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Faculty and Staff

Department of Communication, Modern Languages, and Philosophy

Dr. Rhonda CollierDr. Rhonda Collier

Chair, Modern Languages, Communication and Philosophy/
Director, Ƶ Global Office (TUGO)

Office: Kenney Hall 70-303
Office Phone: 334-727-8100
Email: rcollier@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Camille Alexander

Assistant Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-300
Office Phone: 334-727-8771
Email: calexander@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Elizabeth Appleby

Instructor of French
Office: Kenney Hall 70-311
Office Phone:
Email: eappleby@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Garrett Ashley

Assistant Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-307
Office Phone:
Email: gashley@tuskegee.edu


Professor Janie Beason-Bowen

Instructor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-315
Office Phone:
Email: jbowen@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Zanice Bond

Associate Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-310
Office Phone: 334-727-8104
Email: zbond@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Brett CoppengerDr. Brett Coppenger

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: Kenney Hall 70-428
Office Phone: 334-725-5489
Email: bcoppenger@tuskegee.edu
Ph.D. University of Iowa
M.A. University of Iowa
M.A. Western Michigan University
B.A. Biola University

Research Areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion, Modern Philosophy

Representative Publications and Presentations:

  • 2011 “Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge?” (with Kristopher Philips) in Arrested Development & Philosophy, eds. Phillips, Kristopher and Jeremy Wisnewski, Blackwell.
  • 2017 “Close Possible (Dystopian) Worlds, Truth Tracking, and Knowledge” in The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy, eds. Heter, Joshua and Bruce Krajewski, Open Court.
  • 2016 Intellectual Assurance: Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism (with Michael Bergmann), Oxford University Press.
  • 2018 “Internalism, Memory, and Skepticism” in forthcoming, eds. Kevin McCain and Ted Poston.
  • 2018 “Self-Knowledge and Skepticism” in Westworld and Philosophy, eds. Heter, Joshua and Richard Greene, Open Court.

Personal website:


Dr. Benjamin Fishkin

Associate Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-308
Office Phone: 334-727-8931
Email: bfishkin@tuskegee.edu
Ph.D. University of Alabama
M.A. Miami University
B.A. University of Michigan

Research areas: literature and anglophone studies

Representative Publications and Presentations:

  • The Repressed Expressed: Novel Perspectives on African and BlackDiasporic LiteratureEdited byAdakuT.Ankumah, Bill F.Ndiand Benjamin HartFishkin(January 17, 2017)
  • “The Inner Narrative in Francis B.Nyamnjoh’sSouls Forgotten”inSecrets, Silences and BetrayalsEditedby BillF.Ndi(August 7, 2015)
  • Co-author withAdakuT.Ankumahand Bill F.Ndi“Character Nomenclature, the Bead-string in Thomas Jing’sTale of An African Woman” inNomenclaturalPoetizationand GlobalizationEdited byAdakuT.Ankumah(October 20, 2014)
  • “Names, Power Relationships and Influences in Francis B.Nyamnjoh’sMarriedButAvailable” inNomenclaturalPoetizationand GlobalizationEdited byAdakuT.Ankumah(October 20, 2014)
  • A War of Ideas: American Thought in The Modern Worldby BenjaminHartFishkin(August 27, 2014)

Dr. Gregory S. Gray

Professor of Philosophy
Dean, Ƶ Chapel
Office: Chapel
Office Phone: 334-727-8322
Email: ggray@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Mark Henderson

Assistant Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-320
Office Phone:
Email: mhenderson@tuskegee.edu

Ph.D. English (19th- and 20th-century American literature, psychoanalytic theory), Auburn University
M.A. (English, Creative Writing), University of Louisiana at Monroe
B.A. (English), University of Louisiana at Monroe

Research areas: American modernism, the American Gothic, American film

Representative Publications & Presentations:

