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 | Andrew F. Altschul Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Literary Arts MFA UC Irvine, 1997 Faculty Offices 214 408-924-4489 andrew.altschul@sjsu.edu Interests Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction , Poetry, and Postmodernism. Faculty Webpage
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| Charanya Arjun Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 227 408-924-4517
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 | Sally Ashton Lecturer Faculty Offices 226 408-924-4515 Sally.Ashton.@sjsu.edu |
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| Cindy Baer Lecturer | Ph.D. Univ. of Washington, 1994 Faculty Offices 110 408-924-4451 Cindy.Baer@sjsu.edu Interests: Renaissance & Early Modern Literature; Women Novelists Before 1800; History of the Novel; Rhetoric & Composition; Technical Writing |
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 | Tiffany L. Ballard Lecturer | M.A. San Jose State University, 2004 Faculty Offices 114 408-924-4448 Tiffany.Ballard@sjsu.edu |
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 | Julessa Bass Lecturer Faculty Offices 212 408-924-4456 Julessa.Bass@sjsu.edu |
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 | A. Noelle Brada-Williams Associate Professor & M.A. Graduate Coordinator | Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998 Faculty Offices 110 408-924-4439 Noelle.Brada-Williams@sjsu.edu Interests: Ethnic American Literature , 18th-Century British Literature, Parody, Rhetoric & Composition |
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 | Clare J. Browne Lecturer | Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Cambridge University, 1978; M.A., San Jose State University, 1989 Faculty Offices 217 408-924-4494 Clare.Browne@sjsu.edu |
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 | Elizabeth Burchard Lecturer Faculty Office 217
Please Note: Currently Available by office appointment only Elizabeth.Burchard@sjsu.edu
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 | Dawn Chase Lecturer Faculty Offices 126 408-924-4412 Dawn.Chase@sjsu.edu |
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 | Balance Chow Associate Professor | Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1991 Faculty Offices 224 408-924-4430 Balance.Chow@sjsu.edu Interests: Literary Theory; Ethnic Literatures; Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature |
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 | Gloria Collins Lecturer | M.A. San Jose State University, 1980 Faculty Offices 216 408-924-4495 Gloria.Collins@sjsu.edu Interests: Rhetoric & Composition; ESL; Poetry |
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 | Sara E. Cook Lecturer Faculty Offices 115 408-924-5073 Sara.Cook@sjsu.edu |
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| Jackie Coughlan | Lecturer Faculty Offices 116 408-924-4579 Jackie.Coughlan@sjsu.edu |
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| Bonita M. Cox Associate Chair and Associate Professor | Ph.D. Stanford, 1995 Faculty Offices 115 408-924-4449 Bonnie.Cox@sjsu.edu Interests: Classical & Medieval Literature; British History 500-1500; Celtic Studies; Technical Writing & Editing; Composition & Rhetoric; History of the Language Please Note: On sabbatical Fall 2008 |
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 | Robert Cullen Professor & Coordinator of Teaching Associates | Ph.D. UCLA, 1981 Faculty Offices 117 408-924-4454 Robert.Cullen@sjsu.edu Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; American Literature |
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 | Paul Douglass Professor & Director, Steinbeck Center | Ph.D. UCLA, 1981 Faculty Offices 108 408-924-4429 Paul.Douglass@sjsu.edu Interests: American Literature; Modernism; Byron |
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 | Mark Dowdy Lecturer Faculty Offices 218 408-924-4433 mark.Dowdy@sjus.eud |
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 | Kolette Draegan Lecturer Faculty Offices 214 408-924-4491 kolette.draegan@sjsu.edu |
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 | Adrienne L. Eastwood Assistant Professor | Ph.D. Univ. of California, San Diego, 2004 Faculty Offices 116 408-924-4509 Adrienne.Eastwood@sjsu.edu Interests: Early Modern English Literature and Culture; Shakespeare |
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| John Engell (Chair) Professor | Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979 Faculty Offices 218 408-924-4499 john.engell@email.sjsu.edu Interests: Colonial American Literature; American Novel; Native-American Studies; Film &Literature |
