Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Edward Sadrai
Email: emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu
Matt Barton
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Florida
Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, composition, game studies, wikis, popular culture, professional writing, science fiction/fantasy literature, digital pedagogy
(320) 308-2204
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158 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mdbarton@stcloudstate.edu
Craig Case
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition, English and British literature
Michael Dando
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Teaching and research areas: urban education, culturally relevant pedagogy, critical literacy development, English education, teacher education
(320) 308-3724
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164 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mbdando@stcloudstate.edu
Judith Dorn
- Professor
- Ph.D., Yale University
- Teaching and research areas: 17th and 18th-century British literature, narrative, the novel, critical theory, English literary periods medieval to modern
(320) 308-5432
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255 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jadorn@stcloudstate.edu
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
- Teaching and research areas: feminist, queer, and rhetorical theories; feminist/critical pedagogy, embodied learning and writing, mindfulness practices
(320) 308-5106
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161 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
cofox@stcloudstate.edu
Sarah Green
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Ohio University
Teaching and research areas: creative writing-poetry and nonfiction, songwriting, American poetics and multicultural literatures, gender and women’s studies, creative writing pedagogy
(320) 308-3937
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258 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
sgreen@stcloudstate.edu
Cara Hanneman
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
James Heiman
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Teaching and research areas: composition pedagogy, writing program administration, rhetorical theory, professional communication
(320) 308-4735
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110 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jrheiman@stcloudstate.edu
Choonkyong Kim
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Teaching and research areas: second language acquisition, vocabulary acquisition, research methods, language teacher education
(320) 308-3245
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101 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
ckim@stcloudstate.edu
Ettien Koffi
- Professor
- Ph.D. Linguistics, Indiana University
- Teaching and research areas: phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language planning, Anyi language research
(320) 308-3539
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261 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
enkoffi@stcloudstate.edu
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
- Teaching and research areas: second language comprehension, computer-assisted language learning and digital literacy, second language acquisition, second language research methods, second language
(320) 308-0910
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162 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jpmadden@stcloudstate.edu
Maria (Masha) Mikolchak
- Professor
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina
- Teaching and research areas: comparative literature, French, German and Russian national literatures, 19th century European novel, languages and cultures
(320) 308-4979
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123A Lawrence Hall
mmikolchak@stcloudstate.edu
Chris Oveson
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Professional writing, composition, and literature
Monica Pelaez
- Professor
- Ph.D., Brown University
Teaching and research areas: 19th-century American literature, early American literature, poetry, African American literature, literary theory
(320) 308-3183
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103 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mtpelaez@stcloudstate.edu
Edward Sadrai
- Chair, Department of Humanities, and Associate Professor of Linguistics
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- Teaching and research areas: information structure, morphosyntax, codeswitching, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, conlangs
(320) 308-3061
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126 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
emsadrai@stcloudstate.edu
Michael Schwartz
- Professor
- Director of the Intensive English Center
- Director of English for Academic Purposes
- Ph.D., University of New Mexico
- Teaching and research areas: World Englishes, second language writing, discourse analysis and teacher development
(320) 308-3237
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107 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
mwschwartz@stcloudstate.edu
Sarah Steinfeldt
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and creative writing
Chris York
- Instructor
- Teaching and research areas: Composition and literature
Staff
Megan Berthiaume
- IEC Office Manager
(320) 308-3062
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111 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
megan.berthiaume@stcloudstate.edu
Jesse Sadoff
- English Language Support Services Coordinator
- M.A. TESL, Northern Arizona University
(320) 308-4189
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112 Ruby Cora Webster Hall
jesse.sadoff@stcloudstate.edu
Emeriti
Sharon Cogdill
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Michigan State University
Teaching and research areas: Victorian studies, digital rhetoric
Judith Kilborn
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Purdue University
- Teaching and research areas: digital rhetoric, document design, business writing, film and literature
Bill Meissner
- Professor Emeritus
- MFA University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Teaching and research areas: creative writing, poetry and fiction
Carol Mohrbacher
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Teaching and research areas: digital copyright and authorship, the rhetoric of alterity, writing center theory and practice
Shannon Olson
- Professor Emerita
- M.F.A., University of Minnesota
- Teaching and research areas: creative writing fiction and nonfiction, editing and publishing, reading and producing the literary magazine, humor writing
Constance M. Perry
- Professor Emerita
- Ph.D., Indiana University
- Teaching and research areas: modern and contemporary American literature, gender studies in literature, women in literature
James Robinson
- Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D., Stanford University
- Teaching and research areas: teaching English as a second language (TESL) methods and ESL, culture and ethnographic research in educational settings
Cezarija Abartis
- Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D., Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
- Teaching and research areas: Renaissance literature, Greek and Roman literature, fiction writing
Tim Fountaine
- Associate Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D, Michigan Technological University
- Teaching and research areas: the social context of writing, theories and practices of rhetoric and of writing, writing center theory and practice