Faculty Directory
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Brian Ballentine
Professor & Chair; Coordinator, Professional Writing and Editing
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Laura Brady
Eberly Professor of Outstanding Teaching; Director, Center for Writing Excellence
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Catherine Gouge
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH; COORDINATOR, MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND HEALTH STUDIES MINOR
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Rosemary Hathaway
Associate Professor
Rosemary Hathaway has been teaching at WVU since 2007. Her areas of specialization include folklore, Appalachian Studies, English Education, and young-adult literature.
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Kirk Hazen
Professor of Linguistics; Director, West Virginia Dialect Project
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Katy Ryan
Professor; Eberly Family Professor of Outstanding Teaching
Professor Ryan's research focuses on the history and literature of imprisonment in the United States.
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini
Gaziano Family Legacy Professor and Associate Professor of English
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Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
Service Professor; Director of the Eberly Writing Studio
Nathalie Singh-Corcoran is the director of the Eberly Writing Studio. In addition to her administrative role, she teaches classes in the Undergraduate Writing, Professional Writing, and the graduate program. Dr. Singh-Corcoran has held several leadership positions including the President of the International Writing Centers Association and WVU Faculty Senate Chair. Her research interests include writing pedagogy, writing program administration, Writing Across & Within the Disciplines, contingent faculty issues and concerns, and student retention and persistence. Her publications have appeared in several edited collections as well as in Composition Forum, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, College English, and Kairos.
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David Stewart
Associate Professor; Associate Vice President for International Student Life and Global Services
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Jill Woods
Teaching Assistant Professor/Undergraduate PWE Internship Coordinator
Prior to joining the teaching faculty of West Virginia University in 2009, Jill Woods spent more than a decade as a professional writer and editor in various fields—healthcare, insurance, manufacturing—positioning herself to teach applied communication and experiential learning courses through the English department’s Professional Writing & Editing program. She earned her PhD in Instructional Design & Technology from WVU.
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Omar Yacoub
Service Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Writing Across Communication
Omar Yacoub is a Service Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Writing Across Communication, where he teaches composition courses and manages several duties in SpeakWrite and the Writing Studio. Omar has a wide range of teaching experiences. He taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at different language centers and schools in Egypt, and at the American Language Institute at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Omar’s expertise is in composition and writing studies, with a specialization in STEM writing, particularly business, medical and computer science writing. He held teaching positions where he taught business writing and technical and professional communications, and administrative positions where he acted as a Business Writing Coordinator and a Writing Center Assistant Director. He has published in leading journals in the field, such as Written Communication and Composition Studies. He recently won the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum “Best Article Focus on Research Award” on a co-authored article, titled “Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship through the Patient SOAP Note”. Also, He received the “Promising Future Research in Composition Award” on his dissertation, titled “Undergraduate Computer Science Students’ Ways of Transferring Prior and Concurrent Writing Knowledge: Exploring Disciplinary and Individual Knowledge Domains” from the Department of English at IUP. In addition to his teaching and academic scholarship, Omar has a strong profile of community service where he serves incarcerated communities in the Department of Corrections in Pennsylvania and works with two refugee organizations in Pittsburgh to support refugee students’ English language learning and college experiences.