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 | Karen English Lecturer | Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992 Faculty Offices 221 408-924-4506 Karen.English@sjsu.edu Interests: American Transcendentalism; Autobiography |
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| Kate Evans Co-Director of Center for Literary Arts & Lecturer | Ph.D. University of Washington, 2000 Faculty Offices 222 408-924-4496 CLA Director: 408-924-4489 Kate.Evans@sjsu.edu Interests: Creative Writing; Contemporary Literature; Rhetoric & Composition |
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| Andrew Fleck Associate Professor & Honors Coordinator | Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, 2000 Faculty Offices 111 408-924-4457 Andrew.Fleck@sjsu.edu Interests: Early Modern British Literature; Shakespeare; the Dutch in English Literature |
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 | Rick Flynn Lecturer Faculty Offices 226 408-924-4515 Richard.Flynn@sjsu.edu |
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 | Valerie Frankel Lecturer | M.F.A. San Jose State University, 2004 Faculty Offices 224 408-924-4512 valerie.frankel@sjsu.edu |
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| Cathy Gabor Assistant Professor | Ph.D. Texas Christian University, 2004 Faculty Offices 107 408-924-4488 catherine.gabor@sjsu.edu Interests: Writing processes in electronic environments; service-learning and K-12/college collaborative literacies; composition & rhetoric |
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 | Sandra Gilbert Lurie Chair
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 | Michelle Hager Lecturer | M.A. San Jose State University, 2005 Faculty Offices 115 408-924-5073 Michelle.Hager@sjsu.edu |
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| Jeffrey Hallford Lecturer Faculty Offices 108 408-924-4435 Jeffrey.Hallford@sjsus.edu |
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| Lois E. Hamor Lecturer | B.A. California Lutheran University, 1966 Lois.Hamor@sjsu.edu
Please Note: Currently available by email only |
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| Katherine D. Harris Assistant Professor | Ph.D. City University of New York, 2005 Faculty Offices 220 408-924-4475 Katherine.Harris@sjsu.edu Interests: British Romanticism, Textual Theory, History of the Book, Feminist Theory, Digital/Hypertextual Studies |
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| Kelly Harrison Co-Director of Center for Literary Arts& Lecturer | M.F.A. San Jose State University, 2004 Faculty Offices 222 408-924-4496 Kelly.Harrison@sjsu.edu Interests: Rhetoric & Composition, Creative Writing |
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| Sherri Harvey Lecturer | B.A. Indiana University, 1992; M.A. CSU Hayward, 1997 Faculty Offices 212 408-924-4456 Sherri.Harvey@sjsu.edu Interests: Contemporary Fiction; Creative Writing; Rhetoric & Composition |
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| Anne Heffron Lecturer Faculty Offices 118 408-924-4428 Anne.Heffron-Iwanaga@sjsu.edu |
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| Allison Heisch Professor | Ph.D. Harvard, 1977 Faculty Offices 107 408-924-4434 Allison.Heisch@sjsu.edu Interests: Renaissance Literature; Historiography; Critical Thinking & Writing; Interdisciplinary Arts & Humanities |
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| Daniel Hendel De La O Lecturer Faculty Offices 213 408-924-4490 springfieldshopper@gmail.com |
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 | John H. Hessler Lecturer Faculty Offices 105 408-924-4601 John.Hessler@sjsu.edu |
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 | Lara Hubel Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 227 408-924-4517 larahubel@gmail.com |
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 | Leslie Jacoby Lecturer Faculty Offices 219 408-924-4473 Leslie.Jacoby@sjsu.edu |
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| Robert James Lecturer | M.F.A. San Jose State University, 2004 Faculty Offices 109 408-924-5089 Robert.James@sjsu.edu Interests: Creative Writing (fiction, nonfiction) |
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 | Ben Jonas Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 213 408-924-4418 Ben.Jonas@sjsu.edu |
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| Maria Judnick Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 226 408-924-1382 mjudnick@gmail.com |
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| Persis Karim Associate Professor & Majors Advisor | Ph.D. University of Texas, 1998 Faculty Offices 216 408-924-4476 Persis.Karim@sjsu.edu Interests: Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; Ethnic American Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Iranian Diaspora Literature; editor of Globalizing Literary Studies |
