Experts List for Media Inquiries

The following is a list of faculty and staff in the Department of English who are easily reachable and willing to serve as experts for purposes of media inquiry. If you seek information about a topic not covered here, please contact the department’s Communications Director Kristen LaRue (480-965-7611) for more information or to reach another member of the faculty not listed here.

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Name	Area(s) of Expertise
Joni Adamson President's Professor, Environmental Humanities, Department of English Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Director, Environmental Humanities Initiative, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Inaugural Affiliate, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Affiliate, School for the Future of Innovation in Society Joni.Adamson@asu.edu 480-727-3675	Environmental literature and film Climate fiction Climate change Sonoran Desert cultures, literatures and ethnobotany Desert cities and urban humanities Global Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies Stories plants tell Environmental justice movements Food justice/sovereignty
Sally Ball Professor, Creative Writing, Department of English Associate Director, Four Way Books (New York City) sally.ball@asu.edu (pref) 480-965-5829	Contemporary American poetry (from the avant to the more mainstream) Literary publishing, editing
Lee Bebout Professor, Department of English Affiliate Faculty, School of Transborder Studies Affiliate Faculty, Program in American Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Lee.Bebout@asu.edu	Race Immigration White supremacy Mexican American literature and culture
James Blasingame Professor, Department of English Affiliate Faculty, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Executive Director, Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN) James.Blasingame@asu.edu	Young adult literature Teacher training Indigenous education Secondary writing instruction Cowboy poetry Viennese waltz (dancer)
Ron Broglio Professor, Department of English Director, Desert Humanities Initiative, Institute for Humanities Research Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability ron.broglio@asu.edu 404-723-1130	Animals and culture History of agriculture 1700-present History of livestock 1700-present Continental philosophy from Kant to the present
Jessica Early Professor, Department of English Director, Central Arizona Writing Project Jessica.early@asu.edu 480-965-0742	Secondary (grades 6-12) writing instruction English education College and career-ready writing Professional development Teaching of secondary (grades 6-12) writing
Ed Finn Associate Professor, Arts, Media and Engineering / Department of English Director, Center for Science and the Imagination Affilate Faculty, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes Affiliate Faculty, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Affiliate Faculty, Human & Social Dimensions of Science & Technology Affiliate Faculty, Barrett, The Honors College edfinn@asu.edu 480-382-2116	Contemporary fiction Digital culture Science fiction Imagination Creativity Understanding the imagination Using storytelling to change how we think about the future Future of the book The modern myth of Frankenstein and its relationship to creativity and responsibility
Sarah Florini Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of English Affiliated Faculty, Social Technologies / Critical Data Studies Affiliated Faculty, The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Sarah.Florini@asu.edu	Social media Race and technology Critical digital studies Black digital culture Podcasting Twitter TikTok Digital ethnography Online discourse Digital technology and ethics
Melissa Free Assistant Professor, Department of English Faculty, Barrett, The Honors College Affiliate Faculty, School of Social Transformation melissa.free@asu.edu	Victorian and Edwardian literature and culture British empire Postcolonial studies Feminism Female action hero Adventure fiction
Brian Goodman Assistant Professor, Department of English Affiliate, Jewish Studies Affiliate, Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies brian.k.goodman@asu.edu 973-865-7341	American literature American Jewish literature Czech literature East-West cultural relations during the Cold War History of human rights Cultural dissent Free speech and free expression Beat movement Franz Kafka Philip Roth
Mark Hannah Associate Professor / Director, Writing, Rhetorics and Literacies, Department of English Graduate Faculty, Communication Affiliate, Law and Behavioral Science mark.hannah@asu.edu	Rhetoric Legal rhetoric Professional communication Interdisciplinary collaboration Public understanding of law Persuasive writing Scientific communication
David Hawkes Professor, Department of English David.Hawkes@asu.edu	Usury Debt Money-lending Idolatry Literature and economics Literature and religion Shakespeare Milton
Julia Himberg Associate Professor / Director, Film and Media Studies, Department of English Advisory Board, LGBT Studies Certificate Julia.Himberg@asu.edu	LGBT media and politics Television history Gender politics Media and marketing
George Justice Professor, Department of English George.Justice@asu.edu	Leadership Literature Higher education
Kathleen Lamp-Fortuno Associate Professor, Department of English Past President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric kslamp@asu.edu 480-965-3796	Classical rhetorical theory and practice History of rhetoric Place, culture, identity Material rhetoric Roman rhetoric (Cicero, Quintilian) Visual communication Monuments and memorials Augustus City Beautiful Movement Rhetoric of cities
Neal A. Lester Foundation Professor, Department of English Founding Director, Project Humanities neal.lester@asu.edu 480-727-7030	African American literature and culture Race and gender politics of hair Popular culture American race relations African American children’s literature Black women writers The N-word Privilege and anti-bias Cultural appropriation
Joe Lockard Associate Professor, Department of English Affiliate, African and African American Studies Program Affiliate, Jewish Studies Joe.Lockard@asu.edu	American literature African American literature US slavery Antislavery/abolitionist literature Prison education Prison writing Censorship Jewish American Literature
Devoney Looser Regents Professor, Department of English Guggenheim Fellow NEH Public Scholar devoney.looser@asu.edu 480-965-3925	British literature Women’s writings Jane Austen Feminism History of the novel Aging and old age in history Roller derby
Mark Lussier Professor Emeritus, Department of English Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict Senior Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Mark.Lussier@asu.edu	Science and literature William Blake European Romanticism Emergence of Buddhism into the West
Paul Kei Matsuda Professor / Director of Second Language Writing, Department of English Concurrent Professor of Applied Linguistics, Nanjing University, China Concurrent Professor of Applied Linguistics, Zhengzhou University, China pmatsuda@asu.edu	Language and writing issues for international students in U.S. higher education
Bruce Matsunaga Associate Research Professional / Director of Technology, Department of English bhm@asu.edu 480-965-3884	Digital humanities Literature Ecocriticism Computers and learning Computation and digital media
Keith Miller Professor, Department of English KEITH.MILLER@asu.edu	American Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X Fannie Lou Hamer Abolitionist speeches History of African American oratory
Tyler Peterson Assistant Professor, Department of English Executive Committee, American Indian Language Development Institute, University of Arizona (Tucson) t.peterson@asu.edu 480-727-9127	Linguistics Language and culture Endangered and indigenous languages of the world Tribal languages in North America, with a focus on communities in the Southwest
Krista Ratcliffe Foundation Professor / Chair, Department of English Krista.Ratcliffe@asu.edu	Rhetorics (political and cultural) Race / whiteness Communication strategies Feminism
Kevin S. Sandler Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of English Kevin.Sandler@asu.edu 480-727-3920	Media censorship Animation American film and television history Media branding Media marketing Video streaming
Ayanna Thompson Regents Professor, Department of English Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ayanna.Thompson@asu.edu	Shakespeare Race Early Modern studies Renaissance Medieval studies History Literature Performance studies

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Experts List for Media Inquiries

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