Faculty & Staff

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

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

Specialties: 20th & 21st C. American Literatures & Cultures, Multiethnic U.S. Literatures, Digital Humanities, Archival Studies, Film Studies, Law & Literature

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

Specialties: Composition/Rhetoric Studies, Literacy Studies, English Education

Specialties: Creative Writing, British Modernism, 20th Century British, Editing/Publishing

Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Conspiracy Culture in Elizabethan England, 18th Century

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

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

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

Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Medical Humanities, Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Body Studies

Specialties: American Literary Naturalism; Science Fiction; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature; Science, Philosophy, and Literature

Specialties: 20th and 21st Century American Literature; Critical theory (especially Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Postmodern Theories, Critical Race Theory, and Discipline Formation, with particular attention to issues of social justice); Rhetoric of Literary Criticism; Native American literature and theory; Latino/a literature and theory; Asian American literature and theory; Popular fiction, especially Horror Fiction, Detective Fiction, and Science Fiction

Specialties: Early and nineteenth-century American literature; western American literary and cultural studies; feminist literary theory; public humanities