Head of department
![Shelton Waldrep](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/10/Waldrep-Shelton-8-29-19-cropped-366x366.jpg)
Shelton Waldrep
- Distinguished Professor and Chair of English
- Professor of English
Faculty
![Mike Bendzela](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Bendzela-Mike-cropped-366x366.jpg)
![Marni Berger](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Berger-Marni.jpg)
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![Elizabeth Dodge, head shot](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/09/Elizabeth-headshot-1-366x366.jpg)
![Lynn Eckersley-Ray](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Eckersley-Ray-Lynnette-cropped-366x366.jpg)
Lynnette Eckersley-Ray
SHE | HER | HERS
- Adjunct Faculty of English
![Timothy Erwin](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Erwin-Timothy-cropped-366x366.jpg)
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![Nancy Gish](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Gish-Nancy-cropped-366x366.png)
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![Lorna Hughes](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Hughes-Lorna-cropped-366x366.jpg)
![Carrie Kancilia](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/09/Carrie-Kancilia-People-Profile-366x366.jpg)
Carrie Kancilia, PhD
SHE | HER | HERS
- Faculty Director of Writing Services
- Lecturer, English and Women & Gender Studies
![Kevin Kelly](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Kelly-Kevin-366x366.jpg)
![Jane Kuenz](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/10/Kuenz-Jane-3.jpg)
Jane Kuenz
- Professor of English
- Associate Dean, School of Business
![Jane Martin](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Martin-Jane-Headshot-cropped-366x366.jpg)
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![Kate Mitchell](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/mitchell-resized.jpg)
![John Muthyala](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/09/JohnM-366x366.jpg)
John Muthyala
- John Muthyala, Professor of English
- Project director, USM Digital Humanities
- Digital Humanities
- Globalization
- Postcolonialism
- Literatures of the Americas
- Cultural Studies
![Jessica Ouellette](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/09/Ouellette-Jessica-cropped-3-scaled-366x366.jpg)
Jessica Ouellette, PhD
SHE | HER | HERS
- Associate Professor of English and Women & Gender Studies
- Director of Writing Programs
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![Rebecca Redlon](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Redlon-Rebecca.jpeg)
![Kristin Rieff](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Rieff-Kristin-2015-scaled-366x366.jpg)
![Sharon Ross](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/02/Ross-Sharon3-cropped-366x366.jpg)
![Laima Sruoginis](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/03/Sruoginis-Laima-cropped-366x366.jpg)
![Kevin St. Jarre](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/03/St.-Jarre-Kevin-cropped-366x366.jpg)
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![Linda Trombley](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/03/Trombley-Linda-11-3-22-cropped-366x366.jpg)
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Justin Tussing
HE | HIM | HIS
Associate Professor of English
Director of Stonecoast MFA
![Shelton Waldrep](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/10/Waldrep-Shelton-8-29-19-cropped-366x366.jpg)
Shelton Waldrep
- Distinguished Professor and Chair of English
- Professor of English
![Lisa Walker smiling in a light pink blazer with a white painted brick background](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2022/08/testimonial-headshot_Lisa-Walker-366x366.jpg)
Lisa Walker, PhD
SHE | HER | HERS
- Associate Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Associate Professor of English
![Ryan Whittle](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2024/04/ryan-whittle-366x366.jpeg)
![Ted Williams](https://usm.maine.edu/department-english/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2023/03/Williams-Ted-cropped-366x366.jpg)
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Staff
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