  • 2018, Fall.“Losing Your Faith for Seeing Too Much: The Anti-Bible as Indictment of American Heroism in Gregory Widen’s The Prophecy.” Chapter in Terrifying Texts. McFarland & Company Press.
  • 2017, Spring. “God’s Bloody Hand: The Horrible Ambiguity of Religious Murder in Paxton’s Frailty.” Chapter in Divine Horror. McFarland & CompanyPress.
  • 2016, Fall. “Denial and Dominance in the Semantics of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.” Chapter in Critical Essays for the 25th Anniversary of The Silence of the Lambs.Salem/Greyhouse Press.
  • 2016, Fall. “Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede Films.”Chapter in What’s Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen.Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • 2016, Summer. "Dutchman on the Brink: The Ghost Ship as Dark (American) Nature Edgar Allan Poe's 'MS. Found in a Bottle.'" Chapter in Dark Nature in American Literature. Lexington Books.

Dr. Kristen Miller Hill

Assistant Chair, Department of Modern Language, Communication, and Philosophy

Assistant Professor of English
Director, Ƶ Writing Center
Office: Kenney Hall 70-305
Office Phone: 334-727-8776
Email: khill@tuskegee.edu

Ph.D. English (Rhetoric and Composition), Auburn University
M.A. English (Literature), Auburn University
B.A. English, LaGrange College

Research areas: rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, film, popular culture, the horror genre, video games and literacy

Representative Publications & Presentations:

  • "'We Lie Best When We Lie to Ourselves': Stephen King'sItand the Horrors of Nostalgia" inHorror Studies12:2 (2021)
  • "Seeing and Believing as a Child inItԻThe Outsider" inChildren and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King, edited by Debbie Olson, Lexington Books (2020).
  • “Steven Spielberg” in 100 Entertainers Who Changed America, edited by Robert Sickels. ABC-CLIO, 2013. (Book Chapter)
  • “Gaming as a Woman: Gender Difference Issues in Video Games and Learning” in Immersive Environments, Augmented Realities and Virtual Worlds: Assessing Future Trends in Education, edited by Steven D’Augustino. IGI Global, 2013. (Book Chapter)
  • “From Fears of Entropy to Comfort in Chaos: Arcadia, The Waste Land, Numb3rs and Man’s Relationship with Science” in Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 27.1 (2007) (Journal Article)

Dr. Crystal Keels

Instructor of English and Communication
Office: Kenney Hall 70-317
Office Phone:
Email: ckeels@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Amy King

Assistant Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-313
Office Phone:
Email: aking@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Carolina Marquez-Serrano

Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: Kenney Hall 70-304
Office Phone: 334-727-8046
Email: cmarquezserrano@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Cortney McLeod

Associate Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-316
Office Phone:
Email: cmcleod@tuskegee.edu


Professor Jaemon McLeod

Instructor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-314
Office Phone:
Email: jmcleod@tuskegee.edu


Dr. William Ndi

Associate Professor of English
Office: Kenney Hall 70-306
Office Phone: 334-727-8694
Email: wndi@tuskegee.edu

Dual Doctorate in Languages: Translation & Languages, Literatures and Contemporary Civilizations, Paris, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Research Areas:History of Ideas and Mentalities, Film Studies, Professional, Technical and Creative Writing, World Literatures, Languages, Applied Linguistics, Literary History, Media and Communication Studies, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of Internationalism, Translation & Translatology, History and Contemporary Cultural Studies.

Representative Publications & Presentations:

  • The Repressed Expressed
  • Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals
  • La Logorrhée du poète ou l’Histoire des Camerouns en 33 gouttelettes,(French Poetry);
  • Peace Mongers at War(Poetry)
  • Barbed Forest(Poetry)

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Professor Janet Sullen

Instructor of English
Office:
Office Phone:
Email: jsullen@tuskegee.edu


Dr. Samuel Taylor

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: Kenney Hall 70-314
Office Phone:
Email: staylor@tuskegee.edu