English Faculty

Faculty are listed by area of expertise in alphabetical order.

Department Staff

Jen Boyle
Chair, Professor
Early Modern, New Media, Theory
Edwards 223 | 843-349-6654 | jboyle@coastal.edu

Denise Paster
Associate Chair, Professor
Edwards 214 | 843-349-2612 | dpaster@coastal.edu

Joan Trupiano
Administrative Specialist
Edwards 224 | 843-349-6423 | trupiano@coastal.edu

Creative Writing

Dan Albergotti
Creative Writing, Poetry
Professor
Edwards 215 | 843-349-2420 | albergot@coastal.edu

Jason Bordt
Creative Writing, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 218 | 843-349-6658 | jbordt@coastal.edu

Colin Burch
Creative Writing, Nonfiction
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 322 | 843-349-6617 | cburch1@coastal.edu

Amira Hanafi
Writer in Residence
Edwards 276 | 843-349-2488 | ahanafi@coastal.edu

Hastings Hensel
Creative Writing, Poetry
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 322 | 843-349-2917 | whensel@coastal.edu

Jason Ockert
Creative Writing, Fiction
Professor
Edwards 233 | 843-349-2531 | jockert@coastal.edu

Joe Oestreich
Creative Writing, Nonfiction
Associate Dean and Professor of English
Edwards 203 | 843-349-2433 | joeo@coastal.edu

Lane Osborne
Creative Writing, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-2871 | losborne@coastal.edu

Erin Slaughter
Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing & Fiction
Edwards 234 | 843-349-6928 | eslaughte@coastal.edu

Digital Culture and Design

Gayas Eapen
Assistant Professor, Digital Culture and Design
Edwards 209 | 843-349-6938 | geapen@coastal.edu

Sarah Whitcomb Laiola
Digital Humanities, New and Emerging Media, Visual Art and Culture
Associate Professor and Coordinator Digital Culture and Design
Edwards 106A | 843-349-6941 | slozierl@coastal.edu

Anna Mukamal
Assistant Professor, Digital Culture and Design
Edwards 289 | 843-349-6567 | amukamal@coastal.edu

Linguistics

Kristen Fleckenstein
Discourse Analysis
Assistant Professor
Edwards 231 | 843-349-5006 | kfleckens@coastal.edu

J. Daniel Hasty
Sociolinguistics, Syntactic Variation, Language Attitudes
Professor
Edwards 208 | 843-349-6685 | jhasty@coastal.edu

Literature

Ellen Arnold
Nineteenth Century British Literature, Women's Studies
Senior Lecturer
Edwards 289 | 843-349-2606 | sarnold@coastal.edu

Steve Hamelman
Early American Literature, Literary and Media Theory, Popular Music
Professor
Edwards 291 | 843-349-2623 | steveh@coastal.edu

Tabitha Lowery
African-American Literatures & Cultures
Assistant Professor, Associate Director of The Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies
Edwards 288 | 843-349-2756 | tlowery@coastal.edu

Kate Faber Oestreich
Coordinator of Graduate Studies; 19thC British Literature, Adaptation / Digital Storytelling, and Multimodal Writing
Professor
Edwards 211 | 843-349-6602 | koestrei@coastal.edu

Anna Oldfield
World Literature, Folklore, Magical Realism and Russian Literature
Professor | aoldfield@coastal.edu

Tripthi Pillai
English Renaissance Literature and Drama, Shakespeare
Assistant Dean, Professor
Edwards 207 | 843-243-3410 | tpillai@coastal.edu

Cynthia Port
Modern and Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature, Age Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory
Associate Professor
Edwards 213 | 843-349-2565 | cport@coastal.edu

Writing and Rhetoric

Roman S. Garo
Compostion
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-6930 | lrbuting@coastal.edu

Joshua Cross
Composition
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 326 | 843-349-4118 | jcross2@coastal.edu

Mary Emery
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-2833 | memery@coastal.edu

Cathy Focarazzo-Riley
Compositon
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-2334 | cfocarazz@coastal.edu

Lisa Graves
Composition
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-6668 | lborne1@coastal.edu

Emma Howes
Composition and Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, and Feminist Theory
Associate Professor
Edwards 212 | 843-349-6977 | ehowes@coastal.edu

Jessica Hylton
Lecturer
Edwards 269 | 843-349-3495 | jhylton@coastal.edu

David Kellogg
Technical and Professional Writing, Rhetoric of Science
Associate Professor
Edwards 293 | 843-349-6554 | dkellogg@coastal.edu

Steve McCartney
Composition
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 218 | 843-349-2798 | smccartn@coastal.edu

Marcia McCreary
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-6445 | mmccreary@coastal.edu

Paul Plisiewicz
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 326 | 843-349-4051 | ppliesiewi@coastal.edu

Alan Reid
Composition, Professional and Technical Writing, Instructional Design and Technology
Associate Professor
Edwards 206 | 843-349-6974 | areid@coastal.edu

Shawna Halbert Roessler
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-349-2781 | shalber@coastal.edu

Krystin Santos
Lecturer
Edwards 269 | 843-349-2288 | kssantos@coastal.edu

Christian Smith
Composition and Rhetoric
Associate Professor
Edwards 210 | 843-349-6967 | csmith8@coastal.edu

Sara Sobota
Composition and Rhetoric, Business Communication, Travel Writing
Senior Lecturer and Edwards College Publications Editor
Edwards 109 | 843-349-2507 | ssobota@coastal.edu

Shannon Stewart
Composition and Rhetoric, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-349-2475 | sstewart@coastal.edu

Robert Zackowski
Composition and Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-5071 | rzackowsk@coastal.edu