Committees for TTK Faculty
Committee elections are held in the spring of each year, and final appointments to elected and appointed positions are determined by the TTK Committee on Committees. All faculty are eligible for election to committee roles. Committee assignments are shared in May for the following academic year. For a full view of committee service, please review the list of all department committees for AY 2024-2025.
Below are the current TTK representatives serving on departmental committees for AY 2024-2025.
Annual Review Committee
- Amanda Bailey, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Robert Levine (2023-2025)
- Marisa Parham (2024-2026)
- Barry Pearson (2023-2025)
- Brian Richardson (2023-2025)
- David Simon (2024-2026)
- Rion Scott (2024-2026)
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
APT Committee Chair
- Kim Coles (2024-2025)
CAARES Committee
- Tita Chico (2024-2026)
- Kari Kraus (2024-2026)
- Sara Wilder (2024-2026)
- Amanda Bailey, ex-officio
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, ex-officio
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, ex-officio
- Sangeeta Ray, ex-officio
- Jason Rudy, ex-officio
- Lee Konstantinou, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
CLCS Steering Committee
- Sangeeta Ray, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Tita Chico (2024-2026)
- Kellie Robertson (2024-2026)
- Christina Walter (2023-2025)
- Amanda Bailey, ex-officio
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, ex-officio
- Lee Konstantinou, ex-officio
- Jason Rudy, ex-officio
Collegiate Council Representative
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela (2023-2025)
Coordinating Committee
The Coordinating Committee is the executive committee of the department. The Committee advises the Chair on matters of concern related to the department, including academic matters, personnel actions, and resource allocation. The Committee generally meets two times per semester on Wednesday mornings from 9:30-11:00 a.m.
- Amanda Bailey, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Marisa Parham (2023-2025)
- Christina Walter (2023-2025)
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, ex-officio
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, ex-officio
- Kari Kraus, ex-officio
- Sangeeta Ray, ex-officio
- Jason Rudy, ex-officio
- Lee Konstantinou, ex-officio
- Sara Wilder, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Creative Writing Committee
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Committee Chair
- Maud Casey, standing
- Gabrielle Fuentes, standing
- Emily Mitchell, standing
- Rion Scott, standing
- Joshua Weiner, standing
- Jason Rudy, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Department Assembly
The Department Assembly is the voice of the department on matters of general policy. Proposals of substantive importance in regard to programs and policies of the department suggested by the Chair, or other standing committees, are submitted to the Assembly for review. The decisions of the Assembly generally become department policy. The Assembly generally meets two times per semester on Wednesday mornings from 9:30-11:00 a.m.
- All tenure-line faculty are voting members
Graduate Studies Committee
- Jason Rudy, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Kellie Robertson (2024-2026)
- Martha Nell Smith (2024-2026)
- Kari Kraus (2023-2025)
- Emily Mitchell (2023-2025)
- Angela Glotfelter (2024-2026)
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, ex-officio
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Personnel Committee
- Amanda Bailey, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Michael Israel (2023-2025)
- Matthew Kirschenbaum (2023-2025)
- Emily Mitchell (2023-2025)
- Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, ex-officio
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, ex-officio
- Lee Konstantinou, ex-officio
- Jason Rudy, ex-officio
- Scott Wible, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Post-tenure Review Committee
- Amanda Bailey, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Michael Israel (2023-2025)
- Matthew Kirschenbaum (2023-2025)
- Emily Mitchell (2023-2025)
- Robert Levine (2023-2025)
- David Simon (2024-2026)
- Marisa Parham (2024-2026)
- Barry Pearson (2023-2025)
- Brian Richardson (2023-2025)
- Rion Scott (2024-2026)
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Senate Representatives
- Thomas Moser (2022-2025)
- Kim Coles (2023-2026)
- Oliver Gaycken (2024-2027)
Undergraduate Studies Committee
- Lee Konstantinou, Committee Chair, ex-officio
- Christina Walter (2023-2025)
- Gabrielle Fuentes (2024-2026)
- Thomas Moser (2024-2026)
- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, ex-officio
- Kim Coles, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio
Writing Committee
- Jessica Enoch, Committee Chair
- Matthew Kirschenbaum (2023-2025)
- Brian Richardson (2023-2025)
- Linda Coleman, standing
- Angela Glotfelter, standing
- Michael Israel, standing
- Cecilia Shelton, standing
- Scott Wible, ex-officio
- Sara Wilder, ex-officio
- Edlie Wong, ex-officio