ASU Department of English Leadership Team

Department of English

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Leadership Team Biographies


Mark Lussier, PhDProfessor (literature)

Affi liate Faculty, Center for the Study of Religion & Confl ict

Chair, English

Department of English, Arizona State UniversityPO Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302

Main offi ce:G. Homer Durham Language and Literature Building room 542Ph: 480.965.3168 | Fax: 480.965.3451


Mark Lussier is Professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of Romantic Dynamics: The Poetics of Physicality (1999) and Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe (2011). He is sole editor of Romanticism and Buddhism (2006) and co-editor of Perspective as a Problem in the Art, History and Literature of Early Modern England (1994) and Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis (2008). His essays have appeared in numerous collections and journals, including 1650-1850, Arts Quarterly, Blake 2.0, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Interrogating Orientalism, Ecological Theory, Italian Culture, Literature Compass, Literature and Religion, New Orleans Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Palgrave Advances: William Blake Studies, Romanticism and the City, Romanticism on the Net, Southern Humanities Review, Studies in Romanticism, Visible Language and The Wordsworth Circle.

https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/44475


Karen L. Adams, PhDProfessor (linguistics)

Affi liate Faculty, Asian Pacifi c American StudiesAffi liate Faculty, Women and Gender Studies

Associate Chair for Faculty, English




Karen L. Adams is Associate Chair in the Department of English. She received her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She came to ASU in 1984 and has also been affi liated with the Center for Asian Research and was a co-Principal Investigator on two Department of Education Title VI NRC grants and the PI on a Title VI UISFL grant. She has authored and co-authored articles in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language Sciences, Journal of Language and Social Psychology and Pragmatics. She has co-edited volumes on Southeast Asian linguistics and on English language policy and has a monograph with Pacifi c Linguistics, Australian National University. She also has several refereed book chapters in volumes from Palgrave Macmillan, John Benjamins and University of Toronto Press. Her research areas are sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.

www.public.asu.edu/~kadams/index.html


Ron Broglio, PhDAssociate Professor (literature)

Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability

Director, Graduate Studies, English




Ron Broglio is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at ASU, where he advances the graduate program to national and international prominence through top tier recruitment, teaching, mentoring, and graduate student professionalization. Broglio is also a Senior Scholar in the university’s Global Institute of Sustainability. His work cuts across disciplines to provide leading research on how literature, philosophy, and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.

Author of the books Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, Posthumanities Series, 2011) and Technologies of the Picturesque (Bucknell University Press, 2008), he has also published over thirty essays in the last decade ranging from philosophical treaties to practical ethics in animal husbandry textbooks. Broglio has received a number of national and international fellowships. He has been an editor of two international journals and currently serves on the board of several interdisciplinary journals.

Broglio is currently working on an artistic and theoretical treatise on postmodernism and animal studies called Animal Revolutions: Event to Come as well as a work on agriculture in literature of the British Romantic period. His art projects include putting dairy cattle on twitter in Teat Tweet, sending a chimp a copy of philosopher Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, and fashioning art objects to realize sustainability goals among diverse discourse communities.

www.public.asu.edu/~rbroglio


Robert Sturges, PhDProfessor (literature)

Director, Undergraduate Studies, English




Robert Sturges is Professor of English and a medieval specialist at Arizona State University. He has taught at M.I.T., Wesleyan University, and the University of New Orleans. His PhD in Comparative Literature is from Brown University.

Sturges serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Englsh department; in this capacity he is engaged in the recruitment, retention, and recognition of achievement of students in the department’s various undergraduate programs. His teaching and research interests include medieval literature (especially Chaucer), the Bible as literature, critical theory, gender studies, lesbian/gay/queer studies, and opera. He has published six books: Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narratve, 1100-1500 (1991), an investigation of how late medieval hermeneutics are manifested in literary texts; Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse (2000), which examines the Pardoner in light of contemporary theories of gender and sexuality; Dialogue and Deviance: Male-Male Desire in the Dialogue Genre (Plato to Aelred, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern) (2005), whose lengthy title is self -explanatory; Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2011), an edited collection of essays; Aucassin and Nicolette: A Facing-Page Edition and Translation (2015); and The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama: Theaters of Authority (2015), which considers English and Continental mystery plays through the lens of of contemporary cultural theory.

Along with his collaborator in the UK, Elizabeth Urquhart, Sturges is also working on an edition of a Middle English devotional work, the Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies, a text he was the fi rst to identify correctly. Sturges has published numerous essays and chapters and has several recent and forthcoming essays on medievalism in contemporary opera, on race, sexuality, and slavery in Aucassin and Nicolette, on the Guise family’s medievalism, and on Merlin as a threshhold character between the human and the animal.



