Elizabeth H. Curtin, D.A.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 1989
Institutions Attended: B.A., University of Toronto; M.A.T., University of Virginia; D.A., Carnegie Mellon University

Prior Positions: Instructor, Public Schools of Pennsylvania and Virginia

Academic Specialties: Composition and Rhetoric

Email: ehcurtin@salisbury.edu

Ronald L. Dotterer, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Appointment Year: 1993
Institutions Attended: A.B., Bucknell University; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Prior Positions: Admissions Officer, City University of New York; Chair and Professor of English, and Director of Honors Program, Susquehanna University

Academic Specialties: Irish Literature, 20th Century British and American Literature; Film

Email: rldotterer@salisbury.edu

Gary M. Harrington, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Appointment Year: 1988
Institutions Attended: B.A., M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D. University of Toronto (1984)

Prior Positions: Assistant Professor, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology

Academic Specialties: Drama, American Literature

Email: gmharrington@salisbury.edu

Dave Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2004
Institutions Attended: B. A., University of Virginia; M. F. A., University of Florida; Ph. D., University of Florida

Academic Specialties: Film Studies, Literature and Film

Email: dtjohnson@salisbury.edu

Gregory Jones, M.A.
Adjunct Instructor
Institutions Attended: BA, Catholic University of America, MA, Salisbury University
Academic Specialties: Composition and Literature, Communication Arts and Theater

Email: gpjones@salisbury.edu

John D. Kalb, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Director of the English Graduate Program
Appointment Year: 1989
Institutions Attended: B.S., Central Michigan University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University

Academic Specialties: Contemporary American Literature, Native American Literature, Ethnic American Literatures

Email: jdkalb@salisbury.edu

James King, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2007
Institutions Attended: B.S., Ball State University; M.A., Queens College (CUNY); Ph.D., City Univerisity of New York Graduate Center

Prior Positions: Instructor,SUNY Purchase College and SUNY College at Old Westbury;
Assistant Professor, Bard College at Simons' Rock

Academic Specialties: 20th Centruy African-American Literature, African-American Cultural Studies

Email: jsking@salisbury.edu

T. Ross Leasure, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year 2004
Institutions Attended: BA, La Salle University, Philadelphia; MA, Georgetown University; MA/PhD, Cornell University

Academic Specialties: Old and Middle English Literature; Old Norse Literature; Early Modern Drama; Milton

Loren Loving Marquez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2007
Institutions attended: B.A., Christopher Newport University; M.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; Ph.D., Texas Christian University

Academic Specializations: Composition, Rhetorical History, Literacy Studies

E-mail: llmarquez@salisbury.edu

Nick Melczarek, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Appointment Year: 2004
Institutions attended: B.A./M.A. University of South Florida; Ph.D. University of Florida

Academic Specialties: Contemporary American Literature, Feminist/Women's Literature and Theory, American Women Writers of Color, Literary Criticism and Theory

E-mail: anmelczarek@salisbury.edu

Nancy Mitchell, MFA
Lecturer in English
Appointment Year: 1998
Institutions Attended: BA, Salisbury University, MFA, Warren Wilson College

Academic Specialties: Creative Writing, Poetry

Email: nxmitchell@salisbury.edu

Tom Moriarty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2002
Institutions Attended: BA, California State University, Northridge; MA, Texas A&M University; PhD, Purdue University

Academic Specialties: Rhetoric and Writing, Creative Writing -- Nonfiction, Writing for the World Wide Web, Political Rhetoric

Email: tamoriarty@salisbury.edu

Lucy Morrison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Associate Director of the Thomas E. Bellavance Honors Program
Appointment Year: 2003
Institutions Attended: B.A., University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K., M.A., Illinois State University; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Academic Specialties: British/Romantic Literature, Victorian literature, Women's literature, Wilderness literature

Email: lxmorrison@salisbury.edu

Nicole Munday, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, University Writing Center
Appointment Year: 2005
Institutions Attended: B.A., College of William & Mary in Virginia; M.A., Salisbury University, Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Academic Specialties: Composition, Collaborative Pedagogy, Writing Center Theory and Administration, Writing Assessment

