Faculty & Staff
Tabetha Adkins 
Assistant Professor, Director of First-Year Writing
Office: HL 229
Phone: 903-886-5269
E-mail: Tabetha_Adkins@tamu-commerce.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Adkins.pdf
Salvatore Attardo 
Professor, Dean of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Office: EdN 214
Phone: 903-886-5166
E-mail: Salvatore_Attardo@tamu-commerce.edu
I hold degrees from The Catholic University of Milan (1986) and Purdue University (PhD 1991). I have published two books on the linguistics of humor. I am also the Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research. I have also published extensively in pragmatics and semantics, primarily on issues relating to implicatures, irony, rationality and more generally on Neo-Gricean Pragmatics. My other areas of interest are in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and computational semantics.
I typically accept students interested in working on topics in humor research or pragmatics, but I occasionally work on topics of interest (e.g., the maintenance of heritage languages or pedagogical cognitive grammar). Non-degree seeking students/scholars interested in working with me should be self-supporting as the department can provide support for them only in very rare cases.
Curriculum Vitae: Attardo.pdf
Robert Baumgardner 
Professor
Office: HL 116
Phone: 903-886-5254
E-mail: Robert_Baumgardner@tamu-commerce.edu
I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Certificate in TESOL from the University of Southern California in 1982. My areas of concentration were Sociolinguistics, Teaching ESL and the History of English. I have done research and published in the fields of English for Specific Purposes and World Englishes. My present interest and areas of research are the use of English in advertising in Iran and the use of English in advertising, the linguistic landscape and Radio & Television in Mexico. I will direct M.A. thesis and M.A. Papers in any of the above or related areas.
Curriculum Vitae: Baumgardner.pdf
Bill Bolin 
Associate Professor
Office: HL 324
Phone: 903-886-5272
E-mail: Bill_Bolin@tamu-commerce.edu
My areas of interest include rhetoric, composition studies, and pedagogy. I have published in the areas of rhetoric and public policy and of the public face of composition instruction. I am currently working on a project examining and critiquing the contemporary uses of classical arguments for current policies of peace and war.
I have taught at the high school, community college, and university levels. Currently I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, writing theory, and the teaching of English.
Curriculum Vitae: Bolin.pdf
Shannon Carter 
Associate Professor
Office: HL 209
Phone: 903-886-5492
E-mail: Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu
Website: http://www.shannoncarter.info
Shannon Carter is an Associate Professor of English, Director of the Converging Literacies Center (CLiC), and a rhetorician who studies the literate lives of local citizens and students. Her primary teaching and research activities are writing (academic, civic, community, and multimedia), undergraduate research, and, increasingly, research methods and the digital humanities. Her scholarship on various aspects of text-use and production has appeared in the field's top journals, including College English and CCC. Her first book, The Way Literacy Lives (State University of New York Press, 2008) argues for more systematic attention to literacy experiences beyond the university. Current research considers rhetorical constructions of race in the region, the subject of her second book project (Writing for a Change) and a digital humanities project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ODH: Remixing Rural Texas: Local Texts, Global Contexts (RRT).
She has directed dissertations on writing center studies, literacy studies, first-year composition and TA training, and multimodality among L2 learners. She enjoys working with researchers at all levels - from the first-year student to the PhD student. She also loves working closely with the community and is convinced of her univeristy's value as an "engaged institution" - a campus that works with and for the community to offer better learning experiences for its students and better lived for us all (citizens, faculty, students).
Recent graduate course offerings include Writing with New Media, Teaching Reading and Writing in College, and "Remixing Texas".
Curriculum Vitae: Carter.pdf
Gerald Duchovnay 
Professor
Office: HL 326
Phone: 903-886-5265
E-mail: Gerald_Duchovnay@tamu-commerce.edu
Gerald Duchovnay is Professor of English and the General Editor of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, an internationally recognized film/humanities journal. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and his M.A. and Ph. D. from Indiana University (Bloomington). He has taught at private, technical, and regional state colleges and universities, served as the director of a first-year writing program, chaired a humanities division, and has headed an interdisciplinary literature and languages program. The author of Humphrey Bogart: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1999) and the editor of Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script (SUNY Press, 2004), he has also published on literature, pedagogy, and various aspects of film studies. His recent research and writing has focused on media and interdisciplinary courses and science fiction movies adapted to television. Directed theses and dissertation work includes: a comparative study of Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Sally Potter's Orlando; iconic imagery in Dorothea Lange, John Steinbeck, and John Ford; and the reception of Tennessee Williams's Battle of Angels, Orpheus Descending and The Fugitive Kind. He teaches undergraduate literature, writing, and film courses. Recent graduate offerings include: Film Theory and Criticism; John Ford: Movies, Myth, and Culture; Teaching Literature in College; Film Adaptation; Alfred Hitchcock's Films; and Narrative Cinema.
