Professors
David Cremean (Ph.D. Bowling Green State University)
~Western Literature and Film
~Critical Theory
~Myth
Amy Fuqua (Ph.D. University of South Carolina)
~American Literature
~Women and Literature
~Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities
Vincent King (Ph.D. University of South Carolina)
~American Literature
Andrey Reznikov (Ph.D. St. Petersburg University, Russia)
~Linguistics
~Grammar
~Teaching English as a Second Language
Nicholas Wallerstein (Ph.D. University of Oregon)
~Medieval and Renaissance British Literature
~Classical Languages, Literature, and Rhetoric
~Western Religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Associate Professors
Kent Meyers (M.A. Washington State University)
~Creative Writing
~Literature of the American West
Assistant Professors
Nicholle Dragone (J.D., Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo)
~American Indian Literature
~Indigenous Studies
~International Law and Human Rights
Martin Fashbaugh (Ph.D. Purdue University)
~Nineteenth-Century British Literature
G. Scott Groce (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
~English and American Literature
Courtney Huse-Wika (Ph.D. University of South Dakota)
~Young Adult Literature
~Popular Culture
~Creative Writing
~Director of the Writing Center
Instructors
Matt Bauman (M.F.A. University of Idaho)
Erica Bobby (M.A. University of South Dakota)
Meg English (Ed.D. University of South Dakota)
Rachelle Greer (Ph.D. Iowa State University)
Laurie Harris (M.S. Black Hills State University)
Cynthia Howell
Barbara Looney (Ph.D. University of South Florida)
Ronda Mehrer (M.A. South Dakota State University)
Jessica Miles
Alicia Sutliff-Benusis (Ph.D. University of Kansas)
Bret Swanson
Professors Emeriti
William Bogard (Ph.D. Tulane University)
Dick Popelka
Sharon Strand (Ph.D. Bowling Green State University)
R. D. Theisz (Ph.D. New York University)
Contact Information
Click on the link Faculty for detailed information about individual English faculty members, including email addresses, telephone numbers, and professional biographies.
Exit Exam
Graduating seniors click here (EXIT EXAM) for Exit Exam information and forms!!!
Program Overview
The English Program at Black Hills State University provides professional courses for majors and minors as well as general education courses in writing and literature. Through coursework and advisement, our faculty help you to develop your written and oral powers of thought and expression, and we provide you with a comprehensive background in literature and literary criticism. Additionally, we prepare teachers in the curriculum of grammar, literature, and writing pedagogy. This hard work and cooperation brings positive results: students in the English program at BHSU consistently score highly on the English CAAP and PRAXIS exams.
We offer several tracks for the English major (English, English Education, English Composite) and we offer an English minor and a Professional Writing minor. Additionally, as an English major, you may choose a concentration in writing.
The English major at BHSU prepares you to pursue a number of different careers, and our alumni have followed a variety of paths including graduate school, education, entrepreneurial endeavors, and publishing.
Students in our major are valuable members of the campus community. The English Club holds an annual short story writing competition, runs a film festival, and publishes The Greenbowl Review, a journal of literature and art. Additionally, as an English major, you can compete in essay competitions, including the Stewart Bellman Excellence in Undergraduate Writing awards, and are eligible to apply for a number of Humanities Department scholarships.
Students interested in the English major are encouraged to click on the "Download a Factsheet" link in the upper right hand corner of this page.
- Telephone
- 605.642.6397 - Dr. Amy Fuqua, Chair of the School of Arts & Humanities
- 605.642.6040 - Dr. Scott Groce, Director of Composition
- FAX
- 605.642.6762
- Email
- Information
- Writing Center - Director: Dr. Courtney Huse-Wika