Faculty and Staff Directory


Staff


Outlaw Headshot

Debbie Outlaw | Accounting Clerk

HUMB 240
(251) 460-6146

dhoutlaw@cceweb.net


Ash Headshot

Shawn Ash | Secretary

HUMB 240
(251) 460-6146

sash@cceweb.net


Faculty


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Nicole Amare | Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in professional communication and rhetoric and composition, with interests in gender studies and late American literature.

HUMB 252  |  460-7157  |  namare@cceweb.net


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Jenny Arras | Instructor and CompPAL Coordinator

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 255  |  460-6936  |  jarras@cceweb.net


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Carson Barnett | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 261  |  460-6624  |  carsonbarnett@cceweb.net


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Larry Beason | Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in rhetorical analysis, composition pedagogy, grammar, and science fiction.

HUMB 274  |  460-7861  |  lbeason@cceweb.net

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Pat Cesarini | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Assistant to the Chair. Specializes in American literature from the colonial period to 1900.

HUMB 250  |  460-7835  |  pcesarini@cceweb.net


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Robert Coleman | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences. Specializes in digital humanities, U. S. literatures, literary aesthetics, and rhetorics. Editor of Studies in American Culture.

HUMB 118  |  460-6280  |  rcoleman@cceweb.net


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Chris Cowley | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 248  |  460-7057  |  cmcowley@cceweb.net


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Heather Dail | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 258  |  460-6743  |  hdail@cceweb.net


Davis Headshot

Zachary Davis | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 275  |  460-7968  |  zdavis@cceweb.net


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Doris Frye | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 260  |  460-7329  dfrye@cceweb.net


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Dylan Gibson | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 251  |  460-7960  |  dylangibson@cceweb.net


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Annmarie Guzy | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in composition pedagogy, professional communication, and honors education, with interests in genre literature and film.

HUMB 271  |  460-6745  |  aguzy@cceweb.net


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John Halbrooks | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Graduate Coordinator. Specializes in medieval and Renaissance literature.

HUMB 269  |  460-7685  |  jvhalbrooks@cceweb.net


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Ellen Burton Harrington | Professor and Chair  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in British Victorian literature, detective and sensation fiction, and 19th century gender and colonial contexts.

HUMB 243  |  460-6146  |  eharrington@cceweb.net


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Richard Hillyer | Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in Renaissance literature and poetry.

HUMB 278  |  460-6539  |  rhillyer@cceweb.net


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Caleb Humphreys  | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 275  |  460-7968  |  chumphreys@cceweb.net


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Kern Jackson | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Director of the African American Studies Program. Specializes in African American and Southeastern United States folklore and oral narrative.

HUMB 276  |  460-6363  KEMjacks@cceweb.net


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Caleb Johnson | Assistant Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in fiction.

HUMB 256  |  460-7417  calebjohnson@cceweb.net


Lang Headshot

Maura Lang | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 281  |  460-8198  |  mlang@cceweb.net


Lewis Headshot

Jacobie Lewis | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 251  |  460-7960  |  jlewis@cceweb.net


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Becky McLaughlin | Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Generalist with particular interests in psychoanalysis and sexuality.

HUMB 279  |  460-7991  |  bmclaugh@cceweb.net


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Robert O'Berry | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 268  |  460-6744  |  oberry@cceweb.net


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Jessica Owsley | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 259  |  460-6146  jessicasims@cceweb.net


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Charlotte Pence | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Director of Creative Writing and Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing.  Specializes in poetry and creative nonfiction.

HUMB 277  |  460-6149  |  cpence@cceweb.net


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Karen Peterson | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 263  |  460-6148 kpeterson@cceweb.net


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Adam Prince | Stokes Visiting Writer

Specializes in fiction and screenwriting.

HUMB 351  |  460-7610  |  aprince@cceweb.net


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Christopher Raczkowski | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in post-Civil War American literature with an emphasis on modernism and crime.

HUMB 270  |  460-7550  |  raczkowski@cceweb.net


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Ben Raines | Environmental Fellow and Writer in Residence

Specializes in environmental journalism.

HUMB 240 |  460-6146 |  braines@cceweb.net


Roddy Headshot

Lisa Roddy | Senior Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 272  |  460-7940  lroddy@cceweb.net


Shaw Headshot

Patrick Shaw | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Director of Freshman Composition. Specializes in writing program administration, modern rhetorical theory, and the history of rhetoric.

HUMB 280  |  460-7972  pjshaw@cceweb.net


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Justin St. Clair | Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in sound studies and contemporary fiction.

HUMB 262  |  460-7973  |  jmstclair@cceweb.net  |  soundculturestudies.net


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Hunter Tallent | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 268  |  460-6744  |  htallent@cceweb.net


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Cynthia Tucker | USA Journalist in Residence  PUBLICATIONS

Journalist and Pulitzer-Prize-winning commentator.

HUMB 216A |  460-8024  |  catucker@cceweb.net


Volf Headshot

Stephanie Volf | Instructor

Teaches composition and literature surveys.

HUMB 257  |  460-7956  |  stephanievolf@cceweb.net


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Laura Vrana | Associate Professor  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in African American literature and poetry.

HUMB 254  |  460-6502  |  vrana@cceweb.net


Emeriti and Retired Faculty


Gaillard Headshot

Frye Gaillard | Former USA Writer in Residence  PUBLICATIONS

Specializes in Southern culture and history.

HUMB 218D  fgaillard@cceweb.net


Hollingsworth HeadshotCris Hollingsworth | Associate Professor Emeritus

A specialist in Victorian literature and the work of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Hollingsworth was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama from 2003 to 2022. He is the author of Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature (U Iowa, 2001) and the editor of Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century (U Iowa, 2009).


Walker HeadshotSue Brannan Walker | Professor Emerita

A noted poet, author, critic, and editor, Dr. Walker was a faculty member at the University of South Alabama from 1980 to 2015. In addition to founding and operating Negative Capability Press, Dr. Walker also served as chair of the Department of English from 1999 to 2008 and was Alabama's Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2012.