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Faculty, GTAs & Staff

Core Faculty

Dr. Lori Robison, Chair/Professor
Lori Robison
Chair / Professor
Specialties: 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Literature of American Reconstruction, African-American Literature, The Sentimental, The Construction of Race, Popular Culture and Ideology, Film Theory, Rhetoric/Composition
  • lori.robison@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4306
  • Gamble Hall Room 220T

Dr. Mike Flynn, Associate Professor
Mike Flynn
Associate Chair / Associate Professor
Specialties: Nineteenth-century British literature and Culture, The Professionalization of Authorship, Literary Rivalry, Intertextuality, and Parody, Book History, Serialization, Victorian Science, Victorian Religion, Victorian Art
  • michael.flynn@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3987  
  • Gamble Hall Room 220S

Dr. Crystal Alberts, Associate Professor/Director, UND Writers Conference
Crystal Alberts
Professor / Director, UND Writers Conference
Specialties: 20th & 21st C. American Literatures & Cultures, Multiethnic U.S. Literatures, Digital Humanities, Archival Studies, Film Studies, Law & Literature
  • crystal.alberts@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2393
  • Gamble Hall Room 220D

Dr. Sharon Carson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Sharon Carson
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: American Literature: 19th  and Early-mid 20th C., Black Literature & Interdisciplinary Black Studies, Comparative Religions and Literatures, Bibles as Literature, Cross-national & Comparative Study: 19th and 20th C. American & German; American & Turkish Literature, Narrative Journalism, Audio Documentary and Audio Drama: Theory and production, Homeric Epic
  • sharon.carson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2764
  • Gamble Hall Room 220E

Dr. Kim Donehower, Professor
Kim Donehower
Professor / Academic Director of Composition / English Education Program Coordinator
Specialties: Composition/Rhetoric Studies, Literacy Studies, English Education
  • kim.donehower@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4162  
  • Gamble Hall Room 220K

Dr. Patrick Henry, Teaching Assistant Professor
Patrick Henry
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Creative Writing, British Modernism, 20th Century British, Editing/Publishing
  • patrick.henry@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2703
  • Gamble Hall Room 220R

Dr. Adam Kitzes, Professor
Adam Kitzes
Professor / Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Conspiracy Culture in Elizabethan England, 18th Century
  • adam.kitzes@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4363
  • Gamble Hall Room 220I

Dr. Michelle Sauer, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Michelle Sauer
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Medieval Literatures and Languages (esp. Northern Europe), Early Christianity and Devotional Literature, Women's Religious Experiences, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Historical & Modern Linguistics, History of Sexuality, Paleography; Manuscript, and Archival Studies
  • michelle.m.sauer@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2783
  • Gamble Hall Room 220C

Eric Wolfe, Associate Professor
Eric Wolfe
Associate Professor 
Specialties: 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
  • eric.wolfe@UND.edu
  • 701.777.6988
  • Gamble Hall Room 220L

Additional Faculty

These faculty have research specialties in English but have other appointments at the university. They only occasionally teach in the department.

Dr. Tami Carmichael, Professor
Tami Carmichael
Professor
Specialties: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), International-Global Education, First Year Learning Communities and High Impact Practices, Scientific Thinking and Integrative Reasoning, American Literature (with an emphasis on beginnings – early 20th Century), New Historicism, Rhetoric and Literature of Human Rights
  • tami.carmichael@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3015
  • Gamble Hall Room 118G

Dr. Yvette Koepke, Associate Professor
Yvette Koepke
Associate Dean for Student Success, College of Arts & Sciences / Associate Professor
Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Medical Humanities, Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Body Studies
  • yvette.koepke@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4382
  • Columbia Hall, Room 1933

