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: Kuhn Hall 203B
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: Kuhn Annex 106
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: Kuhn Hall 203E
Phone: 417-625-3594
E-mail: Beilfuss-M@mssu.edu
Master Instructor
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Media Arts from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Professional Certificate in Video Game Writing from the University of British Columbia
Teaching Responsibilities: Composition, Literature, Creative Writing
Research Interests: Monstrous Femininity, Contemporary Speculative Fiction, Horror/Gothicism, Narrative Film, Creative Writing - Fiction, Video Game Development
Office: Kuhn Hall 234
Phone: 417-625-3105
Email: casey-c@mssu.edu
Assistant Professor
PhD in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Southern Mississippi
Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of California Irvine
Master of Arts in English from Loyola Marymount University
Teaching Responsibilities: Creative Writing, Literature, Composition
Research Interests: Contemporary Poetry, Romanticism
Office: Kuhn Hall 203D
Phone: 417-625-9642
Email: dow-h@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: Kuhn Hall 237
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: Kuhn Annex 108
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: Kuhn Hall 240
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
Office: Kuhn Hall 236
Phone: 417-625-9642
Email: Kuhn-J@mssu.edu
Dr. Leslie Smith
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: Kuhn Annex 103
Phone: 417-625-3109
Email: smith-leslie@mssu.edu
Administrative Assistant
Office: Kuhn Hall 203
Phone: 417-625-9377
E-mail: boydston-e@mssu.edu
Amanda Anderson
Email: anderson-a@mssu.edu
Trisa Moss
Email: moss-t@mssu.edu
