Faculty Profiles

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 242

Scott, English Department chair, teaches and researches primarily in the areas of 19th-century American literature and cultural history and in popular culture.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 250

Grover Ballard teaches English Composition, literature, and public writing. Ballard emphasizes community engagement and employs various teaching methods.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 204

David Baulch, associate professor, teaches courses on 18th and early 19th century British literature, and critical theory.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 220

Katherine Blankenau specializes in early modern British literature and teaches courses on early women's writing and Shakespeare.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 202

Robin Blyn, professor, teaches a variety of courses in 20th century and contemporary American literature, culture and theory.

• Department: College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Office Location: Building 53, Room 206

Dr. David M. Earle is the dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of West Florida. Earle is a Professor of Modernist Literature and Print Culture in the English Department and has served as the chair for the Department of Art and Design.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 124

Jonathan Fink, professor and coordinator of creative writing, teaches creative writing, directs the Visiting Writers series and edits Panhandler Magazine (panhandlermagazine.com), a UWF journal of literature and art, and the magazine’s book imprint, Panhandler Books.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 224

Nancy Fox-Edele, instructor, teaches public, professional and technical writing. She also works on the digital writing curriculum and, in collaboration with colleagues in English composition, a text for the first-year writing sequence.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 206

Dr. Bre Garrett, associate professor and director of the composition program, teaches courses in first-year writing, rhetorical theory and disability studies, composition pedagogy, and digital writing.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 228

Laura Herbek, instructor, teaches composition, literature, rhetoric, and public and academic writing.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 208

Mamie Webb Hixon, assistant professor, teaches Modern Grammar and Usage, Grammar for Professional Success, and Black Women Writers.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 230

Nahal Suzanne Jamir writes fiction and nonfiction, focusing on her Iranian American culture. She grew up in South Carolina and has lived and taught in Florida for 16 years.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 222

Nicholas Mohlmann, Associate Professor, teaches Colonial American, Native American, and Post-1970s American literature.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 226

Jasara Norton, instructor, teaches composition, public writing and writing studio pedagogies.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 218

Dr. Regina Sakalarios-Rogers, instructor and coordinator of the Department of English internship program, teaches composition and creative writing with an emphasis on fiction writing.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 208

C. Scott Satterwhite, instructor, teaches composition, rhetoric, public writing and literature.

• Department: English
• Office Location: Building 50, Room 210

Schoolcraft’s teaching focuses are literature and first- and second-year composition, with emphasis on both research strategies and public writing. She was inducted into the Academy of Teaching Excellence in 2022 and was invited to attend the Florida Master Teachers Seminar in 2023.