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Faculty

Dr. Brian Armstrong
Lecturer

BA, Philosophy, University of Kansas
BA, Russian, University of Kansas
MA, University of Oregon
PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Armstrong hails from the Midwest, although he has lived in twelve different states and spent a summer in St. Petersburg, Russia, a year in Salzburg, Austria, and a good bit of time in Bray, Ireland. He has pursued an academic career that focuses on philosophy and literature: he majored in philosophy and Russian as an undergraduate; his Master's work in Comparative Literature focused on English, Russian, and German; and his doctoral program emphasized the history of philosophy and ethics. His dissertation offered a new interpretation of the ethical purpose of Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work that linked it with Wittgenstein's admiration for the work of Henrik Ibsen.

As a result of this background, Dr. Armstrong is interested in what philosophical and literary texts can teach us about human nature and moral value, and he is interested in understanding these texts in terms of their historical context and their cross-cultural influence on each other. He is especially interested in periods of conceptual destabilization: those times when thinkers and writers have found their ability to account for themselves and their world to be insufficient, such that new modes of thought and expression had to be developed.

As a teacher he is committed to a triad of interrelated purposes that are epistemic, eudemonic, and civic: he strives to increase students' ability and desire to know and understand the world, their ability to realize their potential for full and meaningful lives, and their ability and desire to integrate their knowledge and self-realization with a concern for the larger world.

Dr. Rhonda Armstrong
Assistant Professor

BA, English, Western Kentucky University
MA, American Studies, Saint Louis University
PhD, American Studies, Saint Louis University

Rhonda Armstrong specializes in 20th and 21st century American literature. She has a doctorate in American Studies from Saint Louis University, where she studied Southern and rural American cultures. She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary work and connecting the classroom to community, and participated in a NEH summer institute in Appalachia to develop service learning projects in liberal arts courses. Since that time, she has worked to incorporate service learning into English courses.

Dr. Armstrong's research focuses on how geography shapes narrative and narrative shapes geography. Many of her research projects have discussed the impact of space and place in novels, poems, and short stories by writers in rural America and her native state of Kentucky. She has published and presented research on Appalachian, Southern, and rural literatures. Dr. Armstrong teaches courses in American literature and Southern literature. In the past, she has also taught classes on African American literature, women's studies, and rural America. Prior to settling in Augusta, she lived in South Carolina, Minnesota, Austria, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kentucky.

Dr. Liana Babayan
Assistant Professor

MA, Brussov University of Foreign Languages, Yerevan (Armenia)
PhD, University of Georgia

Liana Babayan received her PhD from UGA in French and Francophone Literature. Her primary field of interest is Contemporary French and Francophone literature with an emphasis on Francophone women's writing from North Africa (the Maghreb). Her recent research concentrates on the representation of the exile in the recent works of two renowned Algerian born French writers, Assia Djebar and Helene Cixous, whose work focuses on the elaboration of postcolonial feminist writings, illustrating broad theoretical and analytical points about women writing between two worlds. Liana is exploring how the female writers attempt to rediscover, via textual practice, the place where the exile (linguistic and cultural non-belonging) is initiated and how the understanding of the exile becomes a significant part of their "ecriture feminine" and identity.

Dr. Robert Bledsoe
Associate Professor

BA, History & German, University of California, Berkeley
MA, German, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, German, University of California, Berkeley

We aren't quite sure, why Dr. Bledsoe insists on wearing those Birkenstock sandals almost everywhere--Is it his little contribution to the German economy or an attempt to hang on to those student days in Berkeley? We do know that he stayed at Berkeley long enough to get three degrees (BA in History and German, MA and PhD in German) from the University of California and spend time in Gottingen, Tubingen and Paris.

We also know that if you want to learn German, he is your man on campus--be it to learn how to say Guten Tag or to learn if there really are Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftkapitansmutzen. Dr. Bledsoe also teaches in the Humanities Program and promotes the medicinal qualities of beer (if brewed according to the German purity law), coffee, and tea.

