Administration

Kevin Porter

Department Chair

Kevin Porter

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

Jacqueline Fay

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

Desiree Henderson

Director of Graduate Studies

Desiree Henderson

Email: dhenderson@uta.edu

Office: CH 611

Kaci O’Donnell

Undergraduate Advisor

Kaci O'Donnell

Email: kodonnell@uta.edu

Office: 209 Carlisle Hall

Laura Kopchick

Coordinator

Creative Writing

Laura Kopchick

Email: laurak@uta.edu

Office: 418 Carlisle Hall

Timothy Ponce

Coordinator

Technical Writing and Professional Design

and Internship Program

Tim Ponce

Email: timothy.ponce@uta.edu

Office: 423 Carlisle Hall

Justin Lerberg

Director

First-Year Writing Program

Justin Lerberg

Email: jlerberg@uta.edu

Office: 203E Carlisle Hall

Alyssa Compton

Assistant Director

First-Year Writing Program

Alyssa Compton

Email: alyssa.compton@uta.edu

Office: 414 Carlisle Hall

Jo Ward

Coordinator

Developmental English Program

Jo Ward

Michael Brittain

Director

Writing Center

Email: brittain@uta.edu

Office: 413 Central Library

Ashley Johnson

Assistant Director

Writing Center

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Email: ashley.johnson2@uta.edu

Office: CH 525

Claire Thomas

Office Assistant II

Writing Center

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Email: claire.thomas@uta.edu

Office: 412 Central Library

Shelley Christie

Director

Digital Teaching & Learning in English

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Email: rechelle@uta.edu

Office: 614 Carlisle Hall

Rachael Mariboho

Assistant Director

Digital Teaching & Learning in English

Rachel Mariboho

Email: mariboho@uta.edu

Office: 613 Carlisle Hall

Sarah Farrell

Coordinator

AO Coaches

Sarah Farrell

Sarah Shelton

Coordinator

Social Media

Sarah Shelton

Email: sshelton@uta.edu

Office: 402 Carlisle Hall

Erik Schwieger

English-IT Analyst I

Erik Schwieger

Email: erik.schwieger@uta.edu

Office: 211 Carlisle Hall