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| Revathi Krishnaswamy Associate Professor | Ph.D. Kent State University, 1990 Faculty Offices 125 408-924-1384 Revathi.Krishnaswamy@sjsu.edu Interests: 19th- & 20th-Century British Fiction; Colonial & Post-Colonial Literature; Critical Theory |
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| Linda Lappin Lecturer Faculty Offices 105 408-924-4601 inda.Lappin@sjsu.edu |
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| Kara Levy Lecturer Faculty Offices 221 408-924-4505 Kara.Levy@sjsu.edu |
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| Leanne Lindelof Lecturer | M.F.A. San Jose State University, 2005 Faculty Offices 114 408-924-4436 Leanne.Lindelof@sjsu.edu |
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| Craig Lore Lecturer Faculty Offices 221 408-924-4505 Craig.Lore@sjsu.edu |
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| Jonathan Lovell Professor & Director, San Jose Area Writing Project & English Education Co-Coordinator | Ph.D. Yale, 1980 Faculty Offices 127 408-924-4437 jJonathan.Lovell@sjsu.edu Interests: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, K-14; Theory and Practice in the Teaching of English, 7-12; Reader Response Theory |
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| Samuel Maio Professor | Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1986 Faculty Offices 223 408-924-4483 Samuel.Maio@sjsu.edu Interests: Creative Writing Poetry; Critical Theory; Modern Poetry Please Note: On sabbatical Fall 2008 |
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| Matt McCoy Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 213 408-924-4418 Matthew.McCoy@sjsu.edu |
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| Joan McMillan Lecturer Faculty Offices 218 408-924-4433 Joan.McMillan@sjsu.edu |
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 | Oana Melnic Lecturer | MA San Jose State University, 2003 Faculty Offices 217 408-924-4493 Oana.Melnic@sjsu.edu |
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| David Mesher Professor | Ph.D. University of Washington, 1978 Faculty Offices 220 408-924-4440 D.Mesher@sjsu.edu Interests: Modern, Post-Modern, Post-Colonial & Comparative Literature |
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| Cathleen Miller Assistant Professor | MFA Penn State, 1997 Faculty Offices 125 408-924-4441 Cathleen.Miller@sjsu.edu Interests: Creative Writing: Nonfiction |
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| Linda C. Mitchell Professor & Director of Writing Center | Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1996 Faculty Offices 117 408-924-4453 linda.mitchell@sjsu.edu Interests: 17th & 18th Century, Language Theory/Grammar; English Education; History of Rhetoric |
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| Neli Moody Lecturer | M.F.A. San Jose State University, 2006 Faculty Offices 217 408-924-4494 Neli.Moody@sjsu.edu |
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| Kristine Morrella Lecturer Kristine.Mornella@sjsu.edu Please Note: Currenly available by email only |
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 | Carlos Mujal Lecturer Faculty Offices 212 408-924-4485 Carlos.Mujal@sjsu.edu |
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| John Murphy Lecturer | M.A. San Diego State University, 1985; MLS, San Jose State University, 1996 Faculty Offices 215 408-924-5064 John.Murphy@sjsu.edu |
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 | Tanja Nathanael Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 226 408-924-1382 tnathanael@aol.com |
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| William Paisley Lecturer Faculty Offices 213 408-924-4490 William.Paisley@sjsu.edu |
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 | Lucy Poindexter Lecturer Faculty Offices 114 408-924-4436 Lucy.Poindexter@sjsu.edu |
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 | Sarah Prasad Lecturer Faculty Offices 117 408.924.4453 Sarah.Prasad@sjsu.edu
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| Dennis Quinn Lecturer Faculty Offices 116 408-924-4579 Dennis.Quinn@sjsu.edu |
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 | Laura Raffaelli Lecturer Faculty Offices 114 408-924-4448 Laura.Raffaelli@sjsu.edu |
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 | Elizabeth Revencu Lecturer Faculty Offices 109 408-924-5089 Elizabeth.Vascan@sjsu.ed |