Curriculum Vitae: Duchovnay.doc
Donna Dunbar-Odom 
Professor, Director of English Graduate Studies
Office: HL 140
Phone: 903-886-5264
E-mail: Donna_Dunbar-Odom@tamu-commerce.edu
I came to Texas A&M University-Commerce (then East Texas State University) in 1993. My PhD is in Cultural and Critical Studies with a specialization in English from the University of Pittsburgh, and my MA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha is in 20th-century American literature. I have published textbooks for first-year composition, introducing ethnographic research methods into the teaching of argument. My book Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy (SUNY Press, 2007) focuses on why some working-class students pursue higher literacy against all expectations and predictions.
I serve now as Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies. My research focus is Composition and Literacy Studies—specifically literacy acquisition and the working-class student, but I also teach literary theory and pedagogy courses. I have directed dissertations on film and composition, basic writing theory, neo-expressivist composition theory, and teaching writing in the two-year college, among others.
Curriculum Vitae: Dunbar-Odom.pdf
Maria Fernandez Lamarque
Associate Professor
Office: HL 313
Phone: 903-886-5270
E-mail: Maria_Fernandez@tamu-commerce.edu
Website: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/mbabineaux
María Fernández Lamarque was born in Lima, Perú. She obtained her Masters Degree in Spanish Linguistics at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge and her Ph. D. at Tulane University in New Orleans in 2005.
Her field of study is contemporary Latin American (1930-XXI) and Peninsular literature (1936-1975). Her research interests are in children's literature, Latin American and Post civil war Spanish novels and films. She applies a transatlantic approach to study dystopias, utopias and heterotopias (gender and social) in these narratives and films.Her work on Critical Theory has been published in over a dozen articles and book-chapters in Hispania, Letras Peninsulares, Romance Notes, Neophilologus, Espéculo, MLA Ed., McFarland, Greenwood as well as with other major presses and prestigious academic journals. Her work has been presented in over twenty-five national and international academic conferences. Dr. Fernández Lamarque's most recent book projects are on the Spanish author Antonio Robles' censored children's literature and on the Argentinean author, Jorge Luis Borges and his representation of women.
Curriculum Vitae: Fernandez.pdf
Hunter Hayes
Acting Department Head
Associate Professor
Office: HL 213
Phone: 903-468-8625
E-mail: Hunter_Hayes@tamu-commerce.edu
I received my BA at the University of Kentucky and both my MA and PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi, where I specialized in twentieth-century British literature with secondary emphasis on Victorian literature. My publications include Understanding Will Self (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), the first in-depth critical examination of Self’s work. In addition to writing about Self, I have published essays on other contemporary British novelists and poets such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Greenwood Press has recently commissioned me to write a book on Elmore Leonard. Since 2006 I have been General editor for the Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, a project that Texas A&M University-Commerce has sponsored under the auspices of Texas A&M University Press since 1987.
Curriculum Vitae: Hayes.pdf
David Hervas 
Assistant Professor
Coordinator of the Spanish Language Program
Office: HL 318
Phone: 903-886-5271
E-mail: David_Hervas@tamu-commerce.edu
I was born in Madrid, Spain. I obtained my B.A. degree in English Studies in 1995 and my M.A. in Foreign Language Education in 1997 at Universidad de Alcalá, in my hometown Alcalá de Henares. Later on I changed fields but kept my interest in languages. In 2004, I obtained a M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, in Madrid, Spain. Currently I am an ABD working to obtain my Ph.D. in Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. My dissertation explores the implicit and explicit approach in the acquisition of vocabulary in the instruction of Spanish as a foreign language.
I came to Texas A&M University-Commerce in Spring 08. Ever since, I have taught all the Spanish language program courses, for which I became the Coordinator in the academic year 2009/10. Under my supervision, the program has been reinforced in the oral production area in the beginning and intermediate courses; and reading and response to original literary works in the intermediate-advanced courses. Other than those, I have taught intermediate courses ranging from introduction to literature in Spanish, Spanish for heritage speakers, history and development of Spanish language, and Spanish linguistics. My research interests include the implicit enhanced input of vocabulary and context reading in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. My personal interests also include volunteering for KETR, the public radio station service of A&M-Commerce hosting a weekly show on Latin jazz.
Curriculum Vitae: Hervás.pdf
Kathryn Jacobs 
Professor
Office: HL 227
Phone: 903-886-5235
E-mail: Kathryn_Jacobs@tamu-commerce.edu
Kathryn Jacobs is a professor at the Department of Literature and Languages with Ph.D and M.A. from Harvard University, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. She has research interests in Chaucer, Medieval drama, and Renaissance drama, and takes theses and dissertations in all these areas. She is also interested in poetry, has published critical studies of the modern formalist poets, and welcomes creative projects with new poets, particularly those with an interest in poetic form.
Dr. Jacobs has published a book (Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage) and a dozen articles in early British literature. She has also published a volume of poetry (Advice Column) and over five dozen poems in a variety of national, regional, and international journals.
