Faculty & Staff
Faculty

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
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Merrifield Hall Room 100E

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
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Merrifield Hall Room 100D

Associate 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
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Merrifield Hall Room 122B

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
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Merrifield Room 218

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
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Merrifield Hall Room 122A

Professor / English Education Program Coordinator
Specialties: Composition/Rhetoric Studies, Literacy Studies, English Education
- kim.donehower@UND.edu
- 701.777.4162
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Merrifield Hall Room 122F

Teaching Assistant Professor
Specialties: Creative Writing, British Modernism, 20th Century British, Editing/Publishing
- patrick.henry@UND.edu
- 701.777.2703
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Merrifield Hall Room 100B

Professor / Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Conspiracy Culture in Elizabethan England, 18th
Century
- adam.kitzes@UND.edu
- 701.777.4363
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Merrifield Hall Room 1F

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
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Columbia Hall, Room 1933

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

Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor
- chris.nelson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2786
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Twamley Hall Rm 205
264 Centennial Dr Stop 8179
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8178

Professor
Specialties: Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, Literary Theory, Feminist Theory,
Narrative Theory, Social Semiotics, Human/Animal Relations
- sheryl.odonnell@UND.edu
- 701.777.3943
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Merrifield Hall Room 100A

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
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Merrifield Hall Room 1E

Associate Professor / Academic Director of Composition
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
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Merrifield Hall Room 100A
Teaching Assistant Professor
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Merrifield Hall Room 1D
Teaching Assistant Professor
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
- 701.777.3624
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Merrifield Hall Room 100C
Teaching Assistant Professor
- amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
- 701.777.3624
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Merrifield Hall Room 100C
Teaching Assistant Professor
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
- 701.777.6475
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Merrifield Hall Room 122E
Teaching Assistant Professor
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Merrifield Hall Room 1A
Teaching Associate Professor
- steven.rand@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Merrifield Hall Room 1B
Teaching Assistant Professor
- bridget.tettehbatsa@UND.edu
- 701.777.6392
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Merrifield Hall Room 122D
Teaching Associate Professor / Administrative Director of Composition
- jessica.zerr@UND.edu
- 701.777.4461
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Merrifield Hall Room 122C
Kristin Ellwanger
Office Manager, Department of English
- 701.777.3984
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Merrifield Hall Room 110A
Michael Anderegg, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Michael C. Beard, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Kathleen Dixon, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Elizabeth Hampsten, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
Department of English
Susan Koprince, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
David Marshall, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
James McKenzie, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
Martha Meek, Associate Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
David Wiener, Associate Professor
Department of English