Administration & Staff
Faculty Administration
Daniel Anderson
Director of the Writing Program and Digital Innovation Lab
Office: Greenlaw 533
Staff
Jennifer Washington
Associate Chair for Business Operations
Greenlaw 210
Office Hours:
Duties:
Educational Experience:
Project Management Certificate – UNC Wilmington-2012
M.A. Management and Leadership- Webster University-2011
B.A. History- UNC Wilmington-2008
US Navy- 2003-2007
Job Duties:
Oversees the fiscal and personnel management for the department. Directs hiring, recruitment, human resources, scheduling, budgeting, & project management as well as day-to-day functions and events.
Cheryl Siler-Jones
Business Services Coordinator
Greenlaw 208
Office Hours: M-F, 8:15am-5:00pm
Duties:
Oversees the Student Services Team (Graduate Student Services Manager, Departmental Registrar and Undergraduate Student Services Manager, Departmental Program Coordinators for Creative Writing, Writing Program, HHIVE Lab, LMC, Latino/a Studies, etc). Oversees hiring of all SHRA and EHRA student hiring; TIM Administrator; assist Associate Chair of Business Operations
with all matters, helps with human resources, direct hiring, recruitment, scheduling, budgeting, & project management, as well as day-to-day functions for the Department.
Blair Killian
Executive Associate & Event Planner
Office Hours:
Duties:
Executive Associate to the Chair of English & Comparative Literature and the Events Coordinator for the Department. Duties include performing and consulting on scheduling, planning guidelines for new events, events coordination, budgeting, project management, and communications.
Richard Aillen Taylor
Office Manager
Office Hours: 8am-5pm
Duties:
Oversees front office operations, manages Work-Study students, as well as, assists Business Officer with building management, project management, and various day-to-day functions of the Department.
Robin Samuels
Accountant
Greenlaw 207B
Office Hours: M–Th, 8:00am-6:30pm
Duties:
Oversees reimbursements (research, travel, & recruitment), coordinates travel & events, accounting & budgeting for the Department.
Linda Horne
Accounting Associate
Greenlaw 202
Office Hours: Tu-F, 7:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Duties:
Prepare and process travel, receipt reimbursements for students and faculty. Advise faculty of accounting regulations and maintain files to track claims. Work with co-workers to ensure all travel and award payments are received and processed. Review, obtain necessary approvals to submit faculty Arts & Sciences Travel requests. Process the receipt and deposit of all incoming checks to appropriate offices.
Vacant
Graduate Student Services Manager
Greenlaw 207-A
Office Hours:
Duties:
Serves as 1st point of contact for Graduate Program. Maintains Graduate Database. Handles all Fellowships and Awards. Enroll eligible students in the Graduate Student Health Insurance Program (GShip). Processes Waiver of Hours forms. Processes tuition remissions. Process Admissions and Degree Applications. Process employment/payroll actions and tuition payments for all eligible graduate students who teach or serve in year-long research assistant positions. Handles all ePar processing for hiring, SWB and RWB of TF’s, TA’s, and RA’s. Works with Program Coordinator, Supervisor and Business Officer to coordinator information needed to communicate during Orientation to all new and returning Grad Students
Departmental Registrar
Departmental Registrar and Undergraduate Student Services Manager
Greenlaw 200
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Duties:
Responsible for course maintenance and assignments, and classroom scheduling for all undergraduate and graduate courses, registering students after the enrollment period has ended, course descriptions, collecting syllabi and course evaluations, as well as assisting students with their schedule.
Bonnie Williams
Creative Writing and Honors Program Coordinator, Coordinator for the Writing Program;Literature, Medicine, and Culture MA Program; and Latino/a Studies Minor Program
203 Greenlaw
Office Hours: Office Hours: Mon-Fri – 8:00a – 5:00p
Duties:
Serves as the Creative Writing Program and Honors Program Coordinator for the English and Comparative Literature Department. Coordinate the Teaching Fellow assignment process for ENGL 105 and 105i each academic term, manage the Writing Program listserv, assist with the LMC graduate program and the Latino/a Studies Undergraduate Minor program.