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Department of English

Graduate Program
Graduate Students & Areas of Interest

Teresa Fernandez Arab, PhD
Late19th and early 20th century (literary, cultural, political) writing by women;
Native American, Chicana, and Hawai’ian autoethnographic writing; 20th century American literature

Jennifer Floray Balke, PhD<br /> women's spirituality and performativity of gender in Medieval English literature; popular and cinematic 20th and 21st-Century Medievalisms; queer theory

Lesley Bartlett, MA
composition, rhetoric, and creative non-fiction

Heather Bastian, PhD
genre theory, pedagogy, and critical theory

Judy Bauer, MFA
creative writing

Samantha Bell, PhD
creative non-fiction and poetry, Emerson and Thoreau

Keri Sanburn Behre, PhD
early modern literature, Medieval literature, feminist theory

Jerry Bingham, MA
Ethnography, Indigenous peoples studies, educational theory

Emily Bobo, PhD
poetry writing, creative writing pedagogy, and poetry

Kirsten Bosnak, MFA
poetry, essay, Native American literature

Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, PhD
Arthurian studies; Medieval and Renaissance language and literature (insular and continental); James Joyce.

Tamera Britton, PhD
modern subjective lyric; history and pedagogy of creative writing; and memory  studies

Michael P. Carriger, PhD
John Berryman, The Beat Generation, American long poem

Benjamin Cartwright, MFA
poetry, French literature, early American criminal autobiography, Bakhtin studies

William Church, PhD
African American literature, creative writing, Faulkner studies

Sheryl Craig, PhD
Jane Austen, the English novel

Dustin Crowley, MA
American Indian literature, 20th Century literature, postcolonialism

Daryl Lynn Dance, PhD
pedagogy of writing; African American literature; sociolinguistics

Ainehi Edoro, MA
African literature, postcolonial theory

Katie Anderson Egging, PhD
20th-Century American literature, African American drama, feminist and gender theory

Heather Emge, MA
18th and 19th century British novels, theories of gender and performance, Renaissance literature

Todd Giles, PhD
American Renaissance, Modernism, 20th century art

Angela L Glover, PhD
essay: creative non-fiction, creative writing pedagogy, British and American modernism

Emily Garriott Haas, MA
history of the English language, gendered discourse analysis, The Paston Letters

Micah P. Hawkinson, MA
english language, Science Fiction, bilingualism

Rob Howard, PhD
early Medieval literature, Medieval language, Shakespeare

Amy L. Hume, PhD
twentieth-century literature, modern poetry, gender studies

Jen Humphrey, MFA
creative non-fiction, essay writing/reading

Jessica L. Jessee, MA
19th century American and British literature, literary theory

Kathleen Johnson, MFA
poetry, creative nonfiction

Jennie J. Joiner, PhD
Anglo-American Modernism, Faulkner studies, short story

Emily King-Clark, MA
race and gender studies, postcolonial literature

Angela Kordahl, MA
literature and science, Modernism, history of the novel

Margaret Kramar, PhD
autobiography and drama genres, Victorian era

Beth Lagaron, PhD
literature of the Beat Generation, feminist theory, queer theory

Allison Rose Lopez, MFA
fiction

Ann Martinez, PhD
Anglo-Saxon studies, Arthurian literature, J.R.R. Tolkien

Zsolt Mohi, PhD
literary theory, Shakespeare

Gaywyn Moore, PhD
early modern British literature, drama, utopian literature

Heather McNeill Moore, MA
18th and 19th century literature, postcolonial theory, women's literature

Chris Nelson, MFA
fiction, poetry, and scriptwriting

William C. Patterson, MA
American poetry; 19th century American literature; modern/post-modern/contemporary poetics

Kevin Rabas, PhD
poetry writing, playwriting, 20th century American poetry

Emily Robbins, MA
postcolonial theory/literature, Caribbean literature, immigrant literature

Nedra Rogers, MFA
poetry, creative non-fiction

Stephanie Scurto, MA
Caribbean and postcolonial theory/literature; Dutch Caribbean language and literature

Justin Sevenker, MA
Medieval literature, 19th century American literature, composition studies

Sarah Sinning, MA
novel, 18th/19th century British literature, Romantic poetry

Shelley Stonebrook, MA
postmodern  literature, post-colonial literature, 20th century  British fiction

Ben Storey, MFA
fiction writing, Modernism

Masami Sugimori, PhD
American literature, literary theory, Faulkner studies

Alicia Sutliff, PhD
Shakespeare on film, Feminist performance and film theory, Renaissance drama

Susan K. Thomas, PhD
20th century American queer multicultural literature, pop culture, Willa Cather

Carey R. Voeller, PhD
19th century American literature and culture; disability studies and theory; literature of the American West
Erin Williams, MA
genre theory, public sphere theory, rhetoric and music

Nathaniel Williams, PhD
19th century American literature, Science Fiction and fantasy, technical writing