English Faculty
The phone numbers listed below are extensions for calling within the university system. Use the following area codes and prefixes to call from outside the system:
- Boca Raton campus (561) 297-
- Davie campus (954) 236-
- MacArthur (Jupiter) campus (561) 799-
Areas of Specialization: Modern British and American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Literature
Areas of Specialization: Literature and the Environment, Ecocriticism, Global South Studies, Petrocultures & Petromodernity, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Postcolonial Eco-criticism, Anglophone World Literatures
Areas of Specialization: Composition and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Technorhetoric
Berlatsky, Eric L.|Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the PhD in Comparative Studies
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century British and Postcolonial Literatures, Modernism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Comics Studies
Blakemore, Steve|Professor Emeritus
Areas of Specialization: 18th-century Transatlantic literature and culture; Edmund Burke; Thomas Paine; Joel Barlow.
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Fiction
Areas of Specialization: 19th-century and 20th-century British Literature and Culture, Film, Gender Studies, Spy Fiction, Theory and Criticism
Areas of Specialization:Renaissance Literature, Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing, History of Science and Medicine, History of Reading and Voice, Translation and Multilingualism
Areas of Specialization: African American Literature, Literature of the African Diaspora, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Theories of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity, Popular Culture
Areas of Specialization: African American Literary and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Office: Boca Raton, CU 360. Phone: (GV) 561-440-3630. Email:
afurman@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century American and Multi-ethnic Literature, Judaic Studies, Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction
Galin, Jeffrey R.|Professor and Director
of the University Center for Excellence in Writing
Areas of Specialization: Composition, Literacy, Technology, Intellectual Property, and Writing Program Administration
Areas of Specialization: American Literature and Culture (Faulkner, African American, Southern) and Critical Theory
Hinshaw, Wendy|Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Rhetoric and Composition Theory, Feminist Theory, Literacy Studies, Prison Literature, and Service-Learning
Areas of Specialization: 18th- and 19th-century Transatlantic Literature, Race and Political Theory, Environmental Humanities, Religion and Spirituality
Areas of Specialization: Postcolonial literature, U.S. multiethnic literature, transnational feminist and queer studies, critical ethnic studies, British and U.S. empire, Asian American studies, film studies
Areas of Specialization: British Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Latin Literature
Office: Boca Raton, CU 332. Phone: 7-3830.
Areas of Specialization: Caribbean Literature
Areas of Specialization: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, Renaissance Literature and Early Modern Culture, Modern and Contemporary Drama
Areas of specialization: Speculative Fiction and Fantasy, African and Diasporic Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Utopian Literature, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism
Mason, Julia|Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition, Professional and Technical Writing, Posthuman Theory, Computers and Composition
Areas of Specialization: 18th-century British Literature, Scottish Studies, Contemporary Fiction
McKay, Becka|Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing
Areas of Specialization: Translation, Creative Writing
Areas of Specialization: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Critical Plant Studies, Literature and Science, Narrative Theory, Game Studies, Middle English Literature
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Poetry
Areas of Specialization: Creative Nonfiction
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Fiction
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century American Literature, Poetry, Modernism, and Post-Modernism, Creative Writing
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Media Theory; Publics; Arts-Based Research
Areas of Specialization: English Renaissance
Areas of Specialization: Old and Middle English Language and Literature, Religious Prose and Poetry, Manuscript Studies, Vernacularity, Multilingualism, and History of the English Language
Ulin, Julieann|Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Areas of Specialization: Irish Literature, Transatlantic Modernism
Amadori, Claudia. University Instructor of English. Office: CU 356. Phone:(GV) 561-349-7102. camadori@fau.edu
Anderson, Stephanie. Instructor of English. Office: CU 340. Phone: 7-3830. sjohn210@fau.edu
Blount, Janelle. Instructor of English and Associate Director of Writing Program. Office: CU 306B. Phone: 7-3830. blountj@fau.edu
Carter, Sari. Postdoctoral Fellow. Office: CU 316. Phone: 7-3830. carters@fau.edu
Cassanetti, Nico. Instructor of English. Office: CU 331. Phone: 7-3830. ncassane@fau.edu
Criscuolo, Melissa. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 318. Phone: 7-3830. mgarc112@fau.edu
De Stefano, Kelly. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 306B. Phone: 7-3830. kdestef@fau.edu
Frost, Tiffany. Senior Instructor of English and Interim Graduate Advisor. Office: CU 355/CU306F). Phone: 7-3830. tfrost3@fau.edu
Gifford, Sheryl. University Instructor of English. Office: CU 358. Phone: 7-3830. sgifford@fau.edu
Gothard, Andrew. Instructor of English. Office: CU 331. Phone: 7-3830. jgothard@fau.edu
Henson, Jacob. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 324. Phone: 7-3830. jhenson4@fau.edu
Jasin, Joanne. Instructor. Office: DW 303M. Phone: 7-3830. jjasin@fau.edu
Kelly, Warren Hill. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 345. Phone: 7-3830. wkelly13@fau.edu
Kiley, Erin. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 329. Phone: 7-3830. ekiley1@fau.edu
Moorhead, Kathleen. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 350. Phone: 7-3830. kmoorhea@fau.edu
Osborne, Tamar. Visiting Instructor of English. Phone: 7-3830.
Polak, Kate. Visiting Instructor & Assistant Director of the University Center for Excellence in Writing. Office: CU 316. Phone: 7-3830. kpolak@fau.edu
Potter, Richard. University Instructor of English. Office: CU 319. Phone: 7-3830. rpotter@fau.edu
Redman, Frederick. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 327. Phone: 7-3830. fredman@fau.edu
Rooney, Scarlett. Senior Instructor of English. Office: CU 352. Phone: 7-3830. srooney2@fau.edu
Shand, Janine. Visiting Instructor of English. Phone: 7-3830.
Sheffield-Gentry, Mary. Senior Instructor of English and Graduate Advisor. Office: CU 306F. Phone: 7-3830. msheffi3@fau.edu
Trewick, Lillith. University Instructor of English. Office: CU 317. Phone: 7-3830. ltrewick@fau.edu
Waldron, Justin. Instructor of English. Office: CU 342. Phone: 7-3830. jwaldro4@fau.edu
Zvolensky, Julianne. Senior Instructor of English. Office: GS 215. Phone: 7-1017. jzvolensky@fau.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Berger, Alan L., Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, Director, The Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz
Office: Boca Raton, AH 118. Phone: 7-2979. aberger@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: Literature of the Holocaust, Modern Jewish Thought, Jewish Theology, Jewish American Literature
Shusterman, Richard, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and English, Director, Florida Atlantic University Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
Office: Boca Raton, SO 124. Phone: 7-0851. shuster1@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: American Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics and Political Theory, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modernism and Postmodernism
For more information contact the Department of English administrative office at 297-3830 or at english@fau.edu