English Department Faculty

English faculty at Clark hold a variety of prestigious awards and honors. Marylynne Diggs, Gail Robinson, Julian Nelson, Jim Wilkins-Luton, and Josh Patrick have been awarded Clark's most prestigious teaching honor: The Exceptional Faculty Award. Gail Robinson, Elizabeth Donley, and Michael Guerra have won Oregon Literary Fellowships. One of Alexis Nelson's non-fiction works was selected as a "notable" essay in Best American Essays 2013.  Melissa Favara's work was selected for publication on McSweeney's Internet Tendency website. Jill Darley-Vanis and Melissa Favara have written a chapter in the book Teaching Accelerated and Corequisite Composition edited by David Starkey.  Joe Pitkin's science fiction novel, Exit Black, was published by Blackstone in 2024.

For more information about faculty interests and specialties, please click on English Faculty Specialties.

For contact information for full-time and part-time English faculty, please see below.

Full-Time Faculty

Part-Time Faculty 

Foster 112 is the part-time faculty office space, but not all part-time faculty use this office. Email is the best way to reach a part-time faculty member.