
- WRT 101
- WRT 188
- WRT 201
- WRT 287
- WRT 288
Karl Boehler
Lecturer (Ph.D., Marquette University, 2005)
Medieval Literature, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: boehler@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 301
Learn more about Karl
Areas of Interest:
Medieval Literature, Composition
Classes Taught:
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 210 Classical and Medieval Literature
- ENG 211 British Literature I
- ENG 151 British Literature to the 18th Century (Quest I)
- ENG 100 Foundations of College English
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Stewart Cole
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2012)
Cross-appointed to the Environmental Studies Program
Modern British and Irish Literature, Ecocriticism/Animal Studies, Creative Writing: Poetry
Oshkosh Campus
Email: coles@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-2260
Office: Radford Hall 225
Website: stewart-cole.com
Learn more about Stewart
Areas of Interest:
Modern British and Irish Literature, Ecocriticism/Animal Studies, Creative Writing: Poetry
Courses Taught:
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ENG/ES 399 Utopian/Dystopian Literature
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ENG 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism
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ENG 365 Modern British Fiction: Love and War in the Modern British Novel
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ENG/ES 360 Literary Animal Studies
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ENG 358 Postcolonial Literature: Nationalism, Rebellion, and Decolonization in Modern Irish Literature
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ENG 294 Literary Landscapes (Quest III Study Abroad in Ireland)
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ENG 225 Modern British Literature
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ENG 205 Literature from a Global Perspective (Honors College Study Abroad in Paris)
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ENG 165 Twentieth-Century British Literature (Quest I)
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ES 282 Environmental Humanities
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HNRS 475 Honors Senior Seminar: Animals, Human and Nonhuman
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HNRS 275 Culture Connection
Don Dingledine
Professor (Ph.D., Temple University, 1998)
19th-Century American and African American Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: dingledi@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7270
Office: Radford Hall 308
Learn more about Don
Areas of Interest:
19th-Century American and African American Literature
Courses Taught:
- ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
- ENG 396 Literature and History
- ENG 375 American Realism and Naturalism
- ENG 229 Honors African American Literature
- ENG 219 African American Literature
- ENG 213 American Literature I
- ENG 110 Honors Composition
Aaron Dunckel
Lecturer (Ph.D, Syracuse University, 1998)
British Literature, Criticism, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: dunckel@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 307
Learn more about Aaron
Areas of Interest:
British Literature, Criticism, Composition
Classes Taught:
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
- ENG 281 Intro to English Studies
- ENG 212 British Literature II
Scott Emmert
He/Him/His
Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University 2000)
American Literature, Literature & Film
Oshkosh and Fox Campus
Email: emmerts@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2640
Office:
Learn more about Scott
Areas of Interest:
American Literature / Literature & Film
Classes Taught:
- WRT 188 First-Year College Writing
- WRT 287/288 Advanced Writing
- ENG 213 American Literature I
- ENG 214 American Literature II
- ENG 219 African American Literature
- ENG 226 Modern American Literature
- ENG 231 Literature & Film
- RTF 150 Introduction to Film
Robert Feldman
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985)
Modern American and European Drama
Oshkosh Campus
Email: feldman@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7274
Office: Radford Hall 227
Learn more about Robert
Areas of Interest:
Modern American and European Drama
Courses Taught:
- ENG 380/580 Modern Drama
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 300 Connect
- ENG 228 Honors Modern American Literature
- ENG 226 Modern American Literature
Learn more about Sara
Areas of Interest:
Classes Taught:
- WRT 99
- WRT 100
- WRT 188
- WRT 287
Bill Gillard
Professor (M.F.A. Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2005)
Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Poetry, Composition
Oshkosh and Fox Cities Campus
Email: gillardw@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2669
Office: Fox Campus #1835
Learn more about Bill
Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Literary Modernism
Classes Taught:
- ENG 231 Literature and Film
- ENG 243 Introduction to Nature Writing
- ENG 247 Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG 250 Introduction to Literary Studies
- ENG 284 Science Fiction
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
- ENG 204 Introduction to Creative Writing
Douglas Haynes
