Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Jessica Ann Hughes

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

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

Harrison Dietzman, MFA, PhD

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Postsecular theory
  • Medical humanities
  • Fiction and creative nonfiction writing
Brooks Lampe

Associate Professor of Language and Literature

Honors Teaching Fellow

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Poetry Writing
  • World Literature
  • Literary Modernism
  • Aesthetic Theory
Jay David Miller

Assistant Professor of English

Associate Director, Honors Program

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Early American literature
  • The Atlantic World
  • Theology and literature
  • Literature and the environment
  • Quakerism
Holly Shelton

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Multilingual Writing
  • Translingual literacy
  • Multimodel composition
Melanie Springer Mock

Professor of English

Teaching and Writing Interests

  • Journalism
  • Creative nonfiction, including longform journalism
  • First-year writing
  • Cultural criticism

Staff

Susana Martinez

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Modern Languages Coordinator

Erin Macy

Erin Macy

Administrative Assistant, Department of Language and Literature