AUM Faculty & Staff
Directory


Charity Patricola
Administrative Associate | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Theresa Pelfrey
Associate Professor and Director of Legal Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Hillary Porter
Advising and Recruiting Coordinator | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Advising for the following:
- All students with more than 57 earned credit hours in the following majors:
- Art
- Fine Art
- Communication (non-Theatre concentrations)
- Criminal Justice (legal studies)
- Economics
- English
- History
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Social Work

Kimberly Pyszka
Department Chair; Associate Professor of Anthropology

Kimberly Pyszka
Department Chair; Associate Professor of Anthropology | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Kent Quaney
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Creative Writing | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Kent Quaney is an Assistant Professor of English and the coordinator of the Creative Writing program at AUM. His areas of expertise include fiction writing, postcolonial criticism, and the contemporary literature of East Asia and the South Pacific.
Dr. Quaney has published several short stories in journals such as Literally Stories, Polari, Riversedge, and Chelsea Station. His first novel, One Breath from Drowning, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2022.


Seth Reno
Distinguished Research Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, ecocriticism, affect theory, climate fiction, and the environmental humanities. He regularly teaches classes in these areas, as well as literature surveys and writing courses. Seth hails from Ohio, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Before joining AUM in 2013, he taught at Wittenberg University, Ohio State, and Columbus State Community College. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853 (Liverpool University Press, 2019); editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021) and Romanticism and Affect Studies (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2018); and co-editor (with Lisa Ottum) of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press, 2016). He has also published dozens journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews.
Dr. Reno is currently working on two projects. The first is a critical edition of William Delisle Hay’s novella The Doom of the Great City (1880), which imagines an environmental catastrophe caused by a poisonous London fog in the late nineteenth century. He is co-editing this story with Allison Hamilton, a current graduate student in AUM’s Master of Liberal Arts program. The second project is an anthology of lesser-known industrial writers, tentatively titled Popular British Industrial Writings: A Critical Anthology. It contains hundreds of relatively unknown (and often unpublished) poems, essays, and other forms of writing that chronicle the British Industrial Revolution. He received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to fund this project.
In addition to literature, Dr. Reno has a passion for food and travel: he loves cooking, he teaches courses on food and culture, he has undertaken several domestic and international research trips and study abroad courses, and he once came in fourth place at a burger-eating competition (he has since given up his professional food-eating aspirations).


Faith Roberts
Administrative Associate Theatre Operations | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Agnitra Roy Choudhury
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Agnitra Roy Choudhury is an Assistant Professor in the Economics department. Dr. Roy Choudhury received his PhD and MA from Binghamton University. His training is in applied microeconomics and applied econometrics. His research interests include studying the impact of regulations on health care and labor markets. Currently Dr. Roy Choudhury’s research includes analyzing Scope of Practice regulations and Certificate of Need laws. In addition to studying health care and labor market regulations, Dr. Roy Choudhury has projects ranging from entrepreneurship to the impact of legalizing of cannabis on public health. His research papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Vaccine, Empirical Economic Letters, Applied Economics Letters, and Journal of Risk & Financial Management. In his free time, he enjoys exercising, cooking, and spending time with his friends.


Mariano Runco
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Neil Seibel
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Ben Severance
Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