Professor (M.F.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2002)
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Poetry; Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: haynesd@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 204
Learn more about Douglas
Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Poetry; Composition
Courses Taught:
- ENG 405/605 Creative Writing: Nature Writing
- ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
- ENG 243 Intro to Nature Writing
- ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
Cary Henson
He/Him/His
Lecturer (M.A., Indiana University, 1994)
Composition, Modern World Literature, Genocide Film and Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: henson@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 307
Learn more about Cary
Areas of Interest:
Comparative Literature, Composition
Classes Taught:
- ENG 381/581 Foundations of Literary Criticism
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 231 Literature and Film
- ENG 227 Modern World Literature
- ENG 110 Honors Composition
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Margaret Hostetler
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996)
Medieval Literature, Linguistics
Oshkosh Campus
Email: hostetle@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7281
Office: Radford Hall 220
Learn more about Margaret
Areas of Interest:
Medieval Literature, Linguistics
Courses Taught:
- ENG 701 Seminar in Literature
- ENG 384/584 Sociolinguistics
- ENG 383/583 Intro to English Linguistics
- ENG 346/546 Chaucer and His Age
- ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
- ENG 210 Classical and Medieval Literature
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Valerie Jahns
Lecturer Emerita
Composition, Fantasy/Pop Culture, Fiction, Scottish Literature
Email: jahnsv@uwosh.edu
Phone: N/A
Office:
Oksana Katsanivska
Lecturer (M.A. in Philology/ Linguistics, Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine)
Linguistics, Ukrainian Literature, and Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: katsanivskao@uwosh.edu
Office: Swart 308
Learn more about Oksana
Areas of Interest:
Linguistics, Ukrainian Literature, and Composition
Courses Taught:
- WRT 100 Foundations of College English
- ENG 227 Modern World Literature
Kathryn Klein
Assistant Professor (PhD, Stony Brook University, 2013)
American and European Modernism, LGBTQ+ Studies, Creative Writing: Fiction
Oshkosh Campus
Email: kleink@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0762
Office: Sage 3475
Learn more about Kathryn
Areas of Interest:
Courses Taught:
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ENG 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism
- ENG 224/WGSTDs 224 Women in Literature
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WGSTDs 393 Queer Memoir
- WGSTDs 205 Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
- WGTSDs 201 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
- WRT 288 Connect: Advanced Writing
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WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Ula Klein
Associate Professor (PhD, Stony Brook University, 2013)
18th-century literature; women’s and gender studies
Oshkosh Campus
Email: kleinu@uwosh.edu
Phone:
Office:
Learn more about Ula
Areas of Interest:
18th-century literature; women’s and gender studies
Courses Taught:
- WG STDS 201
- WG STDS 232
- WG STDS 390
- WG STDS 435
Jordan Landry
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000)
Co-Director of Writing Center
American and Women’s Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: landry@uwosh.edu
Learn more about Jordan
Areas of Interest:
American and Women’s Literature
Courses Taught:
- Eng 391 Gay & Lesbian Literature
Samantha Looker-Koenigs
She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011)
Chair, Department of English, and Director, First-Year Writing
Rhetoric and Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: lookers@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 223
Learn more about Samantha
Areas of Interest:
Rhetoric and Composition
Courses Taught:
- ENG 714 Studying Rhetoric and Writing
- ENG 481 Seminar in English Studies
- ENG 387/587 Special Topics in Rhetoric and Composition
- ENG 385 Topics in Professional and Digital Writing
- ENG 322/522 Theories of Rhetoric and Writing
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Pascale Manning
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2013)
19th-Century Literature and Science, Native Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: manningp@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7342
Office: Radford Hall 306
Website: pascalemanning.com
Learn more about Pascale
Areas of Interest:
19th-Century Literature and Science, Native Literature
Courses Taught:
- ENG 342 Literature of the Romantic Era
- ENG 359 Literature and Science
- ENG 352 The Nineteenth-Century Novel
- ENG 370 Native American Literature II
- ENG 212 British Literature II
- ENG 220 Native American Literature I
- HNRS 275 Culture Connection (Honors Study Abroad in London and Paris)
Christina Marty
Director of the Writing Center for the Access Campuses
Co-Director of Oshkosh Campus Writing Center
Writing Center Studies: Helping students learn how to shape their own ideas and thoughts about the world through critical reading and writing.
