English Faculty
Fisher faculty are dedicated, highly credentialed professionals who consistently make the advancement of scholarship in their respective fields a top priority.
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 18th-century literature, legal history, theater, place-based studies, historical fiction
Associate Professor and Academic Division Chair, Literature, Communication, and the Arts
Areas of Interest: Rhetorical theory; hate rhetoric and demagoguery; Middle East and Turkish studies; writing studies; civic engagement and community-engaged learning; professional writing; editing and publishing.
Visiting Assistant Professor and Program Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest: US and global queer studies; disability studies; critical race theory
Professor
Areas of Interest: American studies; Philippine-American studies; multiculturalism; World War II-Pacific theater
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: 20th-21st century American literature, poetry and poetics, creative writing, public humanities
Writing Center Faculty Tutor and Visiting Instructor (English)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: African American Literature, African Literature, Speculative Fiction, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Rhetoric of Social Movements
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Early modern and Renaissance literature; technical writing; higher education in prison
Office:Basil 122
Email:jshelley@sjf.edu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Women and gender studies; indigenous literature; world literature
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Film studies, American film history, queer film and feminist film theory, cultural studies in film, Hitchcock
Office:Basil 022A
Email:dsutherland@sjf.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Rhetorical history and theory, composition studies, 19th-century American literature, women and gender studies.
Professor
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature; history of the English language; Arthurian literature and film; digital humanities
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: creative writing, visual art practice, contemporary literary publishing, gender, and masculinity
