English & Communication Faculty & Staff

English and Communication Department

Administration

Drew Shade, PhD

Associate Professor of Communication, Department Chair

Progress Hall 220M

513-558-7917

drew.shade@uc.edu

Faculty

Lydia Allison

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

allisoli@ucmail.uc.edu

Sonja Andrus, PhD

Professor of English

Progress Hall 220B

513-558-1648

sonja.andrus@uc.edu

Brian Bailie, PhD

Associate Professor of English

Progress Hall 120A

513-558-2829

brian.bailie@uc.edu

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Laurie Bauer, EdD

Associate Professor of Reading and Literacy, Academic Success Course Coordinator, Exploratory Studies Co-Coordinator

Progress Hall 220D

513-558-7832

laurie.bauer@uc.edu

Ruth Benander, PhD

Professor of English

Progress Hall 220F

513-558-9426

ruth.benander@uc.edu

Pearson Bolt, PhD

Assistant Professor of English

Flory Center 102

513-558-9472

boltpl@ucmail.uc.edu

Alex Mwangi Chege, PhD

Professor of English

Progress Hall 120M

513-558-1458

chegemi@ucmail.uc.edu

Susanna Clason, PhD

Associate Professor of English, Executive Committee Chair

Progress Hall 120N

513-558-7711

clasonsa@ucmail.uc.edu

Alex Evans

Asst Professor, UCBA English & Communications

120F BA PROGRESS

evans2ax@ucmail.uc.edu

Alex Evans is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, where he teaches a variety of undergraduate writing courses and serves on the Composition Steering Committee. His current research centers on the history, practice, and administration of writing instruction at open-access institutions, though he has published on a variety of topics including academic labor, educational reform, archival research methods, and graduate preparation.

With Bethany Hellwig, he is the editor of Precarious Pedagogies: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority, a collection exploring the realities of contingent academic employment and its effects on teaching, forthcoming from the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado in 2027. His research writing has been published or is forthcoming in journals including College English, College Composition and Communication, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, Writers: Craft & Context, and Academic Labor: Research and Artistry.

He is a member of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators’ Executive Board, the Conference on College Composition and Communications’ Newcomers' Welcome Committee, and the Two-Year College English Association’s Taskforce for Preparing Teachers of English in the Two-Year College.

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