Faculty

Ryan Boettger

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 314
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Ryan.Boettger@unt.edu

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Ryan Boettger received his Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and his MA in Technical Communication from Texas Tech University. His current research interests include curriculum... Read more »


Shobhana Chelliah

Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 408J
Phone: (940) 369-8955
Shobhana.Chelliah@unt.edu

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Shobhana Chelliah's research is primarily in the field of Documentary Linguistics which involves collecting and analyzing data from undocumented languages. She is currently the Principal... Read more »


Katie Crowder

Senior Lecturer, Linguistics

Office: AudB 207
Katie.Crowder@unt.edu

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Katie Crowder is a linguistics lecturer and ESL program director. She holds a master's degree from UNT in Linguistics with a specialization in TESL. Besides teaching linguistics, Katie designs and... Read more »


Patricia Cukor-Avila

Associate Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 408K
Phone: (940) 565-4577
Patricia.Cukor-Avila@unt.edu

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Dr. Cukor-Avila has an MA in Spanish from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on approaches to sociolinguistic methods and the... Read more »


Erin Friess

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 303
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Erin.Friess@unt.edu

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Erin Friess received her PhD in Rhetoric and her MA in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation investigated how novice technical communicators used data gathered... Read more »


Gwen Holladay

Senior Lecturer, Technical Communication

gwen.holladay@swbell.net

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Gwen Holladay joined the LTC faculty in 2011 as a senior lecturer in professional and technical communication. She earned her MA in technical communication from UNT in 2011.

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Heather Huggett

Lecturer, Technical Communication & Undergraduate Advisor

Office: AudB 105c (in the LTC Student Writing Lab)
Heather.Huggett@unt.edu

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Ms. Huggett earned her B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Virginia Tech in 1995. She earned her M.A. in English from Virginia Tech in 1997. Ms. Huggett has been teaching college English... Read more »


Lisa Jackson

Senior Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 207
Lisa.Jackson@unt.edu

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Dr. Lisa Jackson brings a unique blend of practical corporate experience coupled with academic scholarship to her classroom. She strives to combine these skills in order to prepare students to... Read more »


Chris Lam

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication

Office: LANG 409H
Christopher.Lam@unt.edu

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Chris Lam received his Ph.D. in Technical Communication and MS in Technical Communication and Information Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests apply linguistic... Read more »


Stacey Miller

Senior Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 207
staceykmiller@yahoo.com

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Stacey Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts and a certificate to teach secondary English from Texas A&M University in 1995 and her Master of Arts from the University of North Texas... Read more »


Timothy Montler

Professor, Linguistics & Graduate Studies Director

Office: AudB 317D
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Montler@unt.edu

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Prof. Montler is the Interim Director of Graduate Studies for the department. He has worked in Salishan linguistics since 1977 and has also done field work and published on Alabama, a Muskogean... Read more »


Sadaf Munshi

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Office: LANG 407D
Phone: (940) 369-8944
sadafmunshi@unt.edu

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Dr. Sadaf Munshi received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UT Austin. Among the courses that she teaches are Historical Linguistics, History of English Language, and Gypsy Language and Culture. She... Read more »


Vicki Peake

Principal Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 203
Vicki.Peake@unt.edu

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Vicki Peake (M.A. Indiana University) returned to teaching after 20+ years as an advertising vice president and creative director for several Fortune 500 companies. An avid horse racing fan and... Read more »


Kathryn Raign

Associate Professor, Technical Communication; Writing Lab Director; & Undergraduate Studies Director

Office: AudB 105
Phone: (940) 565-4665
Kathryn.Raign@unt.edu

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Kathryn Raign received her PhD in English, with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition, from Texas Christian University in 1989. She began working at UNT in 1990. After receiving tenure, Dr... Read more »


Haj Ross

Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 407K
Phone: (940) 369-8946
Haj@unt.edu

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Haj Ross teaches in the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication at the University of North Texas. He is interested in poetics "and" semantax [the... Read more »


Brenda Sims

Professor, Technical Communication & Chair

Office: AudB 317
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Brenda.Sims@unt.edu

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Brenda Sims has taught technical communication at UNT since 1986. Her research interests include collaboration in the workplace and ethics. She enjoys learning from and working with companies and... Read more »


Kristan Taylor

Lecturer, Linguistics

Office: AudB 207
Kristan.Taylor@unt.edu

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Although Kristan Taylor has been part of the LTC faculty since 2006, she hasn't actually lived in Denton in a while. She has been working with current and future UNT students at the Universidad... Read more »


Stefanie Wulff

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 407L
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Stefanie.Wulff@unt.edu

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Born and raised in Germany, Stefanie received her doctoral degree at the University of Bremen in Germany before moving to the United States in 2006. Before joining UNT, she was a Postdoctoral... Read more »