Faculty, GTAs & 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
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 / Academic Director of Composition / 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
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
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
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
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 Faculty and Instructors
Part-Time Instructor
- rana.alsaadi@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 209B
Teaching Assistant Professor
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Merrifield Hall Room 1D
Teaching Associate Professor
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
- 701.777.3624
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Merrifield Hall Room 100C
Teaching Associate Professor
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
- 701.777.6475
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Merrifield Hall Room 122E
Teaching Assistant Professor
- amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
- 701.777.3624
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Merrifield Hall Room 100C
Part-Time Instructor
- madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 107
Teaching Associate Professor
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Merrifield Hall Room 1A
Teaching Assistant Professor
- elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
- 701.777.3984
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Merrifield Hall Room 122D
Teaching Assistant Professor
- shilo.previti@UND.edu
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 7
Teaching Professor
- steven.rand@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Merrifield Hall Room 1B
Teaching Professor / Administrative Director of Composition
- jessica.zerr@UND.edu
- 701.777.4461
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Merrifield Hall Room 122C
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Sam Amendolar
GTA
- samuel.amendolar@UND.edu
- Merrifield 112
Davina Bell
GTA
- davina.bell@UND.edu
- Merrifield 115
Valkyrie Bradford
GTA
- bailey.bradford@UND.edu
- Merrifield 15
Casey Fuller
GTA
- casey.fuller.1@UND.edu
- Merrifield 1C
Brittany Grooms
GTA
- brittany.grooms@UND.edu
- Merrifield 107
Charles Henry
GTA
- charles.d.henry@UND.edu
- Merrifield 115
Nik Holweger
GTA
- nikolas.holweger@UND.edu
- Merrifield 15
Violet Ingeborg
GTA
- violet.ingeborg@UND.edu
- Merrifield 7
Muhammad Shamsul Islam
GTA
- muhammad.islam.2@UND.edu
- Merrifield 15
Grant McMillan
GTA
- grant.mcmillan@UND.edu
- Merrifield 1C
Janessa Millar
GTA
- janessa.millar@UND.edu
- Merrifield 7
Kyle Moore
GTA
- kyle.robert.moore@UND.edu
- Merrifield 115
Anthony Olson
GTA
- anthony.l.olson@UND.edu
- Merrifield 112
Mark Patterson
GTA
- mark.l.patterson@UND.edu
- Merrifield 115
Sharmin Rahman
GTA
- sharmin.rahman@UND.edu
- Merrifield 15
Alexia Reed
GTA
- alexia.trott@UND.edu
- Merrifield 107
Samuel Rude
GTA
- samuel.rude@UND.edu
- Merrifield 112
Zane Voglewede
GTA
- zane.a.voglewede@UND.edu
- Merrifield 112
Staff
Kristin Ellwanger
Office Manager, Department of English
- 701.777.3321
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Merrifield Hall Room 110A
Retired & Emeritus Faculty
Michael Anderegg, 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, 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