CRES Faculty
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Serena Blount
Senior Instructor
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
(205) 348-0414
bloun002@ua.edu
![Lauren Cardon](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lauren-Cardon.jpg)
Lauren Cardon
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
(205) 348-5065
lauren.s.cardon@ua.edu
![Natalie Loper](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ENG-Natalie-Loper.jpg)
Natalie Loper
Senior Instructor
Associate Director, First-Year Writing Program
(205) 348-1763
nloper@ua.edu
![Ashley Palmer](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ENG-Ashley-Palmer.jpg)
Ashley Palmer
Instructor
Assistant Director of First-Year Writing for Distance Learning and Online Courses.
(205) 348-5065
aepalmer2@ua.edu
![Karen Gardiner](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ENG-Karen-H.-Gardiner.jpg)
Karen Gardiner
Professor
Coordinator of Academic Integrity Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences
(205) 348-4836
kgardiner@ua.edu
![Dorothy Worden-Chambers](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dorothy-Worden-Chambers.jpg)
Dorothy Worden-Chambers
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Applied Linguistics/TESOL Program
(205) 348-2495
dlworden@ua.edu
![Kevin Kelleher](https://cres.english.ua.edu/wp-content/themes/as-wildcat/imgs/avatar.jpg)
Kevin Kelleher
Instructor, Blount Scholars Program
Instructor, Department of English