Faculty
Tenured and Tenure-stream Faculty
Mark Lynn Anderson
American cinema, film history, queer theory, and historiography
Susan Andrade
Postcolonial literature, African, Caribbean, Feminism
Jonathan Arac
American, British 19th Century, Criticism and Theory
Don Bialostosky
British Romantic literature, rhetorical theory, Bakhtin, composition studies, rhetoric and poetics
Tyler Bickford
Children's Literature, Childhood Studies, Popular Culture, New Media, Education, Music and Language, and Ethnographic Methods
Troy Boone
Nineteenth-century British literature, ecocriticism, children's literature
Paul Bové
Critical theory, Globalization, Modernism
Curtis Breight
Shakespeare, English Renaissance literature
Jean Ferguson Carr
Composition, women’s studies, 19th-century American constructions of literacy and letters
Steve Carr
book history, archive studies, histories of instruction, 18th & 19th century literature and literacy, Blake
Nicholas Coles
Working class literature, the politics of literacy, 19th-century British culture
Jules Gill-Peterson
Transgender studies, queer studies, critical race theory, childhood studies, and the medical humanities
Nancy Glazener
19th- and 20th-century American Literature
Piotr Gwiazda
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, U.S. literature, intertextuality studies, poetry and pedagogy, reader response theory, creative writing, and literary translation
Zachary Horton
Intersection of technological mediation, ecology, and scale
Hannah Johnson
Medieval historical writing, modern historiography
Ronald Judy
Comparative literature, Critical race theory and black critique, World literature, Arabic literature and Islamicate thought, Postcolonial literature, Translation theory, and Literary & Cultural Theory
Colin MacCabe
C17 literature, C20 Literature & Media, Joyce, Film
Ryan McDermott
Medieval, history of exegesis, genealogies of modernity, contemporary ethical theory
Shalini Puri
Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean, Modernism
Gayle Rogers
History of ideas; global modernisms; comparative literature; empire; translation theory; critical history; English, American, and Spanish literatures; speculation and speculative fiction
William Scott
American Literature, African American Literature, poetry/poetics, linguistics (generative syntax/phonology; minimalist program; biolinguistics)
Jennifer Waldron
Renaissance Drama, Post-reformation Religious Literature
Courtney Weikle-Mills
Early American children’s literature and culture, theories of citizenship, readership and literacy, transatlantic 18th-century studies
Michael West
English Renaissance, 19th-c American, Irish
Lecturers
Jeff Aziz
Early Modern, historiography
Lori Campbell-Tanner
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Cultural Studies, Fantasy, Childhood Studies, Mythology, the Gothic, Romantic and Victorian literature
Barbara Edelman
writing, literature, and composition, with a concentration in poetry and a particular interest in Shakespeare and in modern and contemporary poetry
Geoffrey Glover
the African American novel, twentieth-century American prose, and speculative fiction
Marylou Gramm
global composition studies, feminist theory, race and rhetoric, and early modern literary history
Mark Kemp
American, postcolonial literature, Literature of Americas, satire
Carol Mastrangelo Bové
Translation, psychoanalytic and feminist literary criticism and theory
Elizabeth Matway
Literature, composition, writing in the disciplines
Uma Satyavolu Rau
Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Global Literatures and Canons; literary theory; Aesthetics and Poetics (particularly Indo-European); medical humanities; poetry; non-fiction, especially the Essay form, broadly conceived.
Amy Murray Twyning
Victorian, Children’s Literature, Detective Fiction, Film