Dr. Eric Carl Link, VPAA/Provost
Eric Carl Link
Professor / Provost / Vice President of Academic Affairs
Specialties: American Literary Naturalism; Science Fiction; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature; Science, Philosophy, and Literature
  • eric.link@UND.edu
  • Twamley Hall Room 302
Dr. Chris Nelson, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor
Chris Nelson
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor
  • chris.nelson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2786
  • Twamley Hall Rm 205

    264 Centennial Dr Stop 8179
    Grand Forks, ND 58202-8178

Teaching Faculty and Instructors

Dr. Rana Alsaadi
Part-Time Instructor
  • rana.alsaadi@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 220B

Dr. Perry Benson
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • perry.benson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4344
  • Gamble Hall Room 220B

Rhiannon Conley
Teaching Associate Professor
  • rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290E

Kathleen Coudle-King
Teaching Associate Professor
  • kathleen.king@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 220P

Amy Kielmeyer
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290E

Madison Knoll
Part-Time Instructor
  • madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265E

Dr. Daniela Koleva
Teaching Associate Professor
  • daniela.koleva@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2787
  • Gamble Hall Room 220F

Elisabeth Ostrem
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 220G

Shilo Previti
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • shilo.previti@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 220H

Steven Rand
Teaching Professor
  • steven.rand@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2782
  • Gamble Hall Room 220O

Jessica Zerr
Teaching Professor / Administrative Director of Composition
  • jessica.zerr@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4461
  • Gamble Hall Room 255A

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Sam Amendolar
GTA
  • samuel.amendolar@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290C
Davina Bell
GTA
  • davina.bell@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265J
Valkyrie Bradford
GTA
  • bailey.bradford@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265I
Casey Fuller
GTA
  • casey.fuller.1@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265D
Charles Henry
GTA
  • charles.d.henry@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265H
Nikolas Holweger
GTA
  • nikolas.holweger@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290F
Violet Ingeborg
GTA
  • violet.ingeborg@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290K
Muhammad Shamsul Islam
GTA
  • muhammad.islam.2@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290D
Grant McMillan
GTA
  • grant.mcmillan@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290A
Janessa Millar
GTA
  • janessa.millar@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290N
Kyle Moore
GTA
  • kyle.robert.moore@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265G
Anthony Olson
GTA
  • anthony.l.olson@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290H
Mark Patterson
GTA
  • mark.l.patterson@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 265F
Sharmin Rahman
GTA
  • sharmin.rahman@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290G
Alexia Reed
GTA
  • alexia.trott@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290J
Zane Voglewede
GTA
  • zane.a.voglewede@UND.edu
  • Gamble Hall Room 290B

Staff

Kristin Ellwanger

Office Manager, Department of English
  • kristin.ellwanger@UND.edu

  • 701.777.3321
  • Gamble Hall Room 265C

Retired & Emeritus Faculty

Michael Anderegg, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
  • michael.anderegg@UND.edu
Michael C. Beard, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of English
  • michael.beard@UND.edu
Kathleen Dixon, Professor Emerita
Department of English
  • kathleen.dixon@UND.edu
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
  • sandra.donaldson@UND.edu
Elizabeth Hampsten, Professor Emerita
Department of English
  • elizabeth.hampsten@UND.edu
Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
Department of English
    Susan Koprince, Professor Emerita
    Department of English
    • susan.koprince@UND.edu
    David Marshall, Professor Emeritus
    Department of English
    • david.marshall@UND.edu
    James McKenzie, Professor Emeritus
    Department of English
    • james.mckenzie@UND.edu
    Martha Meek, Associate Professor Emerita
    Department of English
    • martha.meek@UND.edu
    Sheryl O'Donnell, Professor Emerita
    Department of English
    • sheryl.odonnell@UND.edu
    • Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, Literary Theory, Feminist Theory, Narrative Theory, Social Semiotics, Human/Animal Relations
    David Wiener, Associate Professor
    Department of English
      Department of English
      Gamble Hall Room 265
      293 Centennial Dr Stop 7209
      Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
      P 701.777.3321
      english@UND.edu
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