Catherine Frazer

Assistant Professor
Department Chair, English & Cultural Studies

B.A. Anthropology, Texas Tech University
Postgraduate Teaching Certificate English/History, West Texas A & M University
M.A. English, West Texas A & M University

Catherine Frazer, Assistant Professor of English and Chair of the English and Cultural Studies Department, graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master of Arts in English from West Texas A&M University.  Ms. Frazer started on her career path in the late 1980’s as a Copywriter at DB&A Advertising and then as the Marketing and Creative Director at Cloud Nine Productions. She also worked several years as a technical writer for various oil and gas companies.  Catherine Frazer started teaching in 1994, and has been at Amarillo College since 2015. Ms. Frazer has a number of published poems in regional and national poetry collections.  She loves to read, write poetry, paint, and stream media.

Office: Ordway Hall 103-D
Office Hours: M-T 11:45-12:45
Phone: 806-371-5177
Email: cafrazer@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

Freshman Composition I and II
Masterworks of Literature
Special Topics

Honors & Awards:

Summa Cum Laude
Mead Award Nominee
Session Presenter, National Organization for Student Success, 2018, 2019

Research Interests:

Art History (Modern)
Stephen King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Folk and Fairy Tales
Biblical Archaeology

Dr. Judith L. Carter

Professor

BA, English, Texas Woman’s University
MA, English and Technical Writing, University of North Texas
PhD, English and Rhetoric, Texas Woman’s University
Certification, Developmental Education Specialist, Appalachian State University

Dr. Carter started at AC in 1999 as the Developmental English Coordinator.  She now teaches freshman composition and business and professional writing.  Before coming to AC, Dr. Carter worked in the business and banking as a computer operator.  Her research interests are technical writing and protest rhetoric of women who wrote from 1860-1920, such as Rebecca Harding Davis and Mary Hunter Austin.  Dr. Carter hobbies are reading traditional, paranormal, and science fiction mysteries; cross stitching; hiking; and photographing different elements of the natural world.

Office: Ordway Hall 103-C
Email: jlcarter@actx.edu
Phone: 806-371-5181

Teaching Areas:

Freshman Composition
Business and Professional writing

Research Interests:

Technical Writing
Protest Rhetoric of Women who wrote from 1860-1920

Dr. Mary Lynn Dodson

Professor

B.G.S., General Studies, West Texas A&M University
M.A., English, West Texas A&M University
Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in English, Texas Tech University

Dr. Dodson completed her doctoral work in 1997; her dissertation is titled “Twentieth Century Philosophic Expressions in Film and Literature.”  She has taught ESL courses, Comp I and Comp II, American Literature, Masterworks, Western Literature, and Non-Western Literature.  She has also taught Special Topics courses ranging from Larry McMurtry in Film and Literature to The Writings of C. S. Lewis to Islamic Thought in Literature.  She has co-sponsored The College Young Republicans and enjoys politics, philosophy, film, and, of course, literature.  She volunteers in the Sharing Hope prison ministry and in a local ESL tutoring program. She stays busy with family and church activities.

Office: Ordway Hall 100-D
Email: mldodson@actx.edu
Phone: 806-371-5176

Teaching Areas:

Freshman Composition I and II
Masterworks of Literature
American Literature
Non-Western Literature

Honors & Awards:

Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Mattie Swayne Mack Academic Scholarship
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Sigma Tau Delta Certificate of Excellence
Rollins “Best Analytical Paper Award”: SW Popular Culture Association Meeting
Phi Kaap Phi
Mead Award Nominee
Apple Award Nominee

Research Interests:

Philosophy/Ideology/Culture/Religion
Politics
Film
History

Dr. William D. Netherton

Professor

BA, English and Philosophy, West Texas University
MA, English, West Texas University
PhD, English, Texas Tech University

Dr. Netherton teaches Comp I, Comp II, Masterworks of British Lit I, and Non-Western Lit. He has taught at AC since 1986.  He wrote his Masters thesis on the poetry of T.S. Eliot and his dissertation on a relatively unknown 14th-Century English mystic named Richard Rolle. Netherton has served on several committees on campus, including the Commencement Committee, Academic Affairs, and the Faculty Senate.  In the past, he sponsored the AC Film Club and the AC Anime Club.  He currently is a co-sponsor of the English Honor Society, Sigma Kappa Delta.  He likes music, remodeling his old house, visiting his three children, chilling and playing with his dog Buster and the cat Maddie, and spending time with his wife and best friend Margie.   He does not like bureaucracy and BS. (This photo of Dr. Netherton was taken in 1975, when he was a freshman at Amarillo College.)

Office: Ordway Hall100-C
Phone: 806-371-5196
Email:  wdnetherton@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

English Comp I, Comp II
Masterworks of British Literature I
Non-Western Literature

Honors & Awards:

Curmudgeon of the Year, 2012 and 2015

Research Interests:

Art
Church history
Home remodeling
Classic and contemporary film
Music
Beagle breeding
The construction and preservation of really cool snowmen

Pamela Ortega

Associate Professor of English, Moore County Campus
Dual Credit Coordinator-English Department

MA, English, West Texas A&M University
BA, English, West Texas A&M University

Graduate Certificate:  Online Instructor Certification, Eastern New Mexico University
Professor Ortega has taught at Amarillo College since 2012 at the Moore County Campus in Dumas.  She teaches a variety of English courses including Freshman Comp I and II, Integrated Reading and Writing, Technical and Business Writing, and First Year Seminar. Previously, she taught dual credit courses at the high school level.

