University of Indianapolis Full-Time English Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing (especially poetry); editing; publishing; composition; disability literature; tutoring; Writing Labs
Background
Whiteacre is from the Midwest. She has taught composition, creative writing, publishing, and literature in the past at Ball State University, College of DuPage, and Southern Illinois University. She often works with community members through organizations like the Indiana Writers Center and Midwest Writers Workshop. When she isn't working with writers on craft, Whiteacre writes poetry. She is the author of Hit the Ground, and her poetry has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Wordgathering, Kaleidoscope, and other literary magazines.
Research Interests
poetry, disability literature, Writing Labs
Education
- MFA, Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2002
- BA, English & Criminal Justice, Indiana University, 1998
Fun facts
Swam with sharks and UIndy students on a spring term trip to Belize.
Favorite thing about UIndy
Conversations at the cafeteria or the Perk (I, II or III).
Areas of Expertise
Digital writing and rhetoric, feminist rhetorics, embodied rhetorics, writing pedagogies, writing centers
Background
Destiny Brugman is originally from Montana and has since spent time in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. She is a proud first-generation college student and loves exploring the connections between college writing and our everyday and professional lives. She loves taking risks with her writing and inviting others to take risks with their writing. She loves doing collaborative work, some of which has appeared in Writing Center Journal and WPA: Writing Program Administration.
Research Interests
Digital rhetoric and writing, feminist rhetorics, writing centers/labs, public rhetoric.
Education
- PhD, Composition and Rhetoric, Miami University
- MA, English Studies, Western Washington University
- BA, Writing Studies, Montana State University
Fun facts
Destiny used to teach women’s fitness boxing. In high school, she worked for a professional Shakespeare company. And, she loves seeing movies (good and bad).
Favorite thing about UIndy
How welcoming the campus community is.
Areas of Expertise
19th century British literature, gothic literature, women's literature, transatlantic studies
Background
Dr. Camden published her first book, Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels, in 2010, and her second book, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital's Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, co-authored with Kate Faber Oestreich, in 2018. She has also published articles on 19th century fiction, and collaborated with UIndy students and faculty to publish an annotated and illustrated scholarly edition of Ann Radcliffe's first gothic novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 2020.
She frequently leads travel courses to the United Kingdom, including a summer study abroad in Scotland.
Research Interests
She is currently working on an edited collection of previously unpublished Gothic texts and print culture with Professor JoEllen Delucia.
Education
- PhD, English, The Ohio State University
- MA, English, The Ohio State University
- BA, English and Theatre, Hollins University (with distinction, summa cum laude)
Fun facts
I had an English accent as a child, but lost it when my family moved back from England to the U.S.
Favorite thing about UIndy
Getting to work with students on their own interests. Students have great opportunities here through Honors projects, M.A. theses, and independent studies to work with faculty one-on-one.
Areas of Expertise
Fiction, creative nonfiction, and composition
Background
Haney’s work appears in Mid-American Review, Marathon Literary Review, Barely South Review, and Sport Literate, among others. He was awarded the 2019 Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize for his story, “The Passage,” which will appear in The Madison Review, published out of the University of Wisconsin.
Research Interests
Writing, 21st century writers, ghost stories
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, Purdue University
Fun facts
When I was eight, my goat, Scottie Pippen, won Grand Champion Wether at the Kosciusko County Fair.
Favorite thing about UIndy
The students, the faculty, the staff, hosting the Kellogg Writers Series, and running in the Hound Hustle!
Areas of Expertise
Digital writing, cultural rhetoric, multimodal writing, translanguaging, and advanced composition.
Background
Krasova’s work has appeared in The Peer Review, Computers and Composition, Writing Spaces, and Currere Exchange. She is a Fulbright alumna and received a Teaching Excellence Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2023.
Research Interests
Multilingual writing, TESOL, AI, digital storytelling, Wikipedia.
Education
- PhD, Composition and Applied Linguistics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Fun facts
Alexandra enjoys traveling and has visited 17 countries!
Areas of Expertise
Medieval literature and language (Old and Middle English), Arthurian legend, gender studies, space/place theory, linguistics
Background
Molly has published several articles and two books (Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur; Castles and Space in Malory's Morte Darthur) on Arthurian literature, Chaucer, gender, vision, space and ghosts. She is an associate editor of Arthuriana.
Research Interests
Arthurian literature, castles, space, vision, medieval travel literature, medieval maps and geography, and ghosts
Education
- PhD, English, Purdue University
- MA, English, Purdue University
- BA, English and Classics, Vanderbilt University
Fun facts
In high school, I ran the projectors at a (very old school) movie theater.
Favorite thing about UIndy
The students. And the canal!
