English

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 | 260 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
c.abartis@stcloudstate.edu

Matt Barton

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 | 158 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mdbarton@stcloudstate.edu

Craig Case

Craig Case

  • Instructor
  • Teaching and research areas: Composition, English and British literature

Michael Dando

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 | 164 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mbdando@stcloudstate.edu

Judith Dorn

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 | 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 | 117A Ruby Cora Webster Hall
trfountaine@stcloudstate.edu

Catherine Fox

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 | 161 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
cofox@stcloudstate.edu

Sarah Green

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 | 258 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
sgreen@stcloudstate.edu

Cara Hanneman

  • Instructor
  • Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature

James Heiman

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 | 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 | 101 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
ckim@stcloudstate.edu

Ettien Koffi

Ettien Koffi

  • Professor
  • Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University
  • Teaching and research areas: phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language planning, Anyi language research

(320) 308-3539 | 261 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
enkoffi@stcloudstate.edu

Leanne Loy

Leanne Loy

  • Instructor
  • MA
  • Teaching and research areas: Creative Writing and Composition, Literature, Editing and Publishing

leanne.loy@stcloudstate.edu

Delissa Madden

  • Instructor
  • Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature

John P. Madden

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 | 162 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jpmadden@stcloudstate.edu

Maria (Masha) Mikolchak

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 | 123A Lawrence Hall
mmikolchak@stcloudstate.edu

Chris Oveson

  • Instructor
  • Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature

Monica Pelaez

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 | 103 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mtpelaez@stcloudstate.edu

Edward Sadrai

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 | 126 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu

Michael Schwartz

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 | 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 | 111 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
megan.berthiaume@stcloudstate.edu

Molly Mitzel

Molly Mitzel

  • Office Manager

(320) 308-3061 | SH 326
memitzel@stcloudstate.edu

Jesse Sadoff

Jesse Sadoff

  • English Language Support Services Coordinator
  • M.A. TESL, Northern Arizona University

(320) 308-4189 | 112 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jesse.sadoff@stcloudstate.edu

Emeriti

Sharon Cogdill

Sharon Cogdill

  • Professor Emerita
  • Ph.D., Michigan State University

  • Teaching and research areas: Victorian studies, digital rhetoric

scogdill@stcloudstate.edu

Judith Kilborn

Judith Kilborn

  • Professor Emerita
  • Ph.D., Purdue University
  • Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, document design, business writing, film and literature

jmkilborn@stcloudstate.edu

Bill Meissner

  • Professor Emeritus
  • MFA University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  • Teaching and research areas: creative writing, poetry and fiction

wjmeissner@stcloudstate.edu

Carol Mohrbacher

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

camohrbacher@stcloudstate.edu

Shannon Olson

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

srolson@stcloudstate.edu

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

cmperry@stcloudstate.edu

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

jhrobinson@stcloudstate.edu