English Faculty

Adams, Robert Don, Professor
Office: Davie DW 303J. Phone: 7-3830. radams@fau.edu  
Areas of Specialization: Modern British and American Literature, Gay and Lesbian Literature

Balkan, Stacey, Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 325. Phone: 7-3830. sbalkan@fau.edu 
Area of Specialization: Literature and the Environment, Eco-criticism, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Postcolonial Eco-criticism, Anglophone World Literature

Barrios, Barclay, Associate Dean and Associate Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 338. Phone: 7-4573. bbarrios@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Composition and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Technorhetoric

Berlatsky, Eric L., Professor and Department Chair
Office: Boca Raton, CU 306G. Phone: 7-3831. eberlats@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century British and Postcolonial Literatures, Modernism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Comics Studies

Blakemore, Steve, Professor Emeritus
Email: sblakemo@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: 18th-century Transatlantic literature and culture; Edmund Burke; Thomas Paine; Joel Barlow.

Bradford, Adam, Associate Dean, Associate Professor, and Director of the Comparative Studies PhD Program
Office: Boca Raton, AH 214. Phone:7-0928. abradfo5@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 18th- and 19th-century American Literature, material culture and history of the book.

Bucak, A. Papatya, Associate Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 348. Phone: 7-3830. pbucak@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Fiction

Buckton, Oliver, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 364. Phone: 7-3836. obuckton@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 19th-century and 20th-century British Literature and Culture, Film, Gender Studies, Spy Fiction, Theory and Criticism

Chenovick, Clarissa, Assistant Professor
Office: CU 353. Phone: 7-3830. cchenovick@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: Renaissance Literature, Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Writing, History of Science and Medicine, History of Reading and Voice, Translation and Multilingualism

Dagbovie-Mullin, Sika, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Boca Raton, CU 323. Phone: 7-3830. sdagbovi@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: African-American Literature, Women's Studies, Theories of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

de la Garza Valenzuela, José A. , Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 346. Phone: 7-3830. jdelagarzavalenz@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Latinx Literature

Faraci, Mary, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 330. Phone: 7-3830. faraci@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Linguistics and Medieval Literature

Furman, Andrew, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 360. Phone: (GV) 561-440-3630. afurman@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century American and Multi-ethnic Literature, Judaic Studies, Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Non-fiction

Galin, Jeffrey R., Associate Professor and Director of the University Center for Excellence in Writing
Office: Boca Raton, CU 350. Phone: 7-3830. jgalin@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Composition, Literacy, Technology, Intellectual Property, and Writing Program Administration

Hagood, Taylor, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 343. Phone: 7-3830. thagood@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: American Literature and Culture (Faulkner, African American, Southern) and Critical Theory

Hinshaw, Wendy, Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program
Office: Boca Raton, CU 306J. Phone: 7-3838. whinshaw@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Rhetoric and Composition Theory, Feminist Theory, Literacy Studies, Prison Literature, and Service-Learning

Johnson, Shelby, Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton CU 351. Phone: 7-3830 shelbyjohnson@fau.edu
Areas of Specialization: 18th- and 19th-century Transatlantic Literature, Race and Political Theory, Environmental Humanities, Religion and Spirituality

Kini, Ashvin, Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 322. Phone: 7-3830 akini@fau.edu 
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

Leeds, John C., Associate Professor
Office: Davie, DW 303G. Phone: 7-3830. jleeds@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: British Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Latin Literature

Lettman, Stacy J., Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 332. Phone: 7-3830.
Areas of Specialization: Caribbean Literature

Low, Jennifer, Professor Emeritus
Email: jlow@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, Renaissance Literature and Early Modern Culture, Modern and Contemporary Drama

MacDonald, Ian, Assistant Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 315. Phone: 7-3830. imacdonald@fau.edu 
Areas of specialization: Speculative Fiction and Fantasy, African and Diasporic Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Utopian Literature, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism

Mason, Julia, Associate Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 339. Phone: 7-3830. jmason32@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition, Professional and Technical Writing, Posthuman Theory, Computers and Composition

McGuirk, Carol, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 313. Phone: 7-3830. cmcguirk@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 18th-century British Literature, Scottish Studies, Contemporary Fiction

McKay, Becka, Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing
Office: Davie, DW 303L. Phone: 7-3830. rmckay3@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Translation, Creative Writing

Mitchell, Susan, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 362. Phone: 7-2961. smitch21@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Poetry

Schmitt, Kate, Associate Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 328. Phone: 7-2570. kschmit5@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Creative Nonfiction

Schwartz, Jason, Professor
Office: Boca Raton, CU 357. Phone: 7-3837. jschwart@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Creative Writing, Fiction

Scroggins, Mark, Professor Emeritus
Email: mscroggi@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century American Literature, Poetry, Modernism, and Post-Modernism, Creative Writing

Stockard, Emily, Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair
Office: DW 303B and CU 342. Phone: 7-3830 . stockard@fau.edu 
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
Office: Boca Raton, CU 349. Phone: 7-3830. julin@fau.edu 
Areas of Specialization: Irish Literature, Transatlantic Modernism