Faculty
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Thomas Schaub, Chair
Jane Zuengler, Associate Chair
- Emily Auerbach -
- Amy Quan BarryCreative Writing (poetry and fiction), the Lyric (contemproary and classical)
- Richard Begam Modern British and Irish literature, postcolonial literature, literary theory
- Todd K. Bender
- Michael Bernard-Donals Rhetoric, critical theory, and post-Holocaust representation
- Susan David Bernstein Middle modernity (British and Anglophone literature, nineteenth century), transatlantic
studies
- Leslie Bow Gender studies, material print culture and book studies
- Birgit Brander Rasmussen Comparative ethnic literatures, colonial and early American literature, and
race and Amercian literature
- Deborah Brandt History of literacy, contemporary writing theory, equity in education
- Russ Castronovo American literature, African American literature, transnational literature
- Lisa H. Cooper Late medieval literature, material culture, literary theory
- Aparna Dharwadker
- Cecilia E. Ford Converstation analysis, interaction and language, grammar in interaction, sociolinguistics, feminist applied linguistics
- Susan Friedman Modernism/modernity, Feminist theory and women's writing, Cultural theory and world literatures in English
- Sara Guyer British and continental romanticism, critical theory, and holocaust studies
- Roberta Hill Holocaust studies
- Amaud Johnson Creative writing, African American Literature
- Lynn Keller American poetry since 1950, recent experimental poetries and poetics, poetry and ecocriticism
- Theresa Kelley Romanticism--poetics, aesthetics, culture; visual culture; history of science
- Jesse Lee Kercheval Creative writing: fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction
- Richard Knowles Shakespeare, English renaissance, creative writing
- Ron Kuka
- Caroline Levine Victorian, aesthetic theory or aesthetics and politics, narrative
- David Loewenstein Early modern English literature and culture; literature in relation
to politics and religion in England, c. 1500-1800; Milton and his contemporaries.
- Anne McClintock
- Jon McKenzie Drama, critical theory
- Judith Claire Mitchell Creative Writing
- Lorrie Moore
- John D. Niles English literature to 1500, Beowulf, oral narrative
- Rob Nixon Environtmentalism, creative nonfiction, postcolonial literature
- Tejumola Olaniyan African and African diaspora, postcolonial, drama
- Mario Ortiz-Robles 19th-century literature, critical theory, the novel
- Cyrena Pondrom Modernist American, British and Irish poetry; the interdisciplinary avant-garde, both American
and Continental; women and gender in modern literature and theory
- Eric Raimy
- Sherry L. Reames
- Ellen Samuels Disability studies, gender studies/feminist theory, American literature
- Thomas Schaub
- Cherene Sherrard African American literature, 19th-century Amercian literature, feminist theory
- Jeffrey Steele
- Sean Teuton Native American literature, Postcolonial/World literature, 20th-21st-century American literature
- Ronald Wallace Creative Writing (poetry and fiction), Modern and Contemporary Literature, Humor
- Anja Wanner English language and linguistics, syntax and morphology, language change
- Howard Weinbrot 17th- through 19th-century British literature, especially those for Swift, Pope, Johnson and
their circles; 17th- through early 19th-century political , religious, and intellectual contexts
- Kay YandellEarly and nineteenth-century American literature, women's writing, minority literatures
- Morris Young Composition and Rhetoric, Asian Amercian Literature
- Richard Young
- Michael Witmore
- David A. Zimmerman
- Jane Zuengler Second language acquisition research and theory, classroom discourse, global English
