English Composition Full-Time Faculty
Amy Anderson, Lecturer (M.A.,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Amy Anderson teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, for which she has been named Outstanding Professor by the Student Government Association.
Office: Library 330 | Phone: (423) 425-5474 | Email: amy-anderson@utc.edu
Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz Atkinson, Lecturer (M.A., San Diego State University)
Gwendolyn Spring Kurtz Atkinson teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.
Office: Library 334 | Phone: (423) 425-5544 | Email: spring-atkinson@utc.edu
Jill Beard, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Jill Beard teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Holt 231-C | Phone: (423) 425-5641 | Email: jill-beard@utc.edu
Jacqueline Boals, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Jacqueline Boals teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 339 | Phone: (423) 425-2551 | Email: jacqueline-boals@utc.edu
Ann Buggey, Lecturer (M.F.A., The University of Memphis)
Ann Buggey teaches courses in rhetoric and composition. Her poetry has appeared most recently in the Tulane Review and Bayou. She has new work scheduled to appear in Cairn, Calyx, Blueline, Poetry International, Gingko Tree Review, and Subtropics.
Office: Holt 232-J | Phone: (423) 425-2317 | Email: ann-buggey@utc.edu
Sara Coffman, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Virginia)
Sara Coffman teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 307 | Phone: (423) 425-2536 | Email: sara-coffman@utc.edu
Rebecca Cook, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Rebecca Cook teaches writing and Western humanities. She writes poetry and prose and is particularly interested in writing that defies genre. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has published in many literary journals and magazines. New work is forthcoming from Northwest Review, Orchid, Tar Wolf Review, Red Rock Review, Powhatan Review, and Quarter After Eight. Her chapbook of poems, The Terrible Baby, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2006. She is founder and president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild.
Office: Library 318 | Phone: (423) 425-2546 | Email: rebecca-cook@utc.edu
Suzy Davis, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tenessee at Chattanooga)
Office: Library 309 | Phone: (423) 425-2537 | Email: Suzy-Davis@utc.edu
Matt Evans, Lecturer (M.A., University of Southern Mississippi)
Matt Evans teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.
Office: Library 317 | Phone: (423) 425-2545 | Email: Matthew-Evans@utc.edu
April Cooper Green, Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
April Green teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western Humanities.
Office: Library 315 | Phone: (423) 425-2543 | Email: april-cooper@utc.edu
Lauren Sewell Ingraham, Associate Professor and Director of Composition (Ph.D., University of Louisville)
Lauren Ingraham specializes in rhetoric and composition studies as well as professional writing. In addition to directing the first-year writing program at UTC, she pursues research in composition theory, research, and pedagogy, writing program administration, and ethnographic research in composition.
Office: Holt 231-B | Phone: (423) 425-5232 | Email: lauren-ingraham@utc.edu
Margaret Jackson, Lecturer (M.A., Middlebury College)
Marg Jackson teaches courses in Western humanities, professional writing, and rhetoric and composition.
Office: Holt 232-J | Phone: (423) 425-2317 | Email: margaret-jackson@utc.edu
Michael Jaynes, Lecturer (M.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Michael Jaynes teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.
Office: Library 311 | Phone: (423) 425-2539 | Email: michael-jaynes@utc.edu
Rowan Johnson, Lecturer (M.A., University of Nottingham, England)
Originally from South Africa, Rowan Johnson earned his M.A. in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of Nottingham, England. While living in South Korea for six years, Mr. Johnson was able to travel extensively. He self-published his first novel, So Far from San Lameer, in 2004, and he has produced various other forms of writing since then, such as poetry and numerous magazine articles. He is currently teaching rhetoric and composition at UTC.
