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
- Gabrielle Drake, Assistant Chair for World Languages
- Whittany Evans, Administrative Assistant
Full-Time Faculty
Full-Time Faculty in English and Writing, World Languages, Film, Global Studies, and African American Studies
Dr. George H. Williams, Chair
Associate Professor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: 18th Century British Literature and Culture, History of the Book, Digital Technologies, Digital Humanities, Disability Studies.
Gabrielle Drake, Assistant Chair for World Languages
Senior Instructor of Spanish | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Spanish for Specific Purposes, Spanish for Criminal Justice
Brock Adams
Senior Instructor of English, Director of the Writing Center | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Meggan Burton
Senior Instructor of Spanish | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish, Spanish for Business, Language Acquisition through Video
Dr. Catherine Canino
Professor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, Shakespeare and Film
Dr. Peter Caster
Professor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Film Studies, Disney, Masculinity Studies, Prison Studies, Cultural Studies
Maria Francisco Monteso
Senior Instructor of Spanish | Contact
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 | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Victorian Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, Women's Literature
Araceli Hernandez-Laroche
Professor of Modern Languages | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: French Language and Literature, Existentialism, Immigration, Francophone Africa, the Global South
Dr. Beth Keefauver
Senior Instructor of English | Contact
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 | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary Theory
Dr. Alexander Lorenz
Assistant Professor of German, Internship Coordinator | Contact
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 | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Linguistics, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Dialect Diversity, Service Learning, Study Abroad in Nicaragua
Dr. Richard Murphy
Associate Professor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature
Dr. Colleen O'Brien
Professor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: American Literature, African American Literature and African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Dr. Shannon Polchow
Professor of Spanish | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Spanish Language and Literature, Golden Age Spain, Study Abroad in Spain and Costa Rica
Wayne Robbins
Senior Instructor of English | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Composition, Creative, and Professional Writing, Song Writing
Dr. Monika Shehi Herr
Associate Professor of English | Contact
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 | Contact
Teaching and Research Areas: Composition and Creative Writing, English Education, Young Adult Literature, Teaching with Technology, Digital Storytelling
Part-Time Faculty
Part-Time Faculty in English, Film and World Languages
- Jill Adams, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Camoosha Bell, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Nassera Khalida Boumghar, Adjunct Instructor of French
- 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
- 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
- Erin Medlin, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Heidi Montes, Adjunct Instructor of Spanish
- Karena Poupard, Adjunct Instructor of American Sign Language
- Jessica Ulmer, Adjunct Instructor of English
- Jonathan Winchell, Adjunct Instructor of Film
- Heike Wrenn, Adjunct Instructor of German