Linda Sullivan, EdDAssistant Director of Academic Services

Assistant Director, Curriculum and Instruction, English




Linda Sullivan earned her BA in Psychology, Master of Counseling, and Doctor of Education (Higher and Adult Education) degrees at Arizona State University. She began her career at ASU in 1997 and has worked with students, staff, and faculty in a number of different capacities, joining the Department of English in spring 2011. As English’s Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Sullivan provides leadership in ensuring that course offerings are congruent with major requirements and in meeting the needs of an ever-growing student population. She will also continue to oversee the undergraduate advising team as well as undergraduate academic and student services, teaching the fi rst-year seminar course for English and Film and Media Studies majors, helping them transition to and be successful at ASU.

Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in higher education, having worked at both the community college and university levels. Her areas of interest include: student development, organizational theory, and assessment and evaluation. Her research has spanned a variety of topics, such as advising students with autism spectrum disorders, developing and measuring learning outcomes, and the role of faculty in engaging students. he has presented at both local and national conferences on her work with assessing student learning outcomes from co-curricular experiences.

While at ASU, Sullivan has been recognized for her work with students, faculty and staff. She is the recipient of the President’s Award for Innovation, ASU Outstanding Supervisor Award, CLAS (Commitment, Learning, Assistance and Service) Award and CLAS Excellence in Academic Advising Award. She has mentored many undergraduate and graduate students and has served on several dissertation committees.



Kellen Horney, MSEDirector of Fiscal and Business Operations, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Interim Business Operations Manager,

English



Kellen Horney holds a Master of Science Education in Sport Administration and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Miami. Past experience includes a position in business operations for a private athletic club doing strategic planning, marketing, and corporate sales.

english.clas.asu.edu/accents2014/staff-horney



Cynthia Hogue, PhDProfessor (literature / creative writing)Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry




Cynthia Hogue joined the Department of English at ASU as the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in English after directing The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University for eight years. Hogue has published thirteen books, including Revenance (2014), Or Consequence, When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina (interview-poems with photographs by Rebecca Ross ), both in 2010, and the co-translated Fortino Sámano (The overfl owing of the poem), by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy, in 2012. When the Water Came was named a Notable Book in 2010 by Poetry International. Fortino Sámano, co-translated with Dr. Sylvain Gallais of SILC, is the winner of the 2013 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Among other honors that Hogue has received for her work are a Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland, an NEA in poetry, the Mammoth Press Poetry Prize, and the H.D. Fellowship from the Beinecke Library at Yale University, in addition to residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Helene M. Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, the Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as a fi nalist for The Wachtmeister Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Also known for her criticism, Hogue has published many essays on poetry, specializing in feminist poetics. Her critical work includes the co-edited editions We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art (2001); Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews (2006); and the fi rst edition of H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton (2007).

From 2010-2013, Hogue served as the Western States representative to the Executive Board of the major organization in creative writing, the Associated Writing Programs (AWP), on which she chaired the Professional Standards and Pedagogy Committees. At ASU, she has served on the Personnel Committee of the English Department (2004-2010), and twice previously as Interim Director of the Creative Writing Program (2005-2006, Fall 2011). She is incoming President of the Faculty Women’s Association (FWA), on whose Executive Board she has served for three years. She has twice been named Faculty Mentor of the Year (2004, 2011) by the creative writing students in English’s MFA program.

www.cynthiahogue.com

Director, Creative Writing Program, English


Jessica Early, PhDAssociate Professor (English education)

Director, Central Arizona Writing Project




Jessica Early joined ASU in 2007 and is an Associate Professor of English with a focus on English education and secondary literacy. Her research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine language and literacy practices in ethnically and linguistically diverse secondary English Language Arts classrooms as well as the preparation and professional development of urban English Language Arts teachers. Her current research focuses on the teaching of college and career-ready writing at the secondary level and on fi nding successful ways of shifting curriculum to better prepare ethnically and linguistically diverse students for the kinds of writing tasks they will need in college, the work place, and the community.

Early serves as the Director of the Central Arizona Writing Project (CAWP), located in the Department of English at Arizona State University. The CAWP is part of the National Writing Project network, the oldest and largest professional development projects in the United States. The CAWP partners with area schools to offer high-quality professional development programs for K-12 educators on the teaching of writing.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from Whitman College, a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Lewis & Clark College, and a PhD in Education from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

english.clas.asu.edu/cawphttps://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1078866

Director, English Education Program, English


Aaron Baker, PhDAssociate Professor (fi lm and media studies)




Aaron Baker is Associate Professor and Director of the Film and Media Studies Program within the Department of English at ASU. He previously served as Director of Graduate Studies for Film and Media Studies. Baker has helped build the presence of fi lm and media studies in online instruction, setting up the program’s Master of Advanced Study (MAS) degree in 2009 and overseeing the development of its ASU Online undergraduate degree.

