Full-Time Faculty

LETU English faculty bring a Christian worldview to the study of language, literature, speaking, and writing. Their mission is to help students master the oral and written communication skills necessary for success in college, career, and life activities. 

• Jim Watson — Department Chair, Professor of English
  • Ed.D., East Texas State University (1981). Major — The College Teaching of English. Dissertation: "A Reader's Guide to C.S. Lewis: His Fiction."
    
• Annie Olson — Writing Program Director, Associate Professor of English
  
  • Ph.D., Texas Woman's University (2003). Major field — Rhetoric; Secondary field — Medieval and Renaissance British Literature. Dissertation: "MOO: A Site For Facilitating a Bakhtinian Aesthetics of Invention."
• Martin Batts — Professor of English
  • Ph.D., University of Dallas (1983). Major — Literature; Minor — Philosophy.
• Randy Compton — Associate Professor of English 
  • Ph.D., University of North Texas (1994). Major — English. Dissertation: "Richard Wilbur and the Poetry of Apocalyptic Interstices"
• Arturo Morales — Assistant Professor of Spanish
  • M.A., Mississippi State University (1999). Ph.D. candidate, Mississippi State University.
• Ignacio G. Palacios, Ph.D.  — Associate Professor of English
  • Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2001). Major — English, specializing in rhetoric and linguistics.
• Karl Payton — Associate Professor of Communication Studies
  • M.A., Western Kentucky University (1994).  Major — Organizational Communication.  Ed.D., Texas A&M University Commerce; research interest:  Predictors of Communication Apprehension
    
• Fredna Stuckey — Associate Professor of English
  • M.A., Texas A&M University at Commerce (1971). Major — English.