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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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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David Hay, Ph.D., 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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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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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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Rachel A. Oriol has taught English 121 classes at USD since Fall 2008.

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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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Tim Randell has taught at USD since 2006. He is an instructor in the English Department, and he serves as director of the Southeast San Diego Tutoring Program. Randell teaches undergraduate courses in writing and literature. He also teaches a graduate course in writing in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES). Randell's interests include modern American and British poetry and fiction, literary theory, and composition theory.

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Joanne Spiegel teaches courses in English and composition.

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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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