AEGIS Contact List
The following tables are divided by area of concentration (Poetry/Fiction/Rhetoric & Composition/Literature -- click on the link to take you to the appropriate table, or just scroll down), and contain the names of graduate students who are willing to help you either when you come to visit us or when you decide to join us next year, or both. In some cases, folks are graduating this Spring or Summer, so they may not be around in the fall. You can simply ask them whether that's the case! Some graduate students may be able to help house you if your lease doesn't start before Pre-Semester Workshop, while others are available to either help drive you around and set up utilities, or simply to meet with you for coffee and let you shadow their classes during a campus visit.
Please don't be shy about contacting anyone here -- all have willingly volunteered to help you with whatever they're able to do! In some cases, graduate students have included their other interests. Regardless of your interests, you're sure to find someone here who shares them. To discourage spammers, the @ in people's emails has been replaced by a *, and hotlinks have not been provided. All apologies for any inconvenience! Also, we have loads of people who volunteered to serve as contacts -- scroll through the whole page, because you might miss something.
| Poetry Program, M.F.A. Students | Meet for Lunch or Coffee | Please contact me for questions | Campus or City-Wide Tours | General Socializing | Housing (During campus visit) | Housing (During PSW, before lease begins) | Storage of items during moving process | Class Shadowing During Campus Visit | Can provide some rides to help students w/out cars | Other Information |
| Barb Eidlin 453-6823 beaeidlin*aol.com (do not share or spam!) |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | might have space for transitioning student in May or June this year |
| Chad Parmenter uroboros*siu.edu 529-1169 518 N Allyn, Apt. B Carbondale 62901 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | N/A |
| Michael
Meyerhofer mmeyerho*siu.edu angry_seraph*yahoo.com (319)594-3099 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Interested in Buddhism |
| Renee Wells rwells*siu.edu 618-867-3134 770-855-0150 P.O. Box 44 De Soto, IL 62924 |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | N/A |
| James Miller jamesjtm21*aol.com 618-203-1299 806 W College #3 Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | N/A |
| Jake Boyd jacobarran*hotmail.com 618-967-0060 409 W Pecan #3 Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Interested in hiking |
| Elisabeth
Meyer lis_meyer*yahoo.com 820 W Freeman St, #319 Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Interested in women's studies, history, collage |
| Tracy Conerton conerton*siu.edu 815-238-6595 308 N Springer #3 Carbondale |
No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
BA in Psych (behavior/counseling), |
| Ingrid
Moody ingridbmoody*hotmail.com 618-351-0725 |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Amy Blache alee*siu.edu 618-527-2827 297 Union Hill Rd., #2 Carbondale 62903 |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | N/A |
| Fiction Program, M.F.A. Students | Meet for Lunch or Coffee | Please contact me for questions | Campus or City-Wide Tours | General Socializing | Housing (During campus visit) | Housing (During PSW, before lease begins) | Storage of items during moving process | Class Shadowing During Campus Visit | Can provide some rides to help students w/out cars | Other Information |
| Kurt Mueller kmueller*siu.edu |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Interested in Hiking, Biking, Climbing -- Outdoors |
| Nathan
Beck escalus*msn.com 549-5778 2700 Chautauqua Rd #11 Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Interested in literature, film, history, math, sports, pipe & cigar smoking, LoTR, outdoors, haunted places |
| Chad Simpson csimpson*siu.edu 687-1081 |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | N/A |
| Deb Jurmu debj*siu.edu 529-2151 |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | N/A |
| Rhetoric & Composition Students (MA & PhD) | Meet for Lunch or Coffee | Please contact me for questions | Campus or City-Wide Tours | General Socializing | Housing (During campus visit) | Housing (During PSW, before lease begins) | Storage of items during moving process | Class Shadowing During Campus Visit | Can provide some rides to help students w/out cars | Other Information |
| Yukie Arima yukie*siu.edu |
No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | N/A |
| Evon Hawkins evonness*yahoo.com 924-6761 800 E Grand Ave #35E Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Also studying cog. psychology, Ren/Med. lit; member of CAPS (College Association of Pagan Students), loves musicals, obsessed with cats |
| Abbey Waldron gobnait*siu.edu 618-713-8834 910 W Linden Street Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limited | Yes | Yes | Also studying history, Ren/Ref. lit, 20th C American lit, Jane Austen-obsessed, interested in history, religious studies, cooking, hiking, art, sewing, gardening |
| Guy J. Krueger gkrueger*siu.edu 618-684-8064 2309 Clay St. Murphysboro, 62966 |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Basic & Developmental writing |
| Dianna (Rockwell) Shank Dianna.Shank*swic.edu 314-239-3142 51 Wesley Ave. St. Louis, MO 63135 |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 2nd-Year PhD Student |
| Betsey Herman bets*globaleyes.net 549-5213 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Jewish, Sufi, Unitarian, Interfaith Communities |
| Literature Students (MA & PhD) | Meet for Lunch or Coffee | Please contact me for questions | Campus or City-Wide Tours | General Socializing | Housing (During campus visit) | Housing (During PSW, before lease begins) | Storage of items during moving process | Class Shadowing During Campus Visit | Can provide some rides to help students w/out cars | Other Information |
| Stephanie Biermann stephaniebiermann*yahoo.com 618-201-3431 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Southern and Irish lit, lit and the 'net, technology, transfer student from Colorado, has been nonteaching grad. before |
| Richmond Adams rba1993*yahoo.com 351-9216 1575 Logan Drive, #6 Carbondale |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | American Lit (20th/19th C), Film, Naturalism, seminary-educated, "liberal" Protestant |
| David Leitner davidleitner*gmail.com 618-203-2335 704 S. Forest Ave., Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | 20th C Am. Poetry, French, Martial Arts |
| Jen Anderson jen_monkey*hotmail.com 559-4751 24A Elmtree Ln Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Women's literature, contemporary American lit, queer studies |
| Paul Huggins paulhuggins003*yahoo.com |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Also interested in creative writing |
| Liz Randall BlackCatXIII*hotmail.com 549-5615 512 N Almond, Carbondale |
No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Maybe? | No | No | pop culture, magical realism, world lit, Twin Peaks junkie, queen of fabulous parties |
| Jay Cravens crave77*siu.edu 457-6321 714 N Oakland, Carbondale |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Outdoors and sports, hacky sack, tossing the ol' baseball around |
| Jennifer Parrot jparrott*siu.edu |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | PhD in Irish Studies |
| Keith Russell krussell*siu.edu |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | 20th C Amer. lit, post-colonial theory, rhet/comp, cultural studies, affil. with CESL (int'l students), interested in music |
| Ashley Green agreen12001*yahoo.com 924-5225 |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Philosophy, history, war literature, hiking, reading |
| Erin Logan 579-9182 erinlogan*gmail.com 800 E Grand, Apt. 36C, Carbondale |
No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Literature, education, Catholic, non-trad student, helpful with information about local jobs |
| Jessica Gatewood jess88*siu.edu 528-0235 404 W. Willow St., Carbondale |
No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Literautre, local music (rock/heavy metal) |
| Doug Howard douglaskent*juno.com 457-5931 |
Yes | Yes | No | Maybe? | No | No | No | Yes | No | 20th C Amer. Lit, loves to talk about books, literature, literary criticism, german mythology |
| Jerry W. Passon alfhit13@siu.edu 687-3191 |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Literature and Film |