Faculty

Barish Ali, Ph.D. (English)

Associate Professor
Ketchum Hall 304
Phone: (716) 878-5415
Email: alib@buffalostate.edu

• African and Caribbean literature (in particular postcolonial literature and Arab/North African Literature)
• Critical Race Theory
• Representations of race in English literature and popular culture
• Literature and Social Justice

Naila Ansari, M.F.A. (Theater and Dance)

Assistant Professor
Donald Savage Building 215
Phone: (716) 878-6416
Email: ansarinh@buffalostate.edu

• The Black Arts 
• Choreographer, director, and performing artist 
• Black women's joy 
• Consultant for Foundations for Arts and Culture

Holly Quicksey, Ph.D. (Transfer Advising)

Dir of Transfer Advising
(716) 878-5202
Enrollment Management, VP Office
Butler Library 149J
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo NY, 14222
quickshv@buffalostate.edu

• Program development
• Student enrollment 
• Student success and retention 
• Human service administration 
• Higher Education theory and practice 
• Underrepresented and differently-abled students

Peter Ramos, Ph.D. (English)

Professor
Ketchum 213-F
Phone: (716) 878-5417
Email: ramospj@buffalostate.edu

• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literatures 
• Contemporary criticism, fiction, and poetry 
• Black and Latin focus

Jennifer Ryan-Bryant, Ph.D. (English)

Professor
Ketchum Hall 213-I
Phone: (716) 878-6820
Email: ryanjd@buffalostate.edu

• African American literature 
• Jazz and blues poetics 
• Transatlantic slave narratives 
• The Harlem Renaissance 
• Black Arts Movement 
• Black horror in literature and film 
• Africana women's writers of the diaspora 
• Literatures of lynching 
• The 1619 project

John Torrey, Ph.D. (Philosophy)

Assistant Professor
Buckham Hall B221
Phone: (716) 878-5136
Email: torreyjr@buffalostate.edu

• Reparations for African-descended people 
• Applied ethics 
• Philosophy of education 
• Pre-college philosophy

Aimable Twagilimana, Ph.D. (English)

Professor
Ketchum Hall 321
Phone: (716) 878-5405
Email: twagila@buffalostate.edu

• American literature
• African American literature and theory 
• World literature (with focus on African Diaspora literatures) 
• Postcolonial literature and theory 
• Genocide studies 
• Ethnic studies (covering Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo) 
• Literatures of Continental Europe (focusing on France, Italy, and Germany) 
• Linguistics

Marcus D. Watson, Ph.D. (Individualized Studies)

Coordinator
Buckham Hall A 120E
Email: watsonmd@buffalostate.edu

• Black psychology 
• African American history and culture 
• History and current state of Black Studies 
• African history and culture 
• African ethnography

Atta Ceesay, Ph.D.

Associate Dean
Rockwell Hall 222
Phone: (716) 878-6326
Email: ceesayaa@buffalostate.edu

Keith Fulcher, Ph.D.

Director of Individualized Studies
(716) 878-3462
Individualized Studies
Twin Rise South Wing   210A
fulcheka@buffalostate.edu

Erin Habes, M.S.

Lecturer
(716) 878-5290
Fashion and Textile Technology
Technology Building 320
habesec@buffalostate.edu

Douglas Hoston, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
(716) 878-4214
Social & Psychological Foundations
Bacon Hall   306
hostondl@buffalostate.edu

Kenneth Orosz, Ph.D.

Professor
(716) 878-3203
History and Social Studies
Cassety Hall   337
oroszkj@buffalostate.edu

Lorna Perez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
(716) 878-5417
English Department
Ketchum Hall   303B
perezll@buffalostate.edu

Shantell Reid, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
(716) 878-5286
Fashion and Textile Technology
Technology Building 321
reidsm@buffalostate.edu

Ron Stewart, Ph.D.

Professor
Cassety Hall 145
Phone: (716) 878-6436
Email: stewarr@buffalostate.edu