Dr. Anastassiya Andrianova 
Professor of English
PhD Comparative Literature (CUNY, 2011)

Office: Minard 318 E48
Anastassiya.Andriano@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: British Romantic and Victorian literature, drama, translation, pedagogy, Comparative Literature, Slavic literature, Animal Studies, and Postcolonial Studies

Dr. Lisa Arnold
Associate Professor  
PhD Rhetoric and Composition (University of Louisville, 2011)

Office: Minard 318E32
Phone: (701) 231-5097
lisa.r.arnold@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Histories of Writing Instruction, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Multilingual and Transnational Literacy Practices

Sarah Beck, MFA
Lecturer
MFA in Creative Writing (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)
Graduate Certificate in Publishing (North Dakota State University)

Office: Minard 316M
sarah.w.beck@ndsu.edu

Brady Bergeson, MFA
Senior Lecturer
MFA in Creative Writing (Hamline University, 2006)

Office: Minard 316J
Brady.Bergeson@ndsu.edu

Dr. Sean Burt
Chair, Department of English, Associate Professor of English and Religious Studies
PhD Religion (Duke University, 2009)

Office: Minard 318G
Phone: (701) 231-8820
Sean.Burt@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Bible as Literature, Biblical Poetry, Poetics, Aesthetics

Dr. Kelly Cameron
Senior Lecturer
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition (Texas Christian University)

Office: Minard 316A
Kelly.Cameron@ndsu.edu

Natalie Smith Carlson
Senior Lecturer
MA in English (North Dakota State University)

Office: Minard 316G
natalie.smith.carlson@ndsu.edu

Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald 
Vice President for Research and Creative Activity & Professor of English
PhD Linguistics (University of Arizona, 1997)

Office: Research 1, 110
Phone: (701) 231-6542
Colleen.fitzgerald@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Phonology, Native American languages, Indigenous language revitalization and documentation

Currently not accepting graduate students

Dr. Adam Goldwyn
Professor of English
PhD Comparative Literature (CUNY, 2010)

Office: Minard 318H
 Adam.Goldwyn@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Medieval Literature, Reception Theory, Translation, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Ecocriticism

Dr. Amy Gore
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. English Language and Literature (University of New Mexico, 2019)

Office: Minard 318E42
Contact:amy.gore@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Early and Nineteenth-Century American literature, Indigenous literature, book history and print culture, Gothic literature, body studies, and the recovery of marginalized women and Native American writers

Dr. Alison Graham-Bertolini
Professor of English & Director of Graduate Studies
PhD English Literature (Louisiana State University, 2009)

Office: Minard 318E44
Phone: (701) 231-7175
 Alison.Bertolini@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Contemporary American Literature, Gender Studies, Ethnic Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Women's Studies

Dr. Bruce Kovanen

Assistant Professor of English and Director of Upper Division Writing

PhD English, Concentration in Writing Studies (University of Illinois, 2023)

Office: Minard 318E44

Bruce.Kovanen@ndsu.edu

Jamee Larson, MFA
Senior Lecturer
MFA in Creative Writing (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)

Office: Minard 318E52
jamee.larson@ndsu.edu

Deona McEnery, MA
Senior Lecturer
MA English Literature (NDSU, 2001)
BA English Writing and Spanish, with a minor Biology (Concordia College, 1994)
AA English, Spanish, Biology (Northland Community College, 1992)

Office: Minard 318E22
Deona.McEnery@ndsu.edu

Benjamin Melby, MA
Senior Lecturer
MA, English Language and Literature (Indiana University, 2005)
ABD, English Language and Literature (Indiana University, 2007)

Office: Minard 316F
Benjamin.Melby@ndsu.edu

Julie Sandland, MA
Senior Lecturer

Office: Minard 316B
Phone: (701) 231-8472
Julie.Sandland@ndsu.edu

Kaye Temanson, MA
Senior Lecturer

Office: Minard 316H
Email: Kaye.Temanson@ndsu.edu

Dr. Verena Theile
Associate Professor of English
PhD English Literature (Washington State University, 2006)

Office: Minard 318 E40
verena.theile@ndsu.edu

Research/Teaching: Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature, Renaissance Drama, Witchcraft Studies, European Literature, Literary Theory

Dr. Ashleah Wimberly
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Office: Zoom and Minard 318H
ashleah.wimberly@ndsu.edu