Graduate Faculty in English

Joanne Addison, Professor

  • Multimedia Writing; Empirical Research; Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing; Advanced Topics in Writing and Digital Studies; Principles and Practices in Language Acquisition; Argumentation and Logic; Business Writing

Brian Barker, Associate Professor

  • Introduction to Creative Writing; Poetry Workshop; Advanced Poetry Workshop; History of American Poetry; Senior Poetry Workshop

Nicole Beer, Associate Professor

  • Introduction to Creative Writing; Poetry Workshop; Topics in Literature—20th Century American LGBTQ Literature English/Women’s & Gender Studies; 20th Century Women Writers—20th Century Women Poets English; Advanced Poetry Workshop English; Poetics English 4240: Topics in Contemporary American Literature--American Poets English; Special Topics in Creative Writing English; Senior Poetry Workshop

Teague Bohlen, Associate Professor, Faculty Advisor of CU Denver Sentry

  • Workshops at all levels; Special Topics; Narrative Form and Theory; Magazine Writing; Writing for Print Media

Kari Campeau, Assistant Professor

  • Technical Writing; Advanced Topics in Writing and Digital Studies: Usability & User Experience

Michelle Comstock, Associate Professor

  • Composition I and II; Multimedia Composition; Argumentation and Logic; Special Topics: Rhetoric and Language in the Public Sphere; Special Topics: Writing New Media; Denver Writing Project Summer Institute; Research Methods (in Rhetoric and Composition); Practicum in Language and Rhetoric; Special Topics: Gender, Race, Class, and the Teaching of Writing; Rhetorical Theory

Colleen Donnelly, Professor

  • Critical Writing; Dystopic Science Fiction; James Joyce; Margaret Atwood; Faulkner; Medieval Lit; Whores and Saints: Medieval Women; Modernism; Chaucer; Mental Differences and Disabilities; Illness and Disability Narratives

Miranda Egger, Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of Composition

  • Rhetoric and Composition

Fatima Esseili, Associate Professor, ESL Academy Director

  • teaching and learning of English with emphasis on second language writing and assessment; world Englishes (language policy, politics of English, intelligibility); intercultural rhetoric.

Sarah Hagelin, Professor, Chair of the Ethnic Studies Dept. 

  • Introduction to Film; Film History (Classical Hollywood Cinema, New Hollywood Cinema); Film Genres (Romantic Comedy, Documentary); Global Cinema (Gender and Global Cinema); Film Directors (Women Directors, Tarantino, The Coen Brother); From Literature to Film; Film Theory and Criticism; Special Topics in Literature and Film (Pulp Fictions, Race & Gender in US Cinema, Gender and Violence in Popular Culture); Introduction to Graduate Studies; Race, Gender, and Sexuality in American Popular Culture

Rodney Herring, Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair

  • Core Composition II; Language Theory; Business Writing; Argumentation and Logic; Special Topics: Literacy and the Digital Age; Special Topics: Sociolinguistics and the Language of Class; Introduction to Graduate Studies; Research Methods; Practicum in Language and Rhetoric; Rhetorical Theory

Philip Joseph, Associate Professor

  • Genres of Writing: Adventure Narrative; Jazz in American Literature and Culture; American Literature from the Civil War; Introduction to Literature; Willa Cather and American Modernism; Literature of the American City; The Harlem Renaissance; Race and Ethnicity in American Literature; African American Literaturte; The American Short Story; Travel Writing and American Literature; Critical Writing

Joanna Luloff, Associate Professor

  • Fiction Workshop; Advanced Fiction Workshop; Senior Fiction Workshop

Christopher Merkner, Associate Teaching Professor

  • Narrative Form & Theory; Introduction to Creative Writing; Fiction Workshop; Advanced Fiction Workshop; The American Novel; The American Short Story

Wayne Miller, Professor, Department Chair, Editor of Copper Nickel

Bradford K. Mudge, Professor

  • Eighteenth-Century English Literature; English Romanticism; History of the Novel

Nicole Piasecki, Senior Instructor

  • Core Composition I; Core Composition II; Multimedia Composition; Business Writing

Andrew Scahill, Assistant Professor

  • Literature and Film, Film History, Intro to Film, Hitchcock, 1950s Cinema, Genre, Horror Film, Frankenstein Mythos on Film, Studies in Censorship, Deconstructing Breaking Bad

Gillian Silverman, Professor, Graduate Director

  • Telling Tales: Narrative in Literature and Film; First Year Honors and Leadership Seminar; Great Works in British and American Literature; Critical Writing; American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War; 4306/5306: Survey of Feminist Thought; Contemporary Feminist Thought; The American Novel; Senior Seminar: Literature and the Law; Literary Research and Writing; Literary and Rhetorical Theory; Graduate survey of American Literature to the Civil War; Critical Theory in Literature and Film; Major Authors: The American Sentimental Tradition

John Tinnell, Associate Professor

  • Rhetoric; Digital Communication; Media Theory; Writing Studies; Critical Theory; Augmented Reality; Digital Culture