English Faculty and Staff
Making the Difference
The English Department is one of the largest departments on campus, with about 30 current faculty/staff and many active retired faculty/emeriti. The depth of faculty expertise, passion, and engagement sets English apart from other areas of campus. With prolific writers, researchers, and scholars, students who major or minor in English will find incredible instruction and academic support.
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00am-12:30pm
and by appointment
1698 Park Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54701-4059
Mondays/Wednesdays 1-1:50pm, Tuesdays 11-11:50pm
and by appointment
Josh Brown (Ph.D., Penn State) is the Skwierczynski University Fellow. He is a sociolinguist/linguistic anthropologist interested in heritage languages and American studies. He has written and presented extensively on the Amish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Scandinavian Americans, and Somali refugees. He is also an avid weaver, specializing in and lecturing on American folk craft and material culture.
Dorothy Chan is the author of five poetry collections, including Return of the Chinese Femme (Deep Vellum, April 2024); BABE (Diode Editions, 2021), a 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club; Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), a finalist for the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry; Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018); and the chapbook, Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017), selected by Douglas Kearney for the 6th Annual New Delta Review Chapbook Contest.
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
and by appointment
Shelley Donnelly teaches Blugold Seminar courses in critical reading and writing.
