English Department of Kutztown University 241 Lytle Hall | Kutztown University | Kutztown, PA 19530 | 610-683-4353

Linda Cullum

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1998

• Composition and writing center theory

• Gender studies

• Native American literature

Ed Christian

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1983

• English

• 20th Century British Lit., Detective Fiction, Biblical Lit.

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Janice Chernekoff

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Michael Downing

Assistant Professor

Webmaster

• Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1997

• Office: LY 164

• Technical Writing, Writing for the Web, Journalism, Writing for the Workplace, Composition, August Wilson

• Interests: Writing and Technology, Drama (August Wilson), Literary Theory, Mythology (Joseph Campbell),

Curtis Herr

Associate Professor

 

·         PHD Fordham University, 2009

·         Victorian Literature and Sensation Fiction

·         Gothic Literature and Vampire Studies in Fiction 

·         Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature 

·         Drama

 

Heather Thomas

Associate Professor

Advisor to Shoofly

• Ph.D., Temple University, 1999

• Modern and postmodern poetry and poetics

• Esthetics of witness and dissent

• Poetry in Spanish translation

• Poetry and art

• Memoir, creative writing

Amy O'Brien

Associate Professor

Assistant Chair, English Department

Director of Professional Writing Program

• Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1999

• Professional writing

• Public relations

• Autobiography

• Women's writing

• Early modern women's diaries

Kevin Mahoney

Associate Professor
Coordinator of Composition

• Ph.D., Miami University, 2002

• Composition and Rhetoric, Cultural Studies

• Radical pedagogy, literacy and globalization, and autonomous education and social movements

Dubem Okafor

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994

• African Diasporic literature

• Modern African poetry

• World Literature

• Contemporary African Novel

Carl Seiple

Assistant Professor

• Lytle 104B

• 610-683-4358

Raymond Tumbleson

Associate Professor

• Lytle 255

• 610-683-4346

Anthony Bleach

Assistant Professor

Advisor to Essence

• Ph.D., Lehigh University, 2004

• English (Film and Popular Culture)

 

Charles Cullum

Professor

• Ph.D., Temple University, 1987

• Prose Fiction

• LY 167

• 610-683-4734

• Postmodern Fiction, American Literature, Literary Criticism, Philosophical Approaches to Literary Criticism

Annette Christman

English Department Secretary

• Lytle 241

• 610-683-4353

 

Patricia Pytleski

Assistant Professor

• BA University of Delaware 1998

• MA Kutztown University 2001

• PhD Lehigh University Jan 2008

• Lytle 130

•  610-683-1502

• Contact Professor Pytleski

• Research Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, Academic Vs. Expressionist Discourse, and Feminist Composition Pedagogy

 

Amy Lynch-Biniek

Instructor

• Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009

• Composition

• Lytle 245

• 610.683.4334

• Research Interests: Composition theory; comparative rhetoric; critical pedagogy; writing and technology; perceptions of literacy

• Courses: College Composition and Honors Composition

Elizabeth Casner

Instructor

• MA, Villanova University, 1973

• English

• Old Main 006

Don McNamara

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 2001
• English Literature
• Lytle 251
• 484-646-4120
• Contact Professor McNamara
• Research Interests: Irish literature; the language and culture of Ireland
• Courses: Introduction to College Composition, College Composition, Writing for the Workplace

Louis Schwartz

Associate Professor

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987

• Lytle 257

• 610-683-4345

• Research Interests: film history, theory and criticism; 19th Century  visuality and modernism; and American literature in an interdisciplinary context

• Courses: International Cinema, American Film Genres, American Modernism, 19th Century American Literature, and Culture and Media