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Administration
Kevin Porter
Department Chair
Email: kporter1@uta.edu
Office: 203B Carlisle Hall
Additional Info: Kevin Porter is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English. His areas of interest include composition studies, cultural studies, J. R. R. Tolkien, literary theory, philosophy of language, rhetoric, and theories of meaning. His book Meaning, Language, and Time (Parlor Press, 2006) won the W. Ross Winterowd Award, and his essays have appeared in venues such as College Composition and Communication, College English, Cultural Critique, and JAC. His more recent work includes a contribution to the collection Abducting Writing Studies (Southern Illinois UP, 2017), a forthcoming essay on the notion of kingship in the film Black Panther, and the ongoing compilation of a concordance of the fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Jacqueline Fay
Associate Chair
Email: jacqueline.fay@uta.edu
Office: 609 Carlisle Hall
Additional Info: Jacqueline Fay specializes in early medieval literature and culture. She is co-editor of A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies, published in 2012 by Blackwell, and Associate Editor for Old English and Old Norse for the five volume Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature (2017). She has published articles on a wide range of topics, including documentary texts, saints’ lives, plants, gender, riddles, and aging, and is the author of Engaging Matter in Early Medieval England, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is currently at work on a second book, Sinuous Histories: The Role of Worms in Early Medieval England. Her recent work concentrates on the relationship of the human and non-human in early medieval England, in particular re-reading texts in relation to plant and animal ecology.
Margie Jackymack
Coordinator II, Special Programs
Email: jackymack@uta.edu
Office: 203C Carlisle Hall
Email: dhenderson@uta.edu
Office: CH 611
Kaci O’Donnell
Undergraduate Advisor
Email: kodonnell@uta.edu
Office: 209 Carlisle Hall
Laura Kopchick
Coordinator
Creative Writing
Email: laurak@uta.edu
Office: 418 Carlisle Hall
Timothy Ponce
Coordinator
Technical Writing and Professional Design
and Internship Program
Email: timothy.ponce@uta.edu
Office: 423 Carlisle Hall
Justin Lerberg
Director
First-Year Writing Program
Email: jlerberg@uta.edu
Office: 203E Carlisle Hall
Alyssa Compton
Assistant Director
First-Year Writing Program
Email: alyssa.compton@uta.edu
Office: 414 Carlisle Hall
Jo Ward
Coordinator
Developmental English Program
Michael Brittain
Director
Writing Center
Email: brittain@uta.edu
Office: 413 Central Library
Ashley Johnson
Assistant Director
Writing Center
Email: ashley.johnson2@uta.edu
Office: CH 525
Claire Thomas
Office Assistant II
Writing Center
Email: claire.thomas@uta.edu
Office: 412 Central Library
Shelley Christie
Director
Digital Teaching & Learning in English
Email: rechelle@uta.edu
Office: 614 Carlisle Hall
Rachael Mariboho
Assistant Director
Digital Teaching & Learning in English
Email: mariboho@uta.edu
Office: 613 Carlisle Hall
Sarah Farrell
Coordinator
AO Coaches
Email: sarah.farrell@uta.edu
Office: Online Only
Sarah Shelton
Coordinator
Social Media
Email: sshelton@uta.edu
Office: 402 Carlisle Hall
Erik Schwieger
English-IT Analyst I
Email: erik.schwieger@uta.edu
Office: 211 Carlisle Hall