Dr. William Bloodworth
Professor

BS, Texas Lutheran University
MA, Lamar University
PhD, University of Texas, Austin

William A. Bloodworth is the author of Upton Sinclair (1977), Max Brand (1993), and articles on American literature, especially the literature of the American West. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to joining Augusta State in 1993, he served on the faculty at Central Missouri State University and East Carolina University, teaching courses in composition, literature, folklore, and American studies.

Dr. Christopher Botero
Assistant Professor

BA, Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
MA, Hispanic Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University

Originally from Long Island, New York, Chris Botero attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook for his undergraduate degree and pursued his graduate degrees at Penn State. He specializes in phonetics, phonology, and second-language acquisition, and regularly teaches the Foreign Language Teaching Methodology courses SPAN/FREN 4801/6801 and 4802/6802.

Ms. Valerie Cato
Lecturer

BA, Augusta State University
MEd, Augusta State University
EdS, Augusta State University

Ms. Cato can truly say that she understands the students' perspective at Augusta State, being a three-time ASU alumnus herself. She currently teaches English 1101 and 1102, as well as Humanities 2001 and 2002. She is on the Choice Voice editorial board and Freshman English Committee. She is also the director of the Comcast Young Writers Contest and the Supplemental Instruction Program (SIP) which helps students master skills taught in the Freshman English classes.

Mr. Adam Diehl
Part-Time Instructor

BA, University of Georgia
MA, University of Georgia

Adam Diehl received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Georgia as a young lad. He began his teaching career in 2007 at McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN. His high school teaching career continued at Westiminster Schools of Augusta in 2009, and he has since joined the Augusta State University teaching staff as a part-time instructor. He enjoys myriad literary periods, but he is partial to Shakespeare, Donne, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others. He also has a keen fondness for British music, particularly The Beatles, The Smiths, and The Libertines.

In his teaching of 1101 and 1102, Adam strives to endow students not only with superior composition, reading, and discussion skills, but also with the ability to apply their academic mastery to everyday situations. Aside from teaching, Adam coaches the Augusta Preparatory Day School swim team. He also plays music regularly with his band The Gilded Youth.

Dr. Marie Drews
Assistant Professor

BA, Luther College
MA, Washington State University
PhD, Washington State University

Marie Drews specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century US women's literature and culture. In her research, she is interested in examining the intersections of gender and race in the context of domestic narratives, particularly narratives that involve food and kitchen spaces. In addition to teaching composition and humanities, she regularly teaches Introduction to Women's Studies and Women's Literature. She has also offered special topics classes in Women's Studies, including Women, Food, and Feminism. Marie enjoys the important work of dialoguing with her students about gender studies issues. She directs the Women's Studies Program, advises the Women's Studies Student Association, and works heavily with the Take Back the Night planning committee. Marie is originally from Colorado, and when she is not at school, she enjoys tromping around in the outdoors with her silly dog, Ripley.

Ms. Asuncion Edwards
Part-Time Instructor

Asuncion Edwards was born in Madrid, Spain where she spent the first 23 years of her life. She graduated with a "Licenciatura en Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales, especializacion en Finanzas" from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

After getting married and becoming a Navy wife she moved to different places and had different jobs. One of them was at the Commercial Office of Spain in Puerto Rico. During this time, she earned her Master in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She traveled back to Spain and had two kids. She has been in the Augusta area for almost six years now and she is enjoying teaching Spanish Business Culture in ASU.

Dr. Eronini Egbujor
Instructor of French and Humanities

Dr. Egbujor (pronounced Eee-boo-jor) is originally from Nigeria. He recognized the importance of education and, following in his brother's footsteps, went to Togo to pursue a degree in French. His brother then encouraged him to further his education in Canada, where he obtained his masters and doctoral degrees. Dr. E has been teaching French and Humanities at ASU for the past 18 years.