Baker’s teaching and publications focus on media coverage of sports and on American fi lm. His book Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film (Illinois, 2003) was a fi nalist for the 2003 North American Society for Sports History annual award. He has also published books on the fi lms of American director Steven Soderbergh (2011) and on the career of Martin Scorsese (2014).


Director, Film and Media Studies Program, English


Mark A. James, PhDAssociate Professor (applied linguistics)

Director, Linguistics Program, English




Mark A. James is Director of the program in linguistics and TESOL in the ASU Department of English. He is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, and teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in this area. Dr. James’ research activities deal with issues related to curriculum, teaching, and learning in second language education, in particular the practical and theoretical aspects of learning transfer.

Dr. James’ work has been published in a variety of journals (ELT Journal, English for Specifi c Purposes, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, TESL Canada Journal, TESOL Quarterly, The Modern Language Journal, and Written Communication), the Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, and the edited book Effective Second Language Writing. He has given presentations on this work at national and international conferences including those for the American Association for Applied Linguistics, the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, the International Association of Applied Linguistics, and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Outside ASU, Dr. James has taught in a variety of contexts including universities in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan, private English schools and a workplace English program in Japan, and a private English school and a settlement English program in Canada. He received his BA, BEd, and MEd degrees from the University of Windsor, Canada, and his PhD degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada.

www.public.asu.edu/~mjames6/MAJames/Welcome.html


Dan Bivona, PhDAssociate Professor (literature)

Director, Literature Program, English




Dan Bivona is Associate Professor and Director of the Literature Program at the ASU Department of English. As a scholar, Bivona has published three books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and culture as well as a number of essays. He has a new work, a co-edited volume entitled Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, that will be published in 2016. He counts among his fi elds of interest ninteenth- and twentieth-century fi ction, travel literature, the literature of Empire and social investigation, and literary theory.

Bivona came to ASU in 1996 after teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Tenured in 1999, he served successively as Associate Chair of the English department (1998 - 2000), Chair of English (2000 - 2002), Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2002 - 2004), and Divisional Dean of Undergraduate Programs (2004 - 2007). While serving as Dean, he was responsible for creating and expanding the CLAS Learning Community Institute. This past year, he returned to the Department of English after serving one year as Interim Director of ASU’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies.

www.public.asu.edu/~dbivona


Keith Miller, PhDProfessor (rhetoric and composition)

Director, Rhetoric and Composition Program, English




In his research, Keith Miller mainly focuses on the rhetoric and songs of the civil rights movement. He is the author of Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech and Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources, which was favorably reviewed in Washington Post and is widely cited. His essays on Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, Frederick Douglass, C.L. Franklin, and Fannie Lou Hamer have appeared in many scholarly collections and in such leading journals as College English, College Composition and Communication, Publication of the Modern Language Association, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Journal of American History. His essay “Second Isaiah Lands in Washington, D.C.: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ as Biblical Narrative and Biblical Hermeneutic” was awarded Best Essay of the Year in Rhetoric Review in 2007.

His co-edited books include Selected Essays of Jim W. Corder (with James Baumlin), Beyond PostProcess and Postmodernism (with Theresa Enos), and New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in the U.S. (with Kevin Everod Quashie and Joyce Lausch). He has given scholarly presentations at many national conferences and at Cambridge University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Florida State University, Penn State University, University of Alabama--Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama--Birmingham, and University of Arizona. A former Associate Chair of the Department of English and former Writing Program Administrator, he co-authors with ASU graduate students. He has also taught at Texas Christian University, Ohio State University, and Chonbuk University of Jeonju, South Korea.



Peter N. Goggin, PhDAssociate Professor (rhetoric and composition)

Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability

Interim Director, Writing Programs

(fall 2015), English




Peter Goggin is Associate Professor of English (rhetoric) at Arizona State University where he studies and teaches theories of literacy, environmental rhetoric, and sustainability. He is the editor of Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place (2013), Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability (2009) and author of Professing Literacy in Composition Studies (2008). His articles on literacies of sustainability, environmental rhetoric, and environmental discourse, rhetoric, and writing include publication in Composition Studies, Community Literacy Journal, and Computers and Composition. He is a Senior Scholar with ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability, and his current research includes the study of rhetorics and discourses of sustainability and globalization in oceanic islands. In addition to Arizona he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars in Romania, China, Bermuda, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Austria. He is founder and codirector of the annual Western States Rhetoric and Literacy conference, which features themes on sustainability, culture, transnationality, and place.

www.public.asu.edu/~petergowww.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wsrl/wsrl.html


Shirley K. Rose, PhDProfessor (rhetoric and composition)

Director, Writing Programs, English




Shirley K Rose is Professor of English and Director of ASU Writing Programs in the English department on the Tempe campus, where she also teaches graduate courses in writing program administration and writing assessment. She came to ASU in Fall 2009 from Purdue University, where she directed the award-winning program in Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) and served as Assistant Head for the Department of English.

