Faculty & Staff

Full-Time WLC Faculty

 

Galina Bakhtiarova, Ph.D.

Professor, Spanish, and Chairperson

Office: Higgins Hall, Room 218B, Midtown Campus

Office Hours:

On campus and online meetings via: https://us.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/8bdf6569f89f48179038244966ee20ca

Tuesday: 2:00 pm – 4:00pm
Wednesday: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Friday: 10am-11am

Phone: (203) 837-8734
Email: bakhtiarg@wcsu.edu

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Kelli Custer, Ph.D., (she/her) on leave Fall 2025
Professor, Composition, and Associate Chair
Coordinator of  the Writing Center

Email: custerk@wcsu.edu
Phone: 203.837.3941

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Stacey Alba Hawkins, Ph.D.
Professor, Spanish
Office: Higgins Hall, Room 218C, Midtown Campus

Office Hours:
Monday 8 – 9am
Tuesday 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Wednesday 5 – 6pm

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/cb276c6c9d0349a68bed10916c2d955e

Virtual meetings and in person meetings available by appointment.
Send email for an appointment: hawkinsa@wcsu.edu

Phone: (203) 837-8485
Email: Hawkinsa@wcsu.edu

 

Cameron Phillips, MFA in Creative and Professional Writing
Interim Coordinator, Writing Center

Haas Library, Room 302
181 White St.
Danbury, CT 06810

(203) 837-8728
writingcenter@wcsu.edu

 

Vittoria S. Rubino, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor of Composition
Coordinator of Composition

Office: Higgins Hall, 218A
Monday/Thursday 1:30-2:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am-12:30pm

Phone: (203) 837 – 8025
rubinov@wcsu.edu

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Part-Time WLC Faculty

Office Hours for Part-Time Faculty Are By Appointment

Language Faculty

Carmen Crisostomo-Lenz, M.A., Spanish
Hamid El Khalfi, Ph.D., Arabic
Ernest Fabrizio-Garcia, M.S., Spanish
Patrizia Farina, A.B.D., Italian
Renate Ludanyi, Ph.D., German
James Matranga, M.A., French
Miriam Oliveira, M.A., Portuguese
Sandra Peña, Ed.D., Educational Leadership, M.A., Spanish
Miguel Purgatorio, M.A., Spanish

 

Composition Faculty

Deatra (Dee) Anderson, MA in English, Writing Emphasis

Leah Begg, Ph.D. in English

Brendan Dyer, MFA in Creative and Professional Writing

Sara Flores, MA in English Literature and Museum Studies

Amanda Gallagher, MS in Education

David Griffith, MA in Education Curriculum and Instruction, Bilingual and Special Education

Chet Jordan, Ph.D. in Urban Education

Louis Samuel Nicolosi, Ph.D., English Literature

Ellen O’Donnell, MFA in Creative and Professional Writing

Alice Schuette, MA in Interdisciplinary Studies, Concentration: Writing Arts and Education

Laura Stuart, MFA in Creative Writing

Casey Rudkin, PhD in Composition and Rhetoric

 

WLC STAFF

Ms. Krista Brooks
Department Secretary

Office:
Higgins Hall – Room 201 (Midtown Campus)
Monday-Friday: 9am – 4pm
Phone: 203-837-9166
Email: brooksk@wcsu.edu