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Jean Bessette

Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Rhetorical theory; composition pedagogy; Feminist rhetorics, historiographies, and pedagogies; Queer theory and studies; digital rhetorics; archival theory 

Jean.Bessette@uvm.edu

Greg Bottoms

Professor

Creative writing: memoir, personal essay, documentary narrative/literary journalism, travel writing/writing place, personal art and cultural criticism, and short fiction

Greg.Bottoms@uvm.edu

Joshua Brown

Senior Writer for Science and Environment

Joshua.Brown@uvm.edu (802) 656-3039

Isaac Cates

Lecturer

Modern and contemporary poetry, nature poetry and nature writing, the interaction between science and poetry, and time in poetry; Modernism and the difficulty of the modernist avant-garde; the graphic novel, comics as a literary medium, and autobiographical comics; poetic form, formal constraints, and oulipo / oubapo. 

Isaac.Cates@uvm.edu

Chris Danforth

Director • Professor

Chris.Danforth@¶¶Òõ̽̽.edu

Deborah Ellis

Professor

Film & video production, documentary film history and production,film festivals

Deborah.ellis@uvm.edu

Anthony Gierzynski

Professor (1992)

American Politics, Media, Campaign Finance, Elections, and Political Parties

Anthony.Gierzynski@uvm.edu (802) 656-7973

Jenny Grosvenor

Senior Lecturer

Creative writing, composition & rhetoric, journalism

Jenny.Grosvenor@uvm.edu

Maria Hummel

Professor

Creative writing

Maria.Hummel@uvm.edu

Adrian Ivakhiv

Professor Emeritus

Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental thought, cultural theory, global cultural change

adrian.ivakhiv@uvm.edu (802) 656-0180

David Jenemann

Dean, Patrick Leahy Honors College

Film and television, critical theory, Modernism, 20th-century literature.

David.Jenemann@uvm.edu

Helen Morgan Parmett

Associate Professor • Director of Speech & Debate

Critical Media Studies; Television Studies; Space/Place

Helen.Morgan-Parmett@uvm.edu (802) 656-0097

Sarah Nilsen

Associate Professor

Walt Disney, the popular culture of the cold war, and cultural diplomacy

Sarah.Nilsen@uvm.edu

Trish O’Kane

Senior Lecturer

Instructional programs: Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Research: Community organizing, environmental & social justice, environmental education, ornithology & conservation, environmental journalism, public health benefits of nature-watching & birding

patricia.okane@uvm.edu

Cynthia Reyes

Professor of Education • Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

• English learner (EL) Education
• Immigrant Families and Literacy
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Teacher Education

Cynthia.Reyes@uvm.edu (802) 656-3424

Luis Vivanco

Chair of the Anthropology Department • Professor

Cultural and environmental anthropology, development and social movements, knowledge, science and technology, cultures of mobility, tourism, ethnographic methods; Latin America.

Luis.Vivanco@uvm.edu (802) 656-1184

Richard Watts

Senior Lecturer • Director of the Center for Research on Vermont

Director of the Center for Research on Vermont; a senior lecturer in the Department of Geography and the founder of the Center for Community News and the coordinator of the Community News Service.

Richard.Watts@uvm.edu (802) 656-9775

Nancy Welch

Professor Emeritus

Composition and rhetoric including rhetoric of social movements, U.S. working-class rhetorical history, and women and rhetoric; fiction and nonfiction writing; and literacy studies

Nancy.Welch@uvm.edu