Faculty and Staff
Faculty
English is part of the Department of Humanities.
Department Chair
Edward Sadrai
Email: emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu
Cezarija Abartis
- Professor
- Ph.D., Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Teaching and research areas: Renaissance literature, Greek and Roman literature, fiction writing
(320) 308-3244
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260 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
c.abartis@stcloudstate.edu

Matt Barton
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Florida
Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, composition, game studies, wikis, popular culture, professional writing, science fiction/fantasy literature, digital pedagogy
(320) 308-2204
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158 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mdbarton@stcloudstate.edu

Craig Case
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition, English and British literature

Michael Dando
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Teaching and research areas: urban education, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical literacy development, English education, teacher education
(320) 308-3724
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164 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mbdando@stcloudstate.edu

Judith Dorn
- Professor
- Ph.D., Yale University
- Teaching and research areas: 17th and 18th-century British literature, narrative, the novel, critical theory, English literary periods medieval to modern
(320) 308-5432
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255 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jadorn@stcloudstate.edu
Faith Ericson
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
Anne Fischhaber
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition
Tim Fountaine
- Associate Professor
- Writing Center Director
- Ph.D, Michigan Technological University
- Teaching and research areas: the social context of writing, theories and practices of rhetoric and of writing, writing center theory and practice
(320) 308-5472
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117A Ruby Cora Webster Hall
trfountaine@stcloudstate.edu

Catherine Fox
- Professor
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Teaching and research areas: feminist, queer, and rhetorical theories; feminist/critical pedagogy, embodied learning and writing, mindfulness practices
(320) 308-5106
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161 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
cofox@stcloudstate.edu

Sarah Green
- Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., Ohio University
Teaching and research areas: creative writing-poetry and nonfiction, songwriting, American poetics and multicultural literatures, gender and women’s studies, creative writing pedagogy
(320) 308-3937
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258 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
sgreen@stcloudstate.edu
Cara Hanneman
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature

James Heiman
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Teaching and research areas: composition pedagogy, writing program administration, rhetorical theory, professional communication
(320) 308-4735
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110 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jrheiman@stcloudstate.edu
Choonkyong Kim
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Teaching and research areas: second language acquisition, vocabulary acquisition, research methods, language teacher education
(320) 308-3245
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101 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
ckim@stcloudstate.edu

Ettien Koffi
- Professor
- Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University
- Teaching and research areas: phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language planning, Anyi language research
(320) 308-3539
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261 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
enkoffi@stcloudstate.edu

Leanne Loy
- Instructor
- MA
- Teaching and research areas: Creative Writing and Composition, Literature, Editing and Publishing
Delissa Madden
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature

John P. Madden
- Director, Teaching English as a Second Language program
- Professor
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
- Teaching and research areas: second language comprehension, computer-assisted language learning and digital literacy, second language acquisition, second language research methods, second language
(320) 308-0910
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162 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jpmadden@stcloudstate.edu

Maria (Masha) Mikolchak
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina
- Teaching and research areas: comparative literature, French, German and Russian national literatures, 19th century European novel, languages and cultures
(320) 308-4979
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123A Lawrence Hall
mmikolchak@stcloudstate.edu
Chris Oveson
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature

Monica Pelaez
- Professor
- Ph.D., Brown University
Teaching and research areas: 19th-century American literature, early American literature, poetry, African American literature, literary theory
(320) 308-3183
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103 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mtpelaez@stcloudstate.edu

Edward Sadrai
- Chair, Department of Humanities, and Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- Teaching and research areas: information structure, morphosyntax, codeswitching, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, conlangs
(320) 308-3061
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126 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu

Michael Schwartz
- Professor
- Director of the Intensive English Center
- Director of English for Academic Purposes
- Ph.D., University of New Mexico
- Teaching and research areas: World Englishes, second language writing, discourse analysis and teacher development
(320) 308-3237
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107 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mwschwartz@stcloudstate.edu
Sarah Steinfeldt
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and creative writing
Chris York
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
Staff
Elaine Moran
- IEC Office Manager
(320) 308-3062
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111 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
megan.berthiaume@stcloudstate.edu


Jesse Sadoff
- English Language Support Services Coordinator
- M.A. TESL, Northern Arizona University
(320) 308-4189
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112 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jesse.sadoff@stcloudstate.edu
Emeriti

Sharon Cogdill
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
Teaching and research areas: Victorian studies, digital rhetoric

Judith Kilborn
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Purdue University
- Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, document design, business writing, film and literature
Bill Meissner
- Professor Emeritus
- MFA University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Teaching and research areas: creative writing, poetry and fiction

Carol Mohrbacher
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Teaching and research areas: digital copyright and authorship, the rhetoric of alterity, writing center theory and practice

Shannon Olson
- Professor Emerita
- M.F.A., University of Minnesota
- Teaching and research areas: creative writing fiction and nonfiction, editing and publishing, reading and producing the literary magazine, humor writing
Constance M. Perry
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Indiana University
- Teaching and research areas: modern and contemporary American literature, gender studies in literature, women in literature
James Robinson
- Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D., Stanford University
- Teaching and research areas: teaching English as a second language (TESL) methods and ESL, culture and ethnographic research in educational settings