Email: nmmunday@salisbury.edu

Anjali Pandey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2001
Institutions Attended: B.A., Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria; M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)

Academic Specialties: Applied Linguistics, TESOL

Email: axpandey@salisbury.edu

Cynthia Payne, ABD
English Instructor
Institutions Attended: BA, University of Massachusetts, Boston; MA, Salisbury University; Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Academic Specialties: Composition and Rhetoric, Technical Writing

Email: capayne@salisbury.edu

Judith E. Pike, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 1993
Institutions Attended: B.A., Hobart and William Smith College; Ph.D., University of California Irvine

Academic Specialties: Women in Literature, World Literature, 19th Century British Literature, Women’s Studies, Critical Theory

Email: jepike@salisbury.edu

Kelli V. Randall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2007
Institutions Attended: B.A., Emory University; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Emory University

Prior Positions: Lecturer, Spelman College; Instructor, Georgia Perimeter College; Instructor, Dekalb Technical College

Academic Specialties: Early African American Literature; 19th Century American & African American Literature; “Race” and Realism; Women Writers of Color

Email: kvrandall@salisbury.edu

Karen E Rayne, MA
Lecturer in English
Appointment Year: 1999
Institutions Attended: BA, MA, Salisbury University

Academic Specialties: First-Year Composition, Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Prior Positions: High School English teacher, Wicomico County, MD; Advisor/Assessor, MD Adult External High School Diploma Program

Email: kerayne@salisbury.edu

Gail Samis, MA
Lecturer in English
Appointment Year: 1999
Institutions Attended: BA, MA, Salisbury University

Academic Specialties: Composition, Rhetoric, and Literature

Email: gxsamis@salisbury.edu

Joaquín S. Vilá, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2000
Institutions Attended:
Ph.D. Linguistics, Michigan State University; M.A. Linguistics, Michigan State University; B.A. English, University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez Campus

Academic Specialties: Applied Linguistics, TESOL

Email: jsvila@salisbury.edu

Christopher Vilmar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2006
Institutions Attended: B.A., University of North Florida; M.A. and Ph.D., Emory University.

Prior Positions: Assistant Professor, Emory University.

Academic Specialties: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century English Literature; Samuel Johnson; Satire Theory; Philosophy and Literature

Email: csvilmar@salisbury.ed

Elsie Walker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Appointment Year: 2003

Institutions Attended: B.A., University of Waikato, N.Z.; M.A. University of Auckland, N.Z.; Ph.D. University of Sheffield, U.K.

Academic Specialties: Film Studies, Film and Literature

Email: emwalker@salisbury.edu

John P. Wenke, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Appointment Year: 1985
Institutions Attended: B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut (1981)

Prior Positions: Instructor, University of Connecticut; Assistant Professor, Marquette University

Academic Specialties: Colonial 19th & 20th Century American Literature, Creative Writing

Email: jpwenke@salisbury.edu

Vicki Corkran Willey, ABD
Lecturer
Appointment Year: 2002

Institutions Attended: University of Maryland, College Park, BA; Salisbury University, MA; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. candidate

Academic Specialities: Nineteenth century American and British women's writing, first-year composition; Pre-Code film

Prior Positions: Secondary English teacher, Dorchester and Wicomico Counties, MD

Email: vcwilley@salisbury.edu

Adam H. Wood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English, Interim Director of the English Graduate Program
Appointment Year: 2007

Institutions Attended: B.A., M.A., Radford University; Ph.D., Georgia State University

Academic Specialties: American Realism and Naturalism, American Modernism, 20th Century American Novel, Nature in Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism.

Email: ahwood@salisbury.edu

Ivan Young, MFA
Lecturer in English
Appointment Year: 2008

Institutions Attended: B.S., Clemson University; M.F.A., University of South Carolina
Prior Positions: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina; Instructor, Penn State Hazleton

Academic Specialties: Creative Writing, Poetry

Email: piyoung@salisbury.edu