Faculty

Laura E. K. Von Wallmenich, Ph.D.
Chair & Assistant Professor of English
Office: Swanson Academic Center 338
Phone: (989) 463-7132

Jeff Abernathy
President
Office: Reid Knox 001
Phone: (989) 463-

Carol F Bender, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Office: Swanson Academic Center 336
Phone: (989) 463-7309

William W Palmer, Ph.D.
Dana Professor of English
Office: SAC 340
Phone: (989) 463-7171

Michael L Selmon, Ph.D.
Provost and Professor of English
Office: Swanson Academic Center 137
Phone: (989) 463-7176

Dana E. Aspinall
Associate Professor of English
Office: Swanson Academic Center 335
Phone: (989) 463-7269

Chih-Ping Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Office: SAC 341
Phone: (989) 463-7243

Robert Vivian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Office: Swanson Academic Center 334
Phone: (989) 463-7383

Cordell, Jeffrey E.
Assistant Professor of English
Office: SAC 339
Phone: (989) 463-7270

Prathim Maya Dora-Laskey
Instructor
Office: SAC 335
Phone: (989) 463-7224

White, Melissa
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office:
Phone: (989) 463-

Jessica Karbowiak
Visiting Instructor of English
Office: SAC 312E
Phone: (989) 463-7461

Dirk Brines
Instructor
Office:
Phone: (989) 463-

 

Alma College boasts a 13-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a liberal arts approach to undergraduate education, 33 academic majors, self-designed programs of emphasis, pre-professional programs in law and medicine, and an intensive Spring Term that provides opportunities for innovative courses, travel classes, research and internships.

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Graduate Profile

Julie Bolitho-Lee

Julie Bolitho-Lee
Graduation: 2006
Major: English

Since graduating from Alma College in 2006, Julie Bolitho-Lee has gotten married, finished a master’s degree, earned status as a dual citizen, published poetry, adopted two dogs and a cat, and traveled to more than 15 different countries.

Yet not once has Bolitho-Lee forgotten the incredible support she received from the English faculty when she was a student at Alma.

“I have always loved English—reading and writing,” she says. “I knew it would be my major before I even went to Alma, but the faculty in the English department fed and indulged my passions in unexpected and beautiful ways.”

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