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Dr. Barbara Zimbalist
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Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies
ELABS 211 / BSABH 2.202
Email: lcs@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3421
Phone Alt: (956) 882-8246
Fax: (956) 665-3423
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	Dr. Khalid Aada Lecturer III Area of Expertise: English Education; Teaching Literary Analysis; Literature and Cultural Studies; Narralogy and Body Inscription in Novels and Cinema; Arabic Culture Office: BSABH 2.114 A Phone: 956-882-8227 Email: khalid.aada@utrgv.edu Brownsville Campus
	Dr. David Anshen Associate Professor Area of Expertise: Marxist Theory; Cultural Studies; Film Studies; South Asian Literature and Culture; 20th Literature and Film; American Literature and Culture Office: ELABS 232 Phone: 956-665-3426 Email: david.anshen@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Irina Armianu Associate Professor Area of Expertise: Modern French Thought; French Cinema; Feminist Writing Office: ELABS 345 B Phone: 956-665-2106 Email: irina.armianu@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Amy Becker-Chambless Senior Lecturer Area of Expertise: American Fiction from 19th Century; Harry Potter Office: ELABS 268 B Phone: 956-665-8773 Email: amy.beckerchambless@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Linda Belau Professor Area of Expertise: Film Theory; Adaptation Studies; Literary Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory; Trauma Studies; Autobiography/Memoir Office: ELABS 238 Phone: 956-665-3424 Email: linda.belau@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. David Bowles Associate Professor Area of Expertise: English Education; Children's Literature; Young Adult Literature; Mexican American Literature; Nahuatl; Mesoamerican Culture Office: ELABS 229 Phone: 956-665-3427 Email: david.bowles01@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Ed Cameron Professor Area of Expertise: Film Studies; Aesthetic Theory; British & German Romanticism; Psychoanalysis Office: ELABS 230 Phone: 956-665-3427 Email: ed.cameron@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Matthew J. Christensen Professor Area of Expertise: World Literature, Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, Crime/Detective Fiction Office: ELABS 235 Phone: 956-665-3425 Email: matthew.christensen@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Amy Cummins Professor Area of Expertise: Literature for Young Readers Office: ELABS 264 Phone: 956-665-3447 Email: amy.cummins@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Clay Daniel Associate Professor Area of Expertise: British Literature; Milton Office: ELABS 233 Phone: 956-381-3426 Email: clay.daniel@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Andrew Fleck Professor Area of Expertise: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Milton; Lanyer; Nashe; Early Modern Drama; the Anglo-Dutch nexus; History of Early Modern Science Office: ELABS 234 C Phone: 956-665-3426 Email: andrew.fleck@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Allan Goren Lecturer II Area of Expertise: Office: ELABS 268 Phone: 956-665-8774 Email: allan.goren@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Robert Johnson Professor Area of Expertise: Office: ELABS 220 Phone: 956-665-7365 Email: robert.johnson@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Marisa Knox Associate Professor Area of Expertise: Ninetheenth-Century British Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies Office: ELABS 263 Phone: 956-665-3426 Email: marisa.knox@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Suzanne LaLonde Associate Professor Area of Expertise: French and Francophone Literature; World Literature; French Cultural Studies; Trauma Studies; Psychoanalysis, Narrative Medicine, Health Humanities, and Environmental Humanities Office: BSABH 2.418 Phone: 956-882-7302 Email: suzanne.lalonde@utrgv.edu Website: https://suzannelalonde.us/ Brownsville Campus
	Dr. Douglas E. LaPrade Professor Area of Expertise: Hemingway; Spain; Cuba; Censorship Office: ELABS 228 Phone: 956-665-8712 Email: douglas.laprade@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Kyung Lee Assistant Professor Area of Expertise: Literacies; Curriculum and Instruction; Teacher Education; Early Modern British Literature Office: BSABH 2.114A Phone: 956-882-8974 Email: kyung.lee@utrgv.edu Brownsville Campus
	Dr. Javier Martinez Professor Area of Expertise: Science Fiction; Horror; 20th Century American Novel Office: BMAIN 1.412 Phone: 956-882-8252 Email: javier.martinez@utrgv.edu Brownsville Campus
	Dr. Jacob McDonie Professor Area of Expertise: Medieval Literature; Chaucer; Medieval Latin and Paleography; Rhetoric; Monastic Literature; Sermons; Epistolary Literature Office: ELABS 236 Phone: 956-665-3335 Email: robert.mcdonie@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Caroline Miles Professor Area of Expertise: The U.S. South; William Faulkner; the Global South; the U.S.- Mexico Border and Immigration Office: ELABS 222 Phone: 956-665-3430 Email: caroline.miles@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Noreen Rivera Associate Professor Area of Expertise: 19th and 20th Century American literature, Race, and Empire; U.S. Southwest Multicultural Literature and Border Studies; Mexican American, Chicana/o, and Latina/o Literature and Cultural Studies; Oral History; Digital Humanities Office: BSABH 2.114 Phone: 956-882-7600 Email: noreen.rivera@utrgv.edu Brownsville Campus
	Dr. Gary Schneider Professor Area of Expertise: Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Early Modern Writing; Shakespeare on Film Office: ELABS 209 Phone: 956-665-3431 Email: gary.schneider@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Christine Severn Part-time Lecturer Areas of Expertise: Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Film Studies, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Film Theory Office: ELABS 211 Phone: 956-665-3421 Email: christine.severn01@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Karina Stiles-Cox Senior Lecturer Area of Expertise: Refugee Literature; Literature and Technology; Literature and Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Hispanic Literature and Culture; British Literature Office: BSABH 2.402 Phone: 956-882-8853 Email: karina.stilescox@utrgv.edu Brownsville Campus
	Dr. Shawn Thomson Professor Area of Expertise: Office: ELABS 218 Phone: 956-665-8722 Email: shawn.thomson@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Evert Villarreal Senior Lecturer Area of Expertise: American Literature; Masterpieces of World Literature; World Poetry; English Education 6-12 Office: ELABS 268 C Phone: 956-665-8774 Email: evert.villarreal@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Dr. Barbara Zimbalist Professor Area of Expertise: Medieval Literature; Medievel Hagiography; Manuscript Studies; Comparative Literature; Women's & Gender Studies; Religious Studies Office: ELABS 211 Phone: 956-665-3421 Email: barbara.zimbalist@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus
	Mark Zavala Part-Time Lecturer Area of Expertise: Creative Writing; British Literature; American Literature; Young Adult Literature Office: ELABS 211 Phone: 956-665-3421 Email: mark.a.zavala01@utrgv.edu Edinburg Campus