Office: Moore County Campus, 137
Phone: 806-934-7245
Email:  plfox@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

Co-Requisite Courses
Freshman Composition I and II
Technical and Business Writing
First Year Seminar

Memberships:

TCCTA

Carol B. Summers

Associate Professor of English

B.A. Elementary Education, Wayland Baptist University
M.Ed., Reading/Literacy, Eastern New Mexico University
M.A., English, West Texas A&M University (Will be completed Spring 2022)

Carol Summers, Associate Professor of English, graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master of Arts degree in Reading from Eastern New Mexico University in 2012. Mrs. Summers has a diverse background that includes teaching different subjects at levels ranging from Elementary School to College. She started teaching in 1985 and has been at Amarillo College since 2004. She primarily teaches INRW and Freshman Composition linked as co-requisite courses and Freshman Comp I and II.

Office: Durrett 209B
Phone: 806-371-5423
Email:  cbsummers@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

Integrated Reading and Writing
Freshman Composition I and II

Honors & Awards:

Summa Cum Laude
Mead Award Nominee
Trainer for Co-Requisite offerings to colleges across Texas and throughout the U.S.
Session Presenter, Amarillo College Educational Summit, (ACES) 2020
Session Presenter, National Organization for Student Success, 2018, 2019, 2020

Luci L. Creery

Assistant Professor of English

MA, English, Northern Arizona University
BA, English, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
Graduate Certificate: Teaching Technical Writing, University of North Texas

Professor Creery has taught at Amarillo College since 2011. She teaches primarily Freshman Comp and Business and Technical Writing. She also designed and teaches the Dual Credit Business and Technical Writing course. She is a member of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, and is interested in technical writing pedagogy and practice. 
Before working at Amarillo College, Professor Creery taught community college English courses in Arizona. She has also taught middle school and high school English.

Office: Ordway Hall, 103-B
Office Hours:  Posted on my office door
Phone: 806-371-5170
Email: luci.creery@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

Basic Grammar/Writing II
Freshman Composition
Technical Writing

Memberships:

ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing)
TCCTA

E. Christopher Hudson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

BA, Plan II (Philosophy), The University of Texas at Austin
MA, Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
PhD, English, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Hudson has taught at Amarillo College since 2018. Before AC, he taught at UT Austin, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, and WTAMU. He teaches primarily Freshman Comp, Literature, and FYS. An Amarillo native, he has lived in Austin; New York City; Buenos Aires, Argentina; São Paulo, Brazil; and Indiana. While in Austin, Dr. Hudson worked as Chief of Staff for a State Senator. His interests include contemporary literature, politics, and rowing.

Office: Ordway Hall, 203B
Phone: 806-371-5424
Email:  echudson@actx.edu

Christy Robinson

Assistant Professor

BA, Advertising, Texas Tech University
Post Baccalaureate Certification, Secondary Education/English, Texas Tech University
M.A., English, West Texas A&M University

Christy Robinson has been at Amarillo College since 2007, and she teaches Integrated Reading and Writing.  She has also taught Basic Reading Skills, Basic Reading and Writing Skills, Reading Techniques, Reading Techniques I, and Reading Techniques II.  She began as a learning specialist in the Reading department where she tutored and taught “fast track” classes.  She became a faculty member in 2014 and served as the Program Coordinator of Reading for three years before joining the English department.  She also taught English at a charter high school in Lubbock and worked as a media buyer at an advertising agency.  She enjoys reading, gardening, watching movies, and riding four-wheelers.

Office: Ordway Hall, 103F
Phone: 806-371-5243
Email:  cprobinson@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

Integrated Reading and Writing

Honors & Awards:

Mead Award Nominee
Session Presenter, National Organization for Student Success, 2019, 2020

Memberships:

TCCTA

Jeff "Skip" Chisum

Instructor

BA, English, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
MS, Counselor Education/Higher Ed., Emporia State University

Skip Chisum has taught at Amarillo College since 2018, primarily teaching English Composition I and II.  Prior to arriving at AC, he served as Director of the Jack B. Kelley Student Center/C.O.R.E. at West Texas A&M University for 18 years.

Chisum is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity and currently serves as the senior pastor of the Rock Church in Amarillo.

Office: Ordway Hall, 203A
Phone: 806-371-5549
Email:  jchisum28@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

English Composition I and II

Research Interests:

Old Testament
Dream Interpretation
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Misophonia
The Social Commentary of Professional Wrestling
Ancient Memes:  The Rise and Fall of the Bumper Sticker

Sara Welshimer

Lecturer/Instructor

B.A. English Literature, California Baptist University
M.A. English Literature, Baylor University

Sara Welshimer started teaching in 1999 and has been at Amarillo College since 2019.  She teaches Composition I and Composition II.  Mrs. Welshimer, or simply “Welsh,” completed her thesis on Dorothy L. Sayers (contemporary of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien) applying her theoretical ideas to her own fiction.  Mrs. Welshimer has taught American Literature, English Literature, Shakespeare, World Literature, and worked in a specialized Research and Writing Program in Houston.  She has taught in high school and community colleges in Waco and Houston before coming to Amarillo.

Office: Ordway Hall, 210
Phone: 806-371-5134
Email:  sgwelshimer@actx.edu

Teaching Areas:

English Comp I
English Comp II
Research and Writing

Honors & Awards:

Magna Cum Laude
Distinguished Educator

Research Interests:

Young Adult Fiction
Inklings
Romantic Poets
Christian Apologetics