Literature and Criticism Faculty and Staff Directory

Professor of English
Renaissance Literature
Shakespeare
British Civil War and Commonwealth Literature
Post-9/11 Fiction
HSS 506Y
724-357-4941
corchard@iup.edu

Professor of English
HSS 506AA
724-357-2272
msell@iup.edu

Full Professor
Co-Director, Center for Digital Humanities and Culture
HSS 318
sherwood@iup.edu

Professor of English
Treasurer-Secretary, American Humor Studies Association
HSS 506Q
724-357-4931
todd.thompson@iup.edu

Professor, Department of English
Director, Graduate Studies in Literature and Criticism
Convener, Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative
Frederick Douglas Institute
HSS 506C
724-357-4072
Veronica.Watson@iup.edu

Professor of English
Director, MA in Literature and MA in Composition and Literature Programs
Co-Director, IUP Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative
Editor, Pennsylvania English
HSS 506EE
724-357-5913
mtwill@iup.edu

Associate Professor
Former Vice Present, Program Chair, and Member of Executive Committee of MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of America), 2012–15
Former Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, IUP, 2012–15
HSS 506BB
724-357-2604
Lingyan.Yang@iup.edu

Associate Professor
Graduate Job Placement and Professionalization Officer
Managing Editor, the Scriblerian
Eighteenth-Century British and European Literature and the Rise of the Novel
Skepticism, Satire, and Wit
HSS 405A
mdholm@iup.edu

Associate Professor
HSS 506P
heflin@iup.edu

English Graduate Office Secretary
HSS 506U
724-357-2263
grad-eng@iup.edu