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Department of English

Graduate Program - Faculty by Area of Interest

African American, African, and Caribbean

Giselle Anatol
Caribbean literature, literature of the African diaspora, women’s writing,children's literature

Byron Caminero-Santangelo
20th-century British Fiction, 20th-century African Fiction, Postcolonial Theory, Joseph Conrad

Marta Caminero-Santangelo
U.S. Latino/a literature, 20th-century American women's writing, feminist theory, 20th-century American literature, African-American literature

Doreen Fowler
20th-Century American Literature, Literature of the American South, Faulkner, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature, and Race and Gender Studies

Maryemma Graham
African American and American literature, literary history, autobiography, and biographical criticism

William J. Harris
African-American and American literature, jazz studies, modern and contemporary poetry, American avant-garde, African-American poetry, black aesthetics and poetics, race theory, cultural studies

Cheryl Lester
American Literature and Culture (African-American, Jewish), Literary and Cultural Theory, Family, Migration and Immigration, Faulkner

John Edgar Tidwell
African American and American literatures

American to 1900

Philip Barnard
Early American and 19th-century American literature, Charles Brockden Brown, Theory and history of the novel, Poststructuralism to cultural studies, Translation theory

Michael D. Butler
19th-century American fiction, Western and Midwestern literature, American humor

Stephanie Fitzgerald
19th and 20-century American literature, American Indian literature

Maryemma Graham
African American and American literature, literary history, autobiography, and biographical criticism

Susan K. Harris
American women writers, Mark Twain, 19th-century American literature and culture; early twentieth-century American literature, historical and cultural criticism, biography, immigrant literature, American regionalism

Laura L. Mielke
Early and 19th-century American literature, American Indian literature, American Studies, sentimentalism, 19th-century theater

American after 1900

Marta Caminero-Santangelo
U.S. Latino/a literature, 20th-century American women's writing, feminist theory, 20th-century American literature, African-American literature

James Carothers
Modern fiction, American humorists, baseball in American literature, Faulkner

Iris Smith Fischer
Drama, the Avant Garde, Performance Art and Theory

Stephanie Fitzgerald
19th and 20-century American literature, American Indian literature

Doreen Fowler
20th-Century American Literature, Literature of the American South, Faulkner, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature, and Race and Gender Studies

Maryemma Graham
African American and American literature, literary history, autobiography, and biographical criticism

Joseph Harrington
U.S. literatures, 20th-century poetry and poetics, cultural studies

Susan K. Harris
American women writers, Mark Twain, 19th-century American literature and culture; early twentieth-century American literature, historical and cultural criticism, biography, immigrant literature, American regionalism

William J. Harris
African-American and American literature, jazz studies, modern and contemporary poetry, American avant-garde, African-American poetry, black aesthetics and poetics, race theory, cultural studies

Melvin Landsberg
John Dos Passos, American literature

Cheryl Lester
American Literature and Culture (African-American, Jewish), Literary and Cultural Theory, Family, Migration and Immigration, Faulkner

Paul Stephen Lim
American Dramatic Literature

Janet Sharistanian
20th-century American literature, feminist critical theory, women writers (Cather, Slesinger, Wharton), modernism, World War I literature, fiction, biography

John Edgar Tidwell
African American and American literatures

Deb Olin Unferth
Contemporary and experimental American fiction, graphic fiction

British Restoration, 18th and 19 Century

Richard Eversole
18th-century literature, cartography in literature

Anna Neill
17th- and 18th-century Discovery Literature, Early Modern Culture, Adult Literacy, Cultural Studies
British 19th Century
Dorice Williams Elliott
19th-century British literature, the novel, women's literature, historical and cultural criticism

Ann Wierda Rowland
18th- and 19th-century British literature, Romanticism, poetry, gothic, Romantic childhood

British after 1900

Byron Caminero-Santangelo
20th-century British Fiction, 20th-century African Fiction, Postcolonial Theory, Joseph Conrad

Kathryn Conrad
20th-century British and Irish literature, feminism, cultural studies

Composition Studies, Language, and Philology

Amy Devitt
Composition Studies, English Language, Sociolinguistics, Language standards and standardization, Standard English

Frank Farmer
Dialogics, Rhetorical History, and Composition

James Hartman
Lexicography, American Dialects, American English

Composition Studies, Language, and Philology

Amy Devitt
Composition Studies, English Language, Sociolinguistics, Language standards and standardization, Standard English

Frank Farmer
Dialogics, Rhetorical History, and Composition

James Hartman
Lexicography, American Dialects, American English

Creative Writing

Douglas Atkins
Nonfiction prose, essay

Joseph Harrington
Poetry

William J. Harris
Poetry, jazz studies

Kenneth Irby
Contemporary Poetry

Michael L. Johnson
Western American culture; books of poetry and poetic translation

Paul Stephen Lim
Playwriting and Dramatic Literature

Tom Lorenz
Fiction and Contemporary Literature

Chester Sullivan
Fiction Writing

Deb Olin Unferth
Experimental fiction, short and short short fiction

Drama

David Bergeron
Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare

Iris Smith Fischer
Modern and Contemporary Drama in the U.S. and Western Europe, Performance Studies, Avant-Garde Drama

Richard Hardin
Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare and Marlowe

Paul Stephen Lim
Playwriting and Dramatic Literature

Geraldo de Sousa
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, modern drama, Brazilian drama and literature

Medieval

Michael Cherniss
Old and Middle English literature and continental medieval literature

Postcolonial

Giselle Anatol
Caribbean literature, literature of the African diaspora, women’s writing,children's literature

Michael D. Butler
Contemporary Australian literature

Byron Caminero-Santangelo
20th-century British Fiction, 20th-century African Fiction, Postcolonial Theory, Joseph Conrad

Marta Caminero-Santangelo
U.S. Latino/a literature, African-American literature

Kathryn Conrad
20th-century British and Irish literature, feminism, cultural studies

Dorice Williams Elliott
19th-century Australian and Indian literature, colonialism and empire

Stephanie Fitzgerald
American Indian literature and sovereignty

Anna Neill
17th- and 18th-century Discovery Literature, Early Modern Culture, Adult Literacy, Cultural Studies

Geraldo de Sousa
Brazilian/Latin American literature and theater

Renaissance and Early Modern

David M. Bergeron
Renaissance Drama, Cultural History, Stuart Biography

Richard Hardin
Comparative Literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, classical tradition

William O. Scott
Shakespeare, Milton, Renaissance drama

Geraldo de Sousa
Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, allegory, satire, travel literature, Renaissance drama

Marjorie Swann
17th-century English literature, gender and sexuality, material culture

Women's Literature, Gender and Sexuality

Giselle Anatol
Caribbean literature, literature of the African diaspora, women’s writing,children's literature

Marta Caminero-Santangelo
U.S. Latino/a literature, 20th-century American women's writing, feminist theory, 20th-century American literature, African-American literature

Kathryn Conrad
20th-century British and Irish literature, feminism, cultural studies

Dorice Williams Elliott
19th-century British literature, the novel, women's literature, historical and cultural criticism

Doreen Fowler
20th-Century American Literature, Literature of the American South, Faulkner, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature, and Race and Gender Studies

Susan K. Harris
American women writers, Mark Twain, 19th-century American literature and culture; early twentieth-century American literature, historical and cultural criticism, biography, immigrant literature, American regionalism

Janet Sharistanian
20th-century American literature, feminist critical theory, women writers (Cather, Slesinger, Wharton), modernism, World War I literature, fiction, biography

Geraldo de Sousa
Gender, Renaissance

Marjorie Swann
17th-century English literature, gender and sexuality, material culture