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
Jason Bordt
Creative Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 218 | 843-349-6658 | jbordt@coastal.edu
Colin Burch
Creative Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, Nonfiction
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 322 | 843-349-6617 | cburch1@coastal.edu
Hastings Hensel
Creative Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, 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, Composition & Rhetoric, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-2871 | losborne@coastal.edu
Erin Slaughter
Creative Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, Fiction
Visiting Assistant Professor
Edwards 234 | 843-349-6928 | eslaughte@coastal.edu
Digital Culture and Design
Gayas Eapen
Digital Culture and Design
Assistant Professor
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
Digital Culture and Design
Assistant Professor
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
Composition & Rhetoric, Sociolinguistics, Syntactic Variation, Language Attitudes
Professor
Edwards 208 | 843-349-6685 | jhasty@coastal.edu
Literature
Ellen Arnold
Nineteenth Century British Literature, Composition & Rhetoric, Women's Studies
Senior Lecturer
Edwards 289 | 843-349-2606 | sarnold@coastal.edu
Steve Hamelman
Early American Literature, Literary and Media Theory, Composition & Rhetoric, 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, Composition & Rhetoric, 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
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-6930 | lrbuting@coastal.edu
Joshua Cross
Composition & Rhetoric
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 326 | 843-349-4118 | jcross2@coastal.edu
Mary Emery
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-2833 | memery@coastal.edu
Cathy Focarazzo-Riley
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-2334 | cfocarazz@coastal.edu
Lisa Graves
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Edwards 263 | 843-349-6668 | lborne1@coastal.edu
Emma Howes
Composition & Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, and Feminist Theory
Associate Professor
Edwards 212 | 843-349-6977 | ehowes@coastal.edu
David Kellogg
Technical and Professional Writing, Composition & Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Science
Associate Professor
Edwards 293 | 843-349-6554 | dkellogg@coastal.edu
Steve McCartney
Composition & Rhetoric, Business Communication
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 218 | 843-349-2798 | smccartn@coastal.edu
Marcia McCreary
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-6445 | mmccreary@coastal.edu
Paul Plisiewicz
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 326 | 843-349-4051 | ppliesiewi@coastal.edu
Alan Reid
Composition & Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Writing, Instructional Design and Technology
Associate Professor
Edwards 206 | 843-349-6974 | areid@coastal.edu
Shawna Halbert Roessler
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-349-2781 | shalber@coastal.edu
Krystin Santos
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Edwards 269 | 843-349-2288 | kssantos@coastal.edu
Christian Smith
Composition & Rhetoric
Associate Professor
Edwards 210 | 843-349-6967 | csmith8@coastal.edu
Sara Sobota
Composition & Rhetoric, Business Communication, Travel Writing
Senior Lecturer and Edwards College Publications Editor
Edwards 109 | 843-349-2507 | ssobota@coastal.edu
Shannon Stewart
Composition & Rhetoric, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-349-2475 | sstewart@coastal.edu
Robert Zackowski
Composition & Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-5071 | rzackowsk@coastal.edu
Teaching Associates
Amber Bacon
abacon1@coastal.edu
Derrick Bracey
dgbracey@coastal.edu
Donna Corriher
dcorriher@coastal.edu
Failcya Crace
fdcrace@coastal.edu
Veronica Good
vjgood@coastal.edu
Lindsay Hickman
lehickman@coastal.edu
Emory Hooks
jehooks@coastal.edu
Molly Johnson
mkjohns2@coastal.edu
Gabriel Miller
gjmille2@coastal.edu
Gabrielle Parker
gnparker@coastal.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Kevin Ferguson
Lecturer
Edwards 248 | 843-349-6635 | kferguson@coastal.edu