AUM Faculty & Staff
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Swati Dey
Canvas System Administrator
Jordan Dominy
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Jordan Dominy joined the AUM faculty in August 2024. His research and teaching expertise are in American and US Southern literature and culture. He has taught courses in those subjects, popular culture studies, and film, and so far at AUM he has taught courses in literary theory and criticism, African American literature, and first year composition. His book, Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America, was published in 2020 by the University Press of Mississippi and includes chapters on authors ranging from William Faulkner to Alice Walker. Dr. Dominy’s recent publications have focused on the work of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023).
A Georgia native, Dr. Dominy enjoys learning about Alabama history, places, and culture from his students and colleagues. When not teaching, reading, or writing, Dr. Dominy dabbles in many interests, but he particularly enjoys woodworking and playing games or watching television with his family and friends.
Gilbert Duenas
Professor | College of Education
Dr. Gil Duenas has served as a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology, College of Education, Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) since Fall 2011. As a full professor, he provides instruction (face-to face or online) for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral candidates, as well as facilitates 10-hour field experiences, 100-hour practicum, and the one-semester internship for eligible candidates. His research focus centers on the influence of the Hispanic household on children’s out-of-school mathematics and literacy learning, and on the role of pedagogical practices that acknowledge and value young children’s cultural and social diversity.
Faculty’s Expertise: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Latino Household and Children’s Out-of-School Learning, Valuing and Affirming Play-Based Learning in Early Childhood
Kathryn Dugan
Chair & Program Director - MLS; Assistant Professor | College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Stephanie Dugger
Assistant Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Dr. Stephanie Dugger is a poet and creative nonfiction writer whose collection of poetry, Either Way You’re Done (2017), was published by Sundress Publications and chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), was winner of the Vella Chapbook contest. Dr. Dugger’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Baltimore Review, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry International, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tampa Review, and other journals. Dr. Dugger teaches Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature at AUM and also serves as Creative Nonfiction editor for Thirteen Bridges Review.
Tonya Dupree
Senior Director, Human Resources & Compliance
Tathagata Dutta
Lecturer, International Student Success and Retention Coordinator
Tathagata Dutta
Lecturer, International Student Success and Retention Coordinator | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Debra Dwight
Assistant Clinical Professor
