Dallas B. Boggs, Ed.D., has been a member of the faculty since 1990. He is an adjunct assistant professor of English. Boggs teaches the composition and literature course, as well as a variety of other lower division courses including poetry, drama, the epic, and the gothic novel. He also teaches courses in travel literature, the literature of war, and a course in linguistics titled "The Development of the English Language."

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Eren Branch joined USD in 1985 after working as an information officer at the Fulbright Commission in Stockholm and, before that, teaching at the University of Cincinnati.  At USD, she served first as Associate Dean and then Dean of the School of Graduate and Continuing Education, joining the English Department full-time in 1997.  Recently, her teaching has centered on Dante’s Divine Comedy and on twentieth-century Italian literature.   She has also taught courses on Italian American literature, on modern reinventions of classical myth, and on opera and literature.  Branch, a native San Diegan, grew up in Italy and earned degrees in English and comparative literature from Bryn Mawr College and Stanford University.

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Michael Caldwell received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the area of 18th century British literature.  He has a broad array of teaching interests, including not just the prose, poetry and drama of his area of specialization, but also Shakespeare, Milton, and film, among other things.  He is currently writing a book about teaching.

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At the University of San Diego, David Cantrell has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses in African-American and American literatures and cultures. For instance, this year he will offer courses on the writings of the revolutionary and early national periods; on antebellum and postbellum literatures; and on nineteenth-century African American literature and culture. Last year, Cantrell taught courses entitled: Literature and Poverty; The West and Westerns; "Post-bellum-PreHarlem" American Literature in Black and White; and Writing After Emancipation: African-American Literature and Culture from Nat Turner to W. E. B. Du Bois. He has also taught classes in literary theory and in literature, gender, and sexuality. His courses at the University of San Diego's School of Law study both the creative response of literary intellectuals to legal developments and the poetics of legal thought.

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Jonathan Ewell received his Ph. D. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and comes to USD following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. His academic interests include Romanticism, aesthetics, literary theory, and 18th-century literature and culture.  Fall 2011 is his first semester teaching at the University of San Diego.

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Jerry Farber began teaching for the English Department at USD in 2010.  At USD and, previously, at SDSU, he has taught courses in poetry, comedy, composition, children’s literature, European 18th-century literature, African-American literature, reader-response theory, Marcel Proust, and the teaching of literature.  He holds a doctorate in comparative literature and has published three books and a number of scholarly articles.

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Professor Garcia joined the USD English Department in Fall 2010.  She currently teaches courses in introductory composition and literature.

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Dr. Theresa Gregor is a descendant of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel (Kumeyaay). She grew up on the Santa Ysabel Indian Reservation where five generations of her family have resided since its formation in 1875.
Dr. Gregor teaches Composition & Literature courses for the English Department. Her courses cover a range of literary terrain from Multi-Cultural American Literature. Dr. Gregor's academic specialty is Native American and Women's Literature. She is passionate about introducing students to the diverse history, culture, and literature of Native Americans in San Diego as a part of all her courses.

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David Hay, PhD, came to the university as a co-founder of the MFA Program in Acting, a program he directed for seven years. He has also been the director of the Southeast San Diego Tutoring Program, director of the Undergraduate Theatre Arts Program, and is currently co-director of the London Study Abroad Program.

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Lisa Hemminger, MA, MFA, is teaching ENGL100, Introduction to College Writing, for Fall 2011 at USD. A former Midwest journalist and performance poet/creative arts instructor, Lisa crafted an approach to teaching writing on the stages and with at-risk youth of Chicago. Lisa utilizes sound, collaborative language arts and role-playing to break down barriers to effective writing and enhanced critical thinking.  A published poet and workshop curator, she also teaches Rhetoric and Writing at San Diego State University.

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Kyle Hetrick has been a member of the faculty since 2006; he previously taught literature and composition courses at the University of Rhode Island from 2000 to 2005.

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Min Young has been a member of the faculty since 2010.

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Brad Melekian has been a member of the USD English Department since 2008. As an adjunct professor of English, Melekian teaches courses in introductory composition and literature and creative writing. A working writer as well as a teacher, Melekian's fiction, non-fiction and screenwriting work appears in many prominent national and international publications.

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Before coming to the University of San Diego, Jeanie Grant Moore was a faculty member of the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. While her teaching focused primarily on Shakespeare and British literature, she also taught courses for the Women’s Studies and Theatre departments, and she team-taught courses in the History department. She served as graduate director for the department and later for the university. During her eleven years in Wisconsin, Moore traveled with students on study tours to France, Italy and the United Kingdom, and she created, taught, and administered semesters abroad at Cambridge University. Since leaving Wisconsin in 2007, she has guided interested adults on educational tours abroad, and she has continued to teach study abroad programs for the University of Wisconsin. This year at USD she will teach Shakespeare, Introduction to Literature and Composition, Early British Literature, and Women in Literature.

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Deniz Perin has been a lecturer in the English Department since 2007. She teaches creative writing, Middle Eastern and world Literatures, poetry, and composition and Llterature. A poet and literary translator, her interests lie primarily in creative writing and in modern and contemporary poetry and literature worldwide.

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Dixa Ramírez started teaching at USD in the Fall of 2011.  Her doctoral work explores how migration and exile inform and challenge Dominican national identity.  Her research and teaching interests include Caribbean literature in Spanish, English and French; African Diaspora and African American studies; Latin American literature and theory; and Latina/o literature and culture.

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Tim Randell has taught at USD since 2006. He teaches undergraduate courses in writing and literature, and he serves as director of the Southeast San Diego Tutoring Program. His interests include modern American and British poetry and fiction, literary theory (particularly cultural studies and dialectical criticism), and composition theory.

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Katie Sciurba has been teaching at the University of San Diego since 2009.  She received her PhD in English Education from New York University in 2011.  In addition, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and an MS in Education from Mercy College. 

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Amanda Lee Solomon Amorao began teaching English 121 for the department in Fall 2011. Professor Solomon received her PhD in literature from UC San Diego with a specialization in Asian American literature and studies. Her research and teaching interests include: critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, multi-ethnic U.S. literature, Philippine Studies, and postcolonial theory.

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Joanne Spiegel teaches courses in English and composition.

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After graduating from the University of San Diego with a Masters degree in Literature, Professor Sundmacher started teaching in the English Department.  Since 1999, she has also team taught in the Honors Program,  and in the  Liberal Studies and Gender Studies Departments.  Currently, she is the Director of the Writing Center.   Her literary interests are in contemporary  fiction, with a special focus on feminist issues.
Professor Sundmacher has a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Her first career out of college was as a copywriter in the Advertising industry, where she earned a number of awards for her creative work.

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Sister Elizabeth Walsh came to the University of San Diego in 1975  having received her PhD from Harvard University in 1973.  Her area of concentration was medieval literature, and at USD she taught a variety of medieval courses including Chaucer and Dante. She was active in scholarly circles and gave many presentations at different conferences.  Her most recent work is an article on “Images of the Dormition of Mary: East and West” (2007).  She continues her scholarly studies and still teaches an occasional course at USD.

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Professor Melissa Williams is not teaching Spring 2012 semester.

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Anne Wilson has been part of the adjunct faculty since the 1999-2000 school year. She regularly teaches college composition and literature and has also taught California literature and dramatic literature. In addition to teaching at USD, Wilson teaches occasional courses in multicultural children's literature, theater arts, and comp/lit courses at National University and has taught for the University of California at San Diego's extended studies program in creative writing. Wilson has also taught in nationally-known writers' workshops in California, Washington, and New Mexico.

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