Meet Our Faculty
Our faculty are committed to innovative teaching, significant scholarship, and the creation and maintenance of a collegial community. If you have any questions, please stop by to see us in the Humanities and Performing Arts Center (HPAC), Room 222, or call us at 864-503-5688.
- Dr. George Williams, Chair
- Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, Assistant Chair for World Languages
- Whittany Evans, Administrative Assistant
Full-Time Faculty in English and Writing, World Languages, Film, Global Studies, and African American Studies
Full-Time Faculty in English, World Languages, and African American Studies
Dr. George H. Williams, Chair
Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: 18th Century British Literature and Culture, History of the Book, Digital Technologies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies
Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, Assistant Chair of World Languages
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Teaching and Research Areas: French Language and Literature, Existentialism, Immigration, Francophone Africa, the Global South
Brock Adams
Senior Instructor of English, Director of the Writing Center
Teaching and Research Areas: Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Meggan Burton
Senior Instructor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish, Spanish for Business, Language Acquisition through Video
Dr. Catherine Canino
Professor of English, Honors Program Coordinator
Teaching and Research Areas: Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, Shakespeare and Film
Dr. Warren Carson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Interim Director of African American Studies
Teaching and Research Areas: African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Black Masculinity
Dr. June Carter
Professor of Spanish and Director of the Reflections Workshop for Language Instructors
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Literature, Latin American Literature and Culture, Spanish and Social Justice, K-16 Language Learning
Dr. Peter Caster
Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Film Studies, Disney, Masculinity Studies, Prison Studies, Cultural Studies
Dr. David Coberly
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning Assessment
Gabrielle Drake
Senior Instructor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Spanish for Specific Purposes, Spanish for Criminal Justice
Maria Francisco Monteso
Instructor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language, Translation and Interpreting, Spanish in the Community and the Professions, Study Abroad to Spain
Dr. Esther Godfrey
Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Writing Program
Teaching and Research Areas: Victorian Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, Women's Literature
Dr. Beth Keefauver
Instructor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Composition, Creative, and Professional Writing, Women's and Gender Studies, Environmental Literature
Dr. Celena E. Kusch
Professor of English
Executive Director, Center for Academic Innovation and Faculty Support
Teaching and Research Areas: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary Theory
Dr. Guimei Li
Visiting Confucius Scholar, Associate Professor of Chinese
Teaching and Research Areas: Chinese language, linguistics, second language acquisition
Dr. Alexander Lorenz
Assistant Professor of German
Teaching and Research Areas: German Language and Literature, German for the Professions, German Language Acquisition, German and STEM, Translation Studies
Dr. David Marlow
Professor of English
Director of the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement
Teaching and Research Areas: Linguistics, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Dialect Diversity, Service Learning, Study Abroad in Nicaragua
Dr. Thomas McConnell
Professor of English, Internship Coordinator
Teaching and Research Areas: Creative Writing, Novel, Long Story, Autobiography and Memoir, Contemporary Literature
Dr. Richard Murphy
Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature
Dr. Colleen O'Brien
Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: American Literature, African American Literature and African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Dr. Shannon Polchow
Associate Professor of Spanish
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Literature, Golden Age Spain, Study Abroad in Spain and Costa Rica
Dr. Marilyn Reynolds
Associate Professor of English, Faculty Advisor for Writers Inc.
Teaching and Research Areas: Creative Writing, Short Fiction, Gothic and Horror Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Southern Literature, Women's and Gender Studies
Wayne Robbins
Senior Instructor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Composition, Creative, and Professional Writing, Song Writing
Dr. Monika Shehi Herr
Associate Professor of English
Teaching and Research Areas: Rhetoric and Composition, Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Studies in Composition
Tasha Thomas
Senior Instructor of English, Director of the Spartanburg Writing Project
Teaching and Research Areas: Composition and Creative Writing, English Education, Young Adult Literature, Teaching with Technology, Digital Storytelling
Part-Time Faculty in English, Film and World Languages
- Jill Adams, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Jane Addison, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Camoosha Bell, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Nassera Khalida Boumghar, Adjunct Instructor of French
- Dr. Jim Charles, Professor Emeritus of Education
- Dr. John (Ben) Coates, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Ruth Colnot, Adjunct Instructor of French
- Kristian Colyard, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Vickie Dale, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Shea Gabriel, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Maria Wersinger Gallego, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Jennifer Gallman, Dual-Enrollment Instructor of English
- Leslie Garber, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Nathan Gilmore, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Samantha Gosnell, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Teshie Herbert, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Carrie Hill, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Jane Kuebler, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Erin Medlin, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Dr. Joshua Mims, Adjunct Instructor of Film
- Heidi Montes, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Karena Poupard, Adjunct Instructor of American Sign Language
- Lisa Richie, Dual-Enrollment Instructor of English
- Jessica Ulmer, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Juliane Will, Adjunct Instructor of German
- Jonathan Winchell, Adjunct Instructor of Film
- Heike Wrenn, Adjunct Instructor of German