Full-Time Faculty

Marlin Blaine, Ph.D.
Professor 

Comparative Literature, Medieval Literature, and Renaissance Literature

GH-444

mblaine@fullerton.edu

L. Maria Bo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Diasporic Asian Literature, Asian American Literature, 20th Century Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature, Comparative Literature, Critical Translation Theory, Critical Race Theory

GH-434

lmbo@fullerton.edu

Cornel Bonca, Ph.D.
Professor

20th and 21st century American literature; Fiction Writing; Postmodernism; Critical Theory; the 1960s

GH-443

cbonca@fullerton.edu

April Brannon, Ph.D.
Professor / English Education Coordinator

Children's and Young Adult Literature, Composition, Rhetoric, and English Education

GH-439

abrannon@fullerton.edu

Leslie Bruce, Ph.D.
Full-Time Lecturer

Advanced Composition

GH-435

lbruce@fullerton.edu

Lana L. Dalley, Ph.D.
Professor / Department Vice Chair

19th-Century British Literature and Gender Studies

GH-426

ldalley@fullerton.edu

Sheryl Fontaine, Ph.D.
Professor

Creative Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and English Education

GH-447

sfontaine@fullerton.edu

Erin Hollis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

20th Century British Literature, Popular Culture, Film, and Genre Studies

GH-404

ehollis@fullerton.edu

David Kelman, Ph.D.
Professor 

19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, 20th-century American literature, 20th-century European novel, detective and crime fiction, science fiction, film and literature, trauma and testimony, literary theory, comparative literature.

GH-438

dkelman@fullerton.edu

Stephen J. Mexal, Ph.D.
Professor 

Early & 19th Century American Literature and 20th Century American Literature 

GH-432

smexal@fullerton.edu

Franz Mueller, Ph.D.
Professor / Linguistics Undergraduate Adviser

Linguistic Typology, Sociolinguistics, Austronesian languages. Sundanese. German

GH-421

fmueller@fullerton.edu

Brian Michael Norton, Ph.D.
Professor

18th Century English and Comparative Literature

GH-437

bnorton@fullerton.edu

Edward Piñuelas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Comparative Literature, African Diaspora literature and film, and Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory

GH-428

epinuelas@fullerton.edu

Irena Praitis, Ph.D.
Professor / Department Chair

20th Century American Literature, Creative Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Popular Culture, Film, Genre Studies, Ethnic American Literature, and Literature of the Americas

GH-322

ipraitis@fullerton.edu

Chris Ruiz-Velasco, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Early & 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, and Literary Theory

GH-406

cruizvelasco@fullerton.edu

David Sandner, Ph.D.
Professor / English Graduate Adviser

18th Century Literature, 19th Century British Literature, Creative Writing, Popular Culture, Film, Genre Studies, and Children's and Young Adult Literature

GH-441

dsandner@fullerton.edu

Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Ph.D.
Professor / Linguistics Program Coordinator

Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Phonology. Bantu languages, Modern Greek, Austronesian languages, Heritage languages

GH-422

pzioga@fullerton.edu

Nicole Seymour, Ph.D.
Professor

Contemporary American literature, culture, and film; environmental humanities/ecocriticism; gender and sexuality studies

GH-431

nseymour@fullerton.edu

Kay Stanton, Ph.D.
Professor

Renaissance Literature

GH-402

kstanton@fullerton.edu

Kenneth Van Bik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/ Linguistics Graduate Advisor

Historical linguistics, Language contact, Lexicography, Tibeto-Buman languages, Kuki-Chin languages, Language documentation, Endangered languages

GH-424 

kvanbik@fullerton.edu 

Elise Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Medieval Literature; Legal History and Theory; Critical Race Theory; Global Middle Ages; Comparative Literature

GH-427 

 elwang@fullerton.edu

Brandi Wells, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

Creative Writing, Contemporary American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, 19th Century American Literature

GH-430

bwells@fullerton.edu  

Stephen Westbrook, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Creative Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and English Education

GH-446

swestbrook@fullerton.edu

J. Chris Westgate, Ph.D.

Professor 

19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Literature, Drama, Popular Culture, Film, and Genre Studies

GH-436

jcwestgate@fullerton.edu

Bonnie Williams-Farrier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Writing Center Director

Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Writing Center Theory, Critical Race Theory, Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy, African American Rhetoric, African American Language and Literacy, Language Policy, and Linguistic Diversity. 

GH-401 

bonniewilliams@fullerton.edu