English Department Faculty and Staff

The faculty members' new individual information sites that are linked from this page include their class schedules, office hours, contact information, recent accomplishments, and the information from their short biographies below.  Check them out!

 

 

Jack Archer                            
Phone: 3969, Office: 319
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Instructor Archer's information site

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James Coomber
                     
Phone: 3813, Office: 316
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Professor Coomber's information site

B.S. University of Wisconsin-Platteville; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Research Interests: Nonfiction writing, regional history and writing, vocabulary development and learning, English as a second language

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Dawn Duncan  
Phone: 3961, Office: 322
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Associate Professor Duncan's information site

B.A., Stephen F. Austin State University; M.Ed., North Texas State University; Ph.D., University of North Texas

Research Interests: Twentieth-century British/global literature, Irish literature, Postcolonial theory, Drama

 

Roland Finger
Phone: 3543, Office: 314
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Assistant Professor Finger's information site 

B.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., California State University, Hayward; Ph.D., University of California, Davis.  

Research Interests: early American literature, ethnicity, gender, the American West.  

 

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Alfhild Ingberg  
Phone: 3704, Office: 310
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Associate Professor Ingberg's information site

B.A., Abo Akademi, Finland; M.S. and Ph.D., Purdue University

Research Interests: Literary criticism and theory, Women's studies 

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Sandy Johnson
Phone: 3812, Office: 312
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Ms. Johnson's information site

B.A., Concordia College

 

 

Maureen Kelly Jonason
Phone: 3714, Office: 320
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Assistant Professor Jonason's information site

Ph.D., Higher Education Teaching and Learning, University of North Dakota; B.A., M.A., English Literature, North Dakota State University

 

Nancy Jones
Phone: 4332, Office: 311
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Assistant Professor Jones' information site

M.F.A., Creative Writing (fiction), University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Graduate fiction courses, George Mason University; B.A., French/Journalism, Moravian College

Research Interests: Fiction Writing, The Lyric Essay, and Women's Studies

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Joan Kopperud      
English Department Chair
Phone: 3710, Office: 306
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Associate Professor Kopperud's information site

B.A., Concordia College; M.S., Mankato State University; Ph.D., University of North Dakota

Research Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Multicultural literature, Pedagogy, Service learning

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Gordon Lell 
Phone: 3717, Office: 323
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Professor Lell's information site

B.A., Western Colorado State College; M.A., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska

Research Interests: Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature, Chaucer

 

Catherine McMullen
Phone: 3994, Office: 309
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Associate Professor McMullen's information site

B.S., Moorhead State University; M.F.A., Bennington College

Research Interests: Journalism

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W. Scott Olsen 
Phone: 3705, Office: 302
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Professor Olsen's information site

B.A. and M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Interests: Nature writing, Travel writing, Essay writing, Fiction writing, Publishing

 

 

James Postema 
Phone: 4175, Office: 308
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Professor Postema's  information site

B.A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:  Temporal structures in Robert Frost's lyric poems, folk literature, history of Dutch surnames

 

 

Bill Snyder   
Phone: 3713, Office: 324
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Associate Professor Snyder's information site

B.A., Florida Atlantic University; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Florida State University

Research Interests: Creative writing; Intertextual/mixed-genre writing; Contemporary poetry; Modern British, Postcolonial and World literatures

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David Sprunger
Phone: 3587, Office: 305
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Associate Professor Sprunger's information site

B.A., Bethel College (Kansas); M.A., University of Kansas; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Medieval literature and culture, Arthurian legends, Fantasy literature, Linguistics, Folklore

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Jonathan Steinwand
Phone: 3720, Office 304
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Associate Professor Steinwand's information site

B.A., Concordia College; M.A. and Ph.D., State University of New York - Binghamton

Research Interests: Literary Criticism, Comparative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Gender studies, Continental philosophy, Global and multicultural literature, Cultural Studies

 

 

Amy Watkin
Phone: 3712, Office: 321
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Instructor Watkin's information site

PhD, English Literature, and minor in History, University of North Dakota; M.A. and B.A., English Literature, North Dakota State University

Research Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth- century English and American writers, origins of the novel, gender studies, eighteenth- and nineteenth- century European history, women's writing

 

Tamara Weets
Phone: 4565, Office: 313
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Instructor Weets' information site

M.A., English Literature, North Dakota State University. M.A., Liberal Arts, Moorhead State University; B.A., Speech Communications, Minor in French, Moorhead State University. 

Research Interests: 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers, Film Theory, and Photography.

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