* = elected position
Chair's Advisory Committee
- Deborah Minter, committee chair (Professor and Department Chair)
- Kelly Stage (Associate Professor and Vice Chair - 2028)
- *Timothy Schaffert (Professor - 2027)
- *Ken Price (Professor - 2026)
- *Stephen Ramsay (Professor - 2028)
- *Kwakiutl Dreher (Associate Professor – 2027)
- *Mavis Beckson (Assistant Professor - 2026)
- *Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson (Assistant Professor of Practice - 2026)
- *TBD (Graduate Student Representative - 2026)
Personnel Subcommittee
- Tenured and tenure-track members of the Chair's Advisory Committee
Department Conciliator
- *Stephen Ramsay (Associate Professor - 2026)
Election Chair
- Ken Price (Professor - 2026)
Graduate Committee
- Peter Capuano, committee chair (Professor - 2028)
- Amanda Gailey (Associate Professor – 2028)
- Saddiq Dzukogi (Assistant Professor - 2028)
- Shari Stenberg (Professor - 2028)
- TBD (Graduate Student Representative - 2026)
Appeals Committee
- *Adrian Wisnicki (Professor – 2026)
- *Laura White (Professor - 2026)
- *Greg Rutledge (Associate Professor - 2026)
- *Graduate Student Representative - TBD
- Emily Blomstedt (Undergraduate Student Representative)
Undergraduate Committee
- Kelly Stage (Associate Professor; Chair - 2028)
- Timothy Schaffert (Professor; ex officio as Director of Creative Writing)
- Stacey Waite (Associate Professor; ex officio as Director of Composition and Rhetoric)
- *James Brunton (Assistant Professor of Practice - 2026)
- Kathleen Lacey (Academic Advisor; ex officio)
- Michael Page, Coordinator of Curriculum (Assistant Professor of Practice; ex officio)
- *Graduate Student Representative - TBD
EGSA Executive Committee
- Stacey Waite - Faculty Advisor
2024-25 Officers
- Arka Maitra - President, General Board Member
- TBD - Vice President, General Board Member
- Akua Agyeiwaa Manieson - Treasurer, PhD Representative
- TBD - First-Year Representative
- TBD - MA Representative
- Kathleen Dillon - Graduate Committee Representative
- Serenity Dougherty - GSA Representative, Co-Chair
- Jordan Charlton - General Board Member
- Ian Maxton - General Board Member
Officers
- Chair
Deborah Minter (Associate Professor) - Vice Chair and Undergraduate Program Chair
Kelly Stage (Associate Professor) - Graduate Chair
Peter Capuano (Professor) - Undergraduate Major Advisor
Kathleen Lacey (Advisor) - English Student Advisory Board Coordinator
Kathleen Lacey (Advisor) - Director of Composition and Rhetoric
Stacey Waite (Associate Professor) - Associate Director of Composition and Rhetoric
Katie Marya (Lecturer) - Associate Directors of Composition
Jackie Chicalese (Ph.D. student)
Kasey Peters (Ph.D. student) - Director of the Writing Center
Rachel Azima (Associate Professor of Practice) - Associate Director of Writing Center
Benjamin Reed - Assistant Directors of the Writing Center
Tina Le (Ph.D. student)
Alina Nguyễn (Ph.D. student) - Assistant Director of the Writing Fellows Program
TBD - Coordinator of Film Studies
James Lowell Brunton (Assistant Professor of Practice) - Director of Creative Writing
Timothy Schaffert (Professor) - Assistant Director of Creative Writing
Marguerite Harrold (Ph.D. student) - Director of Literary and Cultural Studies
TBD - Digital Humanities in English Program Coordinator
Stephen Ramsay (Associate Professor) - Place Studies Liaison
TBD22 - Placement Advisor
Gabrielle Owen
(Assistant Professor) - Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner
Timothy Schaffert (Professor)
Liaisons
- Institute for Ethnic Studies
Laura Muñoz (Professor, History) Director - Judaic Studies Program
Ari Kohen (Professor, Political Science), Director - Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Kelly Stage (Associate Professor), Director - Nineteenth-Century Studies Program
Jeannette Jones (Associate Professor, History & Institute for Ethnic Studies), Director - Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Shari Stenberg (Professor), Director Faculty Senate
Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson (Assistant Professor of Practice - 2028)
Katie Marya (Lecturer - 2027)