Dr. Cathy Downs

Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of North Carolina (1995); M.A., University of North Carolina (1990); B.A., University of Texas (1981)
Teaching Interests:  American literature; women's issues; literature and science
Selected Works:  Becoming Modern:   Willa Cather's Journalism, "Misprision:  Ellen Glasgow Misreads Darwin," "Lee Smith" and "H.D." (bibliographical articles on 20th century writers)
Current Projects:  Publication of Writers' Bloc, TAMUK's  magazine of the arts; a book called Darwin Meets the Ladies, about women writers and science
Office:  201B Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2514
Email:  c-downs@tamuk.edu

Dr. Michelle Renee Johnson-Vela

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Teaching Interests:  20th Century Latin American literature; U.S. Latino studies/literature; autobiography
Selected Works:  "Crossing Borders:  Latina Life Stories from the Barrio" (Chiricú 8.3 (2001); "Planting the Seeds of Change: Im/migrant Women's Life Writings" Journal of International Women's Studies (November, 2005); "Bridging the Borderlands: Navigating the Self in Chicana Writings" Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular. Newcastle-Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
Current Project:  Research for book-length manuscript on im/migrant life writings.
Office:  205C Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2597
Email:  kfmrj00@tamuk.edu

Dr. Emil Mucchetti

Professor of English
Office:  103B Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2640
Email:  emil@mucchetti.com

Dr. Susan L. Roberson

Chair, Associate Professor of English
Teaching Interests: 19th-century American literature and travel literature
Selected Works:  Books--Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self; Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation; and Defining Travel: Diverse Visions
Articles in ESQ, ATQ and various book collections, including American Literary Geographies, Emerson Bicentennial Essays; The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform; and The Stowe Debate: Rhetorics in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Current Project:  a book-length project on the mobilities of antebellum nineteenth-century American women
Office:  110 Fore Hall 
Phone:  361.593.2518
Email:  kfslr00@tamuk.edu

Dr. David H. Sabrio

Professor of English, Regents Professor
Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Teaching Interests:  British Renaissance, Shakespeare, literary theory and criticism, pedagogy
Office:  207C Fore Hall 
Phone:  361.593.2387
Email:  d-sabrio@tamuk.edu

Dr. Jacqueline Thomas

Professor of French, Regents Professor
Teaching Interests:  Teaching French to speakers of Spanish, teaching French culture, sponsoring the French Club, and arranging field trips and study abroad experiences
Selected Honors: Regional Representative of the American Association of Teachers of French; named "chevalier" (a knight) in the Order of Academic Palmes, an honor given by the French government to those who have excelled in promoting the French language and culture around the world.
Selected Works: "Studying Le Ballon rouge with False Beginners" Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring 2006.
Current Projects:  Researching current French eating habits as they effect changes in French society for a chapter in a book on contemporary French culture; marketing classroom activities to accompany Christine Albert's CD's of French music.
Office:  101B Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2579
Email:  j-thomas@tamuk.edu

Dr. Jody A. Briones

Assistant Professor of English,
Coordinator of Freshman and Sophomore English
Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio; M.A., English, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; B.A., English, Texas A&M International University
Teaching Interests: First-Year Composition, Composition Theory, Advanced Composition, Chicana/o Literature, and Border Theory
Research Interests:Composition Studies, Chicana/o Studies, National Writing Project Studies, and Digital Literacies
Office:  205B Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2394
Email: kujab000@tamuk.edu

Dr. Marcy Tucker

Assistant Professor,
Writing Across the Curriculum Director
A.A., Del Mar College; B.A., Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi; M.A., Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi; Ph.D., University of Louisville
Teaching Interests: Marcy’s doctoral studies were in rhetoric and composition, and she has taught courses in basic writing, first-year composition, advanced composition, technical communication, business communication, and composition theory (undergraduate and graduate), and while at the University of Louisville, she served as an Assistant Director of Composition.
Research Interests: Her work centers on intersections of class and feminist theories.  She is currently undergoing extensive obedience training by Moose (her Maltese) and Bubba (her Yorkie), and she is admittedly a work-in-progress.
Office:  201C Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2395
Email: kumlt000@tamuk.edu

Dr. Zak Watson

Associate Professor of English
Teaching Interests: 
Selected Works: 
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Office: 107 Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2588
Email:  kuzdw000@tamuk.edu

Jacqueline Acuff

English Lecturer
Teaching Interests: Technical writing, freshman rhetoric and composition, visual rhetoric
Office:  103D Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2586
Email:  kfja001@tamuk.edu

Ms. Diana Borse

English Lecturer
Teaching Interests:  Critical thinking skills, writing, and poetry
Office:  201D Fore Hall 
Phone:  361.593.2512
Email:  kfdbb00@tamuk.edu

Ms. Aletha Eyerman-Craft

English Lecturer
Office:  205D Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.????
Email: kuahe000@tamuk.edu

Marco Iniguez

Spanish Lecturer
Office:  Fore Hall 109
Phone:  361.593.2399
Email:  kfmoi00@tamuk.edu

Michael Verderber

English Lecturer
Teaching Interests: Freshman English, drama, short stories
Current Interests: Argument, drama and theater, adapting non-theatrical texts to the stage, video game culture
Office:  101D Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2377
Email:   michael.verderber@yahoo.com

Brian Worrall

English Lecturer
M.A., English, Southern Methodist University; B.A. Literature Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
Teaching Interests:  18th century British literature, technical writing, poetry, novel, freshman rhetoric
Current Interests:  Gothic and satiric discourse, physical and emotional isolation, and human, posthuman, and superhuman nature in literature
Office:  101A Fore Hall
Phone:  361.593.2582
Email:  kubdw000@tamuk.edu