Faculty
Below are the Department of English faculty located on the St. Petersburg campus. For full bios and faculty on all campuses, visit the departmental website.
Julie Buckner Armstrong
Title: Professor, Literature
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Phone: 727-873-4061
Email: jba@usf.edu
Office: DAV 255
Area of Interest: Civil rights movement; literature and pedagogy; racial violence and historical memory;
American, African American, and southern literatures; 19th-21st century multiethnic
literatures of the US; Florida literature; women’s and gender studies; creative nonfiction
Trey Conner
Title: Associate Professor, Writing Studies
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Phone: 727-873-4783
Email: conner@usf.edu
Office: DAV 254
Area of Interest: Rhetoric and composition; technical communication; digital pedagogy; rhetorics of
science and technology; history and theory of rhetoric; global and comparative rhetoric;
service learning; soundwriting; permaculture
S. Morgan Gresham
Title: Associate Professor, Writing Program Coordinator
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Phone: 727-873-4784
Email: gresham@usf.edu
Office: DAV 253
Area of Interest: Writing program administration; portfolio assessment; teaching composition and teaching
writing in digital environments
Thomas Hallock
Title: Professor of English
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Phone: 727-873-4954
Email: thallock@usf.edu
Office: Davis 257
Area of Interest: Environmental humanities; early American literature; literary criticism and narrative
nonfiction
Heather Jones
Title: Associate Professor of Instruction, Creative Writing
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Phone: 727-873-4435
Email: heatherjone@usf.edu
Area of Interest: American Civil War; Appalachian history and culture and religion
Jill McCracken
Title: Professor, Writing Studies
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Phone: 727-873-4740
Email: mccracken@usf.edu
Office: DAV 250
Area of Interest: Rhetoric of marginalized communities; public policy; gender studies; reproductive
technologies and civic engagement
Lisa Starks
Title: Professor, Literature
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Phone: 727-873-4158
Email: starks@usf.edu
Office: DAV 256
Area of Interest: Hakespeares adaptation; cinema; Jewish studies; Levinas; sexuality; violence; and
trauma in Shakespeare and other Renaissance drama; early modern theatre and Ovid