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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.
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.
Coordinator II, Special Programs
Email: jackymack@uta.edu
Office: 203C Carlisle Hall
Administrative Assistant I
Email: yael.sasley@uta.edu
Office: 203 Carlisle Hall
Undergraduate Advisor II
Email: ccorder@uta.edu
Office: 210 Carlisle Hall
Undergraduate Advisor
Email: kodonnell@uta.edu
Office: 209 Carlisle Hall
Graduate Advisor
Email: matheson@uta.edu
Office: 411 Carlisle Hall
Additional Info: Neill Matheson is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for the Department of English. He specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture. His interests include the cultural meanings of emotion, especially the disordered moods and wayward feelings associated with noncompliant subjects in nineteenth-century American fiction. He has published essays along these lines on melancholia and queer sensibility in Nathaniel Hawthorne, charm in Henry James, and imitative desire and gender nonconformity in Constance Fenimore Woolson. His work has also focused on American writing about nonhuman animals and the more-than-human natural world, including articles on “Thoreau’s Inner Animal” in Walden, and on animal figures and racial environmentalism in Thoreau’s essay “Walking” and the Journal. Recent graduate courses include “Strange Ecologies,” a seminar exploring environmental approaches to Gothic, weird, and speculative fiction; “Love, Sex, and Friendship,” which considers forms of love and intimacy outside the nineteenth-century novel’s conventional marriage plot; and “American Literature and Animal Studies,” which examines literary and theoretical writing about the human-animal distinction and lived relations with nonhuman animals.
Graduate Coordinator
Email: kwarren@uta.edu
Office: 206 Carlisle Hall
Coordinator
Creative Writing
Email: laurak@uta.edu
Office: 418 Carlisle Hall
Coordinator
Technical Writing and Professional Design
and Internship Program
Email: timothy.ponce@uta.edu
Office: 423 Carlisle Hall
Director
First-Year Writing Program
Email: jlerberg@uta.edu
Office: 203E Carlisle Hall
Assistant Director
First-Year Writing Program
Email: alyssa.compton@uta.edu
Office: 414 Carlisle Hall
Coordinator
Developmental English Program
Director
Writing Center
Email: brittain@uta.edu
Office: 413 Central Library
Assistant Director
Writing Center
Office Assistant II
Writing Center
Email: claire.thomas@uta.edu
Office: 412 Central Library
Director
Digital Teaching & Learning in English
Email: rechelle@uta.edu
Office: 614 Carlisle Hall
Assistant Director
Digital Teaching & Learning in English
Email: mariboho@uta.edu
Office: 613 Carlisle Hall
Coordinator
AO Coaches
Email: sarah.farrell@uta.edu
Office: Online Only
Coordinator
Social Media
Email: sshelton@uta.edu
Office: 402 Carlisle Hall
English-IT Analyst I
Email: erik.schwieger@uta.edu
Office: 211 Carlisle Hall