English Faculty & Staff
Core Faculty
Chair/Professor
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
- crystal.alberts@UND.edu
- 701.777.2393
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Merrifield Hall Room 223
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Professor, Academic Director of Composition
Specialty:
Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, English Education
- kim.donehower@UND.edu
- 701.777.4162
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Merrifield Hall Room 221
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Specialty:
19th-century British literature
- michael.flynn@UND.edu
- 701.777.3987
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Merrifield Hall Room 229
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Associate Professor / Director, UND Writers Conference / Director of Creative Writing
Specialty:
Creative Writing, Publishing & Editing, British & American Modernism, Public Humanities
- patrick.henry@UND.edu
- 701.777.2703
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Merrifield Hall Room 240C
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Assistant Professor
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Professor, Associate Chair
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
PhD
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor / Linguistics Coordinator / Editor, Journal of Medieval Worlds
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Comics studies, game studies, popular culture, digital humanities, horror and monstrosity, children's/YA literature
- justin.wigard@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Merrifield Hall Room 200D
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Associate Professor
Specialty:
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
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Additional Faculty
Teaching Faculty and Instructors
Teaching Assistant Professor
- rodger.belyea@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 200K
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 582027209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Merrifield Hall Room 131
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
- kyle.braun@UND.edu
- 701.777.4178
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McCannel Hall Room 280
2891 2nd Ave N Stop 7143
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7143
Teaching Associate Professor
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
- 701.777.4528
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Merrifield Hall Room 219
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
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Merrifield Hall Room 240E
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
- 701.777.4119
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Merrifield Hall Room 225
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
- 701.777.3661
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Merrifield Hall Room 209
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Associate Professor
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Merrifield Hall Room 213
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- hediye.matz@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 200K
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
- 701.777.3984
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Merrifield Hall Room 207
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Assistant Professor
- christina.walkerbasu@UND.edu
- 701.777.6528
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Merrifield Hall Room 215
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Teaching Professor/Administrative Director of Composition
- jessica.zerr@UND.edu
- 701.777.4461
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Merrifield Hall Room 200H
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
Staff
- kristin.ellwanger@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 200K
276 Centennial Drive Stop 7209
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