Administration 
Department Leadership Dpt. Council Members
Department Council Members
Susie Crowson came to Del Mar College and Corpus Christi in August 2000 from Denton , Texas where she had attended Texas Woman's University. She completed a doctorate from TWU in rhetoric and composition in the fall of 2002. Her literary specialization is in Renaissance drama. Crowson's master's and bachelor's degrees are from Texas Tech University in Lubbock , Texas . She taught composition in the computer classrooms at Texas Tech in the stone age of computer technology-back before browsers, images, and AOL. She also earned an associate's degree from New Mexico Junior College . Crowson has also taught in the Alamo Community College District and John Jay High School in San Antonio and at Lytle High School in Lytle, Texas .
Cheryl Pfoff received an A.A. from Del Mar College, a B.A. from UT-Austin, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA, where she taught American Literature and various composition courses for eleven years. After returning to Del Mar College in 1991, she served as Chair of the Department of English and Philosophy from 1997-2002. At Del Mar College she has taught developmental and freshman composition courses, American Literature courses, and paired and clustered courses as part of the Title V Learning Communities.
John M. Crisp has been teaching at Del Mar College since 1988. He received a B.A. in English from Abilene Christian University, and an M.A. from U.T. Austin. He’s taught various other places in the past but says that Del Mar College has suited him best. These days he teaches exclusively the beginning freshman composition course, English 1301. He writes a weekly op/ed column that's distributed to over 400 newspapers and other media sources by Scripps Howard News Service, and sometimes his work appears in some of nation's largest papers.