Alma Rosa Alvarez
Professor
PhD and MA English, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, English and Mexican American Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Dr. Alvarez teaches U.S. Literature with a specialty in U.S. Ethnic Literature. She is also affiliated faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Ethnic and Race Studies; and Native American Studies. Dr. Alvarez loves the way literature guides students through new experiences. Some of her course offerings include Coming of Age Narratives, Literature of Invisibility, Chicana/o/x Literature, Black Women and Unknowability, and Poetry of Witness. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and writing poetry.
Office: Central Hall 133
Phone: 541.552.6629
E-Mail: alvarez@sou.edu
Merrilyne Lundahl
Associate Professor; Co-director, Oregon Writing Project at SOU
PhD, English (Rhetoric & Composition), University of Nevada, Reno; MS, Environmental Studies, University of Montana, Missoula; BS, American Studies and English, Utah State University
Dr. Lundahl teaches across the English Studies, specializing in teacher education and writing pedagogy. She loves seeing aspiring teachers make literacy relevant and meaningful for all students. Dr. Lundahl’s research focuses on intersections of literacy studies and environmental education. She hikes and studies natural history during her free time.
Office: Central Hall 12
Phone: 541.552.7047
E-Mail: lundahlm@sou.edu
Diana Maltz
Professor
BA, Bennington College; MA, PhD, Stanford University
Dr. Maltz’s classes include The Animal in Literature; World War I and its Aftermath; Slumming in the Nineteenth Century; and The Decadent 1890s. She has a research specialty in Victorian Studies. Her most recent books are Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End (Routledge, 2022) and a scholarly edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth (Broadview, 2023).
Office: Central Hall 131
Phone: 541.552.6634
E-Mail: maltzd@sou.edu
Margaret Perrow
Professor; Coordinator, English Studies Program; Director, Oregon Writing Project at SOU
BA, French (Literature and Language), Minor, Linguistics, Yale College; PhD, MA, Education (Language, Literacy, and Culture) UC Berkeley
Dr. Perrow has taught English at all levels – K-12, undergraduates, graduate students and teachers. She is intrigued by the relationship between language and identity, and is constantly asking: How does language reflect who we are, and shape who we become? She is the author of A Hidden History of Youth Development in South Africa: Learning in Transition (Routledge, 2021).
Office: Central Hall 130
Phone: 541.552.6632
E-Mail: perrowm@sou.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Edwin Battistella
Michael Baughman
Peggy G.P. Cheng
Terry L. DeHay
Bill Gholson
Charlotte Hadella
Sandra J. Holstein
Lawson F. Inada
Barbara O. Matthiessen
Victor Thomas Nash
Cynthia M. Wallace
Contact the English Program
SOU English Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6181
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