Dr. Walter Evans
Professor

BA, University of Missouri
MA, University of Missouri
PhD, University of Chicago

When he was 10 or 12 years old he found Poe's description of the short story as a genre and wondered, Can this be right? It took him several years in graduate school and a dissertation to figure it out. (Sometimes he's a slow learner.)

He teaches courses in Humanities and in American literature. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University de Rouen in France, has served as Director of the Humanities Program since 1995, in 2005 directed the Cullum program on Russia and received ASU's Outstanding Faculty Member award. He edited The Best of Sand Hills and several versions of The Humanities Handbook, has a dozen short story publications (Midlands, Chelsea, Oyez, The Long Story, The Best of Cimarron Review, etc.), and has had two plays produced. He has published 16 essays in books and 15 in academic journals, principally on American literature, many on the American short story.

Dr. Robert Flannigan
Associate Professor Emeritus

BA, Northeastern University
MA, University of Arkansas
MA, Georgia Southern University
PhD, University of Georgia

Originally from Wakefield, Massachusetts, Dr. Flannigan's travels literally took him around the world. During his 28 year Army career, he spent a great deal of time abroad and discovered a love for teaching Spanish. His effective approach to teaching language acquisition skills involves some unconventional methods including fairy tales and music. Anyone who has taken a class with Dr. Flannigan will tell you of his great admiration for Catherine Deneuve and his talented puppetry skills. Although "officially" retired from ASU, he generally teaches two classes per semester.

Ms. Sigrid Fowler
Part-Time Instructor

Sigrid Fowler is a graduate of Agnes Scott College, Emory University, and Erskine Theological Seminary. She lives in Edgefield, SC, with her son, Sam; two tuxedo cats make up the rest of the household, as well as a few squirrels that scramble around in the walls in winter. She enjoys canoeing, doing music, cooking, and reading the Bible in some language besides English. Contributing weekly to The Edgefield Advertiser and engaging in freelance writing activities are other accustomed pursuits.

Dr. Mike Garcia
Assistant Professor/Director of College Composition

BA, Western Oregon University
MA, Washington State University
PhD, University of New Hampshire

Mike Garcia started teaching at Augusta State University after receiving his PhD in English (specializing in Composition Studies) from the University in New Hampshire. At ASU, he directs the College Composition sequence, otherwise known as ENGL 1101/13 and 1102/14. He teaches these courses as well as Advanced Writing, Technical Writing, Studies in Writing and other courses in the Rhetoric and Composition concentration of the English major. Together with the Rhetoric and Composition subcommittee, Mike is developing courses for this concentration.

Mike's scholarly interests include rhetoric, new media, technical and professional communication, service learning, literacy, writing program administration and the professional status of English teachers. Most of his scholarly work, however, is in the interdisciplinary fields of Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID) and writing assessment. His dissertation explored the political and ethical implications of student self-assessment in writing courses. He writes on these topics and presents his research at conferences such as Computers and Writing, the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the annual conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA).

Mr. F. Simon Grant
Full-Time Instructor

MA, English, Clemson University
MA, English, University of Montevallo

Simon graduated from Clemson with an MA in English and from Queens University of Charlotte with an MFA in fiction writing. His area of study is literature of the 50s and 60s, especially postmodern poetry and its relationship with surrealist poetry. He and his wife, Haley, were recently blessed by the birth of their son, Callum.

Ms. Sara Griswold
Assistant Professor

BA, University of Trujillo
MA, University of Kansas

Professor Griswold has been a teaching Spanish at Augusta State University since 1989. She is a previous faculty sponsor for Alpha Mu Gamma, the foreign language honor society and has frequently been recognized for her outstanding teaching abilities. Just recently, she was named the 2012 Professor of the Year by the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).

Mr. Doug Hall
Full-Time Instructor

BA, Communications, Auburn University
MA, English, University of Montevallo

What interests Doug the most is finding connections: what connects different towns, different people, different lives? Perhaps he's driven to this search because he has lived in nine states and countless towns ranging from the foothills in Calera, Alabama to the plains of Chatfield, Minnesota.

