Heal McKnight
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Heal McKnight
Creative Writing Program Faculty
Areas of Interest
Graphic memoir, nonfiction narrative, antiracist writing workshops.
- MFA, Creative Nonfiction, University of Iowa
- BA in English, Illinois Wesleyan University
- English 211: Introduction to Creative Writing
- English 314: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
- English 316: Creative Writing: Poetry
Kerry Marsden
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Kerry Marsden
Composition Program Faculty
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Areas of Interest
Writing studies; Writing pedagogy; Gender/Sexuality studies; Fat studies; Disability studies; Queer futures
- M.A., Humboldt State University
- B.A., English, Ethnic American Literature, Multicultural Queer Studies. Humboldt State University
- ENGL 102/103: Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- ENGL 104: Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric
- ENGL 105: Literature, Media and Culture
- ENGL 215: Information Literacy and Writers' Seminar
- ENGL 450: Tutoring Developing Writers
- CRGS 108: Power/Privilege
- ES 105: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- WS 106: Introduction to Women's Studies
- WS 107: Women, Culture, and History
- WS 350: Health and Body Politics
Emily Lavrador
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Emily Lavrador
Lecturer
Areas of Interest
English Education, Education Policy, and Critical/Poststructural Analyses
Nikola Hobbel
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Nikola Hobbel
Professor - English Education
Areas of Interest
English Education, Education Policy, and Critical/Poststructural Analyses
- Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.S., Curriculum Studies/Dominican University, B.A., English/UC-Berkeley
- English 344: Young Adult Literature
- English 426: Teaching Secondary Writing
- English 485: Critical Praxis Forum
- English 218: Conceptualizing English Studies
- English 611: Literacies and Epistemologies
- English 612: Theory of Rhetoric & Composition
- Environment & Community 630: Environmentalism, Media, & Representation
Marcos Hernandez
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Marcos Hernandez
Publishing Program Faculty
Areas of Interest
Writing theory and pedagogy; publishing as pedagogy.
Tessa Head
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Tess Head
Composition Program Faculty
Areas of Interest
Writing studies; feminist theory; sexualized violence
- M.A., English, Humboldt State University
- B.A., Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
- English 102/103: Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- English 104: Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric
- WS 106: Introduction to Women's Studies
- WS 107: Women, Culture, History
- WS 303: Anticolonial Women's Movements
- WS 320: Act to End Sexualized Violence II
- CRGS 108: Power/Privilege
Natalie Giannini
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Natalie Giannini
Lecturer - English and Composition Program Faculty
Areas of Interest
Early Modern Studies, Cultural Studies, History of the Body and Medicine; Early Modern Political Culture; Literacy Studies and Writing Practices; Writing Assessment
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis (2010)
- English 102/103: Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- English 104: Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric
- English 105: Introduction to Literature
- English 220: Representation Matters: Literature & Identity
- English 230: British Literature I
- English 231: British Literature II
- English 308: Women in Literature
- English 342: Shakespeare
- English 410/510: Witches and Witchcraft in British Literature
- English 471/571: Body, Environment, World-Building
Andrea Delgado
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Andrea Delgado
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest
Cultural and Digital Rhetorics, Chicanx/Latinx Literature, American Ethnic Literature.
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media, University of Washington, Seattle.
- English 240: Literature of the Americas
- English 311: Environmental Writing | Creating Art, Creating Change
- English 318: Cultural Rhetorics: Wild Tongues Cannot be Tamed | Writing Identity into Research
- English 465: Radical Hope: Afrofuturism and Chicanxfuturism
- English 612: Theories of Rhetoric and Composition; 615: Digital Humanities.
Daniela Cerbino
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Daniela Cerbino
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest
Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Language and Gender, Second Language Pedagogy
- Ph.D, University of California, Davis
- M.A. in Linguistics, West Virginia University
- B.A. in TESOL, Universidad Nacional de San Juan
- ENGL 328 Structure of American English
- ENGL 435/535 Introduction to Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language
- Dissertation Writing Fellowship (Spring 2020)
- Provost’s Fellow (2016-17)
- Fulbright FLTA (2008-09)
Renée Byrd
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Renée Byrd
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
Critical Race Studies; Law & Society; Prison Abolition; Transnational Feminisms; Queer of Color Critique; Sexuality Studies; Environmental Justice; Neoliberal Political Rationalities; Social Theory; Poststructuralism; Globalization; the State and State Violence
- Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of Washington in Seattle