Santa Clara University

Dr. Terry Beers is an associate professor at Santa Clara University. He teaches a variety of subjects, including courses in writing and American literature. Read the full profile »

Simone J. Billings, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from San Francisco State University and her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Stanford University. Read the full profile »

Mitali Biswas has been teaching for Santa Clara University as an Adjunct Lecturer since 2003. She also teaches Composition and Rhetoric and Women's Studies at West Valley College. Read the full profile »

Olin Bjork is a Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking and Writing, Internet Culture and the Information Society, Practical Business Rhetoric, and Technical Writing. He previously taught at Georgia Tech and The University of Texas. His research interests are Computers and Writing, Digital Humanities, Interface Design, John Milton, and Textual Studies. Read the full profile »

Rebekah Bloyd teaches Critical Thinking & Writing Courses and Poetry. Rebekah Bloyd has lived, taught, and traveled extensively in the Caribbean and Central Europe and is the recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency as well as Fulbright Fellowships to Jamaica and the Czech Republic. Read the full profile »

Sherryl Booth is a Senior Lecturer where she teaches a variety of courses in Composition and Literature and serves as faculty advisor for the English Club. Read the full profile »

Phyllis Brown is Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Professor in the Department of English, received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1979 and has been teaching at Santa Clara University since 1982. Read the full profile »

Michelle Burnham teaches and publishes in early American literature, Native American literature, transatlantic and transpacific literature, and popular culture. Read the full profile »

Stephen Carroll is a Senior Lecturer who teaches both core writing and business writing classes. He is the director of the English Department Internship Program. Read the full profile »

Associate Professor Juliana Chang teaches Asian American/American Literature, Psychoanalytic Theory, Poetry, and Asian American Women courses. She received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, and has previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at Boston College. Read the full profile »

Alan Clinton is a Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing courses. He is coming to us from the University of Miami, where he taught English Composition. He received his Ph.D. in British and American Modernism, Continental Literary Theory, and Historical Avant-Garde at the University of Florida. Read the full profile »

Melissa Donegan is a Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking and Writing. Melissa has recently taught courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture at the University of Iowa. Read the full profile »

Diane Dreher is a Professor who teaches a wide variety of courses including Renaissance Literature, Spiritual Autobiography, Milton, Shakespeare, Creative Nonfiction and Literature and Religion. Read the full profile »

Mary Judith Dunbar is an Associate Professor whose specialty is Shakespeare. She is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies program. Dr. Dunbar, received her Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford University and has also studied in England at the University of Bristol and the University of London. Read the full profile »

Marilyn Edelstein is an Associate Professor who specializes in Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory. She is affiliated with the Women and Gender Studies program. Dr. Edelstein has been on the SCU faculty since 1987. She is also a faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies Program and an Associate with the Center for Multicultural Learning. Read the full profile »

Eileen Razzari Elrod is a Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, specializing in early and nineteenth-century American literature, with particular interests in autobiography. She teaches American lit and Critical Thinking and Writing. Read the full profile »

John O. Espinoza joins us to teach Critical Thinking 1 and 2 full time this year. He has previously taught rhetoric & composition, American & world literature, and poetry workshops at Arizona State University in Tempe and at The National Hispanic University in San Jose, CA. Read the full profile »

Robin Everest teaches Writing for Business. She received her B.S. from UC Berkeley and her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Read the full profile »

Gina Firenzi is a Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking and Writing. She is returning to Santa Clara University this year, having taught Critical Thinking and Writing in the English Department since 2009. She also teaches at San Jose State University in the Department of Communication and Legal Studies. Read the full profile »

Susan Frisbie is a Senior Lecturer who teaches a variety of writing and literature classes reflecting her particular interests: composition, rhetoric (in various genres and media), 19th century British literature, and children's literature. Read the full profile »

Assistant Professor Andrew Garavel S.J. teaches courses in Literature and Composition and Rhetoric. He joined the English department in 2005. After his undergraduate education at Fairfield University, he studied philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago, earned a masters degree in English at the University of Chicago, taught at Fairfield College Preparatory School and went on to theological studies at Regis College, University of Toronto. Read the full profile »

Kirk Glaser is a Senior Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking and Writing with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Society and the Environment. He also teaches Creative Writing and Poetry and serves as Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review. Read the full profile »

Jill Goodman Gould is a Senior Lecturer who teaches Composition and Literature courses. She is the director of the Credential Program for students wishing to teach at the secondary level. Read the full profile »

Ron Hansen is the Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor in the department who specializes in Screenwriting. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at Creighton University, the University of Iowa?s Writers Workshop, and Stanford University; at Stanford he held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. Read the full profile »

John Hawley is a Professor in the English Department. He has taught courses as varied as beginning Composition and Rhetoric to Pan-African Literature, Postcolonial and Commonweatlth Literatures, Contemporary Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Indian Literature and courses in the Women and Gender Studies program Read the full profile »

