Angela Mullis

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Phone: 848-932-8068

Email: amullis@oq.rutgers.edu

Location:
Winants Hall
7 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Roles and Responsibilities

• Promotion Review Committee
• Major academic initiatives as needed, such as the Evaluation of Teaching Working Group and Publicly-Engaged Scholarship Committee 
• Universitywide personnel actions and special professorships for the Board of Governors
• Internal faculty awards and events (Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards and Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award)
• Universitywide nominations for limited submission major national and international awards, prizes, and fellowships
• Supports the University Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and organizes the Cheryl Wall Faculty Fellowships
• Presidential Graduate Fellowships

Biography

Angela Mullis, PhD, is associate vice president for faculty affairs in University Academic Affairs at Rutgers University. Dr. Mullis has been part of the Rutgers community since 2012, serving as director of the Byrne First-Year Seminars Program at Rutgers–New Brunswick before being named assistant vice president for academic affairs in 2017. The Byrne Program grew significantly under her leadership, experiencing record enrollment and faculty participation.

As an advisor to the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Mullis is responsible for working with all academic units across the university in directing and organizing the work of the faculty Promotion Review Committee and overseeing policy revisions and instructions regarding faculty tenure and promotion. She manages internal faculty awards and events, and coordinates universitywide nominations for limited submission major national and international awards, prizes, and fellowships. Mullis also supports the University Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and organizes the Cheryl Wall Faculty Fellowships and Presidential Graduate Fellowships.

Before joining Rutgers, she was an associate professor and chair of the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Mount Olive, North Carolina. Mullis holds a doctorate in English from the University of Arizona and a Master of Arts in American Indian Studies from UCLA. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. She has taught courses in Native American cultures for the Department of American Studies and has served on the Advisory Board for the New Jersey Folk Festival. She previously served as secretary for the Rutgers Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.