Office: Library 331 | Phone: (423) 425-5475 | Email: rowan-johnson@utc.edu
Paige Joyner, Lecturer (M.F.A.,Vermont College of Norwich University)
Paige Joyner teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 310 | Phone: (423) 425-2538 | Email: paige-joyner@utc.edu
Justin Lewis, Lecturer (M.A.,The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Justin Lewis graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Comparative Literature before moving to Europe for a year to teach English. After returning from Prague, Justin taught high school for a couple of years before moving on to complete an M.A. in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition at UTC. He teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition and Western Humanities. Some of Justin's research interests include computers and writing, digital rhetoric, youth subcultures, and cyborgization.
Office: Library 338 | Phone: (423) 425-2550 | Email: justin-lewis@utc.edu
Chad Littleton, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Chad Littleton teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and professional writing.
Office: Library 312 | Phone: (423) 425-2540 | Email: chad-littleton@utc.edu
Gale Mauk, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Gale Mauk teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.
Office: Library 308 | Phone: (423) 425-2535 | Email: Gale-Mauk@utc.edu
Catherine Meeks, Lecturer (M.S., The University of Montana-Missoula)
Catherine Meeks teaches undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition. She studied Environmental Writing at the University of
Montana-Missoula. Her current research and writing interests include exploring intersections of race, landscape, agriculture, and
foodways, particularly in the American South.
Office: Holt 231-D | Phone: (423) 425-5640 | Email: catherine-meeks@utc.edu
Tiffany Mitchell, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Tiffany Mitchell teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and is an e-structor with Smarthinking.com, an online writing center.
Through her work with Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park, she has been one of the voices of Moccasin Bend Moments, heard on 90.5 FM.
She also assists the students and coordinators of the UTC School of Nursing DREAMWork Nursing Diversity program with writing needs.
Office: Library 335 | Phone: (423) 425-2547 | Email: tiffany-mitchell@utc.edu
Sheena Monds, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Sheena Monds teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 337 | Phone: (423) 425-2549 | Email: sheena-monds@utc.edu
Andrew Najberg, Lecturer M.A., The University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Andrew Najberg teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, as well as Western humanities and cretive writing.
Office: Library 313 | Phone: (423) 425-2541 | Email: Andrew-Najberg@utc.edu
Heather Palmer, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Georgia State University)
Heather Palmer specializes in ancient and modern rhetorical history and theory, feminist rhetorics and women's studies, and media and
cultural studies. Her most recent work was published in Modern Language Studies and in a collection entitled Collaborating, Literature,
and Composition: An Anthology for Teachers and Writers of English, edited by Peter Khost and Frank Gaughan. An article for Pedagogy is
scheduled for publication in 2008. She is currently working on a book about the function of parrhesia in the history of women's
rhetoric from the Delphic Oracles to the Second Sophistic.
Office: Holt 338-A | Phone: (423) 425-4693 | Email: heather-palmer@utc.edu
Tim Parker, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Tim Parker teaches courses in professional writing and rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 316 | Phone: (423) 425-2544 | Email: tim-parker@utc.edu
Tracye Pool, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Tracye Pool teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and writing for the social sciences.
Office: Library 336 | Phone: (423) 425-2548 | Email: tracye-pool@utc.edu
Lanie Rieth, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Lanie Rieth teaches courses in rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 332 | Phone: (423) 425-5476 | Email: lanie-rieth@utc.edu
Jenny Smith, Lecturer (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Jenny Smith teaches courses in scientific writing and rhetoric and composition.
Office: Library 329 | Phone: (423) 425-5473 | Email: jenny-smith@utc.edu
Kris Whorton, Lecturer (M.A., University of Alabama)
Kristine Whorton teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, and Western humanities.
Office: Library 333 | Phone: (423) 425-5481 | Email: kristine-whorton@utc.edu
Jane Womack, Lecturer & Director of The English as a Second Language Institute (M.A., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Jane Womack teaches courses in rhetoric and composition and English as a second language.
Office: Library 314 | Phone: (423) 425-2542 | Email: jane-womack@utc.edu
The Composition Program employs some part-time faculty each semester as enrollment requires. To reach an adjunct instructor, call the program office at (423)425-4261.
