Faculty
The faculty of the Department of English and World Languages are a close-knit family of widely renowned and award-winning teachers and scholars. Please click below to see our current Tenured and Adjunct Faculty. We also have a great many highly esteemed and dearly loved Emeriti et alia.
Tenured Faculty
Teri Doerksen
- Office: G04C Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4588
- Email: tdoerkse@mansfield.edu
Professor of English
Degrees: B.A. Willamette University; M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph. D. University of Pittsburgh
Major Interests and Activities: Eighteenth-century British literature, Victorian literature, gender studies, comparative religious studies, national identity studies, political history, Disney film, science fiction
Jimmy Guignard
- Office: 110B Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4592
- Email: jguignar@mansfield.edu
Professor of English
Degrees: B.S. Appalachian State University, B.A. Coastal Carolina University, M.A. Western Carolina University, Ph.D. University of Nevada at Reno
Major Interests and Activities: Composition and Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric, Environmental Literature, Mountaineering Literature
Recent Publications: Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale
Andrea Harris
- Office: 107 Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4591
- Email: aharris@mansfield.edu
Professor of English
Degrees: B.A. University of Vermont; M.A. SUNY-Buffalo; Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo
Major Interests and Activities: 20th Century British & American Literature, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, Gay & Lesbian Studies
Recent Publications: Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture (with John M. Ulrich)
Brad Lint
- Office: G05A Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4584
- Email: blint@mansfield.edu
Associate Professor of English
US-China Exchange Coordinator
Degrees: B.A. University of Pittsburgh; M.A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Major Interests and Activities: World Literature, Chinese Language and Literature, Multicultural American Literature, Contemplative Studies, Film, Professional Writing.
Lynn Pifer
- Office: G04B Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4384
- Email: lpifer@mansfield.edu
Professor of English
Degrees: B.A. University of Illinois; M.A. SUNY-Buffalo; Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo
Major Interests and Activities: American Literature, African-American Literature, Women's Literature, Folklore and Fairy Tales
John Ulrich
- Office: 508 North Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4804
- Email: julrich@mansfield.edu
Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of English
Degrees: B.A. University of Maryland; M.A. SUNY-Buffalo; Ph.D. SUNY-Buffalo
Major Interests and Activities: Literary Theory, l9th Century British Literature, Postmodernism, Cultural Studies
Adjunct Faculty
Lilace Mellin Guignard
- Office: 208D Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-662-4579
- Email: lguignar@mansfield.edu
- Web: http://www.tentofonesown.com
Degrees: B.A. Warren Wilson College; M.F.A. University of California, Irvine; M.A. University of Nevada, Reno
Major Interests and Activities: Women's studies, poetry, environmental literature and sustainability, outdoor recreation leadership
Recent Publications: Recent poems have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, and Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming
Marissa Scott
- Email: mscott@mansfield.edu
Degrees: B.A. Mansfield University; M.A. The College at Brockport - SUNY
Major Interests and Activities: Film, genre studies, composition and rhetoric
Abby Werlock
- Office: G04C Belknap Hall
- Phone: 570-418-2684
- Email: awerlock@mansfield.edu
Degrees: B.A., M.A. American University; D. Phil. University of Sussex
Major Interests and Activities: Contemporary American, British, and Canadian women writers; modernist American writers; ethnic American writers; the American short story; the American Civil War in fiction