John Hessler has been teaching in the English Department at Santa Clara University since 2009. He received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. Read the full profile »

Hanna Janiszewska is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, where she has also taught writing and rhetoric courses for the past couple of years. She has an M.Phil in British Literature from Cambridge University and a B.A. in English from Yale. Read the full profile »

Denise Krane is a Renewable Term Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric. Denise earned her M.A. in English Literature with a focus on Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy from the University of Oregon and a B.A. in Comparative Literature as well as a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Davis. Read the full profile »

Jean-Pierre Lacrampe has taught at St. Mary's College, San Jose State University, Menlo College, and Santa Clara University (in the Communication Department) after receiving his MFA from St. Mary's College and his BA in English from Arizona State University. Read the full profile »

Dolores LaGuardia is a Lecturer who specializes in teaching Business Writing courses. Dolores is also the University's Writing Center "HUB" Director. Read the full profile »

Michael Lasley is a Renewable Term Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking and Writing as well as Advanced Writing courses. He previously taught English courses at Pepperdine University. Read the full profile »

Cynthia Mahamdi is a Lecturer who teaches Composition and Rhetoric with an emphasis on the representation of US history in historical novels and films. She also teaches Middle Eastern/Islamic literature and film, Cultures and Ideas, and Fiction writing courses. Read the full profile »

Michael S. Malone is an author, journalist and television host. After earning two degrees from Santa Clara University, he joined the San Jose Mercury-News as the world's first daily high tech reporter. Read the full profile »

Claudia McIsaac is a Senior Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric and Creative Writing. She has been teaching at SCU since 1980. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and her B.A. in Theatre Arts from U.C. Berkeley. Read the full profile »

Sharon Merritt is a Lecturer specializing in courses in Critical Thinking and Writing I and II. Sharon Merritt is a long-time member of the English Department, whose teaching focuses on Critical Thinking and Writing, Advanced Writing, Digital Storytelling, Narrative Theory, Multiliteracies, as well as Theories of Literacy and Social Justice. Read the full profile »

Robert Michalski is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Composition and Rhetoric. Dr. Michalski got his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Read the full profile »

Christine Montgomery is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Santa Clara University. Transnational in approach, her research and teaching explore discourses of race, gender, performativity, and freedom in nineteenth-and twentieth-century American and African-American literature along with contemporary Anglophone Caribbean literature. Read the full profile »

Tim Myers is a Lecturer in the English Department and the Department of Education. Tim J. Myers has 32 years' experience as a classroom and university teacher in the States and overseas; he currently teaches at Santa Clara University. He's been a professional storyteller for 30 years-is the oldest of eleven children-and can actually whistle and hum at the same time. Read the full profile »

Aparajita Nanda is a Lecturer who teaches courses in Critical Thinking & Writing. She received her PhD in English at Jadavpur University under Dr Kitty Scoular Datta, Department of English, Oxford Open University, UK. Read the full profile »

Loring Pfeiffer is a Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing. She is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Pittsburgh, from which she also holds an M.A. Read the full profile »

Charles Phipps S.J. is an Associate Professor who teaches American and British Literature. Fr. Charles Phipps received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965, when he began teaching at Santa Clara. Read the full profile »

Noel Radley has recently taught Rhetoric and Writing and English courses at the University of Texas at Austin. For three years, she has been an instructor and researcher in the Digital Writing and Research Lab. Read the full profile »

Roxanne Naseem Rashedi has recently taught Composition and Writing courses at De Anza Community College. She has been awarded fellowships and scholarships, including UC Berkeley's W.H. Hill Award and has been accepted into numerous writing workshops, including Tin House and VONA. Read the full profile »

Don Riccomini is a Lecturer in the department teaching Composition and Rhetoric and Writing for Engineers as well as Argumentation. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has over twenty years experience in the high technology industry as a manager and director for a large computer company. Read the full profile »

Theodore Rynes S.J. is an Assistant Professor whose specialty includes Literature and Religion courses, 18th Century British Literature and Western Culture. Read the full profile »

Robin Tremblay-McGaw comes to us from having recently taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and Bard College in the Language and Thinking Program. She holds a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire; an M.A. from San Francisco State University; an M.L.I.S. from the University of California Berkeley; and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Read the full profile »

Juan Velasco, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages, teaches courses in contemporary Latin American and Chicano/a Literature, and Film. He received his first Ph.D. in 1992 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Read the full profile »

Cory Wade is a Senior Lecturer in the department. She specializes in courses in Western Culture, English Literature and the History of the English Language. Read the full profile »

Senior Lecturer Jeff Zorn has taught at Santa Clara since 1974. In addition to Composition and Rhetoric courses he teaches Argumentation, and Writing for Teachers. Read the full profile »

Jessica Norred received her Bachelors of Science in Business from San Jose State University. She came to Santa Clara University in 2006 where she started working in the Arts and Sciences Deans office. Read the full profile »