Graduate Faculty in English

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

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

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

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

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

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