Oshkosh and Fox Cities
Email: martyc@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2867
Office: Fox Cities #1837
Learn more about Christina
Areas of Interest:
Writing Center Studies: Helping students learn how to shape their own ideas and thoughts about the world through critical reading and writing.
Courses Taught:
- Writing 100
- Writing 188
Stephen McCabe
Teaching Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2009)
Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: mccabes@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7290
Office: Radford Hall 310
Learn more about Stephen
Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing: Fiction, Composition
Classes Taught:
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 303 Creative Writing: Fiction I
- ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
- ENG 226 Modern American Literature
- ENG 214 American Literature II
- ENG 204 Intro to Creative Writing
- ENG 100 Foundations of College English
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Adam Ochonicky
He/Him/His
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2014)
Film Studies, Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: ochonica@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-0862
Office: Radford Hall 314
Learn more about Adam
Areas of Interest:
Film Studies, American Literature and Culture, Media Studies, Regionalism
Classes Taught:
- English 390/590 Film and Literary Studies: Archival Texts: Surveillance, Voyeurism, and Memory
- English 385 Professional and Digital Writing: Mediated Forms of Curating, Archiving, and Sharing
- English 378/578 Modern American Novel
- English 376/576 Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Regional Narratives
- English 366/566 Science Fiction
- English 231 Literature and Film: Horror Adaptations
- English 226 Modern American Literature
- English 219 African American Literature
- English 214 American Literature II: 1865 to the Present
- English 213 American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
- Honors 275 Culture Connection
- RTF 344 Prime-Time Television Writing
- Writing 310 Honors: Advanced Composition
- Writing 288 Connect: Advanced Writing: Technology and Culture
- Writing 287 Advanced Writing: Technology and Culture
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Publications:
The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism. Indiana University Press, 2020.
“Nostalgia and Retcons: The Many Returns, Homecomings, and Revisions of the Halloween Franchise (1978-2018).” Adaptation vol. 13, no 3, 2020.
“‘Something to be haunted by’: Adaptive monsters and regional narratives in ‘The Forbidden’ and Candyman.” Horror Studies vol. 11, no. 1, 2020, pp. 101-122.
“Introduction: Special Dossier on Fargo (FX, 2014-).” Middle West Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2019, pp. 65-70.
“Twin Peaks: Episode 2.22 and Beyond.” In Television Finales: From “Howdy Doody” to “Girls”, edited by Douglas L. Howard and David Bianculli, Syracuse University Press, 2018, pp. 415-424.
“The Spectral Present: Landscapes of Absence in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and The Headless Woman.” Screening the Past, special dossier on “Materializing Absence in Film and Media,” no. 43, April 2018.
“‘A Better Civilization’ Through Tourism: Cultural Appropriation in The Marble Faun.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 70, no. 2, September 2015, pp. 221-237.
“The Millennial Midwest: Nostalgic Violence in the Twenty-First Century.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 32, no. 2, February 2015, pp. 124-140.
