Faculty & Staff
Department Chair & Associate Chair

Chair/Professor of English
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/Professor of English/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
Faculty

Associate Professor of English/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 of English
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, English, Philosophy/Religion
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

Associate Professor of English
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

Instructor, Department of English
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 of English/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
of English
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
Merrifield Hall, Room 122D

Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies/Associate Professor of English
- 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 of English
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 of English
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 of English/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, Department of English
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Merrifield Hall Room 1D
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
- 701.777.3624
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Merrifield Hall Room 100C
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
- 701.777.6475
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Merrifield Hall Room 122E
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Merrifield Hall Room 1A
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English
- steven.rand@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Merrifield Hall Room 1B
Instructor, Department of English
- bridget.tettehbatsa@UND.edu
- Merrifield Hall Room 107
Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English/ 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 110B
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