Directory for Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism

Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism

Name & Synopsis Contact Info Photo
Honors Program Director, Professor of English
Interests
  • Medieval Literature
  • Early Modern Literature
  • Chaucer
  • Shakespeare
Photo of Becky Lartigue from the Department of Humanities
Professor of English
Interests
  • Creative writing (five novels and an illustrated children's book)
  • Literary research (books on works by Abraham Rodriguez, Arthur Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Coover, Toni Morrison, Walter Dean Meyers, William Goldman, and William Shakespeare
  • Writing instruction (seven books)
  • American Literature
  • World Literature
  • Writing pedagogy/andragogy
Richard Anderson Headshot
Assistant Professor of Communications
Interests
  • Women’s Sports
  • Women in Baseball
  • Youth Sports
  • Sports Parenting
Aimee Crawford head shot
Administrative Associate
Donna Croteau head shot
Professor of Communications
Interests
  • Civil Rights
  • Journalistic Ethics
  • Feature Writing
  • Sports and Social Justice
Photo of Marty Dobrow from the Department of Humanities
Associate Professor of English
Interests
  • Multicultural Literature of the United States
  • Motherhood Memoirs
  • Transatlantic Modernism
  • Creative Writing
Justine Dymond
Professor of English
Interests
  • Post-Colonial Literature
  • Toni Morrison
  • Literature and Gender Studies
Photo of Ali Eaton from the Department of Humanities
Assistant Professor of Writing, Writing Program Director
Interests
  • Writing Pedagogy/Andragogy
  • Online Pedagogy
  • First-Year Experience
Jill Giebutowski head shot
Professor of English
Interests
  • British Literature after 1789
  • The Victorian Manhood Question
  • Postcolonial Literature
Dennis Gouws, Springfield College
Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric
Interests
  • Literacy studies
  • Language diversity
  • Cultural rhetorics
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • STEM Writing in the Disciplines
Jenny Krichevsky head shot
Visiting Assistant Professor of Multimedia Journalism
Jeremy Menard head shot
Assistant Professor of Communications
Fadia Nordtveit head shot
Associate Professor of English
Interests
  • Early American Literature
  • US Drama
  • Native American Studies
Paul Thifault head shot
Professor
Interests
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Documentary Film Writing
  • Photography
Sherri VandenAkker, PhD
Associate Professor of Composition & Rhetoric, Chair of the Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism
Interests
  • Composition Pedagogy
  • Rhetorical Memory
  • Visual Rhetoric
Anne Wheeler, Humanities