English, Humanities, & Languages Faculty
Dr.
Paula Smith Allen
Associate
Professor (Extension 2592) Office:
Morrison Hall 322
B.A., M.A., West
Texas State University; Ph.D., Texas Tech University.
Teaching Areas: English Education; Composition; Humanities; Introduction to Literature.
Research Interests: Computer-Aided Instruction; Twentieth Century Literature in Latin America;
Women's Fiction; Latina/o Fiction; Chicana/o Fiction; Multicultural Approaches
to Literature.
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Dr.
Daniel Althoff
Associate Professor
(Extension 2584) Office: Morrison Hall 325
B.A., M.A., Florida
State University; Ph.D., University of Florida.
Teaching Areas: Spanish Education; all levels of Spanish language, grammar, and composition;
all levels of Hispanic culture, civilization, and literature.
Research Interests: Afro-Hispanic language, especially Afro-Mexican; pidgin and creole languages;
sociolinguistics; Romance historical linguistics.
Dr. Janet (Jani) L. Barker
Assistant Professor
(Extension 2586) Office: Morrison Hall 327
B.A., Hardin-Simmons University; M.A., Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College
Station.
Teaching Areas: Children's Literature, Technical and
Professional Writing.
Research Interests: Children's literature, young adult
literature, gender/cultural studies, detective fiction, literature and religion.
Dr.
Lisa Coleman
Professor
(Extension 2598) Office: Morrison Hall 328
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Arlington.
Teaching Areas: Honors Freshman Composition; Advanced Composition;
Composition Theory and Practice; The Rhetoric of Written English; Humanities.
Research Interests:
Rhetorical Theory; Sophistic Rhetoric; Argumentation; Composition Theory
and Practice; Postmodern Feminist Theory; Critical Theory and Interpretation
(Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Lacanian and Freudian Psychoanalysis); Mesopotamian,
Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Culture.
Dr. Margaret Cotter-Lynch
Assistant Professor (Extension 2986) Office:
Morrison Hall 314
B.A., Brown University; M.A., PhD., University of Michigan.
Teaching Areas: Humanities; Composition; Introduction to
Literature; Ancient and Medieval Literatures.
Research Areas: The Interrelationship of Theology and Literature;
Gender Studies; Medieval Studies; Biography.
Mr.
Chuck Ladd
Adjunct Instructor
(Extension 2130) Office: Morrison Hall 312
B.A., M.Ed., Southeastern
Oklahoma State University.
Mr.
Kim McGehee
Instructor
(Extension 2674) Office: Morrison Hall 311
B.A., Southeastern
Oklahoma State University; M.A., Instituto de Filología Hispánica
(Saltillo, Coah.).
Teaching Areas: Spanish Education, all levels of Spanish language and grammar; all levels
of Hispanic culture, civilization and literature.
Research Interests: Socio-economic aspects of the Mexican Revolutionary Period (1910-20); second
language acquisition.
Dr.
John Brett Mischo
Professor and Department Chair (Extension 2590)
Office: Morrison Hall 326
B.A., M.A., Marquette
University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.
Teaching Areas: British Literature, Shakespeare, Philosophy, Humanities, Composition.
Research Interests: Early Modern British Literature and Cultural History; Shakespeare; Shakespeare
Pedagogy; Early Modern Scientific Thought; Performance Studies; Theory;
Film.
Dr.
Virginia Parrish
Assistant Professor (Extension 2594)
Office: Morrison Hall 309
B.A., M.A., University of Central Oklahoma; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University.
Certificate of Graduate Theological Studies, Phillips Theological Seminary.
Teaching Areas: Technical and Professional Writing; Literature;
Humanities; Experimental/Exploratory Writing.
Research Interests: Film; Environment/Ecology and Theology;
Oklahoma Oil Patch Culture and Religion; Parables; Creative Writing; Creative
Nonfiction; Narratives and Voices of Brain-Injured People; Memory and Narrative.
Dr.
Randy Prus
Professor (Extension 2582) Office:
Morrison Hall 316
B.A., Rutgers University;
M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo.
Teaching Areas: American Literature; Literary Criticism; Composition; Humanities; Creative Writing.
Research Interests:
Poetry; Walt Whitman; Frederick Douglass and the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Ms.
Wilma Shires
Instructor
(Extension 2346) Office: Morrison Hall 323
B.A., Southeastern
Oklahoma State University; M.A., Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Teaching Areas: Composition.
Research Interests:
Central European Literature; Latino Literature.
Dr. Mark B. Spencer
Assistant Professor (Extension 2921)
Office: Morrison Hall 307
B.A., M.A., North Texas State University; M.A., Ohio State University; A.M., University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., University of Arkansas.
Teaching Areas: Humanities, Composition, Introduction to Literature, History of the Novel.
Research Interests: Modern Historical Novels; Early Historical Writing; Western Humanistic
Tradition from Antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Dr. Rachel
Tudor
Assistant Professor (Extension 2588) Office:
Morrison Hall 324
B.A., M.A., University of Houston-Clear Lake; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma.
Teaching Areas: American and Native American Literature; Modernity
and Theory; Humanities; Composition; Philosophy.
Research Interests: Literary Criticism; Postmodernism; Drama; Mythology;
Philosophy; Ethnic Literature.
Dr. Caryn Witten
Associate Professor (Extension 2380) Office: Morrison Hall 329
B.A., Miami University, M.A., Georgetown University, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
Teaching Areas: Spanish Education; all levels of Spanish language, grammar,
and composition; all levels of Hispanic culture, civilization, and literature; Humanities.
Research Interests: Applied and theoretical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis.