Michelle Butts serves as the receptionist and is also the Administrative Assistant to the Associate Chair in the Department of English. She plans and organizes departmental graduation ceremonies. She assists in registering students for classes by serving as a terminal operator during registration. Michelle graduated from East Carolina University in 2011 with a B.S. in Public Health. In her spare time she tends to travel, crochet, read, spend time with friends and family, or listen to music. 

Susan Howard
328-6042 • Bate 2201

Susan Howard is the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies, assists the Associate Chair with scheduling, and processes travel for faculty. A native of Pitt County, NC, Susan is an alum of Ayden-Grifton High School. She graduated from ECU in May 2005 with a B.S. degree in Family and Community Services with a concentration in Education. She also holds a degree in Travel and Tourism from Southeastern Academy in Kissimmee, Florida. When not working in the Department of English, she performs at various charity events throughout eastern North Carolina.

Ashley Hudson serves as the Assistant to the Chair of the Department of English and provides administrative, clerical, and office management support to over 90 faculty members and over 50 graduate assistants.  She handles the preparation and maintenance of all personnel records, departmental budgets, purchase orders, inventories of supplies and equipment, and serves as liaison for the department with other units on campus.  Originally from Florida, Ashley grew up in Fayetteville, NC before graduating from ECU in 2007 with a BA in English and a Religious Studies minor.  She also serves as House Mom to the Iota Rho Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha in Greenville, NC. When not at work, Ashley enjoys spending time with family and friends, watching hockey, reading and Muay Thai.  

Rachel Parker
328-6399 • Bate 2005

Tracy McLawhorn
328-6721 • Bate 2145

Tracy McLawhorn is the technology editor and assistant textual editor for the John Donne Variorum Project.  She maintains the project website, helps with editing the text of Donne's poems, and typesets the printed volumes.  Originally from Greene County, Tracy graduated from North Carolina State University with a BA in English in 2001 and a MA in English in 2003.  Tracy has presented her work on Donne at MLA ("Editing Donne in Manuscript and Print," Seattle, 2012; "Donne's 'Breake of Day' and its Seventeenth-Century Adaptations," Philadelphia, 2009), RSA ("Two Texts of Donne's 'Madam, I am not come out of England,'" Venice, 2010), and SAMLA ("Variant Versions of 'The Will,'" Charlotte, 2006).