People

RCID Program Director

David Blakesley

Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Campbell Chair in Technical Communication; Interim Director RCID
Courses: Histories of Rhetoric, RCID Studio I and II, Rhetoric of Cinema, Technical Writing, Kenneth Burke and Rhetorical Theory
Research Interests: rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, digital and visual rhetorics, print and digital publishing, innovation and entrepreneurship, film theory and production, book design, technical communication, computers and writing, digital humanities.
Email: dblakes@clemson.edu
Office: 616 Strode
Phone: (765)-409-2649

Affiliated Faculty

Hamilton Altstatt

Audio Program Director and Assistant Professor of Practice, Audio
Courses: Acoustics of Music, Audio Engineering, Electronic Comp, Introduction to Audio Technology, Music Business
Email: haltsta@clemson.edu

Todd Anderson

Email: tdander@clemson.edu
Office: 256G Sirrine Hall

Erin Ash, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Email: ash3@clemson.edu

Susanna Ashton

Professor
Research Interests: Notions of authentication and identity in slavery & freedom narratives; 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American Literature; collaboration; surveillance studies; copyright; history of the book; periodical culture; abolitionist literature; Charles W. Chesnutt; American Literary Realism; Life Writing
Email: sashton@clemson.edu
Office: 611 Strode

Luca Barattoni, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, World Cinema
Courses: Italian Cinema, Popular Culture
Email: lbaratt@clemson.edu
Office: 303 Strode

Stephanie L. Barczewski

Chair; Professor; Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities
Courses: Modern Britain
Research Interests: European History; Britain; Cultural; Empire
Email: sbarcze@clemson.edu
Office: Hardin Hall 106
Phone: 864/656-3153

Abel A. Bartley

Professor
Courses: African-American, Urban, & Civil Rights History, History of Sports
Research Interests: U.S. History; US 1945-1975; US since 1975; African American history
Email: abartly@clemson.edu
Office: 108 Hardin Hall
Phone: 864-656-5372

Becky Becker

Professor of Theatre
Courses: Script Analysis, Stage Directing, Theatre History
Research Interests: New Plays, Cross-Cultural Theatre, Hidden Histories, Social Justice, Embodied Cognition
Email: becker1@clemson.edu
Office: 210 Brooks

James M. Burns

Professor and Director of the Humanities Hub
Courses: Africa, British Empire, History of Cinema
Research Interests: World History; Africa since 1850; Empire; Transnational history; Global History; Film Studies; Popular Culture
Email: burnsj@clemson.edu
Office: Hardin Hall 127
Phone: 864-656-5373

Cameron Fae Bushnell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication
Courses: Postcolonial Literature, Southern Literature, Contemporary Literature
Research Interests: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Postcolonial, World, and American Ethnic Literatures; Critical Literary and Race Theory; Interdisciplinary Studies; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature & the Arts; Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID)
Email: cbushne@clemson.edu
Office: 707 Strode
Phone: 864-656-9351

Bryan Denham

Campbell Professor of Sports Communication
Email: bdenham@clemson.edu
Phone: 864-656-1567

Megan Eatman

Associate Professor; Associate Chair
Research Interests: Public Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Disability Rhetorics, Composition Pedagogy
Email: meeatma@clemson.edu
Office: 806 Strode

Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D.

Co-Director of Ph.D. program in Planning, Design and the Built Environment; Associate Professor / Robert Mills Professor in Architecture for 2018/19
Email: uersoy@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 3-115

Maziyar Faridi

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Comparative Modernism; Global Cinema; Poetry and Poetics; Film Theory; Postcolonial Transnational Studies; Critical Theory; Global South; Middle East and North African Literatures and Cinemas
Email: mfaridi@clemson.edu
Office: 610 Strode

Jordan Frith

Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
Courses: Technical Communication, Composition, Mobile media and Infrastructure, Histories of Technology
Research Interests: technical communication, mobile communication, infrastructure studies, writing studies, social media
Email: jfrith@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 602

Gabriel Hankins

Associate Professor
Courses: Digital Literary and Cultural Studies, World Literature, Modernist Literature
Research Interests: Modernism, Digital Humanities, Television Studies, Comparative Theory, Horror
Email: ghankin@clemson.edu
Office: 609 Strode

Stephanie Hassell

Assistant Professor
Courses: Slavery, Indian Ocean World
Research Interests: World History; Africa, 1500-1850; Empire; Slavery; Indian Ocean Studies; Religion
Email: stphanh@clemson.edu
Office: Hardin 104

