English Faculty
Faculty are listed by area of expertise in alphabetical order
Department Staff
Joe Oestreich
Creative Writing, Nonfiction
Professor and Department Chair
Edwards 223 | 843-349-2433 | joeo@coastal.edu
Joan Trupiano
Administrative Specialist
Edwards 224 | 843-349-6423 | trupiano@coastal.edu
Creative Writing
Dan Albergotti
Creative Writing, Poetry
Professor
Edwards 215 | 843-349-2420 | albergot@coastal.edu
Jason Bordt
Creative Writing, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittian Hall 218 | 843-349-6658 | jbordt@coastal.edu
Colin Burch
Creative Writing, Nonfiction
Lecturer
Edwards 276 | 843-349-6617 | cburch1@coastal.edu
Jeremy Griffin
Creative Writing, Fiction
Lecturer
Edwards 269 | 843-349-4091 | jgriffin@coastal.edu
Hastings Hensel
Creative Writing, Poetry
Senior Lecturer
Edwards 276 | 843-349-2917 | whensel@coastal.edu
Jason Ockert
Creative Writing, Fiction
Professor
Edwards 233 | 843-349-2531 | jockert@coastal.edu
Lane Osborne
Creative Writing, Fiction
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-2871 | losborne@coastal.edu
Jessica Lee Richardson
Creative Writing, Fiction
Assistant Professor
Edwards 234 | 843-349-2532 | jliebeck@coastal.edu
Digital Culture and Design
Jen Boyle
Early Modern, New Media, Theory
Professor and Coordinator Digital Culture and Design
Edwards 106A | 843-349-6654 | jboyle@coastal.edu
Sarah Lozier-Laiola
Digital Humanities, New and Emerging Media, Visual Art and Culture
Assistant Professor
Edwards 279 | 843-349-6941 | slozierl@coastal.edu
Linguistics
Becky Childs
Sociolinguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology
Professor
Edwards 209 | 843-349-6428 | rchilds@coastal.edu
Kristen Fleckenstein
Discourse Analysis
Assistant Professor
Edwards 292 | 843-349-5006 | kfleckens@coastal.edu
J. Daniel Hasty
Sociolinguistics, Syntactic Variation, Language Attitudes
Associate Professor
Edwards 208 | 843-349-6685 | jhasty@coastal.edu
Literature
Ellen Arnold
Nineteenth Century British Literature, Women's Studies
Senior Lecturer
Edwards 289 | 843-349-2606 | sarnold@coastal.edu
Steve Hamelman
Early American Literature, Literary and Media Theory, Popular Music
Professor
Edwards 291 | 843-349-2623 | steveh@coastal.edu
Ray Moye
Old and Middle English
Associate Professor
Edwards 231 | 843-349-2948 | raymoye@coastal.edu
Kate Faber Oestreich
British Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, Critical Theory, Feminism
Associate Professor
Edwards 211 | 843-349-6602 | koestrei@coastal.edu
Anna Oldfield
Comparative Literature, Russian Literature and Film
Associate Professor
Edwards 204 | 843-349-6591 | aoldfield@coastal.edu
Tripthi Pillai
English Renaissance Literature and Drama, Shakespeare
Associate Professor
Edwards 207 | 843-243-3410 | tpillai@coastal.edu
Cynthia Port
Modern and Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature, Age Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory
Associate Professor
Edwards 290 | 843-349-2565 | cport@coastal.edu
Keaghan Turner
Late Victorian Literature and Culture, Writing and Digital Media, Gender Studies
Assistant Professor
Edwards 288 | 843-349-4048 | kturner@coastal.edu
Writing and Rhetoric
Aari L. Campbell
Compostion
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-2124 | docampbe@coastal.edu
Lena Butingaro
Compostion
Lecturer
EHFA 263 | 843-349-6930 | lrbuting@coastal.edu
Joshua Cross
Composition
Lecturer
Edwards 277 | 843-349-4118 | jcross2@coastal.edu
Mary Emery
Composition
Lecturer
Edwards 289 | 843-349-2833 | memery@coastal.edu
Cathy Focarazzo-Riley
Compositon
Lecturer
Edwards 263J | 843-349-2334 | cfocarazz@coastal.edu
Lisa Graves
Composition
Lecturer
Edwards 213 | 843-349-6668 | lborne1@coastal.edu
Amanda Grefski
Composition and Survivor Writing
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-349-4084 | agrefski@coastal.edu
Emma Howes
Composition and Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, and Feminist Theory
Assistant Professor
Edwards 212 | 843-349-6977 | ehowes@coastal.edu
David Kellogg
Technical and Professional Writing, Rhetoric of Science
Associate Professor
Edwards 293 | 843-349-6554 | dkellogg@coastal.edu
Linda Martin
Composition
Senior Lecturer
Brittain Hall 225 | 843-234-3495 | lmartin1@coastal.edu
Steve McCartney
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 218 | 843-349-2798 | smccartn@coastal.edu
Marcia McCreary
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 341 | 843-349-6445 | mmccreary@coastal.edu
Denise Paster
Composition and Rhetoric
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Composition
Edwards 214 | 843-349-2612 | dpaster@coastal.edu
Paul Plisiewicz
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 379 | 843-349-4051 | ppliesiewi@coastal.edu
Alan Reid
Composition, Professional and Technical Writing, Instructional Design and Technology
Assistant Professor
Edwards 206 | 843-349-6974 | areid@coastal.edu
Shawna Halbert Roessler
Composition
Lecturer
Edwards 235 | 843-349-2781 | shalber@coastal.edu
Ryan Shelley
Composition
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 228 | 843-349-4179 | rshelley@coastal.edu
Christian Smith
Composition and Rhetoric
Assistant Professor
Edwards 210 | 843-349-6967 | csmith8@coastal.edu
Sara Sobota
Composition and Rhetoric, Business Communication, Travel Writing
Senior Lecturer and Edwards College Publications Editor
Edwards 109 | 843-349-2507 | ssobota@coastal.edu
Shannon Stewart
Composition and Rhetoric, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory
Senior Lecturer
Edwards 269 | 843-349-2475 | sstewart@coastal.edu
Robert Zackowski
Composition and Rhetoric
Lecturer
Brittain Hall 226 | 843-349-5071 | rzackowsk@coastal.edu
Teaching Associates
Derrick Bracey
Kimbel 221 | 843-349-6423 | dgbracey@coastal.edu
Jenifer Butler
Kimbel 221 | 843-349-6423 | jabutle1@coastal.edu
Donna T. Corriher
Kimbel 221 | 843-349-6423 | dcorriher@coastal.edu