Faculty

Ryan Boettger

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication & Director of Graduate Studies

Office: AudB 314/317D
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Ryan.Boettger [at] unt.edu

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Ryan Boettger received his PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University. His current research areas include curriculum development and assessment, technical editing, STEM... Read more »

Christina Schoux Casey

Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 407L
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Christina.Casey [at] unt.edu

Christina Schoux Casey is a sociolinguist whose recent research has focused on New Orleans Englishes. Her research uses New Orleans as a case study to suggest that the social meanings of... Read more »

Shobhana Chelliah

Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 408J
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Shobhana.Chelliah [at] unt.edu

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Shobhana Chelliah's research is primarily in the field of documentary and descriptive linguistics which seeks to preserve, analyze, and mine data from little-studied endangered languages for the... Read more »

Katie Crowder

Senior Lecturer, Linguistics

Office: AudB 207
Katie.Crowder [at] 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) 565-4458
Patricia.Cukor-Avila [at] unt.edu

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Patricia Cukor-Avila’s research focuses on the study of linguistic variation and change, specifically grammatical change over time in African American English. Her... Read more »

Erin Friess

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication

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

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Erin Friess received her PhD in Rhetoric and her MA in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her current research interests include user-centered design, usability and user... Read more »

Jordan Frith

Assistant Professor, Technical Communication

Office: Lang 409L
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Jordan.Frith [at] unt.edu

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Jordan Frith comes to UNT from the Phd program in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media from North Carolina State University. His research focuses on the appropriation of mobile technologies,... Read more »

Gwen Holladay

Senior Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AUD 207
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Gwen.Holladay [at] unt.edu.

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Gwen Holladay joined the LTC faculty in 2011 as a senior lecturer in professional and technical communication. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan and her M.A... Read more »

Heather Huggett

Senior Lecturer, Technical Communication & Undergraduate Advisor

Office: AudB 105c (in the UNT Writing Lab)
Heather.Huggett [at] unt.edu

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Ms. Huggett has been teaching college English and technical writing courses for over 13 years. She specializes in scientific writing and recently co-authored the textbook Writing for Results... Read more »

Lisa Jackson

Principal Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 207
Ljackson [at] 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
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Christopher.Lam [at] 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
Stacey.Miller [at] unt.edu

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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

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

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Prof. Montler has worked in Salishan linguistics since 1977 and has also done field work and published on Alabama, a Muskogean language. Since 1992 he has been working closely with the Klallam... Read more »

Sadaf Munshi

Associate Professor, Linguistics

Office: LANG 407D
Phone: (940) 565-4458
sadafmunshi [at] unt.edu

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Dr. Sadaf Munshi received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She works in the areas of historical and comparative linguistics, language contact, language... Read more »

Diana Nogay

Visiting Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 105a (in the UNT Writing Lab)
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Diana.Nogay [at] unt.edu

Diana Jones Nogay is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication. She teaches TECM 1700 - Introduction to Professional, Science, and Technical Writing. Ms.... Read more »

Vicki Peake

Principal Lecturer, Technical Communication

Office: AudB 203
Vicki.Peake [at] 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 [at] 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

Distinguished Research Professor, Linguistics

Office: Lang 407K
Phone: (940) 565-4458
Haj [at] 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 [at] 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 »