Full-time Faculty

Denise Albanese

Professor

affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature

Amal Amireh

Associate Professor

middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality

Eric Gary Anderson

Associate Professor

American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror and Gothic studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century

Ann L Ardis

Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor

British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender

Jacqueline M. Burek

Associate Professor

Medieval literature; medieval historiography; translation; rhetoric; classical reception; Welsh and Celtic Studies

Zofia Burr

Associate Professor

African American literature; poetry

Keith Clark

Distinguished University Professor

20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

Eric Eisner

Associate Professor

18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory

Tamara Harvey

Associate Professor

early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory

Anthony Dyer Hoefer

Associate Professor

Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.

Jessica Hurley

Associate Professor

Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies, gender and sexuality studies.

David Kaufmann

Professor

contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;

Lisa Koch

Professor

Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter

Samaine Lockwood

Associate Professor

nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory

Michael G Malouf

Professor

Modernism (Joyce and Woolf); Postcolonialism (spec. Ireland and Caribbean); Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & energy transition; theories of World Literature and Global English; Energy Law and Literature

Robert I Matz

Professor

Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality

Teresa L Michals

Professor

history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies

Richard A Nanian

Professor

Poetics, Romanticism, Postmodernism.

Sheri Nicole Rain

Assistant Professor

horror studies; rhetoric of health and medicine; mental health rhetoric; rhetoric of women's health; critical cultural rhetoric; disability studies; digital scholarly storytelling; and writing, literature, feminist, and multimodal pedagogies

Stephanie Rambo

Assistant Professor

Diasporic Black Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature, Black Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies

Kristin Samuelian

Professor

British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.

Catherine E. Saunders

Professor

19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans and the novel; American antislavery literature; local history; digital humanities; open educational resources; writing in and about the disciplines.

Art Taylor

Professor

short stories; crime, mystery, and suspense fiction; book reviews.

Stefan Wheelock

Associate Professor

late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies

Jennifer Linhart Wood

Assistant Professor

Renaissance drama, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare

Alok Yadav

Associate Professor

Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing