Meet the Department
Department Chair
Quentin Bailey
Office: AL-226C
Email: [email protected]
Administrative Coordinator II
(Budget, Payroll, Contracts, Course Schedule)
Mary Garcia
Office: AL-226B
Phone: (619) 594-5443
Email: [email protected]
Administrative Support Assistant II
Iris Quiroga
Office: AL-226
Phone: (619) 594-5307
Email: [email protected]
Administrative Support Assistant II
Olivia Perez
Office: AL-226A
Phone: (619) 594-5237
Email: [email protected]
Undergraduate Director
Clare Colquitt
Office: AL-415
Email: [email protected]
To schedule an Undergraduate advising appointment, please refer to sdsu.campus.eab.com.
Children's Literature Program Director
Lashon Daley
Office: AL-217
Email: [email protected]
MA Graduate Directors
Diana Leong
Phone: (619) 594-6469
Office: AL-267
Email: [email protected]
Jessica Pressman
Office: AL-261
Email: [email protected]
MFA Graduate Director
Sandra Alcosser
Office: AL-219
Phone: (619) 594-5234
Email: [email protected]
Sandra Alcosser
Professor; Co-Director, MFA Graduate Program
Office: AL-219
Phone: (619) 594-5234
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Poetry, Prose, Form and Theory
Quentin Bailey
Associate Professor; Department Chair
Office: AL-226C
Email: [email protected]
Area: British Literature
Michael Borgstrom
Professor; Interim Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters
Office: AL-600
Email: [email protected]
Areas: American Literature, LGBTQ Studies, Cultural Studies
Joanna Brooks
Professor; Associate V.P. of Faculty Advancement
Office: MH- 3310
Email: [email protected]
Areas: American Literature, Religious Studies
Laurie Champion
Professor
Office: AL-257
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Twentieth-Century Ethnic, American Literature, Feminist Studies, Short Story Theory; Creative Writing
Clare Colquitt
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director
Office: AL-415
Phone: (619) 594-6219
Email: [email protected]
Area: American Literature
Lashon Daley
Assistant Professor; Director of Children's Literature Program
Office: AL-217
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Black Girlhood Studies, Children's and Adolescent Literature, Performance and
New Media, Folklore
Matt de la Peña
Office: AL-213
Phone: (619) 594-5347
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Publishing, Literature, Children's Literature
Blas Falconer
Professor
Office: AL-270
Email: [email protected]
Area: Poetry
Peter C. Herman
Professor
Office: AL-265
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Early Modern Drama, Milton, Literature of Terrorism
Yetta Howard
Professor
Office: AL-259
Phone: (619) 594-1517
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Gender and Sexuality, Queer Studies, Visual and Auditory Cultures, Minority
Discourse
Harold Jaffe
Professor Emeritus - FERP
Office: AL-269
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Comparative Literature, American Literature, Narrative Theory, Creative Writing
Diana Leong
Assistant Professor; Co-Director, MA Graduate Program
Office: AL-267
Phone: (619) 594-6469
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Environmental Justice, Black Literature & Culture, Environmental Humanities
Stephen-Paul Martin
Professor; Co-Director, MFA Graduate Program
Office: AL-253
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American Literature
William A. Nericcio
Professor; Director, MALAS
Office: AL-273
Phone: (619) 594-1524
Email: [email protected]
Areas: American/Latin American Literature, Cultural Studies
Jessica Pressman
Professor; Co-Director, MA Graduate Program
Office: AL-261
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Digital Literature, 20th/21st- Century Experimental Narrative, Media Theory
Phillip Serrato
Associate Professor
Office: AL-225
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Gothic and Horror Studies, Chicanx Literature, Film, and Performance, Children's
and Young Adult Literature
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
Professor
Office: AL-255
Email: [email protected]
Areas: American Poetry, Children’s Literature
Tishna Asim
Office: AL-276
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Crime & Detective fiction, Victorian England, Children's Literature, Gothic & Horror
Uri Bar-on
Visiting Israeli Scholar for Fall 2023
Office: AL-215
Email: [email protected]
Tracy Cummings
Office: AL-236
Email: [email protected]
Areas: British and comparative literature, early modern poetry and theater, especially
Donne, Shakespeare, Gascoigne; Narratology and war literature, and nonviolent political
activity in the early modern period
Maya Tevet Dayan
Visiting Israeli Scholar for Fall 2023
Office: AL-211
Email: [email protected]
Catherine Guthrie
Office: AL-278
Email: [email protected]
Edith Frampton
Office: AL-288
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Dramatic Literature and Theatre Practices (including Shakespeare in performance), Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins Office: AL-240
Email: [email protected]
Daniel Najork
Office: AL-240
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Medieval Icelandic and English Literature, Medieval Manuscript Culture, Translation
in Medieval Icelandic and English Literature, The “English Age” of Iceland, Nineteenth-century
medievalism and its consequences
Meagan Marshall
Office: AL-280
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Poetry (Page and Performance), Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction
Kellie Miller
Office: AL-230
Email: [email protected]
Kathleen Shumate
Office: AL-282
Phone: (619) 594-5184
Email: [email protected]
Areas: American Literature 1860 to present, children's literature, folklore, Native American literature, poetry, literature and film, Monster Theory, Hero's Journey
Sequoia Serrato
Office: AL-220
Email: [email protected]
Areas: Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Queer Studies, Dystopian Literature & Media, Fantasy, Fan Studies
Jeanette Roberts Shumaker
Professor, Imperial Valley Campus
Office: IVC-WF-157
Email: [email protected]
Emily Buchanan
Office: AL-242
Email: [email protected]
Hailey Gross
Office: AL-242
Email: [email protected]
Joey King
Office: AL-244
Email: [email protected]
Angela Mendoza
Office: AL-242
Email: [email protected]
Rose Padilla
Office: AL-244
Email: [email protected]
Rosalind Shoopmann
Office: AL-244
Email: [email protected]
Elsie B. Adams, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Alida L. Allison, Ph.D. *
Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Jackson J. Benson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Alfred F. Boe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Howard C. Brashear, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Ruth M. C. Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Jerry D. Bumpus, M.F.A.
Professor Emeritus, English and Senate Distinguished Professor
Gerald J. Butler, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Marilyn M. Chin, M.F.A.
Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
June Cummins-Lewis, Ph.D. *
Associate Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Glover T. Davis II, M.F.A.
Professor Emeritus, English
Laurie Edson, Ph.D. *
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Gerald H. Farber, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Ronald J. Gervais, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Sinda J. Gregory, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English
Mary P. Galbraith, Ph.D.
Lecturer Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Jerome J. Griswold, Ph.D. *
Professor Emeritus, English
D. Emily Hicks, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Chicano/a Studies and English and Comparative Literature
James Hinkle, Ph.D. *
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Dorothea F. Kehler, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English
Lynda L. Koolish, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Lois R. Kuznets, Ph.D. *
Professor Emerita, English
Sherry Little, Ph.D. *
Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
David Matlin, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Lawrence F. McCaffery, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Dan D. McLeod, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
John P. Monteverde, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Fred Moramarco, Ph.D. *
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Thomas A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Peter F. Neumeyer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Mary Worden Redding, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature
Robert W. Redding, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
William N. Rogers II, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
James Rother, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
George W. Sanderlin, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature and Senate Distinguished Professor
Minas Savvas, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Carole A. Scott, Ph.D.
Dean, Undergraduate Studies and Professor Emerita, English
Ita G. Sheres, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Donald A. Shojai, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature
Kermit Vanderbilt, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English and Comparative Literature and Senate Distinguished Professor
Carey G. Wall, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English
* In memoriam