Faculty and Staff Profiles
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Amy Acosta
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 360
Phone: 985/549-5760
Email:aacosta@southeastern.edu
Alysia Catanzaro Anderson
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 334
Phone: 985/549-3082
Email:alysia.anderson@southeastern.edu
David Armand
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 351
Phone: 985/549-2499
Email:darmand@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature and creative writing.
Anne Babson
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 338
Phone: 985/549-5786
Email:anne.babson@southeastern.edu
Aimee Barrios, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 235
Phone: 985/549-5902
Email:aimee.barrios@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: British Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature, rhetoric and composition.
Jack Bedell, Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Creative Writing
Location: DVIC 341
Phone: 985/549-5756
Email:jbedell@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern and contemporary literature and creative writing.
Virginia Bell
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 231
Phone: 985/549-2413
Email:virginia.bell@southeastern.edu
Michelle Bellavia
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 238
Phone: 985/549-2417
Email:mbellavia@southeastern.edu
Heather Botsford
Title: Instructor and Coordinator of English Early Start Program
Location: DVIC 364
Phone: 985/549-5328
Email:hbotsford@southeastern.edu
Reine Bouton, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 336
Phone: 985/549-3767
Email:rbouton@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern American and British literature, travel writing, Southern literature, composition and rhetoric, Eudora Welty.
Cheryl Breaux
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 340
Phone: 985/549-5784
Email: cbreaux@southeastern.edu
Francis Broussard
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 215
Phone: 985/549-3975
Email:fbroussard@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: American literature, Native American literature
Suzzanne (Beth) Calloway, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 202
Phone: 985/549-2530
Email:scalloway@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and rhetoric, early American literature.
Carin Chapman
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 342
Phone: 985/549-5783
Email:carin.chapman@southeastern.edu
Christopher Cook
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 349
Phone: 985/549-5770
Email:christopher.cook@southeastern.edu
Richard (Dusty) Cooper
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 333
Phone: 985/549-5136
Email: richard.cooper@southeastern.edu
Andree Cosby
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 354
Phone: 985/549-2419
Email:acosby@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Rhetoric and composition and creative writing.
C. Denelle Cowart, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Location: DVIC 350
Phone: 985/549-2044
Email:ccowart@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Irish and modern British literature
Sherri Craig
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 337
Phone: 985/549-5787
Email: sherri.craig@southeastern.edu
Catherine Cresson
Title: Lecturer
Location: DVIC 349
Phone: 985/549-5770
Email: catherine.cresson-2@southeastern.edu
Nicole DosRamos-Schulter
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 363
Phone: 985/549-5762
Email:ndosramos@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and American literature.
Heather Draxl, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 362
Phone: 985/549-5757
Email: heather.draxl@southeastern.edu
Joan Faust, Ph.D.
Title: Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
Location: DVIC 392
Phone: 985/549-5477
Email:jfaust@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Seventeenth-century dramatic and non-dramatic literature and the epic in literature.
Thomas Fick, Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 344
Phone: 985/549-2104
Email:tfick@southeastern.edu
Areas of expertise: American literature, literature of race, women's literature
Joel Fredell, Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Publishing Studies
Location: DVIC 239
Phone: 985/549-2113
Email:jfredell@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Middle English, manuscript studies, Arthurian studies, digital humanities, and history of the book.
Randall Frederick
Title: Lecturer
Location: DVIC 345
Phone: 985/549-5781
Email: randall.frederick@southeastern.edu
Timothy Gautreaux, Ph.D.
Title: Professor Emeritus/Writer-in-Residence
Location: MIMS 211
Area of Expertise: Creative writing
Phone: 985/549-2383
Email: timothy.gautreaux@southeastern.edu
Chris Genre
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 366
Phone: 985/549-3122
Email:christoph.genre@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition, science fiction literature
George Gibson, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 217
Phone: 985/549-3211
Email:george.gibson@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: British and Irish Modernism, Celtic mythology, James Joyce.
Eva Gold, Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 365
Phone: 985/549-5768
Email:egold@southeastern.edu
David Hanson, Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Department Head
Location: DVIC 221
Phone: 985/549-2100
Email:dhanson@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth century British literature and nonfictional prose, literature and the visual arts, digital humanities, textual scholarship, and Ruskin studies.
Rebecca Hite
Title: Instructor and Director of General Studies
Location: DVIC 352
Phone: 985/549-5025
Email:rhite@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: English literature and composition.