His search has also led him to study at four colleges/universities where he learned to search for more questions (and more majors). Currently, he's getting familiar with Augusta, Georgia and its history while continuing to search for these elusive connections. One thing is for sure, though, Literature must contain some of the answers.

Ms. Anna Harris
Lecturer

BFA, Converse College
MFA, Wichita State University

A native of Augusta, Georgia, Anna Caroline Harris received her MFA. in Creative Writing from Wichita State University, and her BFA. in Creative and Professional Writing from Converse College. She has worked for Graywolf Press, the Hub City Writers Project, and the Morris Museum of Art. Harris' fiction and poetry appear in Concept, Poetry for the Masses, Mikrokosmos, as well as Metro Spirit and NakedCity magazines.

She currently teaches classes in composition and creative writing, but has also taught courses in women's literature.

Dr. Christina Heckman
Associate Professor/Assistant Dept. chair

BA, University of Notre Dame
MA, Loyola University Chicago
PhD, Loyola University Chicago

Christina Heckman specializes in medieval English language and literature. She teaches courses in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature, Chaucer, the history of the English language, linguistics, writing, humanities, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Her research focuses on the intersections of violence and piety in the Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on anti-semitism, the cross as a cultural symbol, and medieval conceptions of justice.

She began her teaching career in Chicago, her hometown, and taught in New York and Ohio before coming to ASU. She presents her research regularly at conferences; her work has appeared in Essays in Medieval Studies, The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, and JEGP.

Dr. Jared Hegwood
Full-Time Instructor

BA, University of Southern Mississippi
MA, University of Southern Mississippi
PhD, University of Southern Mississippi

Jared has his doctorate in Creative Writing with secondary emphasis in Contemporary American and British Literature. His research interests includes the fiction of Donald Barthelme and Raymond Carver and the poetry of James Tate. He has also managed to parlay a ridiculously large comic book collection into academic writing on the graphic novel, concerning, in particular, the work of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

Jared's fiction can be seen or is forthcoming in numerous print and online literary magazines including The Adirondack Review, The Yalobusha Review, elimae, Keyhole Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Night Train and others. His writing has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and his story Adjustments was named one of 2004's Notable Short Stories by Story South.

He currently teaches courses Composition and Humanities, but has also taught contemporary drama, film theory and various courses on the graphic novel.

Dr. Todd Hoffman
Assistant Professor

BA, University of California, San Diego
MA, University of New Hampshire
PhD, Purdue University

Dr. Todd HoffmanTodd Hoffman earned his doctorate in Philosophy and English. He specializes in contemporary American literature, postmodernism, continental philosophy, literary theory and is interested in bridging the gap between philosophy and literature. In particular, Dr. Hoffman is interested in the politics of American postmodern fiction through the incorporation of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

He teaches courses in literary and cultural theory, humanities, composition, American literature and film. In addition, he has taught courses in Chicano literature, film techniques and genres, the Bible as literature, and sports and literature. He regularly presents his research at conferences and has published a number of reviews for academic journals.

Dr. Cheryl Hopson
Assistant Professor

BA, Roanoke College
MA, Radford University
PhD, University of Kentucky

Cheryl Hopson is an assistant professor of English. Dr. Hopson earned her doctorate in English from the University of Kentucky in December 2008, and specializes in 20th century African American and American literature and culture. Dr. Hopson's research focuses on images of the mother and the mother/daughter relationship in the creative, memoir, and theoretical writings of Black and Black-identified women; as well as ideas of selfhood and empowerment for women. She has a particular interest in the influence of Black feminism and Third Wave feminism on women's experience of motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship.

Dr. Hopson has published the essay "Family Ties: Rebecca Walker's 'Third Wave'" forthcoming in Third Space: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, as well as the poems "Goodbye Lucille ( In Memoriam)" and "A Love Song" in the July 2011 issue of Border Crossing: An International Literary Magazine, and "Conversation Begets" in The Toronto Quarterly (forthcoming). Dr. Hopson has taught courses in American literature, African American Women Writers, Women's literature, Memoir, and African American Women's Poetry. At Augusta State University, Dr. Hopson teaches African American literature and Composition.