Curriculum Vitae: Jacobs.pdf
Kim Jefferies
Administrative Secretary II
Office: HL 144
Phone: 903-468-3260
E-mail: Kim_Jefferies@tamu-commerce.edu
Melissa Knous
Instructor, Director of the Writing Center
Office: HL 225Inma Lyons
Assistant Professor
Office: HL 311
Phone: 903-468-8774
E-mail: Inma_Lyons@tamu-commerce.edu
Inma Lyons is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and the Spanish undergraduate adviser. She completed her B.A. at the University of Seville, in Seville, Spain. She earned her M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature at Texas A&M University-Commerce, and her Ph.D. in Modern Peninsular Literature at the University of Texas at Austin.
Her research interests include the general field of 18, 19, 20 and 21 century Spanish literature; contemporary Spanish women's narrative, and more specifically, the aesthetic and thematic features which influence women¹s narrative in contemporary Spain and Latin America; Colonial Literature, particularly the function of poetry and satire in the New World; and contemporary Spanish drama.
She is currently at work on a variety of projects: a book project on the construction and representation of masculine identities by contemporary Spanish women novelists; an article on intertextuality which highlights the continuing significance of picaresque narrative in contemporary novels; and several scholarly conference presentations.
Curriculum Vitae: Lyons.pdf
Lucy Pickering
Professor
Director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory
Office: HL 308
Phone: 903-886-5252
E-mail: Lucy_Pickering@tamu-commerce.edu
Lucy Pickering is Associate Professor and director of the Applied Linguistics Laboratory. She received her PhD. in Applied Linguistics in 1999 from the University of Florida. She has taught in University of Alabama, Georgetown University and Georgia State University. She joined the faculty at Texas A&M University-Commerce in August 2010. Her research program is focused on spoken discourse. She has done considerable work with Brazil's model of Discourse Intonation and its application to second language classroom discourse. Additional interests include prosodic development of second language learners, English as a Lingua Franca and the intersection between prosody and pragmatics in varieties of English. Please visit The Applied Linguistics Laboratory's page for more information.
Curriculum Vitae: Pickering.pdf
Robin Reid 
Professor
Office: HL 125
Phone: 903-886-5268
E-mail: Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu
I received my doctorate in English at the University of Washington in 1992. I have a master's in creative writing, and second master's (from the Bread Loaf School of Literature) in English. I came to A&M-Commerce when it was East Texas State University in 1993. My areas of teaching are creative writing, critical theory (critical race feminism, gender/queer theories, and sociolinguistics), and new media (which means considering the ways that the internet is changing the creation, production, and circulation of content; my special focus in that area is in fan studies). Since August 2006, I have been teaching all of my courses online, and I am interested in developing work on online and media literacies and the use of wikis for college writing.
My publications include poetry, critical theory introductions to Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, and (due out in December 2008) the first encyclopedia on women in science fiction and fantasy. I have published essays on The Lord of the Rings (novel and/or film) and fan fiction. My current books in progress include a vampire novel (in third draft stage), two co-edited anthologies (one on queerness and fantasy, another on fanfiction and fan production). Also in some stages of development are a project titled Slashing the Fathers: Female Writers Crossing the Borders of Male Texts which looks at queerness in how women writers have created homoerotic male pairings in work ranging from fanfiction to original fantasy and work on race and racism imbroglios in online media fandom.
- I am the organizer of the Tolkien at Kalamazoo group which organizes paper sessions on Tolkien's work to be presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/).
Curriculum Vitae: Reid.pdf
Karen Roggenkamp 
Associate Professor
Office: HL 315
Phone: 903-886-5251
E-mail: Karen_Roggenkamp@tamu-commerce.edu
Website: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/
After completing a B.A. in English at the University of Michigan, I taught English for a number of years at an independent Detroit middle school before entering graduate school. I earned my Ph.D. in English at the University of Minnesota, where I specialized in nineteenth-century American Literature and print culture. My areas of interest include nineteenth-century American periodical culture, early American novels, Puritan rhetoric, the history of children’s literature and culture, contemporary reconstructions of fairy tales, and the censorship of adolescent and children’s literature. I am currently working on a book project about female newspaper journalists and cultures of sentimentality in nineteenth-century America, as well as a project on children’s editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature and children’s and adolescent literature.
Curriculum Vitae: Roggenkamp.pdf
Susan Stewart 
Associate Professor
Office: HL 314
Phone: 903-468-8624
E-mail: Susan_Stewart@tamu-commerce.edu
Website:http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/slstewart/
I received my M.A. in English (emphasis in Children's Literature) from Missouri State University and my Ph.D. (emphasis in Children's Literature) from Illinois State University. My areas of interest include adolescent literature and narrative theory, but I'm very interested in the constructions of race and ethnicity in adolescent literature. I'm working on a series of projects that explores such novels as Sapphire's "Push," Virginia Hamilton's "Planet of Junior Brown," Jacqueline Woodson's "If You Come Softy," Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," and Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." I have published articles in The Lion and the Unicorn and in Children's Literature in Education.
Additionally, I have written reviews for Children's Literature Association Quarterly and MELUS. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in children's and adolescent literature on a regular basis.
Curriculum Vitae: Stewart.pdf
Magxina Wageman
Director, English Language Institute
Office: HL 316
Phone: 903-886-5274
E-mail: Magxina_Wageman@tamu-commerce.edu