Martin Kearney, Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Location: DVIC 356
Phone: 985/549-5766
Email:mkearney@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Modern British and Irish literature, the British novel, and folklore.
Corrie Kiesel, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 357
Phone: 985/549-5765
Email:corrie.kiesel@southeastern.edu
Jason Kirker
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 368
Phone: 985/549-3207
Email: jason.kirker@southeastern.edu
Jason Landrum, Ph.D.
Title:Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Southeastern Writing Center
Location: DVIC 229
Phone: 985/549-2074
Email: jason.landrum@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Film studies, critical theory, and American literature.
Dianna Laurent, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 234
Phone: 985/549-5755
Email:dlaurent@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Writing to communicate, internet research methodology, grant writing, and editing.
April Lenoir
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 359
Phone: 985/549-5763
Email:april.lenoir@southeastern.edu
Richard Louth, Ph.D.
Title: Professor and Director of Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project
Location: DVIC 332
Phone: 985/549-2102
Email:rlouth@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Writing and the teaching of writing, composition and rhetoric, technical writing, creative writing, living writers, Southern Literature: Louisiana literature, Southern short story, William Faulkner.
Sean Alan Marsh
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 212
Phone: 985/549-2870
Email:smarsh@southeastern.edu
Emily McDaniel
Title: Lecturer
Location: DVIC 342
Phone: 985/549-5783
Email:emily.mcdaniel@southeastern.edu
Christine Mitchell, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 339
Phone: 985/549-5785
Email:cmitchell@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Professional writing, rhetoric, composition, and ESL.
Kenneth Mitchell, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 355
Phone: 985/549-5767
Email: kenneth.mitchell@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Professional writing, British romantic poetry, and composition.
Lisa Moody, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 346
Phone: 985/549-3106
Email: lisa.moody@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth-century American and British literature.
Thomas Parrie
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 348
Phone: 985/549-5778
Email: thomas.parrie@southeastern.edu
Alison Pelegrin
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 230
Phone: 985/549-2358
Email:apelegrin@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition and rhetoric, American literature, and creative writing (poetry).
Leilya Pitre, Ph.D.
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English Education
Location: DVIC 361
Phone: 985/549-3383
Email:leilya.pitre@southeastern.edu
Ziba Rashidian, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor and Coordinator of English Graduate Studies
Location: DVIC 329/330
Phone: 985/549-5780
Email:ziba@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Animal studies, comparative literature, critical theory, globalization, modernism.
David Rodriguez
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 216
Phone: 985/549-2271
Email:david.rodriguez@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American literature, short stories, and creative writing.
Paul Sawyer, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Professional Writing
Location: DVIC 233
Phone: 985/549-5759
Email:psawyer@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Technical writing, online instruction, document design, visible rhetoric, and composition.
Sarah Schillage-Truxillo
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 367
Phone: 985/549-5026
Email: sschillage@southeastern.edu
Natalie Sheppard
Title: Instructor
Location: MIMS 214
Phone: 985/549-2536
Email: natalie.sheppard@southeastern.edu
Karen Shields
Title: Lecturer and Academic Advisor (CSE)
Location: CSE
Phone: 985/549-5719
Email: karen.shields@southeastern.edu
Jayetta Slawson, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Location: DVIC 343
Phone: 985/549-5024
Email:jslawson@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Performance studies, including human events in social and cultural settings; and performativity in writing, speech, expressive actions, gender, and identity constructions.
Christopher Tusa
Title: Writer in Residence
Location: DVIC 349
Phone: 985/549-5770
Email: Christopher.Tusa@southeastern.edu
Kent Wascom
Title: Instructor
Location: DVIC 353
Phone: 985/549-2114
Email: kent.wascom@southeastern.edu
Natasha Whitton, Ph.D.
Title: Instructor and Coordinator of Freshman English
Location: DVIC 335
Phone: 985/549-5788
Email:nwhitton@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; nineteenth- and twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history; Asian literature; comparative literature; composition; cross-cultural studies; history of science; interdisciplinary studies; women's studies; Toni Morrison; Bible as literature.
Jeffrey Wiemelt, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Language & Literacy
Location: DVIC 393
Phone: 985/549-5761
Email:jwiemelt@southeastern.edu
Areas of Expertise: Composition studies, linguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Tolkein.
