Faculty

Gerri Brightwell
Director of Creative Writing; Professor
English Department
844 Gruening Building

Rich Carr
UAF Writing Center Director; Professor
English Department
816 Gruening Building

Chris Coffman
English Department Chair; Professor
English Department
854 Gruening Building (Chair) | 858 Gruening Building (Faculty)

Daryl Farmer
Associate Professor
English Department
846 Gruening Building

Eileen M. Harney
Assistant Professor
English Department
814 Gruening Building


Joseph Holt
Assistant Professor
English Department
838 Gruening Building

Sara Eliza Johnson
Assistant Professor
English Department
820 Gruening Building

Wendy Whitehead Martelle
Associate Professor
English & Linguistics Departments
Gruening 866



Sarah Stanley
Director of Composition; Associate Professor
English Department
812 Gruening Building
In Memoriam: Frank Soos
The English Department mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Frank Soos from injuries
sustained in a bicycle accident in Maine. Soos, who was a full-time faculty member
in creative writing from 1986-2004, continued to contribute to the English Department
after his retirement by teaching and directing the theses of several MFA students.
He authored two short story collections, Unified Field Theory and Early Yet, as well as two essay collections, Unpleasantries and Bamboo Fly Rod Suite. He collaborated with visual artists including Kesler Woodward and his spouse Margo
Klass, with whom he published Double Moon, a hybrid collection of artwork and lyric prose. A past Alaska State Writer Laureate
and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Frank Soos was a beloved
friend and mentor to many. Robert Hannon recently memorialized Soos on KUAC radio.
Emeriti Faculty
Name | Specialty and Degree |
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Susan Blalock |
19th and 20th Century British literature, Narrative Theory Ph.D., University of Texas, 1983 |
Mark Box |
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romantic-era British Literature D. Phil., Oxford University, 1985 |
G. Burns Cooper |
Linguistics Ph.D., University of Texas |
Comparative Literature, African Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory PhD., The Graduate School of The City University of New York, 1984 |
|
Nineteenth-century British Literature, Literary Criticism Ph.D., State University of New York Binghamton, 1975 |
|
Dramatic Writing; Filmmaking (Documentary and Ethnographic); former Curator of Film
at the University of Alaska Museum of the North |
|
Janis Lull |
Shakespeare and 17th century British Literature Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1983 |
Creative Writing, Poetry MFA, University of Iowa, 1967 |
|
Native American Literature, Alaska Native Oral Narrative
M.A. (English), Purdue University, 1972
Ph.D. (English), U. of New Mexico, 1981
|
|
Early American Literature, Holocaust Literature M. Phil., Cambridge University, 2000 |
|
Creative Writing, Poetry MFA, Arizona, 1979 |
|
Creative Writing, Fiction M.F.A., University of Arkansas, 1981 |
|
Russell Stratton |
Medieval literature and Chaucer Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi, 1979 |
Cynthia Walker |
20th-Century British Literature Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974 |