Department Chair, Language and Literature
PhD in English from the University of Missouri
Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia
Teaching Responsibilities: Literature, Composition
Research Interests: The aesthetics of the sublime, Gender and genre, Psychoanalysis, Time in and of reading
Advising Areas: Literary Studies, BSE in English
Office: Webster Hall 362
Phone: 417-625-3054
E-mail: watson-z@mssu.edu
Associate Professor of Spanish
Doctorate in Spanish Peninsular Literature from Ohio State University
Master's in Spanish Linguistics from Ohio State University
Teaching Responsibilities: Spanish Grammar, Spanish Literature and Culture
Research Interests: Re-creation of a nation's identity in 18th, 19th, and 20th century Spanish Peninsular literature, Discourse of domestic women in 18th, 19th, and 20th century Spanish Peninsular literature
Advising Areas: Senior Assessments (all languages), Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Club, Spanish Concentration Majors (BA, FL02)
Office: Webster Hall 353
Phone: 417-625-9655
Email: liso-s@mssu.edu
Associate Professor
PhD in English from Texas A & M University
Master of Arts in English from SUNY New Paltz
Teaching Responsibilities: Composition and American Literature
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American Literature, Ecocriticism, Southern Literature, Rhetoric
Advising Areas: Literary Studies
Office: Webster Hall 355
Phone: 417-625-3594
E-mail: Beilfuss-M@mssu.edu
Associate Professor of English
PhD in English Studies from the University of Illinois - Chicago
Master of Arts in English from Truman State University
Teaching Responsibilities: British Literature from the Romantic Period to the Present, Shakespeare, Literary Theory, Medicine and Literature, Compositions
Research Interests: British Literature of the long 19th Century, Literary Depcitions of Corpses and Graves in British Romantic and Early Victorian Literature, Emerging Concepts of "Vocation" and Career Guidance in Literature of the Long 19th Century, Digital Humanities, Pedagogy
Advising Areas: Literary Studies
Office: Webster Hall 364
Phone: 417-625-3554
E-mail: gates-a@mssu.edu
Professor of English
PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing-fiction from the University of Alaska-Anchorage
Teaching Responsibilities: Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, American Literature to 1900, British Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Narrative Film, Creative Writing
Research Interests: Gothicism, Children's Literature, Narrative Film, Creative Writing-Fiction, Creative Writing-Nonfiction
Advising Areas: Honors
Office: Spiva Library 120
Phone: 417-625-9748
E-mail: howarth-m@mssu.edu
Assistant Professor
PhD in English with an emphasis in Postcolonial Literature from the University of North Dakota
Master of Arts in English with an emphasis in African-American Literature and Critical Race Theory from the University of St. Thomas
Teaching Responsibilities: Composition and World Literature
Research Interests: Postcolonical Literatures and Theory, Postcolonial Pedagogy, Diasporic Literatures, Professional Writing, Global Film and Visual Media, Gender and Transnationalism, Partition Literatures of India, South African Literatures, African-American Literatures and Theory
Office: Webster Hall 356
Phone: 417-625-3196
Email: jensen-jody@mssu.edu
Assistant Professor of English
PhD in English from The Ohio State UniversityTeaching Responsibilities: British Literature before 1800, Shakespeare, History of the English Language, Composition
Research Interests: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, Renaissance Literature, History of the Book, Transatlantic Studies, 17th Century Politics and Religion
Advising Areas: Literary Studies
Associate Professor of Spanish
Doctor of Education in Literacy, Culture and Language Education from Indiana University - Bloomington
Master of Arts in Spanish from University of Arkansas
Teaching Responsibilities: Spanish, Education
Research Interests: Proficiency Development, Bilingual Education
Advising Areas: Certificate of Language Competency (all languages) & Senior Assessments (French & Spanish)
Office: Webster 337A
Phone: 417-625-3109
Email: smith-leslie@mssu.edu
Amanda Anderson
Email: Anderson-A@mssu.edu
Trisa Moss
Email: moss-t@mssu.edu
Jean Lozano-Pittsley
Office:Webster 254
Phone: 417-625-4409
Email: lozanopittsley-j@mssu.edu
