Dr. Amy L. Montz is a Professor of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, and also teaches pedagogy classes, young adult literature, and classes centered on the gothic. She has co-edited two collections on young adult literature, and her monograph, Dressing for England: Fashion and Nationalism in Victorian Novels, was released in December 2025 from SUNY Press. She is a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar (cohort of 2025-2026) for work on Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Some classes she has taught for the graduate program include Transgressive Gothics, Queer Gothics, Teaching Young Adult Literature, and the Domestic Everyday in Victorian Literature.
Dr. Kristin LaFollette is Associate Professor of English at the 缅北强奸. Her research interests include rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM), technical and professional communication, and medical humanities, and her scholarship has been published in various journals, including Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication and Social Justice, Across the Disciplines, Journal of Basic Writing, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. She is the author of Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, Studies in Technical Communication, 2026) and the co-editor of Queer Approaches: Emotion, Expression, and Communication in the Classroom (Emerald Publishing, 2020). Dr. LaFollette also serves as Director of Humanities Content and Strategy at The Blood Project (TBP), an educational platform out of Harvard Medical School that works toward bridging the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient care. In the graduate program, she teaches ENG 600 Special Topics in Culture and Medicine: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and ENG 610 Special Topics in English Studies Communication: Professional Writing in Leadership Contexts.
Dr. Joy Santee teaches courses that develop students' abilities in technical and professional communication, grant writing, and digital composition. Focusing on professional writing as a problem-solving discipline, Dr. Santee's classes feature flexible project-based learning that prioritizes students' professional development to promote their success as writers in any economic sector. Her research examines the rhetoric of cartography and pedagogies of multimodality and has been published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, College Teaching, and College Composition and Communication. Dr. Santee's work in College Composition and Communication was featured on the Plugs, Play,
Pedagogy podcast, and she was an invited participant for the Dartmouth Summer Seminar on Writing and Research and for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute hosted at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She also received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Dr. David O鈥橬eil is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Teaching. He holds a PhD in English Language and Linguistics from Purdue University, along with graduate certificates in the History of English, Second Language Studies, and Natural Language Processing. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from Old and Middle English metrics to language ideology and English as a global lingua franca. His research has earned multiple awards, including the international TMJ/SAIMS Essay Prize from the University of St. Andrews. In addition to his research, he has taught a broad range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including composition, linguistics, literacy, ELA pedagogy, medieval literature, Ancient Greek, and Latin.
Rosalie Moffett is the author of three poetry collections. She is the winner of the National Poetry Series Prize and has been featured by the New York Times in their New and Notable book section, as well as by the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, and Booklist. Her poetry and essays have been published widely. She teaches graduate workshops on the craft of creative writing through engagement with contemporary texts, global narratives and poetry.
Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, Professor of English, has over 35 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, including courses on major authors such as Amy Tan, E.L. Doctorow, and Margaret Atwood. She is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022 and 2016 participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 鈥淢oral Psychology and Education: Putting the Humanities to Work.鈥�
Her research interests include modern American and Canadian fiction, women鈥檚 literature, and graphic narratives. She has published on Maxine Hong-Kingston鈥檚 Warrior Woman, and on the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler鈥檚 Kindred. She contributed 鈥淚ncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in an American Literature Survey Course鈥� to the MLA鈥檚 Approaches to Teaching series and co-edited Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative, a collection of essays that draws on performance studies. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
She joined the Indiana branch of the College English Association (ICEA) shortly after she started working at 缅北强奸, served on the organization鈥檚 board, organized conferences, and served as the organization鈥檚 president for many years. From 2019 to 2024, she served on the College English Association (CEA) board, organized the national conference in 2024, became president in 2025, and finally immediate past president in 2026.
Graduate courses taught include 鈥淪torytelling and Resilience in Crisis Contexts,鈥� Catastrophes, Conspiracies, and other Mysteries,鈥� 鈥淭he Family Motif in American Fiction,鈥� 鈥淭rends in Recent American Fiction鈥� and 鈥淭he Modern(ist) Novel.鈥�
Dr. Sukanya Gupta is Professor of English and the Director of Masters in English program at the 缅北强奸. Her research and teaching interests include Diaspora Studies, World Literature, Postcolonial Literature, and South Asian Studies. She has published in anthologies like Negotiating: Gender and Sexual Identity in Contemporary Turkey and in journals such as South Asian Popular Culture, South Asian Diaspora, South Asian Review, Intercultural Education, and Diaspora Studies. She has articles in books like Teaching Literature in Translation, Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, and The Routledge Companion to Global Women鈥檚 Writing.
Dr. Thir Budhathoki is an assistant Professor of English at the 缅北强奸. He is a dedicated educator who learned English as a foreign language and worked for over a decade in Nepal, teaching English, literature, and academic writing to students from elementary through graduate levels.
Dr. Budhathoki鈥檚 research, scholarship, and teaching are grounded in an asset-based approach to language, literacy, and writing. His current research explores how student writers cultivate and assert their rhetorical agency as they navigate the affordances and challenges of Generative AI. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Composition Studies, Composition Forum, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Technical Communication Quarterly, as well as in several edited collections.
In the MAE program, he teaches ENG 630: Generative AI Literacy and ENG 512: Advanced Academic Writing.