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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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100E

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  
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100D

Dr. Crystal Alberts, Associate Professor/Director, UND Writers Conference
Crystal Alberts
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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 122B

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
  • Merrifield Room 218

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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 122A

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

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

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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 1F

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, Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor
Chris Nelson
Associate 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

Dr. Sherry O'Donnell, Professor
Sheryl O'Donnell
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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100A

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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 1E

Eric Wolfe, Associate Professor
Eric Wolfe
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
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100A

Dr. Perry Benson
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • perry.benson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4344
  • Merrifield Hall Room 1D

Rhiannon Conley
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3624
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100C

Amy Kielmeyer
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3624
  • Merrifield Hall Room 100C

Kathleen Coudle-King
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • kathleen.king@UND.edu
  • 701.777.6475
  • Merrifield Hall Room 122E

Dr. Daniela Koleva
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • daniela.koleva@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2787
  • Merrifield Hall Room 1A

Steven Rand
Teaching Associate Professor
  • steven.rand@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2782
  • Merrifield Hall Room 1B

Dr. Bridget Tetteh-Batsa
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • bridget.tettehbatsa@UND.edu
  • 701.777.6392
  • Merrifield Hall Room 122D

Jessica Zerr
Teaching Associate Professor / Administrative Director of Composition
  • jessica.zerr@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4461
  • Merrifield Hall Room 122C

Kristin Ellwanger

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

  • 701.777.3984
  • Merrifield Hall Room 110A

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 (emeritus)
Department of English
  • kathleen.dixon@UND.edu
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
  • sandra.donaldson@UND.edu
Elizabeth Hampsten, Professor (emeritus)
Department of English
  • elizabeth.hampsten@UND.edu
Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
Department of English
    Susan Koprince, Professor (emeritus)
    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 (emeritus)
    Department of English
    • martha.meek@UND.edu
    David Wiener, Associate Professor
    Department of English
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      Merrifield Hall Room 110
      276 Centennial Dr Stop 7209
      Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
      P 701.777.3321
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