Areas of Expertise
Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, professional writing, editing
Background
Rebecca grew up in Iowa and worked as a newspaper reporter and a corporate writer before returning to graduate school to study creative writing. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published by Narrative, Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and other journals. She is a reader for the literary journal Midwestern Gothic and volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana.
Research Interests
Rebecca's fiction address themes of the Midwest, feminism, and murder. She is currently revising a novel-in-stories and drafting a novel.
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, Purdue University, 2015
Fun facts
My dog is named Hans Gruber, after the true hero of Die Hard.
Favorite thing about UIndy
Getting to know my students and helping them become stronger writers
Dr. Leah Milne
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
English
317-788-6163
milnel@uindy.edu
Areas of Expertise
Multiethnic American literature, postcolonial literature & theory, post-1865 American literature, young adult (YA) literature
Background
Dr. Milne is a first-generation college student who teaches multicultural American and postcolonial literature. Her first book is entitled Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives (University of Iowa Press, 2021). Her co-authored book, The Honeyfish Collective Presents Fieldnotes on Contemporary Black Poetry, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her work has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as MELUS, African American Review, and College Literature, and magazines such as Newsweek.
Research Interests
African American and Asian American literature, authorship, ethnicity and Indigeneity, Afrofuturism, postcolonialism
Education
- PhD, English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- MA, English, Old Dominion University
- BA, English, summa cum laude, University of North Florida
Fun facts
Dr. Milne has lived all over the U.S. and (for a brief time) in the Philippines. Indiana is the farthest she has lived from an ocean!
Favorite thing about UIndy
The sense of community we have with students and faculty. Also, the flowers and changing leaves on campus!
Areas of Expertise
English as a Second Language, English Composition, Academic Writing, International Education.
Background
Dr. Newton is originally from the US Virgin Islands, although she has spent most of her life in the state of Ohio. She has been teaching English Composition since 2004, and began teaching in China for UIndy in 2018. Her most recent publication, "My China," reflects on her experience living overseas.
Research Interests
International education, Teaching and Learning, English as a Foreign Language, women's empowerment, education and marginalized communities.
Education
- PhD, Cultural Foundations, Kent State University
- MEd, Higher Education Administration, Wright State University
- BA, English, Wittenberg University
Fun facts
Dr. Newton has a multitude of hobbies. She even took ballroom dancing lessons for two years.
Favorite thing about UIndy
The supportive environment. Everyone here wants each other to succeed.
Areas of Expertise
Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, Rhetoric & Composition
Background
Nick Reading is the author of Love & Sundries (Split Lip Press) and The Party in Question, winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, including Twyckenham Notes, New Ohio Review, Cortland Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and jubilat.
Research Interests
The expanding landscape of contemporary literature and tracking the voices shared through what Ezra Pound called, "The antennae of the people."
Education
- MFA, Fiction, Purdue University
- MFA, Poetry, Virginia Commonwealth University
- BA, English/Creative Writing, Butler University
Fun facts
Reggie Miller once patted me on the back and said, Good hustle." I'll take that.
Favorite thing about UIndy
Everyone opens doors for each other.
Areas of Expertise
creative writing (esp. fiction), composition, and literature
Background
Dan Vice read Catch-22 and Waiting for Godot when he was 16 years old, and his world was changed forever. He has been teaching at UIndy since 2010. He is also Director of the Young Writers Workshop, UIndy's creative writing summer camp for high school students. Vice writes fiction and poetry, both of which he should probably be working on right now.
Research Interests
fiction & poetry, film, media ecology
Education
MFA, Creative Writing (Fiction), Eastern Washington University
Fun facts
Sang at Carnegie Hall at age 10, with a small touring group of the Indianapolis Children's Choir
Favorite thing about UIndy
Community: running into current and former students all over campus, and working with this dream team in the third floor of Good Hall
Areas of Expertise
Young Adult and Children’s literature, 20th century American literature, Early American literature
Background
Dr. Zimmerly has taught a variety of literature and composition courses at the college level since 2009. Originally from rural Pennsylvania, he and his family moved here in 2017. His book, The Sidekick Comes of Age, is an investigation into how literature uses heroes and sidekicks. He is also the editor of Cancer and Young Adult Literature (2024), from Rowman & Littlefield.
Research Interests
Sidekicks, archetype studies, secondary characters in the novel, myth in literature
Education
- PhD, Literature & Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- MA, English, Gannon University
- BA, English (minors in History and Theology), Gannon University
Fun facts
I was born in Alaska, I'm ambidextrous, and I love building LEGO empires with my kids.
Favorite thing about UIndy
Being able to recognize students, staff, and faculty as you walk around campus.