Faculty & Staff

English Faculty

Greg Barnhisel, Ph.D.

Professor
Rhetoric & Composition, Modernism
412.396.6432
632B College Hall
barnhiselg@duq.edu

Faith Barrett, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Nineteenth C. American Studies, Twentieth C. American Poetry, Modern Lyric Poetry
412.396.5165
628 College Hall
barrettf@duq.edu

Nicole Brodsky, M.F.A., M.A.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.1531
632 College Hall
brodskyn@duq.edu

Laura Engel, Ph.D.

Professor
Restoration & Eighteenth C. Literatures, Dramatic Literature, Feminist Theory
412.396.1425
632A College Hall
engell784@duq.edu

John Fried, M.F.A., M.A.

Associate Professor
Fiction/Creative Writing, Film Studies
412.396.6428
624 College Hall
friedj@duq.edu

Kathy Glass, Ph.D.

Professor
African-American Literature, Women's Studies
412.396.1424
629 College Hall
glassk@duq.edu

Susan K. Howard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
The Novel, British Literature of the Long Eighteenth C.
412.396.6441
622 College Hall
howard@duq.edu

Linda Arbaugh Kinnahan, Ph.D.

Professor
Twentieth C. American & British Poetry, Feminist Theory
412.396.6440
623 College Hall
kinnahan@duq.edu

Thomas P. Kinnahan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
American Literature
Director of Graduate Studies
412.396.6439
630A College Hall
kinnahant@duq.edu

Kristin Klucevsek, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor of Science Writing
412.396.6427
631 College Hall
klucevsekk@duq.edu

Anna Knutson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English
Director of First-Year Writing
412.396.6433
637E College Hall
knutsona@duq.edu

Stuart M. Kurland, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Literature of the English Renaissance, Shakespeare
412.396.6424
621 College Hall
kurland@duq.edu

Jeff Martin, M.F.A.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.4643
625 College Hall
martin15@duq.edu

Rebecca Maatta, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.4115
627 College Hall
mayr1@duq.edu

Associate Professor
African fiction, fiction from throughout the African diaspora, world literature, postcolonial literature
Director of World Literature Minor
630B College Hall
mirmotaharie@duq.edu

Courtney Novosat, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.6427
631 College Hall
novosatc@duq.edu

James P. Purdy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Rhetoric & Composition, Writing & Technology
Director of the University Writing Center
412.396.1293
620 College Hall
purdyj@duq.edu

Erin Johns Speese, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.1531
630 College Hall
speesee@duq.edu

Danielle A. St. Hilaire, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
British Renaissance Poetry, Milton
Department Chair
412.396.6435
637C College Hall
sthilaired@duq.edu

Judy Suh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
British Modernism, Postcolonial Theory
412.396.1426
619 College Hall
suhj@duq.edu

Matthew Ussia, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant Professor
412.396.4643
625 College Hall
ussiam@duq.edu

Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern Literature, History of the English Language
Director of Undergraduate Studies
412.396.1278
631A College Hall
wrights3@duq.edu