Faculty & Staff

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Teaching Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, and Director of the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium

Gailor Hall 117 / ext. 1280
slbatkie@sewanee.edu

Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry)

Visiting Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College for Undergraduate Academic Affairs

Walsh-Ellett 117 / ext. 1919
ambruce@sewanee.edu

Nick B. Williams Professor of English 

Gailor Hall 135 / ext. 1361
wengel@sewanee.edu

Associate Professor of English and Humanities 

Gailor Hall 15 / ext. 3197
dmettens@sewanee.edu

Jesse Spaulding Professor of English and Director of the Southern Studies Program

Gailor Hall 17 / ext. 1483
jgrammer@sewanee.edu

Professor of English (on sabbatical Easter 2027)

Gailor Hall 21 / ext. 3366
mwirvin@sewanee.edu

Associate Professor of English

Gailor Hall 113 / ext. 1330
majafri@sewanee.edu

Professor of English

Gailor Hall 129 / ext. 1338
jrmacdon@sewanee.edu

Professor of English 

Gailor Hall 115 / ext. 3368
kamalone@sewanee.edu

Professor of English and Department Chair

Gailor Hall 111 / ext. 1865
jmichael@sewanee.edu

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) 

Gailor Hall 22 / ext. 1868
mirai@sewanee.edu

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Sewanee Young Writers Conference

Gailor Hall 102A / ext. 1541
hesiegri@sewanee.edu

Assistant Professor of English (on sabbatical 2026-27)

Gailor Hall  014 / ext. 1138
bmthreat@sewanee.edu

Professor of English

Gailor Hall 23 / ext. 1253
vltucker@sewanee.edu

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Playwriting)

Gailor Hall 215 / ext. 1689
egwilder@sewanee.edu

Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program

Gailor Hall 24 / ext. 1236
kewilson@sewanee.edu

Teaching Professor of English, Emerita

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Emeritus

Carlton Professor of English and Creative Writing (Emeritus)

wprunty@sewanee.edu