Faculty By Area

Faculty

Giselle Anatol
Literature of the African diaspora, particularly Caribbean literature, contemporary women's writing, and Toni Morrison's fiction; 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, Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory, 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.

Faculty

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.

Peter Grund
English historical linguistics (Middle English to Late Modern English), historical pragmatics, early American English, corpus linguistics, editing, manuscript studies, vernacularization of science, Salem witchcraft trials.

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.

Faculty

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, Faulkner and Hemingway, American humorists, the literature of baseball.

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, Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory, 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

Faculty

Richard Eversole
18th-century literature, cartography in literature.

Anna Neill
18th- and 19th-century British; discovery literature; Victorian literature and evolutionary science.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

Amy Devitt
Composition Studies, English Language, Genre Theory, Standardized Edited English.

Frank Farmer
Dialogics, Rhetorical History, and Composition.

Peter Grund
English historical linguistics (Middle English to Late Modern English), historical pragmatics, early American English, corpus linguistics, editing, manuscript studies, vernacularization of science, Salem witchcraft trials.

James Hartman
Lexicography, American Dialects, American English.

Faculty

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.

Laura Moriarty
Fiction, personal narrative.

Chester Sullivan
Fiction Writing.

Faculty

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.

Faculty

Michael Cherniss
Old and Middle English literature and continental medieval literature.

Peter Grund
English historical linguistics (Middle English to Late Modern English), historical pragmatics, early American English, corpus linguistics, editing, manuscript studies, vernacularization of science, Salem witchcraft trials.

Misty Schieberle
Middle English literature, medieval women, manuscript studies.

Faculty

Giselle Anatol
Literature of the African diaspora, particularly Caribbean literature, contemporary women's writing, and Toni Morrison's fiction; 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
18th- and 19th-century British; discovery literature; Victorian literature and evolutionary science.

Geraldo de Sousa
Brazilian/Latin American literature and theater.

Faculty

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

Peter Grund
English historical linguistics (Middle English to Late Modern English), historical pragmatics, early American English, corpus linguistics, editing, manuscript studies, vernacularization of science, Salem witchcraft trials.

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.

Faculty

Giselle Anatol
Literature of the African diaspora, particularly Caribbean literature, contemporary women's writing, and Toni Morrison's fiction; 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, Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory, 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.

Misty Schieberle
Middle English literature, medieval women, manuscript studies.

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.