Dr. Pedro Hoyos-Salcedo
Associate Professor

BA, Universidad Santiago de Cali
PhD, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Dr. Pedro Hoyos-Salcedo is a native from Cali, Colombia, S.A. He specializes in Latin American literature, Spanish Golden Age, and Spanish XIX century literature.

Dr. Hoyos-Salcedo has published and edited in newspapers and magazines from his country as well as in the United Sates. Among other publications, he has published three books (De Cortes a Garcia Marquez-Ensayos de Literatura Hispanoamericana. Coleccion Prisma. Editorial Lumen. Lima. Peru, Ejes tematicos en la obra de Ricardo Palma. Universidad del Quindio-GEDES Editores, Colombia, and Ningun ser humano es ilegal ni el reino de Dios tiene fronteras. Universidad del Quindio-GEDES Editores, Colombia) and two music CDs, Digital Audio [Hoyos Family Musical Group], with new and original bilingual songs and interactive Workbook to master Spanish foundations in listening, speaking, reading, and writing (Good Morning/Buenos dias and To Be: Ser or estar? That is the Question. Universidad del Quindio-GEDES Editores, Colombia).

After seventeen years of teaching in his country in Universidad de Caldas at Manizales, Dr. Hoyos-Salcedo has taught in Augusta State University at Augusta, Georgia since 1995. He has been teaching basic and advanced Spanish, Medical Spanish, and Latin American Literature.

Dr. Keith Johnson
Assistant Professor

BA, English & Japanese, Brigham Young University
MA, English, Boston University
PhD, English, Boston University

Keith Leslie Johnson specializes in modernist literature, film, and critical theory. In addition, he has longstanding interests in Asian culture, language, and literature, having lived in Japan for several years. Recent articles on Samuel Beckett, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Aldous Huxley, J.M. Coetzee, and Franz Kafka can be found in Gramma, Modernist Cultures, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Journal of the Kafka Society of America, among others. For this last article he won the KSA's Emerging Scholar Prize.

His reviews and translations of Japanese literature can be found in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Grand Street, and American Book Review. He also regularly presents research at MLA, MSA, ACLA, and elsewhere, including international conferences in England, Greece, and Poland. He is currently completing two book projects--Modernist Biopolitics and The Ethics of Form and the Form of Ethics (under review)--as well as a translation of Azuma Hiroki's monograph on Derrida, entitled Ontological, Postal. At ASU he teaches courses in composition, humanities, modernist literature & film, and Japanese literature.

Dr. Lillie Johnson
Professor/Dept. Chair

BA, English, Augusta College
MA, English Language & Literature, University of Chicago
PhD, English Language & Literature, University of Georgia

Lillie Johnson, author of a book on John Keats, Keats and Nature, specializes in British Literature, Romantic and Victorian. She frequently teaches English 3003, English Literature from the Restoration through the Romantics, and English 3004, English Literature of the Victorian and Modern Periods, when she isn't fulfilling her administrative duties that include advocating for deparmental resources and recruiting outstanding new faculty. Recipient of the 2009 Trailblazer Award from the University of Georgia Diversity Summit, the 2008 FLAG Presidential Certificate Award, and the 2003 ASU Distinguished Alumna Award, she serves on various campus and community committees but enjoys nothing more than working with students in both traditional and non-traditional settings.

Dr. Wesley Kisting
Assistant Professor

BA, Marquette University
MA, The University of Iowa
PhD, The University of Iowa

As Hamlet observes, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" or, for that matter, in psychology, history, science, mathematics, business, or communications. If, like Hamlet, you yearn to discover more of your universe than is dreamt of in other academic disciplines, Wes Kisting is the "renaissance man" to know.