ASU Writing Programs is the largest college writing program in the United States. In Fall 2012 the program was the site of 476 writing classes taught by 198 teachers to over 10,000 students. ASU Writing Programs aspires to be an exemplary program by modeling effective practices in writing curriculum and faculty development, conducting research on writing instruction through partnerships with other programs at ASU and with other college writing programs, and performing values of sustainability, diversity, and community in its program policies and practices. Under Professor Rose’s direction, teachers in Writing Programs are conducting research projects on such topics as the design of writing curricula, motivating student writers, and students’ use of multiple technologies in writing classes.

Professor Rose’s own publications include three edited collections on writing program administration research and theory, co-edited with Irwin Weiser, and numerous scholarly journal articles and chapters on writing teacher preparation and issues in the professionalization of graduate students in rhetoric and composition.

Rose has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and is a Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. She regularly serves as a consultant-evaluator for national and international college writing programs and she is an experienced Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.



Cajsa Baldini, PhDLecturer Sr. (literature)

Director, Online Degrees, English




Cajsa Baldini’s research interests are concentrated on British and European nineteenth-century literature and culture. Authors of special interests to her are Percy B. Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, and Fredrika Bremer. Baldini’s fi rst book, Shelley’s Cenci: Text Intertext, and Context was published by Valancourt Press in January 2008.

Baldini’s teaching interests are somewhat broader in scope and she focuses on developing and teaching courses about the literatures of Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, often with a signifi cant technology component. In addition to her lecturership in the English department, she also serves as Director of Online Undergraduate Degrees in English.

cajsabaldini.com


Bruce Matsunaga, PhDAssociate Research Professional

Director, Digital Technology, English




Bruce Matsunaga is an Associate Research Professional and Director of Digital Technology in the Department of English at ASU, where he manages department computational operations and websites, consults with faculty and students about digital projects, produces multimedia, manages social media, and provides one-on-one and group training for faculty, staff, and graduate students. His primary research areas are Digital Humanities and English Romanticism while his secondary research areas are Digital Pedagogies and Environmental Humanities. His dissertation, “Romantic Cyber-Engagement: Three Digital Humanities Projects in Romanticism” was the 2013 Arizona State University nominee for the WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award and the fi rst project-based Digital Humanities dissertation produced in the Department of English. His academic publications include the book Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) as a co-editor and article author; he was the technical editor of Connections (European Studies Annual Review, 2008); and he authored a review of “Buried Communities: Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning,” by Kurt Fosso (ANQ, 2005). His technical publications include a variety of help articles on computing tools and concepts. As a multimedia co-producer, he received a CINE Golden Eagle Award for the video, “English: Start Here, Go Anywhere.” Matsunaga serves on the ASU Institute for Humanities Research Nexus Lab Advisory Board, the ASU Technical Advisory Group, and the Kids Need to Read Board of Directors.

www.brucematsunaga.com@BruceMatsunaga


Ruby Macksoud, MAInstructional Professional

Director, Internships, English




Ruby Macksoud directs the Department of English’s robust Internship Program, which, in the humanities, is one of the most developed in the U.S. With over 150 community partners—locally, nationally, and internationally—the program enjoys 45% job placement directly linked to student internship completion.

Macksoud has developed and expanded what was a fl edgling program upon her arrival at ASU in 2005. In addition to internships, her program offers English/Film and Media Studies career development advising, workshops, seminars, career and internship fairs, employer presentations, and job shadowing programs in collaboration with ASU Career Services, alumni, and community partners.



Kristen LaRue-Sandler, MACoordinator, Sr. (outreach programs)

Director, Communications, English



With twenty-years’ experience in higher education communications, Kristen LaRue-Sandler manages public relations and outreach for the ASU Department of English. Her current English department responsibilities include: strategic internal and external Department communications; publicity and logistics support for Department events; and development and alumni relations. LaRue-Sandler designs promotional posters, brochures, and other publicity material; writes, edits, and publishes press releases and feature stories; and produces newsletters, videos, and web content.

For her work, she has received a CINE Golden Eagle Award (2012, as co-producer), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Exemplar Employee Award (2011), National Council of Teachers of English Affi liate Newsletter Award (2006), and Friend of the Arizona English Teachers’ Association Award (2006), among other honors.

She holds an MA in musicology from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Montana State University. Also a former dance and singing instructor, LaRue-Sandler uses her arts training to inform and complement her current academic pursuits, which include research on media, spirituality, and history.



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