Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty
Chair / Professor
Specialties: American Literature (19th-20th century); Literature of Reconstruction; The Sentimental; The Construction of Race; Popular Culture and Ideology; Film Theory; Pedagogy and Composition
- lori.robison@UND.edu
- 701.777.4306
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Merrifield Hall Room 200J
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Michelle M Sauer
PhD
Associate Chair / Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor / Linguistics Coordinator
Specialties: medieval studies; gender/queer theory; linguistics; paleography/manuscript studies; early Christianity
- michelle.m.sauer@UND.edu
- 701.777.2783
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Merrifield Hall Room 211
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Professor
Specialties: 20th and 21st Century American Literatures, Digital Humanities
- crystal.alberts@UND.edu
- 701.777.2393
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Merrifield Hall Room 223
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: American Literature: fiction as social criticism; philosophy and literature; comparative religions and literature; Pragmatism; Black Literature and Interdisciplinary Black Studies; Transnational studies; Narrative non-fiction; Bibles as Literature
- sharon.carson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2764
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Merrifield Hall Room 200E
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Professor, Academic Director of Composition
Specialties: Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, English Education
- kim.donehower@UND.edu
- 701.777.4162
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Merrifield Hall Room 221
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: 19th-century British literature
- michael.flynn@UND.edu
- 701.777.3987
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Merrifield Hall Room 229
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Assistant Professor / Director, UND Writers Conference / Coordinator of Creative Writing
Specialties: Creative Writing, Publishing & Editing, British & American Modernism, Public Humanities
- patrick.henry@UND.edu
- 701.777.2703
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Merrifield Hall Room 240C
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist Studies, Women's Literature, Animal Studies
- courtney.kersten@UND.edu
- 701.777.3323
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Merrifield Hall Room 240D
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Professor
Specialties: Early Modern English Literature Shakespeare Literary Reception Histories English Literature and American Cultural History Literature and the University
- adam.kitzes@UND.edu
- 701.777.4363
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Merrifield Hall Room 205
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Justin Wigard
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Comics studies, game studies, popular culture, digital humanities, children's/YA literature, ethnic studies, indigenous studies
- justin.wigard@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Merrifield Hall Room 200D
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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
- eric.wolfe@UND.edu
- 701.777.6988
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Merrifield Hall Room 200C
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Additional Faculty
Teaching Faculty and Instructors
Teaching Assistant Professor
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Merrifield Hall Room 131
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Kyle Braun
BA, MA
Academic & Career Exploration Coordinator
- kyle.braun@UND.edu
- 701.777.4178
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McCannel Hall Room 280
Grand Forks ND 58202-7143
Teaching Associate Professor
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
- 701.777.4528
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Merrifield Hall Room 219
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
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Merrifield Hall Room 240E
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- muhammad.islam.2@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 127
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
- 701.777.4119
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Merrifield Hall Room 225
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
- 701.777.3661
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Merrifield Hall Room 209
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Merrifield Hall Room 213
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Part-time Instructional
- curtis.kupferschmid@UND.edu
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Columbia Hall
Grand Forks ND 58202-8038
Teaching Assistant Professor
- elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
- 701.777.3984
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Merrifield Hall Room 207
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- christina.walkerbasu@UND.edu
- 701.777.6528
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Merrifield Hall Room 215
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Teaching Professor
- jessica.zerr@UND.edu
- 701.777.4461
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Merrifield Hall Room 200H
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Staff
Kristin Ellwanger
B.S., University of North Dakota
Office Manager
- kristin.ellwanger@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 200K
Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Retired & Emeritus Faculty
Michael Anderegg, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Michael C. Beard, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Kathleen Dixon, Professor Emerita
Department of English
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
Elizabeth Hampsten, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
Department of English
Susan Koprince, Professor Emerita
Department of English
David Marshall, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
James McKenzie, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Martha Meek, Associate Professor Emerita
Department of English
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