Faculty & Staff
Current Faculty
Lora L Anderson
Area Director for Rhetoric & Professional Writing, English
350I ARTSCI
My research focuses on the phenomenology of the lived body and issues of identity and agency in the rhetoric of health and medicine, particularly in chronic illness and end-of-life practices.
My book, Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in Diabetes Rhetoric, was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2017, and I’ve been published in journals that include Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. I am also the co-editor of the journal Programmatic Perspectives.
I teach classes in creating accessible contact, science and health writing, and editing.
Beth S. Ash
Associate Professor, English
Chris Bachelder
Director of Creative Writing, English
350G ARTSCI
Lisa L J Beckelhimer
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor - Educator, English
367 ARTSCI
RJ Boutelle
Asst Professor, English
110G ARTSCI
Molly L Brayman
Educator Assistant Professor, English
053A ARTSCI
Christopher Campagna
Assoc Professor - Educator, English
225E ARTSCI
Christopher Carter
Professor, English
350G ARTSCI
Dora C Cheng
Asst Professor - Educator, English
110N ARTSCI
Teresa F. Cook
Educator Assistant Professor, English
110G ARTSCI
Jennifer Glaser
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, English
248 ARTSCI
Michele Griegel-McCord
Interim Director of English Composition, English
245A ARTSCI
Michael Griffith
Professor, English
214C ARTSCI
Griffith's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, New England Review, Five Points, Oxford American, Pleiades, Salmagundi, Golf World, Shenandoah, and many other periodicals, and his puzzles--crosswords, acrostics, and hink pinks--have appeared in The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, and in other places. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (2007-08), the National Endowment for the Arts (2004), the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2001), the Louisiana Division of the Arts (2001), and others. Griffith was founding editor of the Yellow Shoe Fiction series for Louisiana State University Press (2005-2021) and Fiction Editor of Cincinnati Review. Griffith was the recipient in 2005 of the English Department's Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, and in 2012 he was awarded UC's university-wide Doctoral Mentoring Award. Since 2013 he has been a Fellow of the Graduate School.
Elijah Alexander Guerra
Asst Professor - Educator, English
351 ARTSCI
Allison E. Hammond
Associate Professor, Educator, English
50B ARTSCI
Tamar Heller
Associate Professor, English
110B ARTSCI
Charles M Henley
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rep., English
A&S English & Comparative Literature - 0069
Michael S. Hennessey
Educator Instructor, English
229 B ARTSCI
Recent scholarly publications include essays on Charles Bernstein's "1-100" (in English Studies in Canada's special "Sound and Event" issue, for which he also served as audio editor) and Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff's Yo-Yo's with Money (in Inverval[le]s) as well as forthcoming pieces in The Journal of Electronic Publishing and Jacket2, along with book chapters in Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011) and The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (Salt Publishing, 2011).
His poetry has appeared in Jacket, EOAGH, Cross Cultural Poetics, Elective Affinities and Horse Less Review, as well as in the chapbooks Last Days in the Bomb Shelter (17 Narrower Poems) (2008) and [ static ] (2009). You can listen to several archived readings on his PennSound author page.
Lisa M Hogeland
Associate Professor, English and WGSS, English
214D ARTSCI
Michelle A Holley
Educator Assistant Professor, English
351 ARTSCI
Joanna Seung Ah Huh
Asst Professor, English
ARTSCI
Her current project, Damaging Intimacy: Reimagining Communities in Shakespeare and Marlowe, explores the portrayal, in Renaissance texts as well as in early modern and current political theory, of how radical risk-taking and vulnerability can form the basis for community. Damaging Intimacy works to disrupt the narrative that as the subject becomes more modern, the subject becomes more bounded and then joins a community in order to protect those bounds. As an alternative, she envisions communities that are dependent on selves willing to embrace experiences, both costly and pleasurable, offered by unprotected existence. At a juncture consumed with security, protection, and boundaries, her work rethinks radical ways of being and belonging that reimagines new visions of how to ethically share life with others.
Ronald Hundemer
Educator Associate Professor, English
350C ARTSCI
“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”
Bob Newton Hyland
Associate Professor Educator, English
350E ARTSCI
Kristen Iversen
Professor, English
214B ARTSCI
Christina Marie LaVecchia
Asst Professor, English
She is a former Research Fellow and current Research Collaborator in the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. There she uses her training rhetoric and writing to researched patient-clinician communication and care (shared decision-making) that is individualized to meet patients’ values and preferences and fits their lives. Her collaborations appear in Patient Education and Counseling, Health Expectations, BMJ Open, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality, & Outcomes. She also has several works in progress with KER, most notably a study on patients’ experiences with contested, medically unexplained illnesses and conditions, an experience she terms undercared-for chronic suffering. While at Mayo Clinic she has also taught a workshop series on scientific writing to biomedical sciences postdocs and graduate students.
