Faculty & Staff Directory

Name Department / Office Contact
T. J. Anderson III

T. J. Anderson III

Professor

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-6378

tanderson@hollins.edu

Scott Blackwood

Scott Blackwood

Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-6278

blackwoodws@hollins.edu

Marissa Bolin

Visiting Lecturer

English & Creative Writing

Swannanoa

540-362-6695

bolinmn1@hollins.edu

Matthew Burnside

Matthew Burnside

Assistant Professor

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A., First-Year Seminars

Swannanoa

540-362-6276

burnsidemk@hollins.edu

Michelle DeGroot

Michelle DeGroot

Assistant Professor

English & Creative Writing, First-Year Seminars

Swannanoa

540-362-6433

degrootmc@hollins.edu

Pauline Kaldas

Pauline Kaldas

Susan Gager Jackson Professor of Creative Writing

Professor

English & Creative Writing, Gender & Women’s Studies, Public Health, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-7489

pkaldas@hollins.edu

Thorpe Moeckel

Thorpe Moeckel

Associate Professor

Director, Jackson Center for Creative Writing

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A., Environmental Studies / Environmental Science

Swannanoa

540-362-6427

tmoeckel@hollins.edu

Marilyn Moriarty

Marilyn Moriarty

Professor

English & Creative Writing

Turner

540-362-6277

mmoriarty@hollins.edu

Julie Pfeiffer

Julie Pfeiffer

Professor and Chair

English & Creative Writing, Gender & Women’s Studies, Children’s Literature and Children’s Book Illustration, Certificate in Children’s Book Illustration

Swannanoa

540-362-6318

jpfeiffer@hollins.edu

Meighan Sharp

Visiting Assistant Professor

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-6322

msharp2@hollins.edu

Zeus Sumra

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-7445

sumraz@hollins.edu

Patricia Sunia

Assistant Professor

English & Creative Writing, Gender & Women’s Studies

Swannanoa

540-362-6276

suniap@hollins.edu

Jessie VanEerden

Jessie VanEerden

Associate Professor

English & Creative Writing, Creative Writing M.F.A.

Swannanoa

540-362-6350

vaneerdenjh@hollins.edu