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
Jennifer Brown
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Jennifer Brown
Lecturer
She/her
Areas of Interest
Early American Literature; Writing Studies and Rhetorical Theory; Writing in the Disciplines
- PhD, Georgia State University
- MA, University College Dublin
- English 102/103:Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- English 104: Accelerated Composition & Rhetoric
- English 211: Introduction to Creative Writing
- English 315: Creative Writing: Fiction
- English 316: Creative Writing: Poetry
- English 422: Professional Research Pathways: Research, Libraries, & Graduate School Planning
Sarah Ben-Zvi
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Sarah Ben-Zvi
Composition Program Faculty
she/her
Areas of Interest
Writing Studies, Rhetoric, Writing in STEM.
- M.A., Humboldt State University
- English 102/103: Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- English 104: Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric
- English 110: Academic Literacies Lab.
Marianne Ahokas
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Marianne Ahokas
Composition Program Faculty and Lecturer in English
Areas of Interest
Early American Literature; Writing Studies and Rhetorical Theory; Writing in the Disciplines
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Janelle Adsit
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Janelle Adsit
Professor
she/her
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing; Environmental Humanities; Narrative Medicine; Health Humanities, Arts in Health
- Ph.D. English, State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
- Certificate, Narrative Medicine, University of Toronto
- Certificate, Arts in Health, University of Florida
- M.A. English, Colorado State University
- English 306: Contemporary Texts
- English 307: Arts-Based Programs in Health
- English 309W: Narrative Medicine
- English 311: Creative Writing for Environmental Justice
- English 315: Creative Writing: Fiction
- English 422: Professional Research Pathways
- English 450: Tutoring Developing Writers
- English 460: Literary Editing and Publishing (Toyon)
- English 461: Professional Concerns in Writing & Editing
- Environmental Studies 470: Climate Justice Leadership (co-taught with Christina Eskridge)
- Environmental Studies 480: Health Justice and Climate Justice (co-taught with Cristian Martinez)
- English 580: Facilitated Writing Community
- English 600: Introduction to Graduate Studies
- English 612: Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
- English 670: Facilitated Writing Community
Christina Accomando
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Christina Hsu Accomando
Professor
she/her
Areas of Interest
Multi-ethnic U.S. literature; law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance; critical race studies; multicultural queer studies; Black feminist thought; Asian American studies
- Ph.D., Literature, UC San Diego
- English 232: US Literature and Social Change
- English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 336: Performing Race & Gender
- English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 336: Multicultural Queer Narratives
- English/Ethnic Studies 336: Poetry and Resistance
- English/Ethnic Studies 336: Asian American Literatures
- English/Ethnic Studies 336: Black Lives Matter
- English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 465: Audre Lorde: Language and Power
- English 546: Law and Literature of US Slavery and Resistance
- CRGS 108: Power/Privilege: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class
- CRGS 360: Race, Gender, and US Law
- Ethnic Studies 302: Asian American Studies
Janet Winston
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Janet Winston
Professor
she/her
Areas of Interest
Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Gender/Sexuality Studies; British Modernism; Twentieth-Century Visual Culture; Critical Theories of Race and Whiteness
- Ph.D., English, University of Iowa
- B.A. Psychology, UCLA
- GNED 109R Off the Beaten Path: Humboldt through Literature & Landscape
- ENGL 220 Representation Matters: Literature and Identity
- ENGL 231 British Literature Survey II
- ENGL 305 Postcolonial Literature/Decolonizing Perspectives
- ENGL/WS 308B Gender and Literature
- ENGL 320 Practical Criticism
- ENGL 350 Art, War, and Politics in Modernist Literature
- ENGL 350 Sexology and Literary Scandal
- ENGL 410 & WS 370 Queer Women’s Memoir
- ENGL 410 Queer Theories
- ENGL 471 Palestinian Literature
- ENGL 481 & 681 Internship in Teaching of Literature
- ENGL 490 Senior Project Seminar
- ENGL 546 21st-Century Virginia Woolf
- ENGL 546 Englishness and Otherness in Modernist Britain
- ENGL 605 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Raili Makela
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Raili Makela
Sequoia Music Librarian
Nicolette Amann
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Nicolette Amann
Co-Director First Year Composition Program & Redwood Writing Project Director & ERWC Trainer
she/her
- M.A., Humboldt State University
- English 102 & 103: Composition and Rhetoric A & B
- English 104: Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric
- English 107: Critical Writing
- English 105: Introduction to Literature
- English 424: Communication in Writing I