Faculty

Department of English & Philosophy

Our faculty in the Department of English and Philosophy strives to surpass expectations set by Drexel University’s student learning priorities for communication, writing, and critical thinking. We ground students across all levels of scholarship and majors in disciplinary expertise that promotes literary exploration, sophisticated textual literacy, excellent writing, and other transferable skills through English and Philosophy courses, Writing Intensive courses, and the Drexel Writing Center. In addition, students gain hands-on experience by working alongside faculty mentors in the Drexel Publishing Group, through Community-Based Learning courses, and more. Our department’s adjunct faculty also offer a wide range of impressive experience gained from many different knowledge backgrounds.

Faculty Member	Departments & Centers	Research & Scholarship
Stacey E. Ake Teaching Professor of Philosophy; Director, Health and Medical Humanities Certificate 5016 MacAlister sea29@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests CS Peirce; Walker Percy; Kierkegaard; Existentialism; Bioethics; Semiotics; Biosemiotics
Peter Amato Teaching Professor of Philosophy; Director, Programs in Philosophy; Co-director of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 5029 MacAlister peterama@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Ethics; Marxism; Continental Philosophy
Jan Armon Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus of English jan.armon@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Valarie Arms Professor Emeritus of English 5016 MacAlister Hall armsvm@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Rhetoric and Composition
Richard Astro Provost Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of English 5016 MacAlister astro@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests 20th Century American Fiction, 18th Century British Poetry, Sports and Social Issues
Kenneth Bingham Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall binghamk@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Valerie Booth Teaching Professor of English 5023 MacAlister vab42@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Literature and Science; Virginia Woolf; Autobiography
Raymond Brebach Professor Emeritus 5016 MacAlister Hall brebach@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Modern British Fiction; The Novel; Textual Studies
Llana Carroll Assistant Teaching Professor; Coordinator of Graduate Student Writing Resources, University Writing Program MacAlister Hall 5063 lc3382@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests First-Year Writing; Composition and Rhetoric; Non-Fiction; Writing in the Disciplines / Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing Centers
Jakeya Caruthers Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies 5016 MacAlister jakeya.caruthers@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Black Political Aesthetics; Black Popular Culture, Literature, and Media Representation; Black Feminist Thought; Anti-Carceral Feminism; Art and Visual Culture
Jacques Catudal Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister Hall cat@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics, Epistemology
Paula Marantz Cohen Dean Emerita, Pennoni Honors College; Distinguished Professor of English Academic Building, Room 333 cohenpm@drexel.edu 215.895.1266	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English and American Literature; Shakespeare; Film Studies; Nonfiction and fiction writing
Lisa DiMaio Teaching Professor of English; Coordinator, Multilingual Learner Writing Resources, University Writing Program MacAlister Hall 5016 dimaiola@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Multilingual writing pedagogy; Second language acquisition; Linguistic diversity; Tutoring strategies for multilingual writers; Sociocultural theory
Dan Driscoll Coordinator, Writing Curriculum Initiatives; University Writing Program; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister dwd27@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Genre and Writing Studies; Fiction; Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum; First-year Writing
Nomi Eve Director, MFA in Creative Writing; Assistant Professor 5016 MacAlister nae28@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Robert Finegan Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister fineganr@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Resilience literacy; Narrative psychology; Creative writing
Edward Fristrom Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall ecf35@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing Studies; Medical Narrative/Memoir; Environmental Literature
Mercer Gary Assistant Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister mg3864@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Feminist bioethics; care ethics; feminist philosophy; philosophy of technology
Keunah Han Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kh529@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests I am interested in researching and supporting international students in terms of cultural adaptation and academic performance in America.
Nathan Hanna Assistant Department Head; Associate Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister nth34@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Punishment; moral responsibility; criminal law
Cassandra Hirsch Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister cjh72@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing fiction and memoir; mentoring students; teaching community-based learning (CBL) courses
Jonathan Hobratsch Assistant Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister jeh357@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Henry Israeli Teaching Professor of English; Director, Drexel Writing Festival; Director, Jewish Studies 5051B, MacAlister Hall hpi22@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Elizabeth Kimball Associate Professor of English; Director, University Writing Program MacAlister Hall 5016; Korman 103 – Drexel Writing Center ek674@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Rhetorical theory; Writing studies; Engaged learning; Multilingual practice; Community-based learning; Writing program administration
Miriam Kotzin Founding Editor, Per Contra; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister kotzinmn@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests creative writing; poetry: formalism and free verse; fiction: novels, short stories, flash, micro-fiction; creative nonfiction writing about nature
Roger Kurtz Professor of English; Department Head 5016 MacAlister Hall jrk353@drexel.edu 215.895.2446	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests World literatures; Postcolonial literature; East African literature and culture; Trauma theory
Magdalena Mączyńska Teaching Professor; Associate Director, Drexel Teaching and Learning Center MacAlister 5038 mm5667@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Teaching pedagogy; climate fiction; climate pedagogy; Anglophone fiction; urban fiction; post-secular fiction; ecocriticism
Stephen Mandell Professor Emeritus of English 5016 MacAlister Hall mandelsr@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Freshman Writing; Technical Writing; Speech; American Literature
