Faculty

CRYSTAL ALBERTS
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2008

Post-1945 American Literature (especially historiographic metafiction), Digital Humanities, New Media and Technology, Archival Studies, Film Studies, American Culture, Postmodernism, Historiography, Cultural Geography, the Cold War, Counterculture Movements, Law and Literature.

E-mail: crystal.alberts@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2393
Office: Merrifield 1-D

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MICHAEL BEARD
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1974 

Comparative literature (especially relations between Europe and the Islamic world); modern period; literary criticism: especially genre theory and theory of translation; the novel; the seventeenth century; James Joyce; popular culture; Italian language and literature.

E-mail: michael.beard@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2775
Office: Merrifield 100-B
Edibiyât/Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures (co-editor)

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SHARON CARSON
Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990

DR. CARSON IS ON SABBATICAL DURING THE 2011-12 ACADEMIC YEAR.

American literature (nineteenth century abolition and reconstruction literature, novel as social criticism); African-American literature; interdisciplinary Black Studies; twentieth century novel as social criticism; Bible as literature; comparative religion and literature.

E-mail: sharon.carson@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2764
Office: Merrifield 122-D

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KYLE CONWAY
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008

Global media; intercultural communication

E-mail: kyle.conway@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4344
Office: Merrifield 221-D

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HEIDI CZERWIEC
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Utah, 2002

Poetry writing; Metaphysical, Romantic, twentieth-century, and contemporary poetry, Anglo-Saxon and German literature.

E-mail: heidi.czerwiec@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2768
Office: Merrifield 1-E

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KATHLEEN DIXON
Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1991

Rhetoric and cultural studies (gender and culture in language); women's studies; popular culture studies; pedagogical theory and praxis; literature generalist.

E-mail: kathleen.dixon@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4462
Office: Merrifield 122-B

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SANDRA DONALDSON
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1977

Scholarly editing, Victorian literature, women writers and feminist literary criticism, poetry, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf.

E-mail: sandra.donaldson@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4461
Office: Merrifield 122-F

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KIM DONEHOWER
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1997

Literacy studies; composition studies; English education; literature generalist.

E-mail: kim.donehower@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4162
Office: Merrifield 107

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MICHAEL FLYNN
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2006

Romantic and Victorian literature; intertextuality; literary rivalry; the professionalization of authorship; the history of publishing; nineteenth-century science; nineteenth-century religion; nineteenth-century art; medievalism.

E-mail: michael.flynn@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-3987
Office: Merrifield 100-D

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ELIZABETH HARRIS
Associate Professor
M.F.A., University of Arkansas, 1999 & 2000

PROF. HARRIS IS ON SABBATICAL DURING THE 2011-12 ACADEMIC YEAR.

Fiction writing; contemporary American short story; literary translation; Italian literature and language.

E-mail: elizabeth.harris@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2703
Office: Merrifield 100-C

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OTIS HASCHEMEYER
Assistant Professor, Visiting 2011-12
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 2010

Creative Writing

E-mail: otishaschemeyer@me.com
Phone: 701/777-2703
Office: Merrifield 100-C

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XIAOZHAO HUANG
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ball State University, 1994

Sociolinguistics; dialectology; teaching English to speakers of other languages; applied linguistics; grammatical analysis.

E-mail: xiaozhao.huang@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-6475
Office: Merrifield 1-F

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ADAM KITZES
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Renaissance and early modern literature, including Shakespeare, Milton, 17th century drama and prose, literature of the English civil war; literature and psychology; history of literary criticism.

E-mail: adam.kitzes@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4363
Office: Merrifield 122-E

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YVETTE KOEPKE
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003

Early modern British literature, especially nondramatic; women writers; critical theory, especially feminist; women's studies; history and theory of science and medicine; medical humanities, including premedical and medical education.

E-mail: yvette.koepke@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-6392
Office: Merrifield 1-C

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SUSAN KOPRINCE
Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1981

American literature, especially twentieth century fiction and drama; English education; American women writers (Wharton, Cather).

E-mail: susan.koprince@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2765
Office: Merrifield 122-A

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CHRISTOPHER NELSON
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2002

19th and 20th Century literatures and cultures of the Americas, particularly minority literatures and cultures; Native American literature and theory; Literary theory, especially cultural studies, postcolonial and postmodern theories, and discipline formation, with particular attention to issues of social justice.

E-mail: chris.nelson@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2762
Office: Merrifield 1-A

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SHERYL O’DONNELL
Professor
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1979

Restoration and eighteenth century literature; Renaissance non-dramatic literature; women’s studies; popular culture; literary theory; discourse of agriculture.

E-mail: sheryl.odonnell@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-3943
Office: Merrifield 100-F

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BRETT OMMEN
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2007

Visual Culture and Communication, Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Communication and Political Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, Popular Culture.

E-mail: brett.ommen@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2581
Office: Merrifield 221-A

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TIMOTHY PASCH
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2008

Critical and Cultural Theories of Communication; Cyberculture; Circumpolar Arctic and Borderland Studies; Humanities Informatics; Portal Creation esp. for Language Preservation; Augmented Collaboration Environments; Digitextuality and Interactive Rich Media Development.

E-mail: timothy.pasch@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2128
Office: Merrifield 218

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LORI ROBISON
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995

American literature and culture (especially the nineteenth century); women’s literature; African-American literature; regionalism (particularly of the American south); cultural studies (including the construction of race and theories of the sentimental); pedagogy and composition theory.

E-mail: lori.robison@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-4306
Office: Merrifield 100-E

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MICHELLE SAUER
Professor
Ph.D., Washington State University, 2000

Middle English literature & language; history of the English language; anchoritic, eremitic, and monastic texts; hagiography; Anglo Saxon language & literature; pre-modern women's literature; literature of the European Middle Ages; gender/queer theory; feminist studies.

E-mail: michelle.m.sauer@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-2783
Office: Merrifield 1-B

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RICHARD SHAFER
Professor
Ph.D., University of Missouri at Columbia, 1987

Mass media and social change (media as an agent of international development); mass media history, journalistic reporting and writing, observation methods for journalism and qualitative research studies; theories of economic development and underdevelopment; international and intercultural communication; opinion writing and mass media and society.

E-mail: undprof@hotmail.com
Phone: 701/777-4815
Office: Merrifield 221-E

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REBECCA WEAVER-HIGHTOWER
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2002

Colonial and postcolonial studies; 19th and 20th century British and Irish literature; Australian, Caribbean, South African and Canadian literature; psychoanalytic and psychological criticisms; cultural studies; new historicism; visual media (including book illustrations and film); landscape and literature (especially islands).

E-mail: rweaverhightower@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-6391
Office: Merrifield 122-C

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ERIC WOLFE
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1997

American literature and culture (especially from the beginnings through the nineteenth century); cultural studies; literary theory (including deconstruction and psychoanalysis); political and democratic theory; law and literature.

E-mail: eric.wolfe@email.und.edu
Phone: 701/777-6988
Office: Merrifield 100-A