Please join the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in welcoming our newest faculty in the departments of communication and English.

jacob-craigJacob Craig, assistant professor in the Department of English, received his PhD in English from Florida State University. He teaches courses in first-year writing, digital rhetoric and composition and interdisciplinary composition. His research interests include composition theory and pedagogy, digital rhetoric, mobility/mobile writing technologies, locations of writing and multimodality.

cui-xiXi Cui, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, received his PhD from Texas A&M University. Dr. Cui is a firm supporter of student research, as he received Promising Professor Award of the Mass Communication and Society Division of AEJMC in 2016 . He teaches courses on media studies and research methods, and his research interests include media rituals, media and social identity and social network analysis.

lindsey-dragerLindsey Drager, assistant professor in the Department of English, is the author of the novel The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Prize and recipient of Silver in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction. Dr. Drager received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver. Her research interests include contemporary American literature, literary publishing and disability studies.