Dr. Charlene Taylor Evans, Ph.D. Professor. As one of the senior members of the Department of English, I have thirty-five (35) years of experience at Texas Southern University, with seventeen (17) years in the classroom, and six (6) years as department head of English and foreign languages. I attained the rank of tenured professor and currently serve as director of the graduate program in English. I recently returned to the department after an eleven (11) year stint in central administration at the University. My administrative positions include executive assistant to the President, executive vice president, senior vice president of university relations, chief of staff, and ombudsperson; I managed various institutional units including athletics, information technology, marketing, and communications, development, external affairs, governmental relations, human resources, public safety, and alumni affairs.