" The Department of English and World Languages extends its warmest welcome to you. Thank you for making your way to our website. The heartbeat of any academic department is the relationship between students and their faculty. We hope you take the time to get to know the outstanding faculty listed below and collaborate with them to create a meaningful educational experience that gets you where you want to go. And the options are many! A degree in English or World Languages provides students with relevant, transferable skills that meet the demands of a dynamic, ever-changing world. Our graduates are equipped to think critically and creatively, solve problems, engage across cultures, and communicate sophisticatedly and effectively—skills that are in high demand by employers across fields and professions.
In EWL, you have access to more than 30 full-time faculty members with diverse areas of expertise in language acquisition, linguistics, translation, creative and professional writing, digital rhetoric and user experience (UX) design, writing center pedagogy, and literature. Many faculty also specialize in gender, ethnic, and/or cultural studies and enrich their classrooms with global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Our faculty are disciplinary leaders who are both accomplished researchers and engaged classroom instructors. They consistently earn institutional, regional, and national recognition for their scholarship, creative activities, and teaching.
All faculty are committed to your academic and professional success and look forward to mentoring you through your undergraduate journey. This includes supporting you within and outside of the classroom. Our students are encouraged to engage in classroom and extracurricular experiences that are most relevant for their chosen career path. In EWL, you get a personalized, empowering education that puts your goals first.
Within the classroom, students benefit from small class sizes, individualized attention, and hands-on learning experiences. Beyond the classroom, the department works hard to ensure that EWL students regularly obtain competitive internships and externships; conduct independent research; present and publish scholarship/creative works; serve as editors of the department’s national literary journal, Sand Hills; write for campus student publications; teach in the university’s writing center ; participate in university programs such as Honors, Study Abroad, and CURS; engage in disciplinary clubs, honor societies, and student organizations; and partner with the community to organize scholarly, creative, and cultural programming that is free and accessible to the public.
We hope that you will stop by our main office in Allgood Hall E227 to talk with us and learn more about our programs. We can’t wait to get to know you."
English Faculty
World Languages Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Rick Davis, Associate Professor Emeritus of English
Walter Evans, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Elizabeth Fanning, PhD, Professor Emerita of English
Robert Flannigan, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Spanish
James W. Garvey, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Elizabeth B. House, PhD, Professor Emerita of English and Dean Emerita, Pamplin College of Arts & Sciences
Lillie B. Johnson, PhD, Professor Emerita of English
Anthony Kellman, Professor Emeritus of English & Creative Writing
Mary C. McCormack, PhD, Associate Professor Emerita of English and Associate Chair Emerita
Lester O. Pollard, PhD, Assistant Professor Emeritus of English
Norman Prinsky, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus of English
James Duncan Robertson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of French
Jana Sandarg, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Spanish
John R. Dick Stracke, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Margaret J. Yonce Ward, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Terence Fred Wharton, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Seretha Williams, PhD, Professor Emerita of English
