Faculty & Staff

Merrifield Hall Room 100A

• 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

Merrifield Hall Room 100A

• Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
• Literary Theory
• Feminist Theory
• Narrative Theory
• Social Semiotics
• Human/Animal Relations

Merrifield Hall Room 122B

• 20th & 21st C. American Literatures & Cultures
• Multiethnic US literatures
• Digital Humanities 
• Archival Studies
• Film Studies
• Law & Literature

Merrifield Room 218

• 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

Merrifield Hall Room 122A

• 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

Merrifield Hall Room 122F

• Composition/Rhetoric Studies
• Literacy Studies
• English Education

Merrifield Hall Room 100D

• Nineteenth-century British literature and culture
• The professionalization of authorship
• Literary rivalry, intertextuality, and parody
• Book history, especially serialization
• Victorian science
• Victorian religion
• Victorian art

Merrifield Hall Room 100B

• Creative Writing
• British Modernism
• 20th century British
• Editing/Publishing

Merrifield Hall Room 1F

• Early Modern Literature
• Shakespeare
• Conspiracy culture in Elizabethan England
• 18th century

Columbia Hall, Room 1933

Merrifield Hall, Room 122D

• Early Modern Literature
• Medical Humanities
• Literary Theory
• Gender Studies
• Body Studies

Merrifield Hall Room 1B

• American Literature since 1865
• Science and Technology Studies
• Medicine and the History of Medical Diagnoses
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Edith Wharton
• Archival Studies
• Digital Media
• Digital Humanities
• Cultural Materialism and Theory

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Grand Forks, ND 58202-8178

Merrifield Hall Room 100E

• 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

Merrifield Hall Room 1E

• 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