English Faculty and Staff

Donna Woodford-Gormley

Professor
Ph.D. Washington University, 1999
dwoodford@nmhu.edu
505-454-3253
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Teaching and research interests include British literature to 1700, international Shakespeare, early modern Renaissance women writers, Isabella Whitney, orphans and foster children in Renaissance literature, motherhood in Renaissance literature, Harry Potter and fairy tales.

Peter Buchanan

Visiting Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2013
pbuchanan@nmhu.edu
505-454-3191

Teaching and research interests are historical linguistics, modern grammar, medieval literature, Old English and Anglo-Latin poetry, hagiography, manuscript studies, Old Norse, Middle English, phenomenology and literary theory.

Lauren Fath

Associate Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2015
lfath@nmhu.edu
505-454-3415

Teaching and research interests are creative nonfiction (including memoir, the personal essay, and the lyric essay), ethnographic writing, genre boundaries in creative writing, and Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Juan M. Gallegos

Associate Professor, Composition Director
Ph.D. University of Arizona, Tucson, 2014
jmgallegos@nmhu.edu
505-454-3451

Teaching and research interests include composition theory, pedagogy, and history, Basic Writing, Latino/a rhetorics, Nuevomexicano/a historical literacy practices, and NMHU history.  Developing research interests include spatial rhetorics and writing centers.

Jess A. Goldberg

Assistant Professor of English, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator for English, Co-Director of Gender & Women’s Studies
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2018
jagoldberg@nmhu.edu
505-454-3329

Teaching and research interests include American literature, abolitionist thought, Black studies, carceral studies (prisons, policing, and criminalization), gender studies (especially queer and feminist theory), critical race theory and ethnic studies (with a focus on white supremacy), legal humanities, environmental humanities, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism.

Amanda M. May

Assistant Professor of English, Writing Center Director
Ph.D. Florida State University, 2020
amandamay@nmhu.edu
505-454-3450

Teaching and research interests include writing center studies, social media, visual rhetoric, and multimodal composition.

Rebecca Schneider

Assistant Professor of English, Graduate Studies Coordinator for English
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder 2019
rschneider@nmhu.edu
505-426-2073

Teaching and research interests include British literature from 1700 to the present (especially anti-colonial and abolitionist movements), Caribbean literature, archival theory, pedagogy, and digital humanities.

Eddie Tafoya

Professor of English
Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton, 1997
eddieT19@nmhu.edu
505-454-3207
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Teaching and research interests include creative writing: fiction; stand-up comedy as literature, American humor, the New Testament & American literature.

Benjamin Villarreal

Associate Professor of English
Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
bjvillarreal@nmhu.edu
505-426-2283

Teaching and research interests are English Education, critical media literacy, game studies, multimodal composing and comics.