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 / Dean, HSS

Creative Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and English Education

H-211

sfontaine@fullerton.edu

Erin Hollis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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

GH-404

ehollis@fullerton.edu

Susan Jacobsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

18th Century Literature

GH-429

sjacobsen@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, Grammar, and Phonology

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.
Assistant 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-323B / GH-442

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 / 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

Nicole Seymour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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

GH-440

nseymour@fullerton.edu

Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

The syntax of agreement, Bantu languages, Modern Greek, Austronesian languages, dyslexia.

GH-422

pzioga@fullerton.edu

Kay Stanton, Ph.D.
Professor

Renaissance Literature

GH-402

kstanton@fullerton.edu

Kenneth Van Bik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Language and Linguistics

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 

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, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Rhetoric and Composition

GH-401 

bonniewilliams@fullerton.edu 

Heping Zhao, Ph.D.
Professor

Comparative Literature, Composition, Rhetoric, and English Education.

GH-431

hepingzhao@fullerton.edu