James Pesta
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997)
Oshkosh Campus
Email: pestaj@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 210
Learn more about James
Areas of Interest:
Courses Taught:
Alayne Peterson
Associate Professor (MFA in Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999)
Fond du Lac Campus
Email: petersona@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 929-1196
Office: C-224 (Fond du Lac campus Classroom Bldg)
Learn more about Alayne
Areas of Interest:
Science Fiction/Fantasy literature, film, and television; creative writing; the works of Philip K. Dick; the works of William Gibson; the films of Hayao Miyazaki
Courses Taught:
- ENG 101 College Writing and Critical Reading
- ENG 102 Critical Writing, Reading, and Research
- ENG 203/204 Creative Writing I and II. Writing-intensive sophomore-level literature courses for non-majors
- ENG 285 Literature of Nature; ENG 284 Science Fiction in Literature and Film (“Apocalypse Now-ish”);
- ENG 266 Modern Literature (“The Existential Crisis”); ENG 270 Survey of British Literature (“Here There Be Monsters”);
- ENG 272 Survey of American Literature (“In the American Grain”); ENG 277 Film Studies (“The Works of Hayao Miyazaki”)
Jennifer Porter
Lecturer
Email:
Phone:
Office:
Ron Rindo
Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1989)
Creative Writing: Fiction, 19th-Century American Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: rindo@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 201
Learn more about Ron
Areas of Interest:
Creative Writing: Fiction, 19th-Century American Literature
Courses Taught:
- ENG 709 Special Topics in Creative Writing
- ENG 372/572 The American Short Story
- ENG 350/550 Study Tour: American Writers in Paris
- ENG 343/543 Nature Writing
- ENG 304/504 Advanced Fiction Writing
- ENG 303/503 Creative Writing: Fiction I
- ENG 300 Advanced Writing (Connect)
- ENG 213 American Literature I
- ENG 153 American Literature through the Civil War (Quest I)
Christine Roth
She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida, 2001)
Director of the English Graduate Program
19th-Century British Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Scottish Studies
Oshkosh Campus
Email: roth@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7287
Office: Radford Hall 207
Learn more about Christine
Areas of Interest:
19th-Century British Literature, Critical Animal Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Expatriate Literature, Scottish Studies
Courses Taught:
- ENG 369/569 Literature of the Victorian Period
- ENG 358/558 Postcolonial Literature
- ENG 347/547 Shakespeare I
- ENG 354/554 Studies in Travel, Literature, and Culture: Expatriate Writers in Paris
- ENG 356/556 Special Topics in British and/or Irish Literature: The British Children’s Novel
- ENG 310 Honors Advanced Writing
- ENG 247 Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG 223 Young Adult Literature
- ENG 212 British Literature II
Paul Sager
Lecturer
Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: sagerp@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 929-1185
Office: Radford Hall 206
Learn more about Paul
Areas of Interest:
Developmental Reading and Writing
Courses Taught:
- ENG 099
- ENG 100
- WBIS 188
- ACAD 100
Lisa Schreibersdorf
Associate Professor
FDL Campus
Learn more about Lisa
Areas of Interest:
Courses Taught:
Nik Shier
Lecturer
Email:
Phone:
Office:
Loren Snyder
Lecturer
Composition
Oshkosh Campus
Email: snyderl@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 832-2650
Office: Radford Hall 232
Learn more about Loren
Areas of Interest:
Composition, Journalism, Advertising & Communications
Courses Taught:
- WBIS 188
- COMM 103
- COMM 218
- RTF 150
Anne Stevens
Faculty/ Dean of College of Letters and Science
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: stevensa@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-1302
Office: Sage 3640
Learn more about Anne
Areas of Interest:
Eighteenth-century literature and literary theory.
Kristin Vielbig
Lecturer (M.A., South Dakota State University, 2000)
Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature
Oshkosh Campus
Email: vielbigk@uwosh.edu
Phone: (920) 424-7340
Office: Radford Hall 304
Learn more about Kristin
Areas of Interest:
Composition, Multi-Ethnic Literature
Classes Taught:
- ENG 312 Advanced Writing
- ENG 218 Intro to Multi-Ethnic Literature
- ENG 168 Multi-Ethnic Literature (Quest I)
- ENG 101 College English I
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
Michael Wirkus
Teaching Assistant Professor
Composition, Reading and Study Skills
Oshkosh and Fox Cities Campus
Email: wirkusm@uwosh.edu
Office: Radford Hall 229
Learn more about Michael
Areas of Interest:
Composition, Reading and Study Skills.
Classes Taught:
- WRT 99
- WRT 100
- WRT 188 First Year College Writing
- ACAD 100
- ACAD 169
- INTRDSCP 101
Emeritus:
- Malcolm Allen (Professor Emeritus)
- Norlisha Crawford (Associate Professor Emerita)
- Kelley Duhatschek (Professor Emerita)
- Vivian Foss (Senior Lecturer Emerita)
- Marguerite Helmers (Professor Emerita)
- Paul Klemp (Professor Emeritus)
- Roberta Maguire (Professor Emeritus)
- Julie Schaffer (Professor Emeritus)