English Faculty and Staff

Molly Patterson is an Associate Professor in the English Department, specializing in Creative Writing.

Jonathan Rylander is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Writing Excellence (CWE). He teaches first-year writing and courses in the Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Culture emphasis in the English Department. In the CWE, he mentors student interns and consults with faculty writers and teachers across the university.

Dr. Asha Sen is Grace Lau Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she is Professor of English and an affiliate of the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  She received her PhD in Postcolonial Literature and Theory from Purdue University in 1996 and is the author of Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourse in Contemporary Literature (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.  She directed the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program from 2013-2016, is interested in international education and has participated in international exchanges with Harlaxton University and Delhi University.

Kaia Simon teaches courses in the Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Culture emphasis in the English Department and directs the Blugold Seminar Writing Program.

As a professor, I teach and write about how material forces -- such as how much access we have to everything we need to live -- shape our lives.  This is the historical materialist half of my work.  In the psychoanalytic half, I teach and write about why material forces don't explain everything about humans.

Sean Weidman is an energetic teacher-scholar who holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the Pennsylvania State University. He’s fond of autumn rain, strong coffee, and cozy sweaters.