Deirdre McMahon Teaching Professor of English, Department of English and Philosophy; Assistant Dean of Online Education, Drexel University Graduate College 5039 MacAlister Hall deirdre.h.mcmahon@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Long Nineteenth-Century Studies; Victorian Literature & Culture; Material Studies; Race and Empire Studies; Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures; Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Carol Mele Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister carol.anne.mele@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Ethics; political philosophy; history of philosophy; biomedical ethics; critical reasoning
Harriet Levin Millan Emeritus Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall millanhl@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Jill Moses Assistant Director, First-Year Writing Program ; Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister jrm378@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Contemporary Poetry; Feminist literature; Creative Writing
Christopher T. Nielson Emeritus Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister cn33@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Shakespeare; Drama; Early Modern Literature; British Renaissance Literature; Medieval Literature; World Literature; Composition Studies
Karen S. Nulton Director, Writing Assessment; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall ksn27@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing assessment; work-integrated-learning (WIL); reflective writing
Flavia Padovani Associate Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister fp72@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Philosophy of Science; History of Philosophy of Science; Feminist Epistemology; Science and Technology Studies
Margene L. Petersen Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister mlp59@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Multilingual Learners; Mentor; Visual Rhetorical Analysis; Anti-racist Pedagogy; Lowering Affective Filter
Marilyn Gaye Piety Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister mgpiety@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Kierkegaard; philosophy of religion; ancient philosophy; public philosophy; flash philosophy; social justice; philosophy of sport
Elizabeth Polcha Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities 5016 MacAlister lp949@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Black Atlantic Literature; Digital Humanities; Early American Studies; Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental Studies; History of Science; History of the Book
Abioseh Porter Director, Africana Studies; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister abiosehp@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative Literature; Postcolonial Literatures
Donald Riggs Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister riggsda@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Wonder; Mystery; Clarity; Relevance; Communication
Donna Rondolone Teaching Professor 5016 MacAlister donna.l.rondolone@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Arthurian legend, Mythology
Gail Davida Rosen Teaching Professor of English; Editor, The 33rd 5016 Macalister gor22@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Doreen Alvarez Saar American Literature Editor, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall saarda@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Early American Literature; Race and Gender Studies
Sheila F. Sandapen Director of English Programs ; Teaching Professor 5040 MacAlister Hall sfs34@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Black British; Cultural Studies; Contemporary British; Feminist; Literature; First-Year Writing
David Seltzer Adjunct Professor of Philosophy dss97@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests History of Philosophy
Fred Siegel Teaching Professor of English; Director, First-Year Writing Program 5016 MacAlister Hall siegelf@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Popular Theater; Dramatic Literature, Creative Non-Fiction; Freshman Writing
Matthew Ross Smith Assistant Teaching Professor of English 5016 Macalister mrs363@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing, Novelist, Middle Grade
Andrew Frederick Smith Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies; Department Head, Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 321 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA afs52@drexel.edu 215.895.2627	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental Philosophy/Environmental Humanities; Food Justice; Climate Justice; Social and Political Philosophy; Decolonization
Scott Stein Director, Drexel Publishing Group; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall sas38@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative Writing; Fiction and Novels; Satire and Humor; Publishing; Franz Kafka; Superheroes; Working with Student Interns
Eva Thury Associate Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall thury@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Literature, Computer Science
Bill Vargo Assistant Teaching Professor of English MacAlister 5037 wgv23@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests First Year Writing; Multimodal Composition; Creative Writing; Screenwriting; Transdisciplinary Research; Composition and Rhetoric; Artificial Intelligence
Kathleen Volk Miller Co-Editor, Painted Bride Quarterly; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kvm@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Publishing; Creative Writing; Literary Magazines; Writing and Neuroplasticity; Healing through Writing; Journaling; Personal Essay
Maria Volynsky Teaching Professor; ESL Coordinator and Associate Director, First Year Writing Program 5016 MacAlister Hall mvolynsky@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests TESOL; Linguistic Diversity; Multilingualism; Online Teaching; Social Emotional Learning; Language Acquisition; Assessment
Scott Warnock Professor of English; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education MacAlister Hall, Suite 4020 sjwarnock@drexel.edu 215.895.0377	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Teaching with technology; Online writing instruction; Writing administration; Learning assessment; Faculty development; Undergraduate research
Robert Watts Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall wattsra@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative Writing; Freshman Writing
Vincent Williams Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall avw22@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests
Jennifer Yusin Professor of English; Director, Women’s and Gender Studies 5016 MacAlister Hall jyusin@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Women's and Gender Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Philosophies of Race and Gender, Global Modernisms, LGBTQ+ Studies, Trans Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures, Transatlantic Studies, and the Global South
Robert Zawatski Assistant Teaching Professor of English; Writing Assessment Coordinator, University Writing Program 5016 MacAlister rz343@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative Writing; Fiction; First-Year Writing; Humor; Pop Culture; Storytelling

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