Dani Herro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Digital Media and Learning
Email: dherro@clemson.edu

Tharon Howard

Professor, Professional Communication & Information Design Program Director
Courses: Digital Publishing and Media Production, Content Strategy, UX Design, Classical Rhetoric, Visual Communication, The Rise of Social Media
Email: tharon@clemson.edu
Office: 617 Strode

Kathryn Langenfeld

Assistant Professor
Courses: Ancient Rome, Ancient Mediterranean
Research Interests: Roman Empire; Mediterranean World; World History; Historiography/Historical Theory & Method; Archaeology; Art and Architecture; Material Culture
Email: klangen@clemson.edu
Office: Hardin 008

Michael LeMahieu

Professor
Courses: Contemporary Literature, Capstone Seminar, Topics in American Literature since 1865.
Research Interests: 20th/21st Cent American Lit. Civil War Memory. Philosophy of Language.
Email: mlemahi@clemson.edu
Office: 101 Strode Tower
Phone: 864.656.0376

Linda Li-Bleuel

Professor of Music
Courses: Applied Piano Lessons, Music History Since 1750, Music in the Western World (Honors), Piano Accompanying
Email: llibleu@clemson.edu
Office: 216 Brooks

Darren L Linvill

Professor Co-Director, Watt Family Innovation Center Media Forensics Hub
Email: DARRENL@clemson.edu
Office: 405 Strode Tower
Phone: 864-656-4182

Eddie Lohmeyer

Email: elohmey@clemson.edu
Office: 256F Sirrine Hall

Jeff Love, Ph.D.

Research Professor of German and Russian
Email: gjlove@clemson.edu

Brian McGrath

Professor
Email: mcgrath@clemson.edu
Office: 607 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-3151

Lisa Melonçon, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor
Email: lmelono@clemson.edu
Office: 256A Sirrine Hall

Michael L. Meng

Associate Professor; M.A. Program Director
Courses: Global Intellectual History: Global Attitudes Towards Technology (Fall 2023)
Research Interests: European History; Central Europe; Intellectual History; Religion; Philosophy
Email: mmeng@clemson.edu
Office: 116 Hardin Hall
Phone: (864) 656-3153

Lee Morrissey

Alumni Distinguished Professor; Affiliate Faculty, Religious Studies.
Courses: Milton, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century,
Research Interests: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-language literature; John Milton; early modern religion and politics; history of literary criticism; colonial Ireland; archipelagic and transatlantic
Email: lmorris@clemson.edu
Office: 316 Strode
Phone: (864) 656-3151

Clare Mullaney

Assistant Professor, Disability Rhetorics
Courses: American Literature, Practice of Criticism, American Literature II, American Literature 1800-1899, Literary Editing, Disability and Literature, Disability Theory (grad)
Research Interests: disability studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature, material text studies, editorship studies, and reading methods
Email: cmullaney@clemson.edu
Office: 605 Strode

Angela Naimou

Associate Professor
Courses: Literatures of the Middle East and North Africa; Postcolonial and World Literatures; World Literature; American Literatures of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Research Interests: Literatures in English since 1900; Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Studies of Race, Diaspora, and Migration; Law and Literature; World Literature in Translation
Email: anaimou@clemson.edu
Office: 709 Strode

Stephanie Pangborn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: sruhl@clemson.edu

Diane Perpich, Ph.D.

Professor Women's Leadership
Research Interests: Phenomenology, Ethics, Feminist Theory
Email: dperpic@clemson.edu
Office: 256C Sirrine Hall
Phone: 864-656-1532

Mashal Saif

Associate Professor of Religion
Email: msaif@clemson.edu
Office: Hardin 214

Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor of German; Director of ML Program
Research Interests: Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 18th century, German philosophy; Holocaust / Shoah studies
Email: schmidj@clemson.edu
Office: 704 Strode

Timothy Sellnow

Professor of Communication
Research Interests: Crisis Communication, Risk Communication, Disaster Communication, Agriculture Communication
Email: tsellno@clemson.edu
Office: 403 Strode
Phone: 864-656-1567

Deanna Sellnow

Professor and Chair, Department of Communication
Research Interests: Strategic instructional risk and crisis communication in a variety of contexts such as natural disasters, health epidemics and pandemics, biosecurity, terrorism and agricultural biotechnology.
Email: dsellno@clemson.edu
Office: 430E Daniel Hall
Phone: 864-656-1567

