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Graduate Faculty
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Dr. Kaye Adkins
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Kansas
M.A., University of Kansas
B.A., Pittsburg State University
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Dr. Adkins teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in technical communication, composition and rhetoric. She has presented and published on technical documentation, technical communication curriculum and pedagogy, eco-composition, and nature writing. Dr. Adkins is on the editorial board of Programmatic Perspectives, the journal of the Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication. She is the co-author of Technical Communication A Practical Approach (Apprentice Hall, 2009). Dr. Adkins is currently interested in issues related to policy and procedure writing and compliance documentation.
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Dr. Robert Bergland
Professor of English/Journalism
Griffon News Advisor
Ph.D., Purdue University
M.A., Purdue University
B.A., Purdue University |
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Dr. Bergland advises the newspaper and teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in print and convergent journalism. He has given numerous presentations and has published articles in the area of convergent journalism and is the editor of the new online Journal of Convergent Journalism. Bergland has worked for five newspapers, most recently the Grand Forks Herald in 2006. Dr. Bergland spent a semester teaching page design and web journalism in Ukraine through the Fulbright programs. |
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Dr. Michael Cadden
Professor of English, Chair of the Department of EFLJ
Director of Childhood Studies
D.A., Illinois State University
M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
B.A., English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
B.A., Elementary Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State University
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Dr. Cadden, teaches both ENG 503: Literature for Children and ENG 500: Adolescent Literature. His essays on children's and young adult literature have appeared in such journals as The Lion and The Unicorn, Children's Literature in Education, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, The Journal of Children's Literature, Extrapolation, and others. He is the author of Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (Routledge 2005). Dr. Cadden's interest are in the intersection of narrative theory, genre theory, and children's and adolescent literature.
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Dr. Michael Charlton
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
M.A., University of Oklahoma
B.A., University of Oklahoma
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Dr. Charlton teaches professional and technical writing courses. He has given numerous presentations at conferences like the Rhetoric Society of America and the Conference on College Composition and Communication and has been published in The WAC Journal. His research focuses on technical writing, writing in the disciplines, and visual rhetoric, with secondary interests in film and horror fiction. He is currently working on relationships between gamer culture and technical writing.
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Dr. Patricia Donaher
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., Pittsburg State University
A.B., Indiana University
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Dr. Donaher teaches ENG 573: History of the English Language, which focuses on the relationship between issues in teaching writing and how the history of language change, evolution, and attitudes can inform and enhance teaching practices. Her research centers on popular linguistics, language attitudes, and popular literature. She is the national area chair for Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics for the Popular Culture Association and a 2006 Jesse Lee Myers Excellence in Teaching award winner. Her essay, "Causation, Prophetic Visions, and the Free Will Question in Harry Potter" (with Dr. James Okapal), will appear in the second volume of Reading Harry Potter (editor, Giselle Anatol) in early 2009. She is currently contributing to and editing a collection of articles on language attitudes.
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Dr. Jane Frick
Professor of English
Director of Prairie Lands Writing Project
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.A., University of Northern Colorado
B.S., Drake University
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Dr. Frick is an English professor and directs Prairie Lands Writing Project (PLWP), northern Missouri's National Writing Project (NWP) site sponsored by Missouri Western and the St. Joseph School District. As such, she coordinates literacy in-service offerings for teachers in area schools and conferences and serves on the leadership team for NWP's State and Regional Networks. Frick has written successful grant applications totaling over $350,000 and has given numerous presentations at national, refereed conferences. She has published articles related to professional development and teaching and assessing writing in CCC: The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, WPA, and ADE Bulletin. She is the Program Director for the PLWP Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing, for the Master in Applied Arts in Written Communication, and for the Master of Applied Science in Writing. She teaches ENG/EDU 512 Teaching Writing with Technology, ENG 567 Grammar and the Teaching of Grammar, EPR 620 Proposal and Grant Writing, and co-facilitates EDU/ENG 610 Prairie Lands Writing Project Invitational Institute.
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Dr. Cynthia Jenéy
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Arizona State University
M.A., Arizona State University
B.S., Northern Arizona University
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Dr. Cynthia Jenéy received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature from Arizona State University in 2000. Since then she has taught courses in college writing, technical communication, rhetoric, and literature at MWSU. In 2007 she received the Missouri Western James V. Mehl Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. Her textbook "Writing for the Web: A Practical Guide" reflects her ongoing research and writing in the field of Computers and Writing, including her 2007 essay "Online Distance Education and the Buffy Paradigm," which highlights ethical, theoretical, and practical considerations of teaching college writing via internet technologies.
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Thomas Pankiewicz
Instructor of English
M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City
B.A., Northwest Missouri State University
A.A.S., St. Joseph Junior College
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Tom Pankiewicz teaches developmental English, first-year composition, and teaching of writing courses at Missouri Western State University where he serves as Institutes Director for Prairie Lands Writing Project. He taught high school English for thirty-one years before joining the Missouri Western faculty in 2000. In 1987, he became the founding co-director of The Writing Project at St. Joseph, later re-christened Prairie Lands Writing Project; he has held site leadership roles from 1986-1995 and from 2000 to the present. He has presented in numerous area workshops and at state and national conferences. Tom is also a member of the National Writing Project’s Directors Retreat Leadership Team.
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Dr. Kenneth Rosenauer
Professor of English/Journalism
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.A., Southeast Missouri State University
B.A., Missouri Western State University |
In the AIM program, Dr. Rosenauer team teaches professional writing, project management, and collaboratory and is the sole teacher of the seminar in convergent media. He also teaches undergraduate reporting, photgraphy, copy editing, and public relations writing; summer sessions offer him the chance to dabble in teaching literature, specifically Southern fiction. His reporting textbook, "Storycrafting: A Process Approach To Writing News," was published in 2004 by Blackwell (now part of Wiley), and he is working on a copy editing workbook, which he plans to finish on a sabbatical during Fall 2009.
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Dr. Kay Siebler
Associate Professor of English
Director of Composition
Ph.D., Miami University
M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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Dr. Siebler teaches all levels of composition and rhetoric courses at MWSU. She is also responsible for training and mentoring graduate level teaching assistants for the department. Her current research focus is on feminist rhetoric, both in contemporary politics and historical activist movements. Currently she is researching the respresentation of transexual and transgendered people in popular media (film and television). Her book, "Composing Feminisms: How Feminist Educators Changed Composition," was published in 2008 by Hamptom Press.
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Dr. Ann Thorne
Professor of English/Journalism
Yearbook Adviser
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
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Dr. Thorne teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in convergent media writing and convergent media law and ethics, as well as undergraduate courses in publication design and mass communication. She also advises The Griffon yearbook. She was the 2007 recipient of the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Thorne presents and publishes research papers in two areas: collegiate publication research and journalism history. Her most recent article, "Developing a Personal Style: Janet Flanner's Literary Journalism," was published in American Journalism. She is currently working on a literary biography of Janet Flanner. Dr. Thorne is the Newsletter Editor/Secretary of the History Division of the Association for Education of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Dr. Kaye Adkins, Director of Graduate Studies
English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism
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