Faculty & Staff
Faculty

Jessica Ann Hughes, PhD
Chair, Department of English, Languages, and Communication
Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Interests
- The long 19th century
- The novel
- Religion in 19th-century Britain
- Bible as literature

Gary Tandy, PhD
Professor of English
Teaching and Research Interests
- C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Inklings
- Early British literature, Shakespeare
- Music and literature
- Christianity and literature

Harrison Dietzman, MFA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Teaching and Research Interests
- Postsecular theory
- Medical humanities
- Fiction and creative nonfiction writing

Jay David Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Interim Director, Honors Program
Teaching and Research Interests
- Early American literature
- The Atlantic World
- Theology and literature
- Literature and the environment
- Quakerism

Holly Shelton, PhD
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Teaching and Research Interests
- Multilingual Writing
- Translingual literacy
- Multimodel composition

Professor of English
Teaching and Writing Interests
- Journalism
- Creative nonfiction, including longform journalism
- First-year writing
- Cultural criticism
Staff

Susana Barnreuther-Martinez
Administrative Assistant, Department of English, Languages, and Communication