From 2019 to 2021 she supported faculty and programs from across disciplines with writing pedagogy as the founding Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program and Assistant Professor of English at Neumann University in Aston, PA.
In 2012 she was the UC English department’s William C. Boyce Excellence in Teaching Award recipient and is the UC College of Arts and Sciences 2014 recipient of a university-wide teaching award.
For more on her research and teaching, visit her website: http://www.christinamlavecchia.org
Rebecca K Lindenberg
Area Director of Creative Writing, Assistant Professor, English
248 ARTSCI
Aditi P Machado
Assistant Professor, English
229D ARTSCI
Some additional interests that make their way into my teaching and writing: Beowulf, Old English and Latin, television and cinema, cooking, walking, fashion, and the baroque.
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Denver, 2019
MFA, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2012
EMPLOYMENT
Assisant Professor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati, 2020-present
(also: Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures)
Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Department of English, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2018-2020
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English & University Writing Program, University of Denver, 2016-2018
BOOKS
Emporium. Nightboat Books, 2020. James Laughlin Award 2019 from the Academy of American Poets. (Poetry Collection)
Some Beheadings. Nightboat Books, 2017. The Believer Poetry Award 2018. (Poetry Collection)
Prosopopoeia by Farid Tali. Action Books, 2016. (Hybrid Novel translated from the French)
CHAPBOOKS & PAMPHLETS
The End. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020. (Essay)
Rhapsody. Albion Books, 2020. (Poetry)
Prologue | Emporium. Garden-Door Press, 2018. (Poetry)
This Touch. Belladonna*, 2018. (Essay)
Route: Marienbad. Further Other Book Works, 2016. (Poetry)
The Robing of the Bride. Dzanc Books, 2013. The Collagist Chapbook Contest, 2012. (Poetry)
More about my publications can be found at my personal website.
Laura R. Micciche
Area Director of Rhetoric and Composition, Professor, English
225C ARTSCI
Her research focuses on composing processes, feminist pedagogies, and affect. Monographs and edited collections include Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What It Means to Fail (with Allison D. Carr; Peter Lang 2020), Acknowledging Writing Partners (WAC Clearinghouse/UP of Colorado 2017), Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching (with Dale Jacobs; Boynton/Cook 2007), and A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies (Boynton/Cook 2003). Essays and chapters on related and other topics (i.e., inclusive editing; wpa agency; feminist writing practices; graduate student writing instruction; grammar instruction) have appeared in WPA, College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, JAC, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, Peitho, The Atlantic, and numerous edited collections. For six years, she served as editor of Composition Studies, an independent journal in rhetoric and composition, and is currently co-editor, with Chris Carter, of the WPA Book Series for Parlor Press. See complete CV for more info.
Samantha Hope NeCamp
Composition Director, Assistant Professor, English
245C ARTSCI
Leland S. Person
Professor of English , English
Michael Christopher Peterson
Asst Professor - Research, English
ARTSCI
Research interests include twentieth century avant garde poetries, postwar mimeograph and print culture, lyric acoustics and psychoacoustics, alignments of audio technologies, recording techniques, and lyric innovation in the twentieth century, archival praxis and participatory curation and oral history.
Katherine Wilson Powell
Asst Professor - Educator, English
350A ARTSCI
Michele M Reutter
Associate Professor, Educator, English
110-H ARTSCI
Cynthia Ris
Interim Head, Department of English, English
248A ARTSCI
Select Disciplinary Publications
Griegel-McCord, Michele, Cynthia Ris, and Lisa Beckelhimer, “Lessons Learned: Navigating Online Teaching and Learning in English Studies.” Eds. Susan Spangler and Will Banks, English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities. Parlor Press, 2021.
Malek, Joyce, Cynthia Ris, Catherine O’Shea, and Christina LaVecchia, Eds. Student Guide to English Composition, 1001, 2012-2014. Hayden McNeil, 2012
Ris, Cynthia. Law and Order, A Longman Topics Reader. Longman/Pearson Publishers. Oct. 2012
James A Schiff
Professor, English
229C ARTSCI
Jay Twomey
Professor, English
101A ARTSCI
Gary Weissman
Area Director of Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English • School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies, English
229A ARTSCI
Felicia Marie Zamora
Asst Professor, English
ARTSCI
Emeriti Faculty
Elizabeth P Armstrong,
Emeritus Faculty
Yashdip S Bains,
Emeritus Faculty
Sanford Golding,
Emeritus Faculty
Norma Coleman Jenckes,
Emeritus Faculty
Lowanne Elizabeth Jones,
Associate Professor Emerita & Former Head, Romance Languages & Literatures; Former Director, School for World Languages & Cultures
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