Faculty and Staff

Administrative Faculty

Blake Scott
Associate Professor
Director of Writing and Rhetoric Degree Programs
bscott@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Rhetorics of Health and Medicine; Rhetorical History and Theory, including Rhetoric as Civic Engagement; Theory and Teaching of Composition; Professional and Technical Communication

R. Mark Hall
Associate Professor
Program Director of University Writing Center
RMarkHall@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Writing center theory and practice; Tutor education and professional development; Literacy practices in popular culture; Writing pedagogy

David L. Wallace
Department Chair
Professor
david.wallace@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy; alternative rhetorical theory and practice; feminist and queer theory.

Elizabeth Wardle
Associate Professor
Director of Writing Outreach Programs
ewardle@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Scholarship of Writing Program Administration; First-year composition as Writing Studies; Disciplinarity of Writing Studies; Genre theory; Activity theory; Transfer of writing-related knowledge

Pavel Zemliansky
Associate Professor
Program Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
Pavel.Zemlyanskiy@ucf.edu

Faculty

Amy Barnickel
Instructor
Amy.Barnickel@ucf.edu
Research Interests:
Gender, feminism, writing, cultural studies, caribbean literature, women's studies

Kathleen Bell
Associate Professor
Program Director of Professional Writing Certificate
kbell@mail.ucf.edu

Christian Berry
Visiting Instructor
cberry@knights.ucf.edu

Dixie Bibeau
Visiting Instructor
dbibeau@mail.ucf.edu

Melody Bowdon
Associate Professor
mbowdon@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Technical and Professional Communication; Gender and Technology; Service-Learning and Higher Education; Distance-Learning

Matthew Bryan
Instructor
mbryan@mail.ucf.edu

Katherine Curtis
Visiting Instructor
kcurtis@knights.ucf.edu

Steve Ethridge
Instructor
sethridg@mail.ucf.edu

Mary Ellen Gomrad
Instructor
mgomrad@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Technical and Professional Communication; Service-Learning; Visual Rhetoric; Technology and Writing; Gender Studies; Cross-Cultural Communication

Luann Henken
Instructor
lhenken@mail.ucf.edu

Lynn Hepner
Instructor
lhepner@mail.ucf.edu

Nathan Holic
Instructor
nholic@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Fiction; Novel Writing; Mixed-Media/ Hybrid/ Graphic Narratives

Scott Hopkins
Visiting Instructor
Scott.Hopkins@ucf.edu

Peter Ives
Instructor
Peter.Ives@ucf.edu

John King
Visiting Instructor
John.King2@ucf.edu

Barbara Rau Kyle
Instructor
bkyle@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Composition and writing center theory; information literacy.

Eugene Scott Launier
Instructor
elaunier@mail.ucf.edu

Joseph Longhany
Visiting Instructor
Joseph.Longhany@ucf.edu

Martha Marinara
Associate Professor
mmarinar@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Queer Theory and Composition; Gender Studies and Feminist Theories; Fiction; Poetry

Paul Dan Martin
Instructor
pmartin@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests:

Writing Theory and Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing and Technology, Writing about Literature

Laura Martinez
Instructor
Laura.Martinez@ucf.edu

Bob Mohrenne
Instructor
rmohrenn@mail.ucf.edu

Lindee Owens
Instructor
lowens@mail.ucf.edu

Stacey Pigg
Assistant Professor
Stacey.Pigg@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Rhetorical theory and practice; Writing technologies; Research methodologies; Embodiment theory; Informal learning and civic engagement

Adele Richardson
Instructor
adele@mail.ucf.edu

Melissa Ringfield
Instructor
mringfie@mail.ucf.edu

Angela Rounsaville
Assistant Professor
Angela.Rounsaville@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Transnational/Transcultural Literacy, Writing, and Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Composition History, Theory, and Pedagogy; Rhetorical Genre Theory; Language and Power; Transfer

Catherine Schutz
Instructor
schutz@mail.ucf.edu

Allison Stack
Instructor
Nichole.Stack@ucf.edu

Mary Tripp
Instructor
mtripp@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests:
Distributed writing practices especially as they extend to web environments and the construction of text.

Doug Walls
Assistant Professor
Douglas.Walls@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Access; 21st century literacies; Academic and professional Identities; Community literacy; Intersections of digital and cultural rhetorics; Research design & methodology; The social web; Visual rhetoric & design

Debbie Weaver
Instructor
djweaver@mail.ucf.edu

Leslie Wolcott
Visiting Instructor
Leslie.Wolcott@ucf.edu

Jeffrey Wright
Instructor
Thomas.Wright@ucf.edu

Affiliated Faculty

J.D. Applen
Associate Professor
japplen@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: ; Rhetoric ; Technical Communication for students across UCF in all majors—ENC 3241: Writing for the Technical Professional ; Hypertext, XML, and Digital Archiving ; Literature of Science and Technology

Thomas B Cavanagh
Adjunct
cavanagh@ucf.edu
Research Interests: E-learning; technical communication; technological literacy; and the societal influence of technology on education training, culture, and commerce

Paul M. Dombrowski
Professor
pdombrow@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés
Associate Professor
cecilia.milanes@ucf.edu
Research Interests:
Latino/a Literature, writing, women writers of color, Emergent American Literature and women's studies.