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English is part of the Department of Humanities at St. Cloud State University, which also includes History, Languages and Cultures, and Philosophy. The Department of Humanities brings together disciplines dedicated to the study of human experience, culture, and thought.
In English, we explore how language and literature engage the imagination and shape understanding and connection across time and communities. Through reading, writing, and critical inquiry, we cultivate empathy, creativity, and intellectual curiosity, all essential for meaningful participation in society.
Department Chair
Edward Sadrai
Email: emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu
Faculty
Matt Barton
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Florida
(320) 308-2204 | 158 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, composition, game studies, wikis, popular culture, professional writing, science fiction/fantasy literature, digital pedagogy
Craig Case
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition, English and British literature
Michael Dando
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
(320) 308-3724 | 164 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: urban education, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical literacy development, English education, teacher education
Judith Dorn
- Professor
- Ph.D., Yale University
(320) 308-5432 | 255 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: 17th and 18th-century British literature, narrative, the novel, critical theory, English literary periods medieval to modern
Faith Ericson
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
Anne Fischhaber
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition
Catherine Fox
- Professor
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
(320) 308-5106 | 161 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: feminist, queer, and rhetorical theories; feminist/critical pedagogy, embodied learning and writing, mindfulness practices
Sarah Green
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Ohio University
(320) 308-3937 | 258 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: creative writing-poetry and nonfiction, songwriting, American poetics and multicultural literatures, gender and women’s studies, creative writing pedagogy
Cara Hanneman
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
James Heiman
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
(320) 308-4735 | 110 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: composition pedagogy, writing program administration, rhetorical theory, professional communication
Choonkyong Kim
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(320) 308-3245 | 101 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: second language acquisition, vocabulary acquisition, research methods, language teacher education
Ettien Koffi
- Professor
- Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University
(320) 308-3539 | 261 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language planning, Anyi language research
Leanne Loy
- Instructor
- MA
Teaching and research areas: Creative Writing and Composition, Literature, Editing and Publishing
Delissa Madden
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature
John P. Madden
- Director, Teaching English as a Second Language program
- Professor
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
(320) 308-0910 | 162 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: second language comprehension, computer-assisted language learning and digital literacy, second language acquisition, second language research methods, second language
Maria (Masha) Mikolchak
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina
(320) 308-4979 | 123A Lawrence Hall
Teaching and research areas: comparative literature, French, German and Russian national literatures, 19th century European novel, languages and cultures
Chris Oveson
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature
Monica Pelaez
- Professor
- Ph.D., Brown University
(320) 308-3183 | 103 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: 19th-century American literature, early American literature, poetry, African American literature, literary theory
Edward Sadrai
- Chair, Department of Humanities, and Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
(320) 308-3061 | 126 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: information structure, morphosyntax, codeswitching, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, conlangs
Michael Schwartz
- Professor
- Director of the Intensive English Center
- Director of English for Academic Purposes
- Ph.D., University of New Mexico
(320) 308-3237 | 107 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Teaching and research areas: World Englishes, second language writing, discourse analysis and teacher development
Sarah Steinfeldt
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition and creative writing
Chris York
- Instructor
Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
Staff
Jesse Sadoff
- English Language Support Services Coordinator
- M.A. TESL, Northern Arizona University
(320) 308-4189 | 112 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
Emeriti
Bill Meissner
- Professor Emeritus
- MFA University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Cezarija Abartis
- Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D., Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Tim Fountaine
- Associate Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D, Michigan Technological University