The faculty and staff of the English Department are dedicated to serving Washburn University’s students and larger community through excellence in teaching, innovative scholarship and creative work, and by providing students from diverse backgrounds with critical reading and writing skills for their personal and professional futures.
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Dr. Danny Wade, Chair Morgan Hall, Room 258 (785) 670-1441
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Karen Simpson, Administrative Specialist Morgan Hall, Room 258 (785) 670-1441
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Thomas Fox Averill, Writer-in-residence and Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 300
MFA, Fiction, University of Iowa; M.A., University of Kansas; B.A., University of Kansas.
Specialties: Fiction, essay, poetry on various topics; food studies, garden literature, Scotland and Scottish culture, Kansas. View faculty profile
Karen L. Barron, Lecturer
Morgan Hall, Room 151
MFA, Fiction, Bennington College; B.A., Kansas State University.
Specialties: Fiction, belles lettres, women's literature, creative non-fiction, poetry. View faculty profile
Melanie Burdick, Assistant Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 150
Ph.D., University of Kansas; M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City
Specialties: Teaching of writing in high school and college; relationship and overlap of creative and academic forms of writing; preparation of secondary English teachers; composition and rhetoric; service learning. View faculty profile
Cedric Burrows, Lecturer
Morgan Hall, Room 257
Ph.D., University of Kansas; M.A., Miami University; B.A., Alcorn State University
Specialties: Composition and rhetoric. View faculty profile
Erin Chamberlain, Assistant Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 255
Ph.D., Purdue University; M.A., Ohio University; B.A., Hanover College
Specialties: Romantic and Victorian literature, especially the fiction of Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters and George Eliot; portrayals of servants, women, class, space, and working class literacy in 19th-century British literature. View faculty profile
Dennis Etzel, Jr., Lecturer
Morgan Hall, Room 256
MFA, University of Kansas; M.A., Kansas State University
Specialties: Experimental/conceptual poetry and poetics, feminist poetry and poetics, poetry as survival, political American poetry, ancient and contemporary mythology. View faculty profile
Maureen Godman, Associate Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 153
Ph.D., University of Kansas; M.A., University of Kansas; B.A. (Hons.), University of Leicester, England
Specialties: British Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne and the ways in which historical contexts affect their literary endeavors; the connection between concealment and creativity; women’s spheres of influence and authority as rulers, writers, and patrons. View faculty profile
James Hoogenakker, Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 251
Ph.D., University of Kansas; M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Iowa State University
Specialties: Modern novel and short story, especially the fiction of Joseph Conrad. View faculty profile
Eric McHenry, Assistant Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 252
M.A., Boston University; B.A., Beloit College
Specialties: Contemporary poetry in English, poetry in translation, literary criticism, literary journalism. View faculty profile
Virginia Pruitt, Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 254
Ph.D., University of Virginia; M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A., St. Olaf College
Specialties: British and American modern literature and modernism, popular culture, film noir, pulp fiction, detective fiction. View faculty profile
Mary Sheldon, Associate Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 125
Ph.D., Purdue University; M.A. and B.A., Gannon College
Specialties: World literature, Buddhism in Asian Literature, liberation theology in Latin American literature, business writing. View faculty profile
Roy Sheldon, Associate Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 250
Ph.D., Purdue University; M.A., Bowling Green University; B.A., Kent State University
Specialties: Science Fiction literature and film, fantasy literature and film, business writing, Susannah Sheldon & the Salem Witch Trials. View faculty profile
Bradley Siebert, Assistant Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 132
Ph.D., University of Arizona; M.A., University of Arizona; B.A., Bethel College
Specialties: Composition theory and pedagogy, rhetorical theory and ethics, religious rhetoric. View faculty profile
Vanessa Steinroetter, Assistant Professor
vanessa.steinroetter@washburn.edu
Morgan Hall, Room 131
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.A., Catholic University of Eichstaett, Germany
Specialties: Nineteenth-century American literature and print culture, especially of the antebellum era and Civil War; periodical literature; book history; women's literature; American ethnic literature; transatlantic literary studies and translation studies. View faculty profile
Danny Wade, Associate Professor and Chair
Morgan Hall, Room 258
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; M.Ed. and B.S., University of Oklahoma
Specialties: English education, the teaching of poetry, adolescent literacy, trends and issues in young adult literature, and the preparation of elementary and secondary writing teachers, fictional research writing. View faculty profile
Israel Wasserstein, Lecturer
israel.wasserstein@washburn.edu
Morgan Hall, Room 154
MFA, University of New Mexico; B.A., Washburn University
Specialties: Creative writing (poetry and fiction), composition, the graphic novel, literature and film, poetics. View faculty profile
David Weed, Lecturer
Morgan Hall, Room 253
Ph.D., Syracuse University; M.A. and B.S., University of Kansas.
Specialties: Eighteenth-century literature and culture, composition and composition theory, literary and critical theory, gender and sexuality theory, history of the novel. View faculty profile
Corey Zwikstra, Assistant Professor
Morgan Hall, Room 152
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame; M.A., University of Notre Dame; B.A., University of Alberta, Canada.
Specialties: Old English poetry, Middle English (esp. Chaucer), medievalism, Old Norse language and literature, English linguistics, book history, authorship, genre and canon. View faculty profile
Jean Dimmit
Specialties: English Education.
Howard Faulkner
Specialties: American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; American expatriate writers; modernism.
Raylene Hinz-Penner
raylene.hinz-penner@washburn.edu
Specialties: Creative writing (poetry and nonfiction), contemporary American literature.
Thomas Kennedy
Specialties: Medieval Studies.
J. Karen Ray
Specialties: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British drama; Kansas history and literature.
Robert Stein
Specialties: Chair, Honors Dean, Victorian Studies.
Margaret Stewart
Specialties: American Literature, Nature Writing.