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Faculty & Staff

Core Faculty

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Lori Robison
Chair / Professor
Specialties: American Literature (19th-20th century); Literature of Reconstruction; The Sentimental; The Construction of Race; Popular Culture and Ideology; Film Theory; Pedagogy and Composition
  • lori.robison@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4306
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200J
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Michelle M Sauer
PhD
Associate Chair / Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor / Linguistics Coordinator
Specialties: medieval studies; gender/queer theory; linguistics; paleography/manuscript studies; early Christianity
  • michelle.m.sauer@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2783
  • Merrifield Hall Room 211
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Crystal Alberts
Professor
Specialties: 20th and 21st Century American Literatures, Digital Humanities
  • crystal.alberts@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2393
  • Merrifield Hall Room 223
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Sharon Carson
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: American Literature: fiction as social criticism; philosophy and literature; comparative religions and literature; Pragmatism; Black Literature and Interdisciplinary Black Studies; Transnational studies; Narrative non-fiction; Bibles as Literature
  • sharon.carson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2764
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200E
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Kim Donehower
Professor, Academic Director of Composition
Specialties: Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, English Education
  • kim.donehower@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4162
  • Merrifield Hall Room 221
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Michael Flynn
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: 19th-century British literature
  • michael.flynn@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3987
  • Merrifield Hall Room 229
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Patrick Henry
Assistant Professor / Director, UND Writers Conference / Coordinator of Creative Writing
Specialties: Creative Writing, Publishing & Editing, British & American Modernism, Public Humanities
  • patrick.henry@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2703
  • Merrifield Hall Room 240C
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Courtney Kersten
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist Studies, Women's Literature, Animal Studies
  • courtney.kersten@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3323
  • Merrifield Hall Room 240D
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Adam Kitzes
Professor
Specialties: Early Modern English Literature Shakespeare Literary Reception Histories English Literature and American Cultural History Literature and the University
  • adam.kitzes@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4363
  • Merrifield Hall Room 205
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Justin Wigard
BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Comics studies, game studies, popular culture, digital humanities, children's/YA literature, ethnic studies, indigenous studies
  • justin.wigard@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2782
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200D
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Eric Wolfe
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
  • eric.wolfe@UND.edu
  • 701.777.6988
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200C
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209

Additional Faculty

These faculty have research specialties in English but have other appointments at the university. They only occasionally teach in the department.

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Tami Carmichael
Professor
Specialties: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Assessment; International Pedagogy; Early American Literature; Theatre Arts
  • tami.carmichael@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3015
  • Gamble Hall Room 118G
    Grand Forks ND 58202-8136
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Yvette Koepke
PhD
Assoc Professor & Assoc Dean
Specialties: early modern British literature and culture, critical theory, body studies, medical humanities
  • yvette.koepke@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4382
  • Columbia Hall Room 1914
    Grand Forks ND 58202-8038
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Eric Link
VPAA / Provost
  • eric.link@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2167
  • Carnegie Hall Room 202
    Grand Forks ND 58202
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Chris Nelson
Associate Professor
  • chris.nelson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3321
  • Merrifield Hall
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
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Randi Tanglen
Ph.D., English
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
  • randi.tanglen@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4141
  • O'Kelly Hall Room 8A
    Grand Forks ND 58202-8006

Teaching Faculty and Instructors

Perry Benson
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • perry.benson@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4344
  • Merrifield Hall Room 131
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Kyle Braun
BA, MA
Academic & Career Exploration Coordinator
  • kyle.braun@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4178
  • McCannel Hall Room 280
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7143
Rhiannon Conley
Teaching Associate Professor
  • rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4528
  • Merrifield Hall Room 219
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Kathleen Coudle-King
Teaching Associate Professor
  • kathleen.king@UND.edu
  • Merrifield Hall Room 240E
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Muhammad Shamsul Islam
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • muhammad.islam.2@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3321
  • Merrifield Hall Room 127
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Amy Kielmeyer
Teaching Associate Professor
  • amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4119
  • Merrifield Hall Room 225
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Madison Knoll
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3661
  • Merrifield Hall Room 209
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Daniela Koleva
Teaching Associate Professor
  • daniela.koleva@UND.edu
  • 701.777.2787
  • Merrifield Hall Room 213
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Curtis Kupferschmid
Part-time Instructional
  • curtis.kupferschmid@UND.edu
  • Columbia Hall
    Grand Forks ND 58202-8038
Elisabeth Ostrem
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3984
  • Merrifield Hall Room 207
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Christina Walker-Basu
Teaching Assistant Professor
  • christina.walkerbasu@UND.edu
  • 701.777.6528
  • Merrifield Hall Room 215
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209
Jessica Zerr
Teaching Professor
  • jessica.zerr@UND.edu
  • 701.777.4461
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200H
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209

Staff

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Kristin Ellwanger
B.S., University of North Dakota
Office Manager
  • kristin.ellwanger@UND.edu
  • 701.777.3321
  • Merrifield Hall Room 200K
    Grand Forks ND 58202-7209

Retired & Emeritus Faculty

Michael Anderegg, Chester Fritz Distinguished 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 Emerita
Department of English
  • kathleen.dixon@UND.edu
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
  • sandra.donaldson@UND.edu
Elizabeth Hampsten, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
    Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
    Department of English
      Susan Koprince, Professor Emerita
      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 Emerita
      Department of English
      • martha.meek@UND.edu
      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
        Department of English
        Merrifield Hall Room 200K
        276 Centennial Dr Stop 7209
        Grand Forks, ND 58202-7209
        P 701.777.3321
        english@UND.edu
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