Wes specializes in the literature and culture of early-modern, Renaissance, England. He is particularly interested in ways secular and religious discussions of authority intersect and affect each other. His published and presented work examines how theological teachings about the conscience shaped secular and literary attitudes toward power and interiority in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

An award-winning teacher, Wes teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, Milton , humanities, and composition. Embracing the Renaissance belief in literature's unique power to teach and delight, he blends traditional lecturing with vigorous discussion, student presentations, creative activities, and humor.

Dr. Frederic Leveziel
Assistant Professor

BA, Universitae De Caen
Colegio de Espana, Salamanca
MA, Washington University, St. Louis
DML, Middlebury College

LevezielFrederic is originally from France. Throughout his college years, he studied French and Spanish and obtained a Doctor in Modern Languages in Spanish, French, and Second Language Acquisition. His areas of research include Spanish Film Studies, Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies, Methodologies in Second Language Acquisition, and Technology Integration in Second Language Education. At Augusta State, he teaches all levels of Spanish from the beginner to the graduate.

Dr. Lee Anna Maynard
Full-Time Instructor

BA, University of Georgia
MA, University of South Carolina
PhD, University of South Carolina

Dr. Maynard earned her BA from the University of Georgia and her MA and PhD from the University of South Carolina. She specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British Literature, and her book, Beautiful Boredom, explores conduct literature, aesthetic theory, and the psychological landscape of the 19th-century novel.

An Augusta native who has recently returned to the area after teaching, writing, and editing in other parts of the South, she is proud to now contribute to Augusta State's long tradition of high-quality education. In addition to composition and literature courses, she teaches Humanities, which is exactly the kind of class she wishes had existed when she was an undergraduate.

Ms. Danielle Posey
Full-Time Instructor

BA, University of Georgia
MA, Loyola University of Chicago

Danielle Posey completed her undergraduate degrees from the University of Georgia, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business. While completing her studies in Spanish at UGA, Danielle studied abroad through the UGA en Espana program to Valencia, Spain. After graduation, Danielle pursued a masters degree at Loyola University of Chicago. There, she completed a Masters of Arts in Spanish and studied abroad a second time to Alcala, Spain. Danielle then moved to Augusta and worked at Wells Fargo Financial for two years. She helped customers manage their debts while earning almost 2 million dollars for the company. She also served as the District Representative for Spanish-speaking customers.

Danielle began teaching at Augusta State as a part-time temporary Spanish instructor in January of 2009. She continued to work part time until January 2011, when she began working as a full-time temporary Spanish instructor. Besides teaching at Augusta State, Danielle has also substituted part-time for the Columbia County School System, working with various grade levels and subjects. She is also currently completing a Maters of Arts in Teaching at Augusta State while she is teaching and awaiting publication of her first translated work.

Dr. Norman Prinsky
Associate Professor Emeritus

BA, Reed College
MA, University of California, Irvine
PhD, University of California, Irvine

Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College; Woodrow Wilson Fellow to graduate study at Yale University; California State Graduate fellowship to University of California at Irvine; MA and PhD from University of California at Irvine. Articles on many subjects in several literary reference book sets, as well as published film reviews. Interests in and has taught courses (at ASU) in Biblical literature, British Renaissance literature, British Renaissance drama, Humor in America , New Testament literature, Old Testament literature, Science Fiction, and Shakespeare.

Dr. Lola Richardson
Part-time Instructor

BA, Paine College
MEd, Augusta State University
PhD, South Carolina State University

Dr. Lola Richardson is a native of Alexander, Georgia. She attended the public schools of Burke County and graduated from Lucy C. Laney High School in Augusta, Georgia. She received a BA degree in English from Paine College ; a Master of Education from Augusta State University and a Doctor of Education Administration from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She retired from Paine College in 2008 where she chaired the Division of Humanities. Presently, she works part-time at Augusta State University as tutor in the Supplemental Instruction Program (SIP).

Dr. Tim Sadenwasser
Associate Professor

BBA, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tim Sadenwasser began his college career as a finance major, but an epiphany he experienced while reading Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt during his senior year led him to tack an English major onto his business degree. He then went off to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to study nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, but a course in Victorian literature, and particularly an immersion in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, set him on the path he would take to Augusta State University.

