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Full Graduate Faculty

Over twenty members of the Department of English & Journalism teach at the graduate level. Our faculty have strong backgrounds in literary and cultural studies, writing studies, and other areas of English.

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position names contact information
Associate Professor
Life on the Margins: Post-col Lit, Ethic Lit, & British Lit
Marjorie Allison Simpkins 326
309-298-1140
mc-allison@wiu.edu
Assistant Professor; University Writing Center Director
Composition and Rhetoric
Neil Baird Simpkins 213
309-298-1534
np-baird@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Contemporary American Literature &
Popular Culture
David Banash Simpkins 217
309-298-2464
d-banash@wiu.edu
Assistant Professor
Zines and alternative presses, new literacy studies, youth subcultures, English education, literacy practices  
Rebekah Buchanan 226B Simpkins Hall 309-298-1514 rj-buchanan@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Poetry/Modernism/Queer Studies
Creative Writing
Merrill Cole Simpkins 109
309-298-1410
m-cole@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Film Studies
Roberta Di Carmine Simpkins 219
309-298-2192
r-dicarmine@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Writing Studies, Software Studies
Bradley Dilger Simpkins 217
309-298-2212
cb-dilger@wiu.edu
Assistant Professor
20th & 21st Century American Literature
& Film; Religion & Science; Ethnicity & Gender
Everett Hamner 212 WIU Quad Cities
309-762-9481
e-hamner@wiu.edu
Assistant Professor
19th Century American Literature and
Popular Print Culture
Timothy Helwig 138A Simpkins Hall
309-298-1213
tw-helwig@wiu.edu
Professor
Deputy Director, Journalism
Newsroom Writing
Bill Knight 226H Simpkins Hall
309-298-1217
bk-knight@wiu.edu
Professor
Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric/Comp
Joan Livingston-Webber 022 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1494
livingston-webber@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
19th Century Lit. and Political Theory, Nature, and Secularism
Daniel S. Malachuk 287 WIU Quad Cities
309-762-9481
ds-malachuk@wiu.edu
Assistant Professor
Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama; Nationalism; Print Culture
Christopher Morrow 213 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1633
cl-morrow@wiu.edu
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Sustainability Studies; Nature Writing and Env. Lit; Ecocriticism; Rhetoric
Amy Patrick Mossman 126 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1322
ap-mossman@wiu.edu
Professor; Department Chair
19th Century Brit. Lit; Disability Studies; Irish Studies
Mark Mossman 023 Simpkins Hall
309-298-2375
ma-mossman@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Postcolonial theory; Diasporic South Asian Literature
Shazia Rahman 224 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1213
s-rahman@wiu.edu
Professor
Rhetorical studies, Composition, Pedagogy, and Southern Women Writers
Alice Robertson 115 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1111
ab-robertson@wiu.edu
Professor
Public Relations, International Press, and Research Methods
Mohammad Siddiqi 226E Simpkins Hall
309-298-1324
m-siddiqi@wiu.edu
Professor

Margaret Sinex 226A Simpkins Hall
309-298-1424
ma-sinex@wiu.edu
Associate Professor; Coordinator, English Education; English Education
Critical Literacy, Nature Writing
Bonnie Sonnek 226 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1511
bk-sonnek@wiu.edu
Associate Professor
Creative Writing
Erika Wurth 109 Simpkins Hall
309-298-1212
et-wurth@wiu.edu
Professor
U.S. Lit; African American Lit; Drama
Patricia Young 016 Simpkins Hall 309-298-1482 p-young1@wiu.edu