Meet Us
- Department Leadership
- Professors
- Associate Professors
- Lecturer Faculty
- Teaching Associates
- Program Coordinators
- Administrative Staff
Department Leadership
Hogan Hayes, Ph.D.
Vice Chair
- Location: Calaveras Hall 107
- Phone: (916) 278-5729
- hogan.hayes@csus.edu
Professors
Jonas Cope, Ph. D.
Professor
- Location: DH 218
- Phone: (916) 278-5720
- jonas.cope@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Poetry, close-reading, etymology, grammar and syntax, nineteenth-century novels
Susan Fanetti, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: CLV 153
- Phone: (916) 278-5734
- sfanetti@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: English Education, American Literature, Popular Literature, and Culture/Genre Literature
Jason Gieger, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Douglass Hall 204
- Phone: (916) 278-7284
- gieger@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Film Studies
Julian Heather, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 138
- Phone: (916) 278-5394
- jheather@csus.edu
Amy Heckathorn, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 145A
- Phone: (916) 278-5269
- amyheck@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Rhetoric, Writing, and the Teaching of Writing
Reiko Komiyama, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 162
- Phone: (916) 278-5727
- rkomiyama@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Joshua McKinney
Creative Writing
- Location: Douglass Hall 201
- Phone: (916) 278-6386
- jmckinney@csus.edu
Mi-Suk Seo, Ph.D.
Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 158
- Phone: (916) 278-5735
- mseo@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: TESOL & Applied Linguistics
Kim Zarins, Ph.D.
Professor
- Phone: (916) 278-6431
- zarins@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Medieval Literature, British Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, and Poetry
Associate Professors
John Clark, Ph.D.
Emeritus-Associate Professor
- Location: Douglass Hall 216
- Phone: (916) 278-6128
- jtclark@csus.edu
Angela Clark-Oates, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: CLV 166
- Phone: (916) 278-5623
- clark-oates@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Writing Studies, Writing Program Administration, and Composition and Rhetoric
Hogan Hayes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 107
- Phone: (916) 278-5729
- hogan.hayes@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Rhetoric and Writing or Composition Education
Angela Laflen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Calaveras Hall 111
- Phone: (916) 278-6586
- angela.laflen@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Professional and Technical Writing; and Online Writing Pedagogy
Rosa Martinez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Douglass Hall 203
- Phone: (916) 278-6347
- rosa.martinez@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: American Literature and Chicana/Latina/o Literature
Christine Montgomery, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Location: Douglass Hall 202
- Phone: (916) 278-6560
- montgomery@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: African-American Literature and Neo-Slave Narratives
Torsa Ghosal, Ph.D.
Literature Committee
- Location: Douglass Hall 219
- Phone: (916) 278-3473
- torsa.ghosal@csus.edu
Lecturer Faculty
Amy Anderson
Lecturer
- Phone: email only
- amy.anderson@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Matthew Barrish
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-6587
- matthew.barrish@csus.edu
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Jessica Cuckovich
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5730
- jc4573@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Susan Durosko
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5736
- sdurosko@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Patricia Hake
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-6436
- sac65802@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Carrie LaPorte
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-3345
- calaport@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Jesus Limon-Guzman
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-4183
- jl452@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Cynthia Linville
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-4183
- clinville@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Evan Manzanetti
Lecturer
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Evan Martinak
Lecturer
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Ann Michaels
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-3345
- amichaels@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Carolyn Pickrel
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-6925
- cpickrel@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Courtney Rasmussen
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5726
- cdm268@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Ann Shadden
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-4183
- ann.shadden@csus.edu
- Website
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Jeremy Trimble
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-6586
- jeremy.trimble@csus.edu
- Areas of Teaching: Composition
Teaching Associates
Program Coordinators
Susan Fanetti
English Education/Pre-Credential
- Location: Calaveras Hall 153
- Phone: (916) 278-5734
- sfanetti@csus.edu
Torsa Ghosal
Literature Committee
- Location: Douglass Hall 219
- Phone: (916) 278-3473
- torsa.ghosal@csus.edu
Administrative Staff
Sarah Oshel
Outreach, Retention, and Student Success Professional
- Location: Calaveras Hall 103
- sarah.oshel@csus.edu
