* = elected position
Chair's Advisory Committee
- Marco Abel, committee chair (Professor and Department Chair)
- Julia Schleck (Associate Professor and Vice Chair - 2025)
- *Kwame Dawes (Professor - 2024)
- *Ken Price (Professor - 2025)
- *Stephen Buhler (Professor - 2025)
- *Deborah Minter (Associate Professor – 2024)
- *Gabrielle Owen (Assistant Professor - 2024)
- *Michael Page (POP/Lecturer Representative - 2024)
- *Hanna Varilek (Graduate Student Representative - 2023)
Personnel Subcommittee
- Tenured and tenure-track members of the Chair's Advisory Committee
Department Conciliator
- *Stephen Ramsay (Professor - 2026)
Election Chair
- Stephen Behrendt (Professor - 2022)
Graduate Committee
- Stacey Waite, committee chair (Associate Professor – 2023)
- Guy Reynolds (Professor – 2025)
- Hope Wabuke (Associate Professor - 2024)
- Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri (Assistant Professor - 2025)
- Kathleen Dillon (Graduate Student Representative - 2023)
Appeals Committee
- *Adrian Wisnicki (Associate Professor – 2026)
- *Laura White (Professor - 2026)
- *Greg Rutledge (Associate Professor - 2025)
- *Graduate Student Representative - TBD
- Emily Blomstedt (Undergraduate Student Representative)
Undergraduate Committee
- Laura White (Professor; chair - 2025)
- Peter J. Capuano (Associate Professor; ex officio as Director of Literary and Cultural Studies)
- Timothy Schaffert (Professor; ex officio as Director of Creative Writing)
- Stacey Waite (Associate Professor; ex officio as Director of Composition and Rhetoric)
- *James Brunton (Assistant Professor of Practice - 2024)
- Kathleen Lacey (Academic Advisor; ex officio)
- Michael Page, Coordinator of Curriculum (Assistant Professor of Practice; ex officio)
- *Graduate Student Representative - TBD
Plainstate Podcast
- Marco Abel, executive producer
- Erin Chambers, producer
- Stephen Ramsay, sound engineer
- Kathleen Lacey, associate producer
- TBD: Social media intern
EGSA Executive Committee
- Stacey Waite - Faculty Advisor
2022-23 Officers
- Arka Maitra - President, General Board Member
- Jocelyn Spoor - Vice President, General Board Member
- Ian Maxton - Treasurer, PhD Representative
- Hanna Varilek - First-Year Representative
- Hannah Morrison - MA Representative
- Jordan Charlton - General Board Member
- Serenity Dougherty - GSA Representative, General Board Member
- Akua Manieson - General Board Member
Officers
- Chair
Marco Abel (Professor) - Vice Chair
Julia Schleck (Associate Professor) - Graduate Chair
Stacey Waite (Associate Professor) - Undergraduate Program Chair
Laura White (Professor) - Undergraduate Major Advisor
Kathleen Lacey (Advisor) - English Student Advisory Board Coordinator
Kathleen Lacey (Advisor) - Director of Composition and Rhetoric
Stacey Waite (Associate Professor) - Associate Director of Composition and Rhetoric
Katie Marya (Lecturer) - Associate Directors of Composition
Alexandra Bissell (Ph.D. student)
Charlotte Kupsh (Ph.D. student) - Director of the Writing Center
Rachel Azima (Associate Professor of Practice) - Associate Director of Writing Center
TBD - Assistant Directors of the Writing Center
Kathleen Dillon (Ph.D. student)
Erika Luckert (Ph.D. student) - Assistant Director of the Writing Fellows Program
Ben Reed (Ph.D. student) - Coordinator of Film Studies
James Lowell Brunton (Assistant Professor of Practice) - Director of Creative Writing
Timothy Schaffert (Professor) - Assistant Director of Creative Writing
Jessica Poli (Ph.D. student) - Director of Literary and Cultural Studies
Peter J. Capuano (Associate Professor) - Digital Humanities in English Program Coordinator
Stephen Ramsay (Associate Professor) - Place Studies Liaison
TBD - Placement Advisor
Gabrielle Owen
(Assistant Professor) - Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner
Kwame Dawes (Professor)
Liaisons
- Institute for Ethnic Studies
Joy Castro (Professor), Director
Tom Gannon (Associate Professor), Associate Director - Judaic Studies Program
Ari Kohen (Professor, Political Science), Director - Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Kelly Stage (Associate Professor), Director - Nineteenth-Century Studies Program
Jeannette Jones (Associate Professor, History & Institute for Ethnic Studies), Director - Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Shari Stenberg (Professor), Director - Faculty Senate
Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson (Assistant Professor of Practice - 2025)
Amanda Gailey (Associate Professor - 2024)
Debbie Minter (Associate Professor - 2024) - Libraries
Stephen Behrendt (Professor)