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| Scott Rice Professor | Ph.D. Arizona, 1968 Faculty Offices 109 408-924-4447 Scott.Rice@sjsu.edu Interests: Rhetoric & Composition; Freshman Composition; 18th-Century British Novel; Smollett; Satire; Children's Literature |
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 | Avantika Rohatgi Lecturer Faculty Offices 214 408-924-4491 Avantika.Rohatgi@sjsu.edu |
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| Ed Sams Lecturer | M.A. Univ. of Tennessee, 1975 Faculty Offices 212 408-924-4485 Edwin.Sams@sjsu.edu |
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| Georgia Saratsiotis Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 227 408-924-4517 Georgia.Saratsiotis@sjsu.edu |
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 | Lee Sherry Lee.Sherry@sjsu.edu |
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| E.D. "Sweeney" Schragg Lecturer | B.A. Literature, Univ. of California Santa Cruz, 1995 M.F.A., Fiction Writing, San Jose State University, 2003 Faculty Offices 107 408-924-5019 sweeney.schragg@sjsu.edu |
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| Robert Selinske Lecturer | M.A. Columbia Teachers College, 1966 Faculty Offices 215 408-924-5063 Robert.Selinske@sjsu.edu |
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| Gary Shapiro Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 227 408-924-4518 Gary.Shapiro@sjsu.edu |
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| Susan Shillinglaw Professor & Major Advisor | Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina, 1985 Faculty Offices 118 408-924-4487 Susan.Shillinglaw@sjsu.edu Interests: American Literature; Steinbeck |
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| Inga Silva Lecturer | B.S. Nursing, 1995; MFA Creative Writing, San Jose State, 2000 Faculty Offices 224 408-924-4512 Inga.Silva@sjsu.edu |
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| Alan Soldofsky Professor &MFA Program Director | MFA Iowa, 1972 Faculty Offices 106 408-924-4432 Alan.Soldofsky@sjsu.edu Interests: Contemporary Poetry; Modern American Poetry; Robinson Jeffers |
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| Julie Sparks Lecturer | Ph.D. Penn State, 1999 Faculty Offices 217 408-924-4493 Julie.Sparks@sjsu.edu Interests: Bernard Shaw; Drama; British Literature; World Literature; Rhetoric and Composition |
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 | Heather Stanger Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 213 408-924-4418 Heather.Stanger@sjsu.edu |
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| Nancy Stork Professor, Director of Composition & Career & Professional Writing Coordinator | Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1985 Faculty Offices 218 408-924-4477 Nancy.Stork@sjsu.edu Interests: Medieval Literature; Editor of Translations from the Inquisition Record of Jacques Fournier On sabbatical Spring 2009 |
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 | Ralph Strachan Lecturer Faculty Offices 105 408-924-4492 Ralph.Strachan@sjsu.edu |
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| Nick Taylor Assistant Professor & Advisor/Editor,Reed Magazine | MFA University of Virginia Faculty Offices 219 408-924-4458 nicholas.taylor@sjsu.edu Interests: Creative Writing - Fiction |
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 | Ruth Trimble Ruth.Trimble@sjsu.edu |
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 | Roohi Vora Lecturer | M.A. San Jose State University, 2003 Faculty Offices 118 408-924-4428 Roohi.Vora@sjsu.edu |
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| Mary Warner Associate Professor & Associate Director, San Jose Area Writing Project & English Education Co-Coordinator | Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1992 Faculty Offices 127 408-924-4417 Mary.Warner@sjsu.edu Interests: Young Adult Literature; Bible as Literature; Professional Development of Secondary-Level English Teachers On sabbatical Spring 2009 |
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 | Dan White Lecturer Faculty Offices 108 408-924-4435 Daniel.White@sjsu.edu |
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 | Mary Williams Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 226 408-924-4515 Mary.Williams@sjsu.edu |
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| William Wilson Professor | Ph.D. Virginia, 1979 Faculty Offices 223 408-924-4510 William.Wilson@sjsu.edu
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| Candice Wynne Teaching Associate Faculty Offices 227 408-924-4518 Candice.Wynne@sjsu.edu |
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| Hailing Xiao Lecturer Faculty Offices 219 408-924-4473 Hailing.Xiao@sjsu.edu |