Aga Skrodzka

Associate Professor of World Cinema
Courses: Film Theory and Criticism; Sexuality and the Cinema; Alterity and Difference on Screen; The Essay Film
Research Interests: Film and Media Theory, Feminist Thought, Erotics of Screen, Political Economy of the Visual Commons, Transnational Cinemas
Email: askrodz@clemson.edu
Office: 712 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3151

Michelle Smith

Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Composition
Courses: Rhetorical Theory, Feminist Rhetorics and Methodologies, Material Rhetorics, Utopian Literature
Research Interests: Feminist rhetorics, historiography, women’s work, archives, utopianism
Email: mcsmth@clemson.edu
Office: 606 Strode

Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature
Courses: ENGL 4820: American Literature to 1920; ENGL3980: American Literature Survey I; ENGL3990: American Literature Survey II; ENGL4960: Senior Seminar
Research Interests: Black self-writing, Black historiography, and 18th- and 19th-century Black literature and culture
Email: rhonddt@clemson.edu
Office: 711 Strode

Daniel E. Wueste

Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Philosophy
Email: ernest@clemson.edu
Office: 234 Hardin

Heidi Zinzow, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Email: hzinzow@clemson.edu

Professional Communication and Information Design (PCID)

Katalin Beck

Senior Lecturer
Courses: Technical Writing, Business Writing, World Literature
Research Interests: Technical and Business Writing; Global and Cross-cultural Communication; Online Collaboration
Email: kbeck@clemson.edu
Office: 604 Strode

Will Cunningham

Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: American Literature, post-1865; Service-Learning and Professional Communication
Email: wcunnin@clemson.edu
Office: 613 Strode

Ashley S Fisk

Principal Lecturer
Courses: Technical and Business Communication and Service Learning
Email: cowden2@clemson.edu
Office: 514 Strode

LaCresha Green

Senior Lecturer
Courses: English 3040: Business Writing; English 1030: Composition and Rhetoric
Research Interests: Rhetoric of Divine Spaces; Rhetoric and Mortality; Rhetoric, Language, and Culture in U.S. Villages; and the Rhetoric of Identities
Email: lacresg@clemson.edu
Office: 502 Strode

Tharon Howard

Professor, Professional Communication & Information Design Program Director
Courses: Digital Publishing and Media Production, Content Strategy, UX Design, Classical Rhetoric, Visual Communication, The Rise of Social Media
Email: tharon@clemson.edu
Office: 617 Strode

Greg Martin, MA, MBA

Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design
Email: mgreg@clemson.edu
Office: Sirrine Clemson, SC 29634

Laurianne Matheson

Lecturer
Email: lauriap@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 516

Chelsea McKelvey

Lecturer
Courses: ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; ENGL 2130: British Literature
Research Interests: Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century Literature
Email: crmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 511

Seth McKelvey

Lecturer
Research Interests: 20th- & 21st century American literature; contemporary poetry; political economy
Email: rsmckel@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 311

Nancy Paxton-Wilson

Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: 17th and 18th Century British Lit, Critical Prison Studies, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing, STS Science/Technology in Society
Email: npaxton@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Mike Pulley

Senior Lecturer
Courses: ENGL 2130: Introduction to Journalism; ENGL 3330: Writing for the News Media; ENGL 3150: Science Writing & Communication
Research Interests: Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction, Science Writing, 20th-century Literature
Email: wpulley@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Nicholas Rader, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design
Courses: Professional Communication and Information Design, Technical Writing, Business Writing, FYC
Research Interests: Disability rhetoric, narrative architecture, histo-cartography, professional communication and information design, veteran studies, and rhetorics of war
Email: nrader@clemson.edu
Office: 240 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC

Philip D Randall

Principal Lecturer
Courses: English 3150: Science Writing; English 1030: Composition and Rhetoric; STS 1010
Email: randal3@clemson.edu
Office: 302 Strode

Mark Valenzuela Jones, M.F.A.

Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design
Courses: Professional Communication & Information Design 3040, World Cinema 3570
Email: mvj@clemson.edu
Office: 256 Sirrine Clemson, SC 29634

Heather Williams

Senior Lecturer
Courses: ENGL 2120: World Literature; ENGL 3140: Technical Writing; ENGL 3040: Business Writing
Research Interests: Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary World Literature, Technical Writing, Business Writing, Client-Based Projects
Email: hpwilli@clemson.edu
Office: 517 Strode Tower

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