Seventeenth-century English literature, especially Milton and the classical tradition. Articles on early modern women, Milton, influence of Shakespeare and Milton on recent women writers. Editor of three Latin university plays for Cambridge University Drama in England. Ed. Spevack and Binns. mjarnold@ku.edu
American literature, linguistics. Author of studies in 19th- and 20th-century American literature. Coauthor of A Guide to the Study of American Literature in Poland. Fulbright lecturer in Poland.
English language, 17th-century English literature. Author of studies in bibliography, 17th-century British literature, and English language. agedp@ku.edu
Author of articles on Browning, Tennyson, Ruskin, and of Browning (1972) and The Brownings and France (1982). Standard Oil Outstanding Teacher Award; Fulbright Scholar in England and at Beijing University.
Director of the J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, M.A., Kansas 1951. Major publications: novels, The Joy Makers, 1961; The Immortals, 1962; The Listeners, 1972; Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction , 1975; Kampus, 1977; The Dreamers, 1981; The Millenium Blues, 2001; non-fiction, Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction, 1982; Inside Science Fiction, 1992; The Science of Science-Fiction Writing, 2000; edited, The Road to Science Fiction volumes 1-6, 1977-1998; Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction (with Matthew Candelaria), 2005. Area of interest: writing of science fiction and writing about science fiction. Current projects: new novel, Transcendental; editing new text, Reading Science Fiction (with Marleen Barr and Matthew Candelaria). jgunn@ku.edu
Books include Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature (1982), Henry James and the "Woman Business" (1989), The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. (1994). Awards include three NEH research fellowships and the Byron Caldwell Smith award for the outstanding book by a Kansas author. Current project: a biography of Emily Dickinson.
American literature, fiction writing, children's literature. Poet and author of critical work on theater, cinema, language.
Author of Christopher Marlowe's Tragic Vision and J.P. Donleavy. Articles on Vladimir Nabokov, Bernard Malamud, Thomas McGuane, and other contemporary fiction writers. Fiction reviewer for The Kansas City Star. Special interest: modern fiction.
Spencer Librarian. History of books and printing; analytical bibliography. Has published on bibliographical subjects. amason@ku.edu
Author of The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 1912-1928 (1976), The Victorian Short Story (1986), Victor Literary Critics (1987), The Unknown Thomas Hardy (1987), Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918 (1992), and other studies. Editor of The World of Victorian Humor (1961), Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings (1966), Irish History and Culture (1976), Thomas Hardy's "The Dynasts" (1978), The Scottish World (1981), Rudyard Kipling: Interviews and Recollections (1983), Victorian Short Stories: An Anthology (1987), and Critical Essays on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1992). Co-editor of British Poetry 1880-1920: Edwardian Voices (1969). Vice president, Thomas Hardy Society, England; chairman, American Committee for Irish Studies, 1970-72. Fellow, Royal Society of Literature. horel@ku.edu
Renaissance literature. Author of articles and reviews on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, Spenser, Drayton, and Milton.
Author of works on 19th-century American fiction, American art, African-American fiction and autobiography, American women's writing, Japanese literature and culture; short story writer. Fulbright lecturer in Japan, NEH fellowship. HOPE and Standard Oil awards for excellence in teaching. Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor. Her particular interest in Melville is reflected in her book, Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art (1995), which has prompted several major exhibitions, while her recent interest in ecocritism is reflected in her book, Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake (2001), as well as in poetry and nature essays. eschultz@ku.edu
Taught at The University of Kansas from 1968 to 2004, and also at The University of Virginia, at the Sorbonne and other French universities, and as a Fulbright Professor in Rio de Janeiro. His courses mostly focused on 19th and 20th-century American print literature, but included, in his last few years, hypertext forms. His latest publications are a coedited new edition of Moby-Dick (2007), and Melville and Women, a collection of new essays (2006, with Elizabeth Schultz). Other publications include America and the Sea: A Literary History, a hypertext edition of “Bartleby, The Scrivener,” and the standard scholarly edition of Washington Irving’s Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Twenty more books and articles concern mainly nineteenth-century American literature. Received the College of Arts and Sciences 2005 Career Achievement Teaching Award. springer@ku.edu.
Has been at KU since 1964 with four sabbaticals in England (1972, 1978, 1987, 1995.) Author of the following books, the first two for the Twayne English Authors Series: W. S. Gilbert (1975), R. D. Blackmore (1979), The Drama of Storytelling in T.E.Brown's Manx Yarns (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1991). With Maureen Godman and Nicholas Shimmin, edited T.E.Brown's Fo'c'c'le Yarns ( Univ. Press of America, 1998).
American literature. Author of publications on Emerson, Thoreau, New England Transcendentalism, and teaching; coauthor (with John R. Willingham) of A Handbook for Student Writers; recipient of the H. Bernerd Fink Award for outstanding classroom teaching (1989). donald66@ku.edu
Author, compiler, and co-editor of nine books on Victorian literature, most recently Dickensian Melodrama (1978), Thomas Hughes (1984), Victorian Criticism of the Novel (1985), "Great Expectations": An Annotated Bibliography (1986), and Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907 (2003). Recipient of Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award, and Hall Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities. Chair of the department, 1963-79. GJWorth@aol.com
