English Faculty
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Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: 18th-century literature, legal history, theater, place-based studies, historical fiction
![Melissa Bissonette](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-a-c/Bissonette_Melissa.png)
Associate Professor and Academic Division Chair, Literature, Communication, and the Arts
Areas of Interest: Rhetorical theory; hate rhetoric and demagoguery; Middle East and Turkish studies; writing studies; civic engagement and community-engaged learning; professional writing; editing and publishing.
![Jim Bowman](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-a-c/Bowman_Jim.jpg)
Visiting Assistant Professor and Program Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest: US and global queer studies; disability studies; critical race theory
![Lisa Cunningham](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-a-c/Cunningham_Lisa-preferred.jpg)
Professor
Areas of Interest: American studies; Philippine-American studies; multiculturalism; World War II-Pacific theater
![Sharon Delmendo](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-d-f/Delmendo_Sharon.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: African American Literature, African Literature, Speculative Fiction, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Rhetoric of Social Movements
![Cassandra Scherr](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/Scherr_Cassandra.jpg)
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Early modern and Renaissance literature; technical writing; higher education in prison
Office:Basil 122
Email:jshelley@sjf.edu
![Jonathan Shelley](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/Shelley_Jonathan.jpg)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Women and gender studies; indigenous literature; world literature
![Jebaroja Singh](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/Singh_Jebaroja.jpg)
Adjunct Professor
Areas of Interest: Film studies, American film history, queer film and feminist film theory, cultural studies in film, Hitchcock
Office:Basil 022A
Email:dsutherland@sjf.edu
![Deborah Sutherland](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/Sutherland_Deborah.png)
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: History of rhetoric; feminist rhetorical theory; the teaching of writing.
![Jill Swiencicki](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/Swiencicki_Jill.jpg)
Professor
Areas of Interest: Medieval literature; history of the English language; Arthurian literature and film; digital humanities
![Deborah VanderBilt](/media/sized-image-library/headshots-160-x-160/headshots-s-z/VanderBilt_Deb.png)