Dr. Sadenwasser began teaching at ASU in 2002. He of course teaches his specialty in British Literature: Victorian to Modern. He also regularly teaches College Composition I and II and World Humanities II, and he has also taught courses in Children's Literature, Detective Fiction, and War Literature.

In August 2009, Dr. Sadenwasser was appointed as the new director of the ASU Honors Program.

Dr. Jana Sandarg
Professor

BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jana Sandarg earned her BA, MA and PhD in Spanish at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She attended high school in Bogota, Colombia, and studied one summer in Madrid and one year in Seville, Spain, so it's no surprise that she has taken students abroad for over thirty years. She directed Augusta College's first study abroad program in 1982 to Mexico, and has directed the Salamanca, Spain, program for over twenty years.

Jana founded the Spanish club and a chapter of Alpha Mu Gamma at ASU, and co-founded the local Hispanic organization, La Asociacion Cultural Hispanoamericana in 1986. Her research interests are in international education, pedagogy, and Spanish and Spanish American cultures and literature. She has received national and state awards for her leadership in foreign language education, as well as the Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU, but she is best known for her "bueeeenos dias" entrance into the classroom and her fondness of margaritas.

Ms. Molly Singh
Part-Time Instructor

After teaching for 35 years in the Richmond County Schools, Molly retired in 2003. She started teaching part-time in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Augusta State University in 2004. Currently, she is working in the Supplemental Instruction Program.

Mr. Paul Sladky
Associate Professor

BA, Southern Illinois University
MA, English, University of Texas
MA, Linguistics, University of Texas

Paul seems to march to a different drummer, namely Ringo Starr, Tony Williams, or Roy Haynes. An avid musician, he enjoyes taching classes that connect music and literature. He has taught on the correlations between the 19th and 20th century Romantic writers and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, and also the poetic forms contained within The Beatles lyrics.

In addition to English Composition Courses and Humanities, Paul regularly teaches Creative Writing. He has been the faculty literature advisor for the Sand Hills Literary Magazine for the past 14 years.

Ms. Nancy Sutherland
Assistant Professor

Professor Sutherland first taught at Augusta College in 1976 and was an adjunct for many years before joining the department under, Fred Wharton, in 1989. Her interest in composition led to involving students in presentations at the Penn State Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, at CCCC, at the State Honors Conference, and to the establishment, with Professor Paul Sladky, of Choice Voice, the Freshman Composition contest and magazine. She taught Honors Freshman English for a decade.

Recent research interests are children's literature, young adult literature, the child as a social construct, the pastoral, and early American women writers. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for study with Gareth Matthews on the philosophy of childhood. Presently, her teaching includes Humanities, children's and adolescent literature, and courses in how to teach writing.

Ms. A. Logan Wheeler
Lecturer/Director of the Writing Center

BA, University of Montevallo
MA, University of Montevallo

A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Logan Wheeler earned her MA in English from the University of Montevallo where she wrote a thesis titled Policies, Practices, and Perceptions: A Handbook for the New Writing Center Director. She has been involved in Writing Center work since 2007.

Dr. Seretha Williams
Associate Professor

BA, Journalism, Northwestern University, 1992
MA, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, 1994
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, 1998

Seretha D. Williams is an associate professor of English. She earned a BS in journalism from Northwestern University and an MA and PhD in comparative literature from the University of Georgia.

She also earned a graduate certificate in Women's Studies and participated in the Fulbright Hayes Swahili Language program in Tanzania. Her areas of specialization are African and African diaspora literatures. She has published essays on Gwendolyn Brooks and Leon Forrest.

Staff

Ms. Autumn Meade
Senior Administrative Secretary

BA, Miami University (Ohio)

Ms. Jane Millward
Business Manager

BBA, Augusta State University

Ms. Kathy Slivka
Office Coordinator

BA, English-Professional Writing, Augusta State University

Ms. Amy Buck
Student Assistant

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