Faculty and Staff Directory
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Debbie Outlaw | Accounting Clerk HUMB 240 |
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Mary Ricciardi | Secretary HUMB 240 |
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Nicole Amare | Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in professional communication and rhetoric and composition, with interests in gender studies and late American literature. HUMB 252 | 460-7157 | namare@southalabama.edu |
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Jenny Arras | Instructor and CompPAL Coordinator Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 255 | 460-6936 | jarras@southalabama.edu |
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Larry Beason | Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in rhetorical analysis, composition pedagogy, grammar, and science fiction. |
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Pat Cesarini | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Assistant to the Chair. Specializes in American literature from the colonial period to 1900. HUMB 250 | 460-7835 | pcesarini@southalabama.edu |
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Robert Coleman | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences. Specializes in digital humanities, U. S. literatures, literary aesthetics, and rhetorics.
Editor of Studies in American Culture. HUMB 118 | 460-6280 | rcoleman@southalabama.edu |
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Chris Cowley | Senior Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 248 | 460-7057 | cmcowley@southalabama.edu |
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Heather Dail | Senior Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 258 | 460-6743 | hdail@southalabama.edu |
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Zachary Davis | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 268 | 460-6744 | zdavis@southalabama.edu |
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Doris Frye | Senior Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 260 | 460-7329 | dfrye@southalabama.edu |
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Annmarie Guzy | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in composition pedagogy, professional communication, and honors education, with interests in genre literature and film. HUMB 271 | 460-6745 | aguzy@southalabama.edu |
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John Halbrooks | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Graduate Coordinator. Specializes in medieval and Renaissance literature. HUMB 269 | 460-7685 | jvhalbrooks@southalabama.edu |
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Ellen Burton Harrington | Professor and Chair PUBLICATIONS Specializes in British Victorian literature, detective and sensation fiction, and 19th century gender and colonial contexts. HUMB 243 | 460-6146 | eharrington@southalabama.edu |
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Richard Hillyer | Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in Renaissance literature and poetry. HUMB 278 | 460-6539 | rhillyer@southalabama.edu |
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Caleb Humphreys | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 275 | 460-7968 | chumphreys@southalabama.edu |
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Kern Jackson | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Director of the African American Studies Program. Specializes in African American
and Southeastern United States folklore and oral narrative. HUMB 276 | 460-6363 | KEMjacks@southalabama.edu |
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Caleb Johnson | Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in fiction. HUMB 256 | 460-7417 | calebjohnson@southalabama.edu |
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Maura Lang | Senior Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 281 | 460-8198 | mlang@southalabama.edu |
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Becky McLaughlin | Professor PUBLICATIONS Generalist with particular interests in psychoanalysis and sexuality. HUMB 279 | 460-7991 | bmclaugh@southalabama.edu |
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Robert O'Berry | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. AHS 340 | 461-1936 | oberry@southalabama.edu |
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Jessica Owsley | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 259 | 460-6146 | jessicasims@southalabama.edu |
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Charlotte Pence | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.
Specializes in poetry and creative nonfiction. HUMB 277 | 460-6149 | cpence@southalabama.edu |
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Karen Peterson | Senior Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 263 | 460-6148 | kpeterson@southalabama.edu |
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Adam Prince | Stokes Visiting Writer Specializes in fiction and screenwriting. HUMB 351 | 460-7610 | aprince@southalabama.edu |
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Christopher Raczkowski | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in post-Civil War American literature with an emphasis on modernism and
crime. HUMB 270 | 460-7550 | raczkowski@southalabama.edu |
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Ben Raines | Environmental Fellow and Writer in Residence Specializes in environmental journalism. HUMB 240 | 460-6146 | braines@southalabama.edu |
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Lisa Roddy | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 261 | 460-7940 | lroddy@southalabama.edu |
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Patrick Shaw | Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS Director of Freshman Composition. Specializes in writing program administration, modern
rhetorical theory, and the history of rhetoric. HUMB 280 | 460-7972 | pjshaw@southalabama.edu |
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Justin St. Clair | Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in sound studies and contemporary fiction. HUMB 262 | 460-7973 | jmstclair@southalabama.edu | soundculturestudies.net |
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Hunter Tallent | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. AHS 344 | 414-8008 | htallent@southalabama.edu |
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Cynthia Tucker | USA Journalist in Residence PUBLICATIONS Journalist and Pulitzer-Prize-winning commentator. HUMB 380 | 460-7666 | catucker@southalabama.edu |
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Stephanie Volf | Instructor Teaches composition and literature surveys. HUMB 257 | 460-7956 | stephanievolf@southalabama.edu |
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Laura Vrana | Assistant Professor PUBLICATIONS Specializes in African American literature and poetry. HUMB 254 | 460-6502 | vrana@southalabama.edu |
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Emeriti and Retired Faculty
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Frye Gaillard | Former USA Writer in Residence PUBLICATIONS Specializes in Southern culture and history. HUMB 272 | 460-7952 | fgaillard@southalabama.edu |
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Cris Hollingsworth | Associate Professor Emeritus
A specialist in Victorian literature and the work of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Hollingsworth was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama from 2003 to 2022. He is the author of Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (U Iowa, 2001) and the editor of Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century (U Iowa, 2009).
Sue Brannan Walker | Professor Emerita
A noted poet, author, critic, and editor, Dr. Walker was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama from 1980 to 2015. In addition to founding and operating Negative Capability Press, Dr. Walker also served as chair of the Department of English from 1999 to 2008 and was Alabama's Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2012.