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