Department Lecturers
 
                  
                  Sharon Worley
she/her/hers
PhD, HUM, University of Texas at Dallas
MA, English, University of Texas at Tyler
MA, Art History, Tufts University
 
                  
                  Heather Stewart-Steele
her/she
PhD, Technical Communication and Rhetoric, University of Houston (in progress)
MA, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Houston Downtown
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Houston Downtown
AA, Interdisciplinary Studies, Lone Star Community College
Research interests: Composition, Creative Writing, Writing in the Disciplines, Developmental courses
 
                  
                  Kaitlyn Yates 
she/her
MFA in Fiction, University of Arkansas
BA in Creative Writing and Psychology, University of Cincinnati
 
                  
                  Amy Lipke
she/her
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition, & Pedagogy, University of Houston
MA, Rhetoric & Composition, University of Houston-Downtown
BS, Professional Writing and Technical Writing & Editing, Carnegie Mellon University
 
                  
                  KT Herr 
they/them
PhD, Literature & Creative Writing, University of Houston
Research Interests: Poetry, Critical Poetics, Lyric Theory, Gender & Sexuality Studies,
                     Medieval Poetics, 20th & 21st Century American Poetry, Erasure & Visual Poetics, Arts
                     Administration
 
                  
                  Monique Suarez
she/her
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy, University of Houston (in progress)
MA, English, University of Houston
BS, Neuroscience, BA, English, Baylor University 
Research Interests: multimodal composition and pedagogy, multilingual composition
                     and pedagogy, public rhetorics
 
                  
                  Zahra Tavana 
she/her
PhD, English, University of Houston (in progress) 
MA, English Literature, University of Guilan, Iran
BA, English Literature, University of Guilan, Iran
Research Interests: Refugee/ Immigrant Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory
                     Life Writing, Critical Human Rights Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
 
                  
                  Justin P. Dykes
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition, University of Houston (in progress)
MA, Homeland Security, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
BA, Anthropology, SDSU
Research interests: Reflective Writing, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Mindfulness
 
                  
                  Nidhi Rajkumar
she/her/hers
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition and Pedagogy, University of Houston
MA, English, University of Houston 
MA, Public Management, Pondicherry University
BA, English Literature, Delhi University
 
                  
                  Maria Hiers
she/her
MFA, Poetry, University